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March 20, 1947 Dear Mr. Conroy,

   Thanks for the story.  You should have sent the other along, too.  It's absolutely worthless.
   You know, for a minute there after you had asked for it, I was all for deporting Mr. Thurber and Mr. Perelman, but when I took the story out of the shoe box and read it again, was all for deporting myself to farthest Siberia to live on eels and sea weed.  Ugh!
   The story definitely belongs in a shoe box - with the cover sealed down tight.   Anyone can see it's a masterpiece of the Shoe Box School.  (Founder - H. Rosenberg Ph.D., L.L.D. & D.D.S.)
   Little, Brown liked the shortened version of my story they said, but