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11/26/30 Dear Charles - I have a thing in current Nation on the Negro in times of industrial depression, an article in current Scribners and I have just written a new article for Nation on the strike at Danville Va. I seem to be getting into current things more and more but I do not save much. My situation is a bit absurd. This winter I have had opportunity to make perhaps $3000 by doing articles for popular magazines but couldn't do them.

It seems to me that I will have to find a way, other than writing, to make my living - that I do not want much living.
I could be satisfied with running the place here but have given that job to Bob.  If I write for the papers ? people keep refering to what

I write, to the detriment of Bob sometimes and, as I am asking him to run this thing, and he wants to do so, I do not feel I should butt in.

A man gets in a queer position.  There was that debate at Richmond.  I introduced the speakers.  There were about 3000 people there