I regret your trouble and hope it will yet prove for your benefit and help.
I have been a regular purchaser of your Magazine from its beginning, and it is with the deepest regret that I learn that you have withdrawn from the Magazine. I presume that the enemies of truth have destroyed its publication as they have done heretofore with others.
Will you kindly inform me, also, whether you will start a new Magazine or paper by which we may enjoy the education that you have given us? I wish you success and strength to overcome all opposition.
_Watson’s Magazine_ without Watson is of course no longer _Watson’s Magazine_. I haven’t seen the November number, but it must be like “Hamlet” with Hamlet left out.
I am proud of having been one of the faithful in 1904, when I heard you speak at Jersey City and again in that matchless “old fashioned stump speech” at the Grand Central Palace in New York, where I managed to jam myself through the crowd on the platform and get hold of your hand for a second.
The monthly visits of your Magazine were like those of a dear friend dropping in for an evening to discuss matters which should be of the gravest concern to every true American. I have the numbers all bound in volumes, but now my set is complete much sooner than I had anticipated.
A few minutes ago I took up a copy of _The Public_, in which I saw a paragraph to the effect that you would soon start a new Magazine. I hope this may be true, and I want to be one of the first subscribers, for I am anxious for the continuation of the “Life of Jackson” and for more of your Editorials.
Too late I learned the sad story of _Watson’s Magazine_. I have been a subscriber to it from the first number, and I did not want to miss a number.
I sent a long list of names to it a few days before I found it out, for sample copies. But it has lost its attraction to me and I hope such men as DeFrance and Mann will soon be relegated.
I have enclosed a few names that might subscribe to the new JEFFERSONIAN MAGAZINE.
I hope you will have success in spreading the truth and nothing but the truth.
I have been informed that you would send to the present subscribers to _Watson’s Magazine_, if they so desired, your new publication, free of cost, for the time for which they had paid their subscriptions to the Magazine. I am a subscriber to the Magazine, and have been from the date of its very first issue, and my subscription is paid to the corresponding date in 1907.