Letter from Laura Ingalls Wilder to Rose Wilder Lane

In this letter, Laura Ingalls Wilder replies to her daughter Rose Wilder Lane's letter regarding edits and plots points in the manuscript for the book referred to as Silver Lake, part of the Little House on the Prairie series. Wilder signs the letter as Mama Bess.

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should not be made to think about it. The readers must know all that but they The story of silver Lake is connected with Plum breek close enough in m Laura's mind and her thoughts are given the reader, but it is second hand and the knowledge isn't even sad, as it would be if told your way. It is, and will be passed over lightly by the reader in the interest of the new adventure which is already begun I am afraid I am going to insist that the story starts as I started it, How about rythan and balance in the sentences 2 I was in hopes that I had profited enough by your teachings that my copy could go to the publishers, with perhaps a little pointing up of the high lights If it could then perhaps I could do the following two without being such a bother to you. Let me go over it carefully again 0102 and see if in your judgment we can't try it out on Harpers.