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#0447: Willa Cather to Ferris Greenslet, January 6 [1919]

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F.G. Dear Mr. Greenslet1:

Thank you3 for the check on account.

The "Globe"4 telephoned me this morning to say that they had not yet received5 a copy of my book6. I am sending them my own and only copy. Will you please send me a book and charge it to advertising?

Have you tried any of the English publishers7, now that the war is over? I think this book would get an audience in England8. I suppose you have seen poor Mr. Bourne's9 very gratifying review10 in the "Dial."11

I have written four chapters of the soldier story12. To be truthful, it writes itself. I don't believe I contribute any more than the ordinary "writing medium."

Faithfully Willa Cather