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in pencil [?]/25/3[?] ESHERICK PAOLI PENNSYLVANIA

 Dear Sherwood
 I wish you would send me two of the "What say" pages from the December 17 issue. I think it a marvelous lift up.

I was with Dreiser last Thursday in New York, he certainly has a ? boyish heart toward sincere people, under all that hard crust of hate for clever boys.

 I stayed at the Auroria? (you know he is there) & each morning at 9, he calls my room to have breakfast together,

he said, "I felt good last night knowing a friend was in the hotel."

 The way you made him a passionate lover of truth. It wasn't beauty but it was true.
 Also that was an excellent way to