SINCLAIR UPTON Typed Letter Signed to Julia Ward Howe

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"THE PUBLIC CAN BE FORCED TO DO SOMETHING FOR WRITERS" SINCLAIR, UPTON. Typed Letter Signed, to Julia Ward Howe, soliciting a statement from Howe supporting his view that those whose work is writing for public causes cannot earn enough to survive. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; short closed separations at folds. Edge Moor, DE, 5 July 1910

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". . . [W]hat I am trying to do is to make people realize that there are kinds of creative writing of great importance and service to the community which do not provide their writers with a living . . . . Now your work has been of great service and inspiration to the country, and a statement that it has not paid you enough to live upon would be of benefit in the prop[a]ganda which I am carrying on. . . .
". . . It seems to me that the time has come when the public can be forced to do something for writers while they are still alive. . . ."
"The 'Independent' will publish the letters on July 28 . . . ."