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#1339: Willa Cather to Ferris Greenslet, December 18, 1936

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⬩W⬩S⬩C⬩ FG Dear Ferris Greenslet1:

Thank you for your nice letter3 about the book4. I let Alfred5 answer the business part of your letter because he can do it better than I. I would love to have Wiggins Dwiggins6 do the actual make-up and design of the books - if, perhaps, you could get him to use the type I so much like in the thistle Stevenson7. We will talk all these things over when you come down in January. Please try to make that visit occur after the 12th of January, as I have to go down to Washington8 again just after the New Year, to be with my old uncle9 who is ill. He is eighty years old, and my visits do seem to cheer him up a good deal.

Faithfully yours, Willa Cather