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pen - with such a burden of daily
wants upon him.
As for myself it is almost absent.
I find myself among the successful
and satisfied, and utterly forgotten.
I was at a dinner at the Berkeley the
other night. Helen Hunt, Noah Brooks,
Dudley Warner etc there - something was
said that made something in my
Lolly Dinks book - I believe no one
there thought of me - and of course
I was mum - I read that said
book - now here - and I quote a
late critic upon that book - it is
equal to Alice in Wonderland Mrs
Stoddard, and you have the
most wonderful sense of allegory
But this was one private opinion -
but I say it for my own - it is
the cleverest child's book written here
Think of foolish Mr Moreton's