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Now about shipping up the box of mss. - I dont know. It's true that after nearly a year and a half my collection is a long, long way from what I was counting on roughly, as regards S.A. manuscript material. In my, perhaps, over-anxiety to keep the whole deal on some idealistic basis (similar - in a remote way; please don't misunderstand - to your desire to help this young artist), I scorned to ask you for a list of the many dazzling things you referred to during our ride out to my place in the country - and so possibly I was mistakenly expecting too much. What I got into my head was (a) all of your book scripts except two, because I recall that you said the "Winesburg" MS. was lost and that one other you had given to a brother-in-law; (b) various inscribed or presentation copies of books from other authors - I am pretty hazy on this and seem to remember only Dreiser by name; (c) miscallany, unfinished things, etc . . . I have no specific recollection on this. And, as I say, I may now be wrong on all three, a, b. & c. This is no effort to tie things down to any "rights" in the matter - I dont want it that