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way. It is all leading up to my thought about shipping up the box, etc. etc. and I meant to say earlier that I thoroughly agree with you about the difficulty under the circumstances of having sorted over the contents of this box before. I have been delighted and grateful for the various foreign editions of your books and the one presentation copy (the Joel Chausler Harms? book). For a while I was thrilled too with the various MS. of current material for Vanity Fair, etc., etc. In this cooped up town, however, these latter items are making me very conscious of over-pouring desk drawers and other space limitations. Also, I have recently had an insurance appraisal made by Drake's (dealers and experts) and find that it is only the MS. for your important, well known items that have a material value financially. Of course, the financial side I have kept, and still want to keep, in decidedly secondary importance. What I am getting at, however, (at last!) is that these various considerations lead me to doubt the wisdom of shipping the box to N.Y. The only things