The Letters of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce

MY DEAR STERLING,

Here is the bit of blank. When are we to see the book? Needless question -- when you can spare the money to pay for publication, I suppose, if by that time you are ambitious to achieve public inattention. That's my notion of encouragement -- I like to cheer up the young author as he sets his face toward "the peaks of song."