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& wrote me 20 pages from England about it. Then, later, he wrote he had proposed my name & application blanks followed. Ruth made a fuss, & at the last minute I sent it off. Now I'm afraid I'll get it. I don't need to explain why I don't - at heart - want it, however much my mind approves it. I enclose a check for the News. We had meant to find out about getting it anyway without knowing that you were doing a "column" - I know I can get others. I love small town papers anyway & read the Rolfe (Iowa) Arrow regularly. What I can write, I'll send you gladly. Better, I'll try to get Ruth to write. She writes beautifully when she will. And I'm sure she will write for you. I feel we should all be doing something like that. Writing for a New York publisher - that's what we get to doing, instead of for people. I need something different. When Huebsch rejected my book I agreed so thoroughly that I didn't send it out again. It's done. What's the difference.