Perkins notes the spatial and temporal information about this letter, and also states that the letter was from Dawson's Book Shop. There is also some biographical information at the top of the second page. Perkins then transcribes the letter. Atherton writes about the stresses that come with writing a book, even writing, "The life is bothered out of me, and tonight I wish I had never written a book."
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