Fantastic ALS, two pages, 5.25 x 7.75, October 23, 1898. Written from Princeton, a letter to author Burton A. Konkle, in full: "It is certainly one of the rewards of authorship to get such a letter as yours of last Thursday. I am so far from regarding it as an intrusion that I wish to thank you for it most heartily. A writer of course never sees his audience; he does not know how many he is reaching or in what way he is being regarded by his readers. He must keep heart amidst the embarrassing silence, and try to believe that what he writes is at any rate worth saying and deserving of an audience, for the sake of the truth or the cheer or the right moral impulse, or the mere human interest, that is in it. It's a lonely business at best. Your letter comes to me pitched in so genuine a key of friendliness and appreciation that I must accept it not only with pleasure but also with gratitude. It heartens me and touches me very near the quick." In fine condition. In addition to being a leader of men, Wilson was an accomplished author and scholar, and although it remains unclear which work he was ultimately referring, Wilson published On Being Human in 1897 and The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics in 1898.
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