ALS, 1889 April 5 : Los Angeles, to Robert Underwood Johnson.

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ALS, 1889 April 5 : Los Angeles, to Robert Underwood Johnson.

JBF writes the editor of Century Magazine about her writing. "One must be largely governed by what people prefer to hear rather than be too much one's self. It is not quite fair to the writer, but if it is what is wanted?"

1 p. ; 17 x 11 cm.

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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