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Handwritten by Ferris Greenslet
Willa Cather handwritten
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I hate to send
Excuse old machine,- only one at hand. This morning I received from a
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I had decided, after your talk with me, to allow your educational department
to use the first thirty pages
of the book, minus the introduction. If it would be an accomal all in the text, and that
this lady shall not write the in introduction.
Can't we just drop the whole
matter, anyway? You tell me they want something of 'mine'. Then
your educators go and make this text as much like
Really, my dear F.G., you've neButb
by being what she is, not by being the compromise her publishers have
several times tried to make her. Even a cut in price would be a compromise
in the case of that particular book, I think. And as to a cut in text,
reducing the whole book to some few thousand words that
I'm in my new house, but not unpacked, hence this untidy machine letter.
You see I don't want to go into a book that is made up of reconstructions of
this kind, where the text is boiled down. It doesn't give youngsters ve even a chance to come in contact with the
writing personality of a single one of the writers presented to them in this
pac
Enraged though I am, I'm still your very good friend, and I send you good New Year wishes from my heart. Only let me hear no more of Miss Hahn and her stupid, brutal trade.
My new apartment will be ever so nice when it's done.