J. E. White to W. C. White, October 5, 1897

In regard to Fannie Bolton, I received the check you sent, but laid it away in my tin box in which I keep my papers. I have no idea it will be used. She has turned traitor on my work. You aided her when she was in desperate need, and during that time she put in a few hours of work for me. Soon after this she went to Chicago and loaded up with a lot of work from Cook and others there, and immediately went off her head and told me she would have no time to do anything more for me. I am free to say I am not sorry. Much of her work was in the way of weaving in her ideas of eloquent sentences, to the utter destruction of the simplicity of the book. I had to go over it all after her, and bring much of it right back to its original style. So I dropped her at once, (after she had dropped me), but am exceedingly fortunate in the interest Eld. Smith and M. E. Kellogg have taken in the book.FBS 88.1