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THE ALLERTON

130 East 52nd Street

New York

have had the proper kind of congratulatory
letter long ago, and entirely sincere it
would have been, too, for I felt really com-
pletely happy over your thrilling news only
much more so than the 'proper' amount. If
you know what I mean---You've been in my
thoughts constantly and I'm terribly happy
over your happiness.

Your first letter said something about seeing
me soon. Are you coming to New York for your
honeymoon? I hope so because I do so want to
see you and to meet Jean. I like his book,
and, as soon as I have a few dollars collected
from somewhere, I shall want to order one for
Denis Saurat. Shall I get it from you or from
Brentano's? If I order it from you, will you
have him autograph it? I might want one also
later for a friend of Denis'--a Provençal poet.

About seeing you soon: You didn't tell me
where you're going to live--in Portage or in
Chicago. Anyway, for nearly a year I've
looked forward to the prospect of seeing you
this Christmas, when the Modern Language Assoc-
iation convenes in Madison and gives me a cut-
fare rate on the train. .between Dec. 27th
and 31st. Can I see you if I come? Will you
visit with me one whole twenty-four hours, if
you can leave Jean that long, and stay with
me at the Union Memorial--at least during the
day and will Jean come down, too, if you're
living in Portage then. I'll go through Chicago
too and if you're there I'd like to see you
between trains.

THE ALLERTON

The East Side of the Street
New York

What is Jean like? You haven't said a thing
about him except his effect on you, but your
love for him makes him a personality somehow
in my mind. Perhaps I shall like him on his
own too. I suppose so. He isn't like Kenneth
is he? I notice that he's tall. I like that.
What IS he like? I'm mad to know!

I'm very pleased that you liked the Tiffany
bowl. Mother went along to help me select it.
The alternative one had more sunlight in it
but less subtlety. I wonder whether you'd
have preferred it? I thought you could read
into this one the colors the artist meant to
suggest. None of them are perfect because each
is made by hand, I suppose you know. What
are you going to use it for? Are you going to
put flowers into it? I ask because I like to
picture something of your home and that is all
I know of it so far. Please write me everything
you can about it and about you and about Jean
and about your Mother--how does she feel at
not having you right there?--and about your
future and...and...everything. I love hearing
you, Margery. You are one real thing in my
existence. Saurat--------

If I only could have brought you something
lovely from Europe!--a Liberty scarf or an
Assyrian box from the Colonial Exposition in
Paris. I saw so many things I'd have liked to
have brought home with me and your marriage
would have been a reason. As it is, I almost
got stuck mid-ocean broke, but luckily had
my return ticket paid for before I left. I
didn't buy anything either; travelling took
everything, but health returned, so it was
worth it. I can now read again and have been
reading and studying about four hours a day
this week for the first time.

THE ALLERTON

120 East 52nd Street
New York

Please tell me more about the Guardieff (?)
movement and whether Jean is still with it.
Saurat knows the leader, who told him he--
Denis--is one of those few who have souls.
Where is it in New York?

Last summer I asked you a question you did
not answer, I suppose by accident. Will you
now please? Is William W. Lawrence of Columbia
one of Zona's old personal friends? He is the
one who is causing me all this trouble and un-
happiness and I simply can't understand how he
can be--he seemed so sympathetic last year...
an exceptionally fine type of man, a thinker,
probably a mystic in part at one time, in his
youth...and a very fine lecturer and scholar
and a really exceptional teacher. I don't see
how he can be so cruel with all that...He has
put a ban on my registering!...and it is caus-
ing the wildest lot of talk...all favorable to
him and the opposite to me. I can't understand
it. I work in the library stacks and people --
the prudes mainly--look at me as those Barnard
people used to look at you. I know just how you
must have felt. Isn't it awful? Please tell me
what that man is really like, who would do such
a thing--it's so conspicuous. What did you
think of his book? (Shakespeare's Problem Plays.)

I wish I could see you, as you are now, in all
your glory on recent marriage with your Jean.
I know I shall love him; if you have given every
thing to him he must be fine. Please tell him I
want to know him and be his friend as well as
yours. Will he like that?

Love to you always--lots of it.

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