25th March.
Fletcher Harper has
asked me to take into consideration the writing of a history, a chronicle of
the war, to be illustrated by the war pictures of the "Weekly," a
huge (in size) book for popular reading, and to be especially a Northern book,
to show what the Rebellion came from, and what its end would probably be! That
is not bad for Mr. Harper. I told him that if I wrote about the Rebellion I
should want to write a proper history; that his work, though admirable in
intention, could be but a ‘job’ for me; that the study would be useful to any
subsequent work upon the subject, but that the public never could believe that
the later was more than a hash of the earlier. He said that I could easily do
it in three months, and he would pay me well, and begged me to think it over.1
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1 The book was not undertaken.
SOURCE: Edward Cary, George William Curtis, p.
154
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