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[letterhead: Ripshin Farm, Troutdale, Virginia. In upper right corner in blue ink, in handwriting not SA's, "Jan. 1935 / over" is written]

         Corpus Christi Tex.

Dear Max Perkins

    I came down here, [driving?] with Mrs A by car - stopping at New Orleans, [2 words illegible] until to day. Now a bitter cold wind is blowing from the North. We will leave here in a few days ad go on down to Brownsville Texas. We are temporarily here, in a little house by the Gulf.

    I have at last got into a novel, a queer but, to me, very moving book that may come off. I'll let