Excerpt from Sabrina Warham the Story of Her Youth
Dear Robert, - The story which, in ways other than literary, you have helped me to write, now comes to roost at your door. I know that you will rate what I offer at more than its true value; but poor is the pride which can never welcome a lenient judgment, or be grateful for unreasonable lengths of credit generously accorded.
It is time, indeed, that the book should be tested by a judgment less darkly prejudiced than my own, for there comes a stage when writer's cramp enters the brain, making it blind as to results; and if an author cannot then choose to lay aside his work, and come back to it after years with eyes freshened by absence, he must let it go in the form it has reached at the stale end of his labours.
Every book that is written, if it holds life, becomes true to the writer before he has done, though it may show but a maimed form at the last. And at a very early stage this story came to have for me all the interest of an experience in real life, growing, as it were, out of the soil of its locality.
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