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The proofs3 have not come yet, but I will be here2 a few days longer and hope they will arrive before I leave here. I am waiting for good weather to start on a long hard horseback trip through Canyon de Chelley4, where motors can’t go, thank God!
There is one thing I want to ask you about before you sail: you said something about
having a booklet5 prepared this summer which would
reprint the London Mercury6
article7, along with a
biographical sketch. Ple If this is prepared in your
absence, won’t you please leave very definite instructions that the copy for this booklet is to be submitted to me before it
goes to the printers, and that afterward the proofs are to be sent to me.
Mistakes in biographical detail are so easily made, and once made they are so hard to correct. The public simply believes any statement about one that one’s publisher gives out.
El NavajoYou’ll see the Hambourgs8 in Paris9, of course, and please give them my especial love.
I’m feeling awfully fit, except that the sun on the sand and blazing sandstone rock
simply burns my eyes out, and I’m staying indoors for a couple days to get over the
inflammation. We’ve had blinding sand storms, also cloud cloud bursts, all within four days.
My best good wishes to you for a splendid trip. I’d like to be in Paris—but I’d rather be here!
Faithfully yours Willa CatherIf the proofs don’t come within a few days I’ll wire you to send them to Santa Fé10. After June 1 my address will be Hotel La Fonda11, Santa Fé, N.M.