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MY DEAR BLANCHE,
It is good to have your letters again. If you will not let me teach you my trade of writing stories it is right that you practice your own of writing letters. You are mistress of that. Byron's letters to Moore are dull in comparison with yours to me. Some allowance, doubtless, must be made for my greater need of your letters than of Byron's. For, truth to tell, I've been a trifle dispirited and noncontent. In that mood I peremptorily resigned from the "Examiner", for one thing -- and permitted myself to be coaxed back by Hearst, for another. My other follies I shall not tell you.