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I am very much pleased by the statement which I got from you on Friday, and I think you have done splendidly with the book3.
Just a word about "Claude"4. I have been careful not
to drop a hint5 to anyone as to what the novel is to be about, and I think
it would be better if you preserve the same silence. Itf word gets
abroad now that a story touches the war at all, people class it as a war novel and
are bored with it before it appears. I want this to be regarded as the story of a
boy's life6,- anything else is
secondary.