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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