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Los Angeles, Calif. December 4, 1933 Dear Mr. Anderson; From quite a few sources I have read of your friends hip with Gertrude Stein and have been told that your writing was influenced in some degree by Miss Stein. For that reason I am writing to you. I'm really begging you for some information that I need. You see, I'm writing a University English term paper on the subject of Gertrude Stein. The dickens of it is that I can't find enough genuine estimates of Miss Stein's work, or more important still, her influence on other writers of the day. To what extent has she affected the work of you or Ernest Hemmingway? Is it that Miss Stein is just an extraordinary personality that makes her important? Or has she really something fundamental to impart thru her writings?