70 bis rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris V1
April 9, 1935

Dear Red:

On the same boat with this I am sending you a story
by Gene which I think is extremely good. It is his first finished
story, though he has begun several, and it belongs to a group
which I think may in time become a book.

He has taken the name of a cousin because, as Gene says,
the cousin is dead and no longer needs it. I have had great
work persuading him to let me send this story anywhere, and he
has all sorts of reasons which may sound perfectly logical to
himself, but I cannot agree with them. I believe this is a very
well done piece of work. You asked me to send you promising
manuscripts, and I mean to look about; but naturally the first
one my eye fell upon would be what I consider a promising one
under my own roof. You will understand perfectly that I really
send this to you as I would send any other, for you to read and
judge as impersonally as you would the work of a stranger to
us both.

I send it because I think it is worth sending, but it
may not at all suit your purposes.

My own story goes slowly; I never boast of my good health
but that the gods overhear me and lay me low for a while, just
to show me--- so I had an attack of bronchitis practically
the next day after I wrote telling you what monstrous fine
health I was enjoying. But it was light, and it passed, and that
is of itself a record...

It seems to me now I wrote also that the next time you
heard from me it would be to receive my short story. I must
have meant the next time but one....

As always, your friend

70 bis rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris V1

September 23, 1936

Dear Mr. Erskine:

If this notice does not come too late, will you please send
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below? In any case send the others to come there. I am leaving
Europe, at last, after five years. My husband is being transferred,
though we do not know yet where. I expect to be in New York for a
while, then in Washington. For the time being I am having all mail
sent

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543 St. Ann Street, New Orleans

September 20, 1937

Dear Red:

It may as well be "He."

They are very firm about wanting those stories for themselves. I really don't know what is going to happen when they discover that Fiction Parade--- people I never heard of-- have got away with one. I don't care much, either. I am sorry, my dear, that I have not been more careful in the matter. When they say I am co-operating with them fully, they are making it up, because all too apparently I don't know the meaning of the word. If I had, I should have managed better, and co-operated with the right persons...

What they mean, I feel pretty certain, is this: I was not clear about my rights in the matter, and asked their advice. They gave it, and I did not like it, and have tried to wangle out of it. That's really the exact state of affairs, and not at all my notion of team work.

So take "He." You didn't care enough for *The Cracked Looking Glass*? That's a long one, and my first in that form.... I liked it, though I haven't seen it lately, and have forgotten it, somewhat.

I was glad of even the little glimpse of you, and hope I may see you again sometime when we are not so confused and hurried. That was no sort of reunion after ten years.

543 St. Ann Street, New Orleans, Louisiana

November 16, 1937

Dear Albert:

You've been looking after this, so you may as well see it through.
There are twenty pages to come as I explained in the telegram. (Meaning, as
I shall explain tomorrow morning, it now being ten at night.) I am going on,
in five minutes, with the rest, and it should be there within thirty six
hours. About twenty to twenty five pages more. The copy does not number with
the other manuscript, and I have cut it some, and added a little, not much..

I hope it is not too late. I was ill for two days, general malaise
and not serious but very slowing down. Diagnosis Author's Stage Fright

This will be enough for all of you to judge whether you want it, and
I will send the rest for a reading in any case.