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Letter from Booth Tarkington to May Wright Sewall.

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Tarkington, Booth Aug 31, 1918

SEAWOOD KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE

August 31, '18

Dear Mrs. Sewall:

Bad weahter prevented me from making the trip to Eliot on Thursday; however it was as well, for interruptions had prevailed, and I had not been able to conclude my

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reading of the ms. Now I cannot be sure of getting over before the end of the week. We have visitors, and a man has come from California to work over a play with me, and I have a most dismaing accumulation of work that has to be done for the government, as well as a correspondence of unpleasant proportions.

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and I have no secretary. But I will bring back the ms, with my suggestions, at the first possible opportunity, be assured.

My suggestions are all very slight details marginal with almost all conserving lists of punctuation necessarily overlooked, here & there, in a ms of any proportions.

I have no other suggestions, I believe. I could, of course, make

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radical ones, but that would be, simply, an endeavor to substitute my own viewpoint for yours - to give the ms an impregnation of my character instead of its author's. Whereas, perhaps the most interesting thing about the ms (to a reader of my sort) is the character revealed - and nothing should tamper to its alteration as presented.

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SEAWOOD KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE

I should tell you that I read the ms very carefully and with an ever increasing interest. Taking it merely as an autobiographical story, it seems to me unique - and I am using the word "unique" after caution.

It proves its own absolute sincerity from

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