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not actually lived through the poverty and the dirt and toil and if, in this industrial age, you had not been both a workman and an employer and both a country man and a city man. It looks as if, through it all, all of the needful ingredients were being perfectly mixed and proportioned. Well this letter, empty as it is, is growing too long. I am just as keen as ever about the Sherwood Anderson collection. We will talk about that when I see you. Meantime I am doing everything I can. I have (I believe) all of your "firsts" and am tracking down all magazine articles (in the original magazines) that I can learn of. I just learned recently about your Vanity Fair articles and now have all of theirs?. Listen- wouldn't your secretary be willing to accept $10 or $15 for the job of making me a list of all the magazine articles of yours ever printed- name of magazine, date and title of article? I say "$10 or $15", not as a maximum, but as a suggestion. Let her fix the price if my suggestion doesn't cover her time. Please don't take any offense at this innocently meant idea. The only one? of the Vanity Fair articles I've had time to read is the one about the South. It's a corker. Not many story tellers, you know, are thinkers?. Jane Heap promised me personally that she would look up S.A. articles in old "Little Reviews" but I suppose she's been too busy. I am looking forward to seeing you this month. If you are going to dine? here or near