PATRICIA RUSSELL TO W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. / WARDER NORTON, 3 DEC. 1938
BRACERS 47258. TLS. Norton papers, Columbia U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell and A. Duncan

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The Plaisance
On the Midway at Jackson Park—Chicago1
December 3 1938

Dear Warder,

Bertie has asked me to thank you for your letter. I am afraid it must be very disappointing to his correspondents that I usually reply to their letters, but it gives me something to do, and spares him.

He is sorry that he cannot make any part of Language and Fact into an article; it is too technical and not divisible. At the end of the quarter he will find time to write something for the Atlantic. There are various ideas in our joint heads, but we never have time to talk or think together these days, and so have matured nothing as yet. This sounds forward on my part but I usually think of the subjects.a

Please give my regards to Mr. Lunt and tell him I have been so sorry that I was such a skeleton at the last feast we had together. I have had bronchitis since then and am ashamed of being so feeble when everyone says the real cold is yet to come. Bertie is very well, in spite of being very hard-worked.

Yours sincerely,
Patricia Russell.

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