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January 15 1930

Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts, Porto Santo Stefano,,Italy. My dear Mr. Roberts;-

I read "Arundel" before the publication date and then I was more than impatient to open the package which had been waiting in our safe until the tenth of January. We are delighted to have the manuscript and the maps here, and we will take the best of care of them. At present, they will stay in the safe, since we have no room for an exhibition case. We hope that when we have our new library and a place to display our treasures (as we shall have, if we have anything') you will consider lending us the collection of Arnoldana which you mention in your letter of November twenty-fourth. We enclose a receipt for the manuscript and maps, as you requested. I have written to your publishers that I shall be very glas to send them a copy of the Bibliography if they wish it. I think that your list includes nearly everything that you had from here, except, possibly, "new England Captives Carried to Canada" (Coleman) and "Histoire des Abenskis" (Maurault) Did you have these? We shall make it a point to save all reviews of grundel. Would you care to have them placed on the blank leaves at the end of the manuscript? I haven't seen the New York Times Review, but I am sending for it. Mr. Abbott says it is a very good one. What fun you will have opening your mail and reading the reviews of your book and all the congratulatory letters about it. Will you delare an extra special Saint's Day, unlock you door, turn your back on the Lost Lady, and read your American Mail? I believe that you returned all the materials about privateers except Privateers and Privateering by Statham. We assume that you are still using it, and are keeping it renewed. I think that the state is to be congratulated because a Maine man has written a historical novel of Maine which will, undoubtedly, have a place among the very best historical novels America has produced. With very sincere congratulations,

signed [M.C.F]