May I not be favored with your literary plans for the balance of the Autumn and the coming Winter? Also if you are engaged in doing Christmas work? I will be greatly obliged to you for this courtesy, let me assure you.
Allow me to enclose one of our recent literary letters. I earnestly hope to be honored with a line or two from you e're long.
With respect, Heartily yours, William J. Bok. loc_jm.00361.jpg loc_jm.00365.jpgCorrespondent:
William John Bok (born
Willem Joannes Bruno Eduard Hidde Bok, 1861–1928) was a journalist and
newspaper columnist born at Den Helder in the Netherlands. The Bok family
immigrated to the United States in 1870, where his father found work in New York
as a linguist and translator. In 1886, Bok and his brother
Edward(1863–1930)—later Editor of the Ladies' Home
Journal—founded the Bok Syndicate Press that contributed to
newspapers around the U.S.