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Correspondence from Wilfred Talbot Smith to Joseph D. Miller
[28 July 1943]
Just as one received from Jane [Jane Wolfe], your letter is practically all together incomprehensible to the obfuscated intelligence of W. T. Smith. Were it not for the misstatements of mundane facts, anent the early life and travels of the Young Man in your story, which naturally lead me to conclude that your deductions must be wrong having started with an incorrect premise, I would send it on as a guide to 666 who is apparently engaged in a task of notable magnitude in an endeavour to get light on a subject to which he has been blinded by a single misapprehension. . . .
P.S. I will be seeing you one of these fine days, and put you right on some points, perhaps and then you can revamp your story. Apart from the fact the people often forget, unless the matter is of terrific importance to them personally, I have myself withheld some details and only told half truths in respect to my early life. So you can hardly be blamed for your mistakes.
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