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    "title": "Letter from Laura Ingalls Wilder to Rose Wilder Lane",
    "description": "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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    "ocrText": "fan 28, 1938\nFriday a. m,\nRose Dearest\nDon't work on silver Lake until you hear\nfrom me again , I am going over it carefully\nonce more\ng like your idea for the begining less\nand less the more I think of it.\nthat was the way I tried to start it but\nall the objections I have mentioned eropped\nup as I wrote it,\nIt made to much of Plum breek. We don't\nwant to go back there, 4\nIt would make the book to long and\nnothing\nlater\ncan\nbe\ncut\nout\nif\nthe\nfirsture\nis to be true,\nIt made an unpleasant begining ,a tale\nof sickness and failure and death.\nWe don't want to tell of Jack's dying\nnor of many's sickness.\nnor of Pa's failure so that it was necessary\nfor him to make a new start because he\nhadn't gamal anything by all his hard\nwork,"
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