Undated
Dear Bob,
A belated thank you for the clipping... I got stage fright reading
my share of the story and uttered a naughty word... the microphone
recoiled in horror and whispered a shocked: “Tut! Tut!”
Do hope you are Knee deep in work and money. I have just finished
a book I have been working on at breakneck speed, more or less,
and am about to go to New York for the International Writers
whatever it is... I am as international as most, I should think,
with one foot in the US and one in Canada, It has just dawned
on me that Canada spelled backward is Adanac.
This is an illustration I did for a little booklet that is to
be issued with a short story version of guess what? I don’t know
whether my drawings will be used... they only gave me a few days
to do them. Publishers salesmen do not understand the needs and
feelings of the creative artist.
George caught two shrews yesterday.
Their corpses are littering the dooryard. Shrews being only
about two inches long overall, they don’t really make that much of
a mess but they do strike a small note of the macabre. Wendell
will remove them... he is staff undertaker, among other things.
Just had a letter from Laura... Ro is stabbing right and left,
the mystery newsletter is going great guns, and all is in ferment
in St. P., as you doubtless suspected all along. My big excitement
is that I planted four boxes of pansies yesterday. We get our
kicks where we find them in Durham. Muddily
yours,
Charlotte
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