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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
KENNETH L. ROBERTS KENNEBUNK BEACH MAINE September 18th
Dear Mrs. Fuller: I have been wanting [?] to be able to get to Augusta all summer, but I have been prevented by work and summer visitors. I do not know whether the Maine State Library would like me to do the same thing with the manuascript of The Lively Lady as I did with Arundel; but if so, I am open to suggestions. When finished, The Lively Lady was as long as Arundel; but since length seems to distress modern readers, I cut it in two - to 120,000 words - for book publication, and then to 85,000 words for senalization [?] in the Saturday Evening Post. I figure on preserving a full set of materials in the manufacture of a book: manuscript: revised