BIB_ID
193412
Accession number
MA 6323
Creator
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
Display Date
1904 Jan. 3.
Credit line
Gift; Dorothy C. Allen, Glenn Wakefield Allen and Robert H. Allen; 1984-1986.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.2 cm. + with envelope.
Notes
Wakefield, the recipient, went to Brooklyn in 1904 and worked for The Brooklyn Eagle; in that year or the next he died of typhoid fever at the beginning of a promising career.
Summary
Saying that his work interests him, and not to be disheartened by failure: "Your time is sure to come, and I perceive from your young looks that you have plenty of time."
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