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CAPLAN Kansas City, Mo. Nov. 26, 1933 Dear Jack:

  You can't imagine how all the comrades in town are whooped up about "The Disinherited."  We've had a battle with an old battle-ax of the Carrie Nation school, in the public library.  This bitch O.K's the books for the "institution" and your novel was on the taboo list, with a couple of big X's marked against it.  Well your old bud and his pals are making life miserable for them; your book - and they will have to buy a couple to meet the demand.  Birkenhead and Jenkins also going to the front for you.
  Mr. Birkhead was unable to procure a book, so the radio review will be laid over a week (Wednesday Dec. 6 3:30 P.M.).  this is no baloney - the liberals are in this "united front" strong; and your work will be the main Sunday topic, too, from more than one pulpit.
  Covici, Friede have a golden opporotunity sic in "The Disinherited," I believe.  An 'ad' in The Star  on a Sat. - about eight weeks in a row - would net them a barrel of dough.  This goddam agency of the Inquisition