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December 20th;- 1929

By dear

Mrs. Fuller:~ Thank.

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for your note of November 27th .

Mr. Doubled ay and his sales. manager ; · Mr. Long"'t

we11 i came to see me the night I sailed and outlined t ,heir v ery elaborate selling campaign for ARUNID'EL.

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Longwe11 seemoo to want the bi~JLiography of the 'book; and I told him he eoul.d ge"t mos1t. of 1 t by wri~i:ng you and having y-ou copy the part.ial 11st "that appears toward the end of the manuscript.

I had originally in-

tended to appends. bibliography on the b ook's f1na.1 page; but I finally decided that it. would detract · somewhat. from "t.he fictional aspe_ct of-1.tJ . I

Co:nsequent.ly Ld1dn 1 1t botbar

to put down a. lot of the reference books I used. · You got, so me for me ; • for example } which I took not.e s from; e.t e.; without copying the t .itles ;, authors and pu1J;l1shers.

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any rat.a ; if Lo:ngwfill. writes you;: please let him have wb.a t

he wants. I also insisted e<filition; they shoul.d use a Quebec; and it may , ,e that. a. wh11e ;· in which case let

that. in the event of a Canadian sketch made from my map of old they will. want t .o borrow it. for them have it.

'f'.EIE LIVELY LADY is leaping a.long at the rate of 2600 I

w,ords a da.;y; and at the present. writing she l . oks very good o and very lively 1ndee,<!l. General Dawes got me tile compl~te Dartmoor records on t.h.e crew of the Arundel privateer McDonough} of which my great grandfather was Sailing Master.

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another year I shall be abl.e to give you another large mass of Maine materia]. .... ~

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I thank you for your w·ishes for a delightful. wint,e,r •

I:t you call 1 t del 1gbtful t.o lock yourself up in a room .!'or rive months; · Sundays and S· ints' Days 1ncl.uded; emerga

ing only for meals and .to scream 1n f'ou] It.al1an for some-

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