BR TO KATHARINE TAIT, 1 MAR. 1944
BRACERS 52592. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

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HOTEL LAFAYETTE
UNIVERSITY PLACE AT NINTH STREET
New York
March 1, 1944

My dear Kate

Thank you for your letter of Feb. 26. I enclose a cheque for $110, which I happen to have handy — it is meant to be $100 but you can give me $10 in cash when I come. I can easily afford it, thanks to your money and John’s. I am glad you are seeing Jessie Whitehead — I remember her before she stammered, as a little girl overshadowed by her elder brother — a situation you can understand — Her mother always favoured the boys, which I thought unfair. Give her messages from me if you see her again.

I hope your tutor will like your thesis. If any of it is available I should much like to see it when I come.

Poor Kate, I am sorry you suffer about Amiel. It is part of the war, which makes everything go wrong. Mankind are strangely insane.

I hope to go home about the same time as you, but Peter and Conrad may have to stay till next year.

Much love.

Your aff
Diddy

P.S. I shall be here this time next week, but not after that. Addresses:

March 14, c/o Prof. Max Black
University of Illinois
Urbana, Ill.
March 20, c/o Dean Richard McKeon
University of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.