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will have the pleasure of reading it on my Reading Machine, in eight
minutes I hope.

I'm in a swell writing mood today, but I was soused last night and
am celebrating a sad hang-over. I haven't the glue to go on with.

I once or once I knew a woman named Nancy Hanks. Believe it or not.
And a medico styled Dr. Pyles. You never saw my Chinese jade fish
with the lettuce eyes either.

Did you ever see a Portuguese panderangandam? I mean it.

Address: C/O National City Bank of
New York, 41 Boulevard Haussmann,
Paris, France.

Sept 23

Dear Gertrude Stein:

It's a long time since I have heard from you and
you have heard from me, which isn't write. So now you are hearing.

Everything is lovely, life is all right. Beer is a good drink.
A bed is a fine place to sleep. Fishing is fine if you catch anything.
You can even drink water if you can't get anything else. I am reading
the last proofs on Globe-Gliding, a little travel book I will be sending
you next week.

Meantime, another book is born

ANTHOLOGY OF READIES FOR THE MACHINE

Half a dozen of these modern writing youngsters have taken a great
liking to the reading machine and have sent me their own versions of
stories, articles, pomes, etc. to be read on the reading machine. I've
got some really good ones and there will be twenty or more by the time
I get them all together.

Will you please write something to be read on a reading machine.
The anthology wouldn't be complete without you. I can't offer to pay
you anything for it, because I am only printing the book to give away,
but I can give you half a dozen copies, which should be fun. The book
may help loosen up writing a little for all of us and it's going to be
good. The idea has taken on and has been written up a little in the
States with my old friend Mencken boosting in spite of his unexpected
honeymoon. I've had several letters asking the price of the machine and
two or three publishers are considering making a machine or printing
the book or something. God knows what, they don't. Anyway, it's going to
have a good result and there'll be more lively writing to read.

We move along from here next week, so in sending me the Mss. if
you are going to be so kind, and Basket barks you are, please send it care

Oct 8 1930

Care of National City Bank,
41 Boul. Haussmann, Paris.

Dear Gertrude Stein:

Many thanks for "We Came." I like it very much and am trying to think how to print it in continuous lines to carry out the spoiling Readie idea without spoiling the effect of the short lines. I don't think it can be done effectively with hyphens as I did in my Harry story, but I must hit on some device to suggest motion. Perhaps you can suggest something or give me something else with connecting signs which show the dumb reader that the type is flowing past his eye.

The form of the presentation is important because my cousin in Detroit who has a big machinery business is actually making the first reading machine for me now and perhaps the Anthology can be printed in miniature type for the first roll to be used on the machine. That would be great.

We go to Riva on Lake Garda tomorrow to stay quite a while if we like it.

I sent you a copy of Globe-Gliding the other day. Hope you got it.

Rose and mother are packing for the trip and I must get busy.

Love from all of us to all of you.

38

Dear Gertrude Ein Stein

Zwei Stein

Stein Stein

That's all we hear here, here hear, heer, herr, herem here!

But me no buttons

My tender feelings

Your tender buttings

This also is a portrait of you, a selfish bildnis by me.

We have an amoebic dysentery club here, an American girl in the hospital and I. We save our best samples and show them Fridays in the lobby. Sam Putnam is coming from Paris this week to join. I'll bet I can retain my Yatren longer than he can, langsam.

This is page 38 of a free verse travel book I am writing in the hope of selling. It is full of realistic gems like "Manure Time in Switzerland."

Also, or also as we say in Germany, I am compiling a Censored Anthology of Gems from the Poets, inspired by your Mother Goose. It just writes itself:

Blessings on thee, little man

bare- boy with of tan.

I am doing a lot for Tennyson, Longfellow and the rest of them. I only hope they appreciate it.

Carnival is here. German carnival. I was with it until four A. M. today and yet I wrote a beautiful poem this morning:

AFFEN HAUS - Hagenbeck's Tiergarten - Hamburg

Fundamentalists march by and
pause to laugh superiorly
evolutionists gather to
seriously discuss this year's
lice crop and to
keep up to date on

40

because God knows knowbody else will want to. It is called

THE LITERARY REMAINS OF
ROBERT CARLTON BROWN

By

Bob Brown

Literary Executer

Three or four books must be published this year. I have to catch up.
You are seventeen books ahead of me.

And so I go on and on, beginning again in your continuous futureful
present.

All the family is fine, they have nothing the matter with them.
I'm fine, too. Also refined. Fined for this. Fined for that. Try and
find it. They join me in love to you and Alice Where Art Thou, in and
out of Wonderland, and I never walked so far in my life. I'm all out of
breath. The amoebic dysentery club expose their works of art Fridays in
the lobby in hand-painted mustard pots. That goes all right in Germany.
Everything like that goes in Germany. Really it's an ideal place to have
ameobic dysentery in.

Love,

WHEW!

If the written-out tongue must

stretch-out

stick-out

retch

to cover

legal documents

towit towhom whereas
(and)

lick

wrap around

Christ-curdling hymns

purred to high heaven

all overtones needed for

drumming on the

taut-taught-illogical heads of

business buzzing beatitudinizers

yours of the sixth

instant to hand

would say

(and)

scientific screeds

the plethora of the ornithorincus

(not to mention)

nosegays of scented society versifiers

Milday's bulging boudoir

lap up

creamy love letters

darlingest (as well as)

twist the dry tattooed writing tongue

about dull-domed histories

on October 6th 863 Eric the Gelded

Slick gossipers in romantic novels

water-waving readers' hair

he placed her gardenia in his (button)

hole

and fell dead

tralogies even today

rolled vellum records

nondescript

manuscript mummies

dust-gathering

gaping

in cobwebby yawning aw-awing wineless cellars

High life plays!

