Dear Son Willie: ... We must begin, very decidedly, to understand where the forthcoming book is to be published, for we must move carefully in the fear God.... ERWDA 25.4
I write some every day on the life of Christ. One chapter sets my mind fresh upon other subjects so that I have several scratch books that I am writing upon. I hardly dare send manuscript by young Linden, fearing it may get lost, and I wish to give more time to some subjects. ERWDA 25.5
—Letter 132, 1893, p. 6.