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                                                                                                                   1940 Delancey Place
                                                                                                                    Philadelphia
                                                                                                                    May 25, 1948

Dear Jack:

   Many thanks for the clippings. I guess

they just don't like the book in Chicago. I fared much better in New York. Prescott's review was the only one not favorable. Iam appalled by a reviewer like this fellow Hass who doesn't seem to know his Hass from a hole in the ground. I feel like writing and asking him to name one novel that deals with the same material in the same way; he says there have been dozens of them. But I suppose that would be a waste of time... I hope for all our sakes - yours, Wyn's and mine that the book sells or, at least, keeps alive until business improves. Is James Gray the same guy who used to be on the New York Sun? If so, he has changed a lot.

          I gave Howard Wolf your messages.  He tells

me he is sending you the work of another genius. It is easier to find them now that remainders have come back in a big way. The bookstore tables in Philadelphia are stacked with them; it hurts to see some of the titles among them, books that should have sold better. Howard, who must have a lot of wall space in his house, is buying them up by the dozens.

           Here in Philadelphia the police have been

seizing copies of books that the Catholics and the Methodists find shocking. It is the first time I believe that the Catholics and the Methodists have worked so closely together. The newspapers