Settignano Florence Sept. 23 1946

Dear Manuel:

I often thought to write you a line after coming out of the war seclusion (not a concentration camp) but was limited by feeling vague as to you whereabout and other specifications. But a moment has come when I am constrained to break in on you. I have written a book, a much better book I may say than I wrote before, which has been accepted by the Crown Publishers. In my Liveright contract it was provided that I should submit my next works but they have ceased to publish and now want to force payment for a release. I cant imagine that they have any rights but perhaps they can refuse to clear the track by a formal release.
As you were familiar with this particular transaction and I suppose are very well up on all these matters I have told my cousin Fred Stein who is acting for me that probably you wouldnt mind if he called you up. I am writing another book now which I think will be really important but the one I have written may bring me in some much wanted spondulicks.

Yours for old langsyne