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Harvard club 27 West 44th Street po 111 New York

this 23.9.23 [or 27.9.27]

Dear Sir,

I  hope you will not find me too indiscrete [sic] if I write to you to ask a favor of being

authorized to print in a book the several short stories of you have translated - You have heard of me through Mr. Selves, and you may know that I have the deepest admiration for your work -

 My friend the French editor S. dra? wants very much to have me publish an anthology

of some of your short stories & ?t of the "Triumph of