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Dear Neale, Why did you not at once allay my apprehensions by telling me that you had had experience in editing a magazine? I had never heard of it, and naturally did feel some misgiving; for the difference between an untried and a tried edition I know
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to be very great - I have been both. You have been more reticent about your affairs than I knew; perhaps it is because you could seldom "get the floor".
Referring to the subject of faulty printing. I am glad to say that in reading your magazine I noted only one printers' error - unless chancellors' assertion that fifty - eight years have passed since Appomatox is one. So you see a close approach