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K City 1/20/33 Dear Charles - I am writing from Kansas City - from a little rather tough hotel, full of little actors, prize fighters - auto salesmen out of work and whores - also out of work. I stumbled into the place and, to my amazement got a grand big room, chair, with a bah and an out look over the city, for $5.50 a week. Its gaudy and I really love these ? - non respectable people about - drunk and sober. All I miss is a few of your own and John's painting on the wall. John told me he was coming to Baltimore soon. I wrote a play - a New York man helping me - ? on ? and I think its good. Was plunged into it for a month - the man helping the last two weeks - and then I got into the ? and lit out - to drift for a time. I had a grand ride, over mountains and ? and out onto the prairies - crossed the Cumberland, Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri Rovers. It rained, the wind blew, the sun shone. Again I got in love with America. What a land - O Charles - if we can