Have you any inclination toward writing a prose story of fiction—a novelette? I could pay you $100 on receipt of the manuscript, five thousand words in length. I would probably publish it in the Boston Herald, New York Sun, Chicago Tribune, and loc.02055.002_large.jpg Philadelphia Press.
I refer you to Mr. Bradford Merrill,2 managing editor of the Press, or to any of the mentioned journals.
Yours respectfully, Franklin File, 1285 Broadway New York. loc.02055.003_large.jpg loc.02055.004_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Franklin File (also "Fyles,"
1847–1911), a writer and editor, was part of a newspaper syndicate
including the Boston Herald and the Philadelphia Press. He was also the Dramatic Editor at the New York Sun from 1872 to 1903. He contributed short
stories to magazines and newspapers, and is author of one book, The Theater and its People (1900), and several plays
including Three Days (1876), The Girl I
Left Behind Me (1892) and Cumberland. '61
(1897). In 1890, 1285 Broadway was the address for the uptown offices of the New York Sun.