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EDITORIAL.DEPARTMENT
THE CENTURY.MAGAZINE
UNION.SQUARE.NEW.YORK
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R. W. GILDER, EDITOR
R. U. JOHNSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C. C. BUEL, ASSISTANT EDITOR.
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Aug 27 1891

My Dear Professor Putnam:

We have been a little slow in reading Miss Fletcher's two papers - Nos 4 & 5.

The fourth - "Home Life", is captivating. It is such a success that I venture to ask you if you found the Fifth "Nascent Art" quite adequate to the importance of the subject - and the facts, the obvious facts. What about pictorial art, pictorial [[?]], the decoration of wigwams etc? Are not rude art objects (such as wampum among