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Burton Emmett 120 WEST 32nd STREET New York

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deeply felt, the most sincerely stated, the most beautifully handled and the most inspiring single thing that I have read for- I can't remember how long. The passage about the way the driving in of the nails hurt the old unclear builder is not the most inspiring part; but so far as craftsmanship in thinking and in words and crashing effectiveness are concerned, and even you yourself have done anything more wonderful. If the Steiglitz essay had not just simply driven me to write you, I doubt if I ever would have done so. But now that I am writing you I dont seem to be so worried about you attitude toward the little subject referred to in my second paragraph- you cant do anything worse than say "Hell!" and throw this away. And so- the truth is that I am collecting everything I can get my hands on by three or four of our most recent American authors, yourself and Dreisen being the two more important. What I