Letter from Booth Tarkington to May Wright Sewall.

TARKINGTON, BOOTH NOV 29, 1918?

SEAWOOD KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE.

Nov 29. 18

Dear Mrs. Sewall:-

I am distressed to know of your union [...] of physical [...] [...] and I trust you will come through it heartily, as you have come through other such [...] transgressions of health.

Your [...] that I did not volunteer to see that your miss

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I have little faith in Mr. Burlesvry are in the Democratic administration generally!) but I think now the man must be trusted -registered- to the mails.

I leave here early tomorrow morning for New York and way stations; but I shall be home by the 14th of

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December. Nicholson & I share a very trustworthy stenographer, and I shall feel as humanly safe as one can feel too entrust her with the copying of the [...]. She will make two copies; one I will [strikethrough] return, with the original, to you, and [...] upon publishers with the others. I will add a note, too as introduction, making a point of which I suggested to you - marking the fact of your previous rejections

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of "psychic phenomenance". (It seems a coinsidence that just now, I came from the post office with your letter, I found Margaret Delaud here, talking of that subject with Mrs. Tarkington. Mrs. Delaud - always a skeptic until lately - feels that it is to be the great answer.)

I think it would be best to have the min sent me (registered) about the 14th. As soon as the copy is completed I will place it in the hands of a publisher - I shall have too decide which one would be most inclined toward it, for of course it is necessary that a publisher should

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SEAWOOD KENNEBUNKPORT. MAINE.

himself wish to "push" a book, as well as merely print it. I assure you that I will do everything within my power not only to get it printed but to get it "pushed." I shall be sufficiently rewarded by your wishing me to have charge of it; and I shall be at no expense, and consequently could not honestly attack the royalties!

I hope that there will be royalties and that they will