PATRICIA RUSSELL TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 9 MAR. 1942
BRACERS 47409. ALS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

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Little Datchet Farm
Malvern, R.D. 1
Pennsylvania1
March 9 1942

Dear Warder,

I am sorry that Bertie has no book to suggest to you after all. The fact is that it was my suggestion in the first place, and I have done a good deal of work on it while Bertie was busy with other things. Now he feels that it has become too much my book for him to write it.a — It is hard to write convincingly when the main ideas are someone elses — So he wants me to write it myself, which I can’t at present do from pressure of other tasks.

I have so wanted you and Polly to come for a week-end but so far it has been too cold and we have been too busy — Now I will wait a few weeks until I know whether I am going to work for my king in Washington, as I have been urged to do. Bertie can of course have visitors in my absence, but at the moment everything is chaotic and needs organizing.

I do hope Polly is well.

Yours sincerely
Patricia Russell.

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