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Dec. 21

1915

Mr. S. L. standing on
the deck of his yacht
the *Rollicking Banana*,
now put in at Washington for cargo of peanuts and munitions, in
smart Palm Beach
suit. Merry Xmas and
a wonderful New Year!

S. L.

Miss Elizabeth Jordan
36 Gramercy Park
New York, N. Y.

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516 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota

January 4, 1917

Dear Elizabeth:

Happy New Year, and splendid good fortune on your new job!

I hope you safely received my telegram, in response to yours, saying that the Palm Beach story was called "Twenty-four Hours in June," and that it was published in the Saturday Evening Post for February 17, 1917. I wish I had an extra copy, and I'd send it to you, but I haven't one. It seems to be hard to get back copies from the Post; it may be necessary to borrow one from some file, say Harper's advertising department.

I sent the telegram to you at Gramercy Park, and I'm sending this letter to you at the same address, because your telegram gave only Fort Lee for address, and I didn't know just where at Fort Lee to address you.

Grace and the baby and I are all happy and well and busy. And I -- you will shrink with consternation, having been through the grind yourself -- am writing a play and actually working on it!

As ever,

(signed) Sinclair Lewis

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Sunday

Dear Elizabeth:

It's come - a ten-pound, healthy,
husky, red-headed boy, named Wells, &
Grace is feeling fine. She'll be in the
hospital for a couple of weeks. But
everything goes fine. Arrival was on
Thursday.

In haste,

(signed) Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis
Hotel Wyndham
42 West 58th St.
New York City

March 11, 1938

Dear Elizabeth:

I shall be excited indeed to
see your autobiography. I think it will
be forwarded from Bronxville -- we have
leased the house there -- and I shall
read it as soon as I possibly can. I am
sorry that I have given up my book column
in NEWSWEEK so that I shall not be able to
review it.

I remember so well our summer
evenings on the roof in Gramercy Park,
and your incomparable help to me!

Ever,

(signed) Sinclair Lewis

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March 11, 1938

Miss Miriam Lundy, President
New York Newspaper Women's Club
22 East 38th Street
New York, N. Y.

Dear Miss Lundy:

I do wish it were possible for
me to be present at the cocktail party
for Miss Elizabeth Jordan on Thursday,
March 17, but I shall be out of town
all the end of that week.

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516 Summit Ave.
St. Paul, Minn.

January 15

Dear Elizabeth:

Indeed if my mind gets to work-
ing along motion picture idea lines, I'll
be glad to send the result to you.

Had a very cordial letter from
Ripley Hitchcock but you can imagine how
different my reactions to it are from re-
actions to a letter from you.

Grace and I have just been ski-
ing -- and there's been lots of skating
and good parties and work on my play.

1918

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March 29, 1938

Dear Elizabeth:

Only last night did I finish THREE ROUSING CHEERS. I was at once immensely pleased and a little saddened, with a nostalgic kind of sadness, by your brilliant evocation of the past -- Good Lord! it began twenty-four years ago -- when for a while we were so happily associated. I think that at that time you and Charley Towne and Grace (but of course Grace was herself only an amateur then and not sure of her own judgment) along with Mary Heaton Vorse, gave me more encouragement as well as hard practical advice than everybody else in the world put together. To three of these four I owe something that can not be repaid except in lasting affection.

I remember every minute of our gorgeous meetings, I think, particularly the roof-top in Gramercy Square which was a higher peak than any Empire State Building was ever to be!

I ran into Charley Towne at the theatre last evening, and he looked not only well but as youthfully cheerful as he was twenty-five years ago. I told him that he would never cease to be the up-State boy who is still excited at having just arrived in New York.

My love and my most earnest wishes for the good fortune of your book!

Ever,

(signed) Sinclair Lewis

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1918 Jan. 3

St. Paul, Minn.
Elizabeth Jordan
36 Gramercy Park
New York, N. Y.

STORY IS NAMED TWENTY FOUR HOURS IN JUNE PUBLISHED IN SATURDAY EVENING POST FEBRUARY SEVENTEENTH NINETEEN SEVENTEEN MANY THANKS.

SINCLAIR LEWIS