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Ambrose Bierce Collection, Accession 5992-q, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
This collection was purchased on December 20, 1994.
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
[returns the proofs of volume seven of The Devil's Dictionary , approves of Neale's announcement of books undertaken in 1910, "A pretty ambitious project. They go a long way toward making my dream come true, namely, that you are to be `the foremost publisher in America,'" and rejoices that he has only three and a half volumes of page proofs yet to read, with a newsclipping about the growth of thin paper used in bookmaking glued on the third page below Bierce's signature], formerly tipped in along with a typed transcript in the front of a copy of In the Midst of Life by Ambrose Bierce (1898)
[Typed transcript of the letter described above], 1 p., formerly typed in along with the original letter in the front of a copy of In the Midst of Life by Ambrose Bierce (1898)