This good he did me, however-I read it to a friend, who thought some of it good and most of it the contrary, and so, in a temper, I burnt the entire manuscript, and, being quite sure of the humour of the idea, commenced rewriting it.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
It is obvious that parts of it have been written rapidly and not boiled down; and my impression is that you have left over in it too much of the complication of form in which our ideas, our critical ideas especially, first come to us, and which has, with much rewriting, to be straightened out.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
In crossing, Schuyler spent much time on a long, long letter-a letter that required much rewriting.
"A Fool There Was"
Porter Emerson Browne