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Dec. 29, 19969 Dear friend, How are you coming along with your autobiography? It must be a difficult job unless you've kept a journal as Hardy did.

  I have written 15 short stories during the past year - 4 not bad - but Agent Siegel reported last month that his client said the weren't "in tune with the times."   What do I do now?!  I've been reading some short-story anthologies - underlined:  Story Jubilee & Stanford Univ. Stories.  1960 ed. by Stegner & Scowcraft.  
  You will be interested in the enclosed, I think, and will have some helpful comments on it for me.  (See p. 44 in particular).  Do you ever review books of the kind anymore?
  With best wishes for a productive year.    G.W. Sherman