M.S.C.

country than in any other. Wouldn't you? All the same we are in a tight fix just now, though not many of the people you meet on your lecture tour will realize it. They will tell you that "things will come out all right", just because they always have.

Please come and have tea with me when you get back.

W.S.C.

Whale Cove
Grand Manan

New Brunswick. Canada

Dear Sinclair Lewis;

I am delighted to find your name in a bushel
of mail just arrived to meet me here. I do want to see
you. If you are going to be in Bronxville this winter
it will be easy, for I shall be in New York for at least
part of the winter. I have at last got my things out of
storage and have crept into a very quiet little apartment
at 570 Park avenue and nobody knows where I am. For the
last four years I have been in Pasadena with my mother
who was ill there, and I made only short business trips
to New York. After her death I spent a winter among my
old friends in Nebraska. I have always known where you
were in the world, and have many kind words to thank you
for. We have always managed to hang together, though there
were a good many people who would like to see us claw each
other. Moreover, we bear a common reproach: the gentlemen
who know how books should be written are always cursing
you because you do not write like a woman, and me
because I do not write like a man. I think we have a