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NEWELL-EMMETT COMPANY 120 WEST 32ND STREET NEW YORK

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Your theory re. Dreiser incident is most interesting and convincing. I hope that Mr. D, in his silent, enduring way, will not entirely ignore it all when he returns. I am so glad to find you tolerant about it. The Phoenix Book Shop here, as you no doubt know, is preparing a bibliography or your things for their next catalogue. Like most people, they had condemned Dreiser; but they were delighted, not only with your theory, but also with your attitude when I told them. Their shop was where I found "Mid American Chants" after having hunted for it for over a year. Haven't had a second to read any of it yet. In fact, there are at least three of your books still in store for me. I'll really be sorry when I have read them all and actually caught up with your production- although, unlike most of today's writing, your things stand the gaff? of reading over and over, a good proof that they will "live". I often think how wonderfully fortunate you have been in your experiences, rough and uncomfortable as many of them have been. With the very same ability, the same temperment, the same fancy, the same personality throughout, you never could get down into the very inside of the soul of people as you do if you had