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  Dear Walt,

I am going to ask you to do something for me,—or shall I say something for William,—it will be for us both.

It is this—will you write a prefatory notice, a memoir, or whatever it may be, as brief or long as you will, for a volume of his stories that I want to collect & publish with the new one that has  not yet been printed, "The Brazen Android,"—

As soon as William passed away his friends began to say that I ought to collect & reprint his stories,—but only now has it taken any shape,—& now I think I see the way to do it, to put the seven into one volume,  and I am sure that any publisher will take it for me, if only it has your word of preface. It will I know make the volume sell; & it will be a great thing for me.

Any data that you may want I shall be very glad to furnish you.

I feel a great hope rise up in me at this idea, dear  Walt, & hope that you can & will do it.

    With love & congratulations on your coming birth-day, as ever—the same Nelly O'Connor.