Ipicked it up, saying: Here is five cents; I don't know whose it is. He must not returnto Europe as yet, for the type-setter matter was still far fromconclusion. [Note-book. A year before Ihad done what new writers were always doing--I had sent him a book I hadwritten, and he had done what he was always doing--acknowledged it with akindly letter.
Jean isat the summer home in the Berkshire Hills crippled. --[To Phelps himself he wrote: I thank you everso much for the book, which I find charming--so charming, indeed, that Iread it through in a single night, & did not regret the lost night'ssleep. He pointed out houses here and there of people he had known and visitedin other days. I have received recently several letters asking for counsel or advice, the principal request being for some incident that may prove helpful to the young.
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