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Corea, Maine Oct 19/41. Dear Mrs. Jacobs:- Thanks for your letter. + I am sending with this - two extra copies of the Port of New York -- and by all means send one to Farmington as I loved the little place where I went with a friend who was doing business there. + I went [?] up myself to see the Nordica Homestead - of which I have written in my new book of prose - called "The Spangle [?] of Existence" . . . I am to present three [?] with Atlantic Monthly Press in Boston when I go down in Dec - + hope they will be avid [?] of at least one of them. The other two are poems. I mean to by [?] this twice