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#3147: Willa Cather to Paul Revere Reynolds, November 9 [1916]

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NUMBER FIVE BANK STREET3 Copy made My Dear Mr. Reynolds1:

I would be hard to please if I were not pleased about your success4 with this last story5. I have been kept here by the illness of my mother6 and that story was very carelessly written. Will you ask Harpers7 to let me have the manuscript when I return to New York8 at Thanksgiving so that I can better the English a little? It is very clumsy, clumsy, especially in the first part of the story. I shall have another Kitty Ayrshire9 story10 to send you soon.

Faithfully yours Willa Cather