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I opened the box of glorious wine on Christmas Day, and I think you were wonderful to
get six bottles of that superb Sherry in a year like this, when the wine shortage is
so disheartening. It took the amiable
The enclosed letter from simply did
not vote for anybody. I would have voted for Hemingway, except for the fact that
Lewis has always been awfully decent to me and has sometimes gone out of his way to
do me a favor. As a ballot cast for Hemingway would have been a ballot cast against
Lewis, I did not vote. It never occurred to me that I would be the victim. I have a
gold medal from the Academy (the Howells medal, awarded every five or
eight years).
Well, Happy New Year, anyway. I hope to have a Happy New Year with a pleasant