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1. POETRY: When I was a boy all adolescents who considered themselves cultured wrote poetry. It is my opinion that such juvenile poets either cease on reaching maturity, continue writing and become Tennysons or Longfellows, or drift into dementia praecox. In my collection are over one hundred poems and very occasionally I write one more, but I have never tried to sell any.

2. THE ESSAY: Conditioned by Emerson, there was a definite period when I tried to write in this form slanted toward the Atlantic Monthly. I considered the titles intriguing--Stone Fences--Glass Windows--Dragons Blood--My Fivefoot Book Shelf and Masters of Erotica. Nothing happened to any of them but perhaps they taught me something as far as expressing ideas in the fewest most appropriate words.

3. STORIES ABOUT BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS: If ever reborn, I am going to own a bookshop. So naturally I wrote about such a high adventure. Some unpublished titles are The Bookseller, Independence, and The Perfumed Garden. several have been published, and of these, Personality of a Library has received favorable comment. Another, which I like very much, Eternal Empires, is to be included in a book of unpublished stories, featuring my novel,  The Eternal Conflict. I have very recently signed a contract for this publication.

4 AMY WORTH STORIES: In 1928 I determined to write short stories about the common people of America, and Ten Story Book started buying them. Perhaps the one best known of these is The Dead Woman which was reprinted in the Not At Night anthologies in  England. After fifteen were printed, the magazine stopped paying me and I replied in the only practical way and sent them no more. But fifteen remained unborn and without a definite market. One of them, The Bearded Man, deserves a sales effort.

5. CORNWALL STORIES: Someday an enthusiastic publisher will issue them in book form. This is simply to say that such a story should start with A Fragment From The Hubelaires, include Feminine Magic and end with Convalescence. I understand that the latter tale will be published in England this year. Wright rejected Feminine Magic because a baby was born in it while the father was visiting Paracelsus in an endeavor to learn how to procreat a homunculus.

6. SHORT SHORTS: Only one of these, The Last Frontier. I consider they are very difficult to write beautifully. I like the one I wrote, but no one else did. However, any fan editor is welcome to it.

7. SCIENCE FICTION: In my collection is a manuscript written at the age of 15, called Anima Postica. I mention this simply to warn all publishers that if they start printing this after my death, I will haunt them in no pleasant manner. I keep it to make my collection complete but I have never had the courage to read it. I have some other S.F. stories, but do not consider them worth while.

8. WEIRD TALES: The number of such unpublished tales is not great and only recent

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1. POETRY: When I was a boy all adolescents who considered themselves cultured wrote poetry. It is my opinion that such juvenile poets either cease on reaching maturity, continue writing and become Tennysons or Longfellows, or drift into dementia praecox. In my collection are over one hundred poems and very occasionally I write one more, but I have never tried to sell any. 2. THE ESSAY: Conditioned by Emerson, there was a definite period when I tried to write in this form slanted toward the Atlantic Monthly. I considered the titles intriguing--Stone Fences--Glass Windows--Dragons Blood--My Fivefoot Book Shelf and Masters of Erotica. Nothing happened to any of them but perhaps they taught me something as far as expressing ideas in the fewest most appropriate words. 3. STORIES ABOUT BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS: If ever reborn, I am going to own a bookshop. So naturally I wrote about such a high adventure. Some unpublished titles are The Bookseller, Independence, and The Perfumed Garden. several have been published, and of these, Personality of a Library has received favorable comment. Another, which I like very much, Eternal Empires, is to be included in a book of unpublished stories, featuring my novel, The Eternal Conflict. I have very recently signed a contract for this publication. 4 AMY WORTH STORIES: In 1928 I determined to write short stories about the common people of America, and Ten Story Book started buying them. Perhaps the one best known of these is The Dead Woman which was reprinted in the Not At Night anthologies in England. After fifteen were printed, the magazine stopped paying me and I replied in the only practical way and sent them no more. But fifteen remained unborn and without a definite market. One of them, The Bearded Man, deserves a sales effort. 5. CORNWALL STORIES: Someday an enthusiastic publisher will issue them in book form. This is simply to say that such a story should start with A Fragment From The Hubelaires, include Feminine Magic and end with Convalescence. I understand that the latter tale will be published in England this year. Wright rejected Feminine Magic because a baby was born in it while the father was visiting Paracelsus in an endeavor to learn how to procreat a homunculus. 6. SHORT SHORTS: Only one of these, The Last Frontier. I consider they are very difficult to write beautifully. I like the one I wrote, but no one else did. However, any fan editor is welcome to it. 7. SCIENCE FICTION: In my collection is a manuscript written at the age of 15, called Anima Postica. I mention this simply to warn all publishers that if they start printing this after my death, I will haunt them in no pleasant manner. I keep it to make my collection complete but I have never had the courage to read it. I have some other S.F. stories, but do not consider them worth while. 8. WEIRD TALES: The number of such unpublished tales is not great and only recent (20)