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[Handwritten letter on plain white paper and blue ink]

[At top in pencil: "Suchblad, Jane [1956]"]

[Transcriber's Note: Her surname could be "Sundblad" instead of Suchblad]

Dear Mr. Conroy, I am writing to thank you very sincerely for the kind book that arrived to-day - it is with great pleasure that I look forward to reading [unclear - theere]. "American humans" so easily gets labelled that way without any effort to trace its further origins - I must confess I had no idea that James Thurber wasn't a New Yorker. - That's the first friend I have made, just by