NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

2731 HGS
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN·CONN
06520

January 7, 1972

Dear Toby,

Glad you liked *A Second Talent*. Aunt Sue and I finally managed to get to Chicago to see it and it was great fun. Fortunately the reviewers took it all in the right spirit and did not pretend that it was high art. I myself was particularly impressed by how well the French writers did their art, and I only wish I could find something by George Sand, Dumas, Mérimée or some of the others I lack. Actually I have a good Michaux and a good enough Cocteau. But perhaps when you are in France you may find it fun to poke around the galleries with artist-writers as a subject of conversation with the dealers. In England I suppose it's a Chesterton I should have or something by David Jones. And what wouldn't I give, if I had it, for a watercolor by Yeats!

The Masterman spy book should be available within a few days, for I understand they are going to let it go on the market immediately. I have just had my first copy and re-read my own foreword as though I had never written it.

Aunt Susan joins me in love to you for the Year of the Rat.

Yours, 
Uncle Tom

I do have a mission for you to go as the Victor Hugo music I see if they can do it or identify my picture, I buy for the anything they have on Hugo as an artist.

Also to go to the Bibliothèque Nationale, I see if they had a catalogue of the Palomar show there led Dec 26. If so, two copies. They have not answered my letter. Will you please send them to extend the life I had already given them as long as they're coming?

Many thanks for the gift subscription to *Groove*, will you send them to extend the life I had already given them as long as they're coming?

The copies of the Mastermen will go to you in a couple of days.