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Feb 9 Dear Sherwood: The second novel is finished -- typed -- bound in a ring-book -- ready to go out as soon as I have had a few pages re-typed for neatness.

It is called "Some Men Write Fairy Stories." It is a better job than I had really anticipated. Three and a half years I have been occupied with this at odd hours I could steal from business and Sundays and holidays.

You will understand, I know, the feeling of regret with which I wrote the closing words. I have lived with old Ves Walmsley these three and a half years -- and it is like saying goodbye to an old friend.

Now I want a new theme. I shall feel lost until I find character studies under circumstances that I think I can handle -- another family as it were. I haven't the slightest idea who they are -- but I think a Woman will be the central figure. I have never done a story around a Woman -- not since I began the second story have I looked at the first -- until this week. I realize keenly the truth of your comment that there are holes in it. Certainly I had a surer grip on the