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WALTER H. WILLIAMS 1106 SANDUSKY AVENUE KANSIS CITY, KANSAS

10-3-33.

Dear Mr. Anderson–, I'm sorry I haven't answered your letter of last July sooner–I haven't so much as an excuse for it–personal negligence, I guess. I'm back in school, thanks to my good fortune. Attending Kansas City, Kansas, Junior College. By the way, I've something to ask you. Recently I read an article in the Kansas City Star on Gertrude Stein. We had quite a discussion about her in my Literature class. I told Miss Wenrich, my instructor, that I'd write you in order that we could better understand Gertrude Stein, if that is really possible. The Star quoted yourself, Ernest Hemingway, John Cowper Powys and Eugene O'Neill as saying there is much "meaty substance" in her outpourings. Just what is meant by that? And these words: "She is a woman of striking vigor, a subtle + powerful mind, a discrimination in the arts such as I have found in no other American born man or woman. –the most important pioneer work in the field of letters in my time." I am sincere, Mr. Anderson, in finding out something about Gertrude Stein.