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Hers A.J. Wilder
mansfield, mo,
MANSY o and 200 OW
STATES PUSING.
CENTS
Rose Wilder Lane
The Grasvenor Hotel
35-Fifth arenue
new york City
Jan 28, 1938
Friday a. m,
Rose Dearest
Don't work on Silver Lake until you hear
from me again, I am going over it carefully
once more
I like your idea for the begining less
and less the more I think of it.
That was the way I tried to start it but
all the objections I have mentioned cropped
up as I wrote it.
It made to much of Plum Creek, We don't
want to go back there,
It would make the book to long and
nothing later can be cut out if the Airstare
is to be true,
It made an unpleasant begining a tale
of sickness and failure and death.
We don't want to tell of Jack's dying.
has of mary's sickness,
nor of Pa's failure so that it was necessary
for him to make a new start because he
hadn't work, gained anything by all his hard
The readers must know all that but they
should not be made to think about it.
The story of Silver Lake is connected with
Plum Creek clase enough in 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 msist that
the story starts as I started it,
How about rythmn and balance in the
sentences ?
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,
of it could then perhaps I could do
the following two without being such a
bother to you.
Let me go over it carefully again now
and see if in your judgment we can't
try it out on Harpers.
3
I'll make it plainer that is fall of the
year. Ell try to touch it up here and
there myself, to overcome some of your
objections.
If I can do it, it will give you
more time for your other work.
manly's foot is all right again, He just
has to be a little careful
I am feeling fine. Bruces folks are
well. Francis is growing up such a once
boy. He is smart and quick and dependable
He can be trusted and is getting good
marks in school. He brings them up to
show me, Paul is smart too and mean as
the dickens, but the funmest kid, He says
"I like mama and Daddy and Francis and
mrs Wilder plainly but when he is exected
his tongue tangles and no one can understand
4
cold. It is a beautiful, sunny morning, but
Birdie Freeman is
dead and was buried Sunday,
she was buried in Springfield.
aunt Daisy is going do visit her brother
again next month,
Very much love
Mama Bess.
Do you ever see Helen? ?
I hear she is in new york.
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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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