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Albert Britt to Horace Kephart, January 22, 1925

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  • In a letter to Horace Kephart, January 22, 1925, Albert Britt, Associate Editor of the Frank A. Munsey Company, New York, offers to purchase the publication rights to Kephart's short story "The Trail of a Bullet."
  • flunsey's Maqazine Arqosy-All-Story Weekly THE FRANK A.MUNSEY COMPANY TWO-EIGHTY BHOADWAY NEW YORK Members ALL FICTION FIELD January 22, J. *J C> *.) • Re: THE TRAIL OF A BULLET by Horace Kephart Dear Mr. Kephart: This yarn is somewhat off our main high road# but I like it. It is pleasant to talk about guns once more with a man who knows what he is talking about. Our price for this story is four hundred fifty ($450.00) dollars for all rights. If this is satisfactory, a check will be sent you at once. I hope that you will keep up the good work. You have the entire Southern mountains practically to yourself since few people know anything about them to use them even as a stage setting. I have been thinking of a possibility of a detective story in that environment which would be more definitely woodcraft, bringing in a considerable amount of trailing, picking up of sign of various kinds and so on. We get a lot of fingerprint stuff, chemical analysis, radio detection, and other forms of mechanical eavesdropping. Why not a Sherlock Holmes of the big woods? I would be interested to hear what you think about it. With all good wishes, I remain Cordially yours, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. Horace KEPHART, Esq., Bryson City, North Carolina. ABlAVM