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SHADOW EDGE
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August 12

Dear grace,

I have neglected my friends with wholesale impartiality. Everyone asks me, 'Isn't your book done? Why isn't it done?' And I haven't had time to answer.

Now it is done. That is, the story is finished. But I still have the proof to correct and a bibliography to prepare and a preface to write, so I shan't be free for some time.

I won't bore you with the history of all my troubles but perhaps you will care to know why the work took longer than was expected.

The book was originally the history of George Sand's love-life. It was called, "The Search for Love, the Story of George Sand."

It ended when she was fifty years old. I intended to write a second book continuing her history from fifty up to her death.

But the plan was changed, and now the book is to be a biography entitled "George Sand." That entailed a lot of extra work and new chapters.

Another American woman, Miss Schermerhorn, has written the story of George Sand's love life. Her book is entitled "The Seven Strings of a Lyre," which refers to the seven lovers of George. The book is to be published by Houghton Mifflin next month, so I guess it will appear before mine. Therefore my publishers thought it wiser for me to get out something different from hers. That is why we changed to a more complete biography.

Working as I have been, under pressure, in a sort of race with the other book, I have been obliged to cut out everything and everybody. I can only hope to be forgiven.

Of course it is all the better to have two books on George, only if one comes out too far ahead of the other, the ground will