16 August 1928

"HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED"

Page 125.

12th line from bottom: Instead of "foot-ball match"
read "base-ball game".

" 127

6th line from top: Instead of "foot-ball crowd" read
"base-ball crowd".

" 127

8th line from bottom: Instead of: "don't let'em put
it over you" read "don't let'em put it over
on you".

" 128

12th line from bottom: Instead of "after a ball match"
read "after a ball game".

" 128

13th line from top: Instead of "But when the match was
over" read "But when the game was over".

"HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED"

Page I4I - II line from top: Instead of: "Mrs.Tracy's accusa-
tion again!" read: "Again Mrs.Tracy's accusa-
tion!"

Page I4I- II line from top: Strike out the word "astonished"
between "his" and "eyes".

Page I44 - 4 line from bottom: Instead of: "in a circle of
understanding and connivance" put: "in a hidden
circle of understanding and connivance".

February 19th, 1930

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letter of February 6th.

"Age of Innocence":- Willy you kindly tell the Président of the Authors Club of New York that I absolutely decline to be "digested"!

"Hudson River Bracketed":- I see no objection to putting the Downing quotation on a separate page.

My sister-in-law writes me that she has been much perturbed by a letter pointing out the slip I made on page 330 in saying that Vance had never returned to the Willows since he had been accused of stealing Mr. Lorburn's books. Of course I should have said "he had never entered the house". The mistake had already been pointed out to me, and I was about to write and ask if you could be changed in the next printing. But my sister-in-law seems to think that this would be difficult.

If the change is possible ( as I hope it may be), I
suggest the following:

1st line from top: Instead of "three years", read: "nearly a year".

Line 17 from top: Instead of "been near the Willows", read: "entered the house".

I hope you will be able to alter this, and I am very much ashamed of the mistake; but the fact is that I had to send the last chapters to you without waiting to have them copied and therefore I could not re-read them.

Yours very sincerely