Dear Mr. Phelps,

You can keep the "Summer-Showers" as long as you wish. I have, however, made up my mind to remodel them. I have been in bed, ill with a cold, for some time. I still am there. Thus I came to reread the whole of it, and it seems to me now that the 5th chapter - though it was meant to bring a sobering down - jars rather too much with the more or less imaginative treatment of the rest. I have another, entirely different treatment of the same topic, and I may put it in. But I am also thinking of putting in the record of a tramp in the "stone and spruce waste" along Hudson Bay (Chesterfield Inlet) instead. I am quite doubtful. I believe, if another book is to appear in the fall, it will probably be "The Search for America, Three years from an Immigrant's Life." I intended to remodel it for the dozenth time, but I find that I have grown away from the book to such an extent that I cannot do anything with it. I have to publish it or burn it.

Sincerely yours,
F.P.G.