William Dean Howells to Hamlin Garland:
York Harbor, August 4, 1917.
My dear Garland:
I have most decidedly refused to let Macmillans quote from my letter to you. I hope to be your friendliest critic, but not their advance-agent. To let a publisher advertise from such a letter as I like to write a brother-writer would take all heart and trust out of friendship, and I never do it…
Yours sincerely,
W. D. HOWELLS
Citation: MS Am 1784.1 (61), Houghton Library, Harvard University
