Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1886 — Curious Request. [ARTICLE]

Curious Request.

Editors are constantly in receipt of curious letters. Here is one of them, sent to the editor of Harper's Magazine the other day. It was a lady who wrote that she was dying, and that her physicians told her she would be dead before the conclusion of Howells’ story, “Indian Summer.” then running in the Monthly. She was very much interested in it, and did not wapt to die until she knew how it was going to end, and she begged the editor to let her read the advance sheets, that she might die happy.