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451 Wrightwood Chicago, Illinois April 12, 1944 Dear Jack,

      Thanks so much for that issue of "The New Anvil".   It seems to have been quite a respectable periodical.  I'm sorry I didn't see it back in 1939.
      I was interested in Nelson's poem.
     I have been thinking about your story.  I think you were wrong to have expected a criticism at once.  There are some things that need to soak in.  As a matter of fact there are some stories that are not at their best read aloud.  That is one.  It has a cumulative effect built up by detail.  It is a patient story, not