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KENNETH L. ROBERTS KENNEBUNK BEACH MAINE

September 111th.

Dear Mrs. Fuller:-

Thank you very much for the books and the list. I would like very much to look at 923.5s79, Stathan, Privateers and Privateering. I will buy Roosevelt . The Congressional Library has sent me Coggeshall and Maclay on American privateers and I have been fortunate enough to get some seven narratives of American prisoners in Dartmoor from dealers in Washington and Boston, as well as some of the Essex Institute material. I think, in fact, that I am pretty well set. to make a start on plotting the new novel.

I could never have written the 250,000 words ot Artmdel 1n seven months unless I had removed myself from t.he inf'luence or t.elephone s, telegraph s; automobil es; outboard mot.ors; synthetic gin and visiting a.cquainta. nces t.o an It.alian bill to,m where "there was nothing to do except. write a:,oo words a dayi Sundays and fiestas included.

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I correct myself: it. was Maclay on Privateers that. the Congressi onal Library sent me. The Coggeshal l came from you. Can you stretch the time I can have it? Otherwise I know where I can buy a copy. I have been spoiled! by the Congressi onal Library; which let.s me have books 1ndat1n1t .ely. I was lucky enough to find one or the big original colored print.a o:r the Massa.ere ot Americans 1n Dartmoor. Did I tell you that. one ot the band-made pike-head s;, made by,

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