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Chicago Sep 20 in pencil 24 Dear Jerry & Lucile Tennessee & I just got back into town. Found your fine letter. It was the only thing cheerful about coming back home. I'll not stay long. Am going on a still hunt for some kind of hole in the country where I can work and where Tennessee can come a part of each week. We're both beginning right now to make plans for the Alabama thing with you two. Lets all four chalk that up as something we'll do. I know you'll both get a story and a damn big one out of the nigger. He's somebody nobody knows a hell of a lot about yet.

  I wrote off to Huebsch and told him to send you Winesburg at once.  The only copy I have here is pretty messy.  The new book should be along in a few weeks.  Do you want it sent out there.  How long will you stay?
  I read O'Briens book, White Shadows and it gave me a sense of where you are and the life you are living.  God wouldn't I like to be there with you two.
  Tennessee is pretty well.  It's too damn bad she has to go to work