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in pencil Wells on EASTON GLEBE DUNMOW. Dec. 9, 1923.

Dear Sherwood Anderson,

 Because everything is my own life seems to have gone wrong lately, if indeed it has ever gone

right, I feel all the more the duty of being nice to other folks.

 I am down here for the week end- here being the country home of Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Wells. Last

night at dinner something was said about Sinclair Lewis and Mr. Wells said his "Main Street" wasn't much, but his "Babbitt" was good, but that he thought that was the end of him. "But", continued he, "that other American writer, Sherwood Anderson, has done some fine work. You can ex-