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December 6, 1946 Dear Mr. Conroy,

     Thanks for Slappy.  Didn't he go over big today!  (See Ronald Cramer's paper.)  This was waste-paper collection day, & I had the children who didn't go out.  And there was the most perfect group, at just the right age level, to read your story to.
    You can see Slappy looked to them like he looked to Mike Flint, but they laughed more than he did; at the incident of the bread sign, the man from Wyoming, the sky painting, and the Stove and the hoboes.
    Then I suggested they write to the authors, and almost had to call the cops to quiet them.   "Could we!"