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#2721: Willa Cather to Joseph Lesser, January 4 [1943]

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Travelers Brodcasting
Service Corps 1/6/43
Dear Mr. Lesser1;

Would you be kind enough to ask Alfred3 to refuse this request4, or to refuse for me yourself? This is the fourth request (or demand) I have lately had to put this story “on the air”, and I am running out of polite phrases. If I answer the young man I shall surely say something spiteful.

Faithfully Willa Cather