p.

EDITORIAL OFFICE OF
The Atlantic Monthly.
WINTHROP SQUARE,
BOSTON.

Jan. 16, 1879

My dear Sir:

I am only a dramatist
by grace of the actor who took
a play of mine printed in
the magazine.

If the ideas in your
paper could be put in form
for the Contributors' Club I
should be glad to use it
there. In that case it
must be greatly reduced.

Yours truly

W. D. Howells

Mr. Young.