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Last week I wrote the last chapter of did copied it off on the
machine in final form) and telegraphed
"Sapphĭra" is pronounced with a short "i", as in Madeira, Zamira etc.
I will write you when I get back to a comfortable typewriter. The old one I
keep up here year after year is the same old machine I bought for $30.00 in
or
and even four times. It is technically the most af coming on the
stage in the Ep Epilogue, is the reason for,
and the authority for, the first show. Without that literal account of
something that happened to me when I was between five and six years old, the
whole book would be bu
a much modified "Uncle Remus" talk. When I began the story that
speech was in my brain like a phonograph record. I hadn't a moment's
hesitation. I Half-way through the story
I went South to verify it.
Please save this scrawl until you read the book. I have not written a word of
comment or explanation to anyone else about the book. You are the only one
in my family who cares a damn. I never used to mind that,
I'm tired, so I'm writing foolishness—so excuse