Mammy songs!

Whew!

I say!

Whew

where's there a

breathing space

Whew!

for a living writer to stick a panting word

Whew!

here or there and

rattle it around in the wheezy old

language rib case

to thrust a

pulsing eye-flashing breathless

I and it hasn't made them anymore nervous than they are normally, which
shows it's a pretty good cure. If you ever feel out of sorts try this
home of your ancestors and you'll be amazed by the way it remakes even
the best of us.

We are staying here three weeks more and then going to Tegernsee
near Munich. It looks now as though we wont get to France till after
the Oktoberfest which is in September. My daughter (19) and a nice kid,
is going to study or work in Paris next winter, so if we don't see you
before we shall surely see you there.

I hope to get @v@ (Dot your Os) started this summer in Munchen.
Too bad tradition is stopping with this number, as I hear.

Thanks for the notice of your new book, I've sent to Paris for it.

I know you and Alice Where Art Thou are having a good time and
so are we and we'll all be glad to see one another one of these days and
if you'll write to me I'll write to you, and it's good to be well, but
hard on the neuroses.

[1931]

Le Manoir, Cagnes-sur-mer A. M.

April 20

Dear G. S.;

How's your publishing business coming on? Did you get the
book-dealers addresses I sent?

I am mailing you a little book of mine called ×××××××× Gems. I
got the idea from your Mother Goose Censored book.

Did you ever speak to George Hugnet about my need of a Readie
from him. I lost his address and feel badly that I haven't got one
from him. The book will go to press in a few weeks and if you will
ask him for one I will be most appreciative.

I lost fifty thousand dollars in the Brazilian Revolution,
but I'm well again, so I'm starting to write once more for a living.
My son showed up from New York the other day and he's learning to
write, too. I want him to meet you sometime.

Best of everything to you and Alice

from all of us

Weizel's Hotel, St. Pauli,
Hamburg. April 22nd.

Dear Gertrude Stein:

The cure didn't come off and I have been too weak and
listless to answer your good letter and thank you for the portrait which
we all greatly enjoyed and to return the Mother Goodse which you kindly
loaned me.

There is new hope in my condition which has popped up in the last
two or three days and given me the energy to write this letter. It seems
that I am suffering from an upset in the rhythm of my endocrine system,
they are feeding me glands now and that should pull me through. I want to
get my energy back so I can get out a really modern magazine called

OvO

(Dot your O's)

I mean really modern, with contributions by Gertrude Stein and the
lesser lights of Modernish, Modernistic, Modernism.

Perhaps we'll go to London to continue the cure and maybe spend
some of the summer around the French Alps. They tell me Chamonoi or
Chamonix or something far removed from that in spelling is a great place.
Is that near where you spend your summers? If it is we can call on
you and Alice-Where-Art-Thou once in a while. My two kids will be with
us and I think they'd like you and you'd like them.

I heard from Carlos Williams the other day and read his Al Que
Quiere for the first time which prompted the enclosed.

Please overlook my enforced silence and write me a letter. You may
be sure I will never be that silent again.

The Lady Browns join me in love to the Wonderland-Stein-Alices.

Le Manoir, Cagnes-sur-Mer A. M.

May 8n1931

Dear G. S.

Thank you for liking my book "Gems." I have a publisher
for it in America and your old friend John Lane is thinking about
bringing it out in England. That'll be fine.

We still have enough money to live on and I can always make
something out of writing, so to hell with Brazil.

I am glad your publishing business is going nicely. I saw the
notice in Publisher's Weekly. More power to you.

I'll be sending you a new book of poems of mine called "Demonics"
within the next two or three weeks, and within two months the Readies
for the Machine, with your good contribution will be ready.

Hope you and Alice Where Art Thou are happy in the country
where thou art.

Best of everything from all of us, including my son,
to all of you, including Basket,

Nov 1 1931

Dear G. S.

I was glad to get your announcement of books and hope they are going well. I am much too poor to buy one, but I'd like specially to have the one on How to Write. I sent you a copy of my Words the other day hoping you'd think it worth exchanging for. The poetry isn't so hot, but the sermon on the reading machine with the little lines at the lower corners makes it worth while to me. The Anthology of the Readies will be out in five or six weeks, with your good contribution in it and I will send you copies.

This year has been just one thing after another. We're lying low, nearly cleaned out. I started to write stuff to sell and managed to hit Mencken with a seven page poem the other day called "G. W. Anniversary," in honor of George Washington's two hundredth anniversary. He paid me $150.00 for it. Pretty good for me, for a pome.

Perhaps I sent you a copy of "Words" before. If I did you can give one away.

Anyway, I'd like to know "How to Write" and especially from you.

All the family is well and happy, my son is with us now and working hard to become a writer. So am I.

Love from all of us to all of you,

Le Manoir, Cagnes-sur-mer A. M.
France.

Dec. 16 1931

Dear Gertrude:

My many and most thanks for the sentences, grammar and
everything. I get a big kick out of it. So does my son. It's a
wonder. So are you. All the Christmas and New Years greeting in
the world to you and yours.

Did I tell you that Virgil Thompson played your All Saints
opera twice for us here and we were all thrilled by it. I never heard
opera I enjoyed before. That is all opera, as your last book is all
writing. You must make up again with little Virgil, I am sure he is
harmless, though it is none of my business, I don't think his ovaries
function as well without you. He must musicate some grammar.

I'll be sending you the Readie book with your long and
lovely piece in it, in about two weeks now. Meantime I enclose
a slip about it, maybe some of your millionaire friends would actually
buy one. What I need right now is more and better millionaires.

Always best of everything to you from all of us

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