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that I am one of its instruments. We are the lucky fellows, we chaps whose enthusiasms make us want to collect and have hobbies. Now in a gradual, rational way and with every wish to avoid any encroachment on your good nature of kindness but rather on a pay-as-I go basis, I would like tremendously to build up a fine, noteworthy collection of Sherwood Anderson material. Not merely first editions- I have most of those and they are merely a good start; and not a large number of your manuscripts, just some of them. What I will be hunting for also as the years roll along (and you can see yourself how much fun it will be- like being out fishing) will be any and every kind of early, obscure, forgotten odds and ends of the things that you wrote before the world