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Sherwood Anderson: There is a saying in Mexico: "las cosas nunca andan iguales .... things never go by equals." There was pleasure and pain for me today. Pleasure because of your good letter and real pain, because of the thought of my gipsy wife across the street in the jail, raving mad, sleeping on a cement floor. Someone unclear we either before or after meeting you, that you are part Romani, as my wife and I are. She is related to Gipsy Smith the evangelist and I am the son of a Spanish gipsy woman .... one of the raza Cale, from Sevilla, Espana To this letter which I write partly for you and partly for myself will have to do with the "honest folk." In Mexico City we went to see Carmen Amaya, the dancer, and afterwards talked with her. A Mexican critic wrote some fine prose poetry about Carmencita. The most of what he wrote escapes me ....