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1928

My dear Mr. Sherwood Anderson, I should have written this letter at the beginning of January, had I not spent your money entrusted me by the Jiji-Shimpo. We Japanese minor writers are as poor as a church mouse But, as it were, to be plain with you, I spent your fifty yen at the end of last year, being hard pressed by the nessesitythe ss in the middle of the word are crossed out and replaced with c of the last pay day of the year. Of course I wanted to send you the money as soon as possible, so I made the sum early in January, yet being unable to find the time to go to the post office, I kept it packed in my desk drawer. One night in the New Year's holidays,–"we have seven holidays in succession" are striked through the first week of seven days of January are our holidays–I was drinking