have read all the pages, + so
have we all. Not many women
c'd have written them, of any repute.
By their fertility of thought, by the
form + skill of what we call imagina-
tion, by inventiveness + power +
ingenuity + surprises + pictorial
vividness of our English tongue,
they must[?] take a striking place, it
seems to me, in the creative literary
products of the modern mind.

I wish I could, in some
way, at whatever pains, promote
the knowledge + expand the circulation
of the work. Its success, however,
will take care of itself. That
the method + the style,