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in pencil in top margin Mar. 31, 1957

     Of course my acquaintance with the Brontë family was zero.  My first impression after finishing the tale was that never, in my experience, had such a story been written, and that the writer must have been crazy or drunk when she wrote it.
     The next day I took the first three volumes back to the professor, keeping the fourth volume with "Wuthering Heights."
     Why was "Jane Eyre" so well known and "Wuthering Heights" hidden from the public?  I questioned the professor who was way up and an authority on the world's literature.
      It seems the story was poorly constructed - the plot was not good - and the characters were brutal beyond nature.  (That same sort of criticism was handed to me by others of the literati for some time.  I was all alone and in the dog-house whenever I mentioned the tale.)
     Then in Bert Leston Taylor's "Line O'Type or Two"  appeared his thought of the possible pleasure of sitting before a fire on a cold windy night and starting out,  for the first