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May 21st; 1930.

My dear Mrs. Fuller:-

Thank you very much indeed for your letter and :ror the very comprehensive and grat.1fy1ng article from the Maine Li1.bra.ry

Bulletin. I was very much touched andi pleasedi by it ; and I appreciate the care and tt.1m.e that was put on it. An author would be fortunate indeed 1:f" he could have reviews as well clone in the New York book review sections. And I am more pleased t.o have it 1n your bulletin now than 1n January----much more. '.?he tendency will be to hold up the interest a little longer. Except for the last two chapters; 1'HE LIVELY LADY is finished. It• s a good book----better in some ways; I t.hink; than ARUNDEL; but 1 t 's going to need. more revision. Three weeks ago I was obliged to drop it and go on a. h'llrried trip through France;, Eogl.and and Germany to get three stories for the POST; and now I must write them. When I have finished them; I shall hope to have another week or so to put on the last two chapters, and then I shall catch a boat from Naples: which should get me back to Maine late in June. 'fHE LIVELY LADY moves more quickly t.ha.n ARUNDEL; and the privateering and the Dartmoor sections make tor very exc1~1ng asllJl movement i though they have been veey· much harder to write. General. Dawes had a permit for ma t.o get into Dartmoor when I reached London; and I DB.de a trip to P1ymou"t.h and then went over the moor; which is one of 1:ihe meanest sections of country that I have ever seen----and partlcul.arly interesting to me in view of the thousands of forgotten Americans who spent such a long time there in 1813;" 1814 and 1815. I was also fortunate 1n being able ~o spend some time with the direc'lor of the Marine :MuS8WJl of the Louvre 1n Pa:r1s; and as a resu1t I have uncovered some •f,drn• most interesting1axi•ztlxttg and thrilling detail.a connected with New England privateering 1n the War or 1812. I am very grateful. for what you say about ARUNDEL.

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