. The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after . the writer. All this intensely interested and amused ColonelRoosevelt and he fairly itched with the desire to writea series of criticisms of his own articles to Doctor , however, persuaded the colonel not to spend morephysical effort than he was already doing on the arti-cles; for, in addition, he was notating answers on thenumerous letters received, and those Bok answeredon behalf of the For a year, the department continued. During allthat time the secret of the authorship was knownto
. The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after . the writer. All this intensely interested and amused ColonelRoosevelt and he fairly itched with the desire to writea series of criticisms of his own articles to Doctor , however, persuaded the colonel not to spend morephysical effort than he was already doing on the arti-cles; for, in addition, he was notating answers on thenumerous letters received, and those Bok answeredon behalf of the For a year, the department continued. During allthat time the secret of the authorship was knownto only one man, besides the colonel and Bok, and theirrespective wives! When the colonel sent his last article in the series toBok, he wrote: Now that the work is over, I wish most cordially to thankyou, my dear fellow, for your unvarying courtesy and kind-ness. I have not been satisfied with my work. This is thefirst time I ever tried to write precisely to order, and I amnot one of those gifted men who can do so to I find that the 3,000 words is not the right length. CO i—i K p$Ofn Q Wi—i P* O u M o P3 Q Pi w > S o o z o <p< KPiOQO wa H o ROOSEVELTS ANONYMOUS EDITORIAL WORK 279 and that I wish to use 2,000 or 4,000! And in consequencefeel as if I had either padded or mutilated the article. AndI am not always able to feel that every month I have some-thing worth saying on a given I hope that you have not been too much disappointed. Bok had not been, and neither had his public! In the meanwhile, Bok had arranged with ColonelRoosevelt for his reading and advising upon manu-scripts of special significance for the magazine. Inthis work, Colonel Roosevelt showed his customarypromptness and thoroughness. A manuscript, no mat-ter how long it might be, was in his hands scarcely forty-eight hours, more generally twenty-four, before it wasread, a report thereon written, and the article on itsway back. His reports were always comprehensive andinv
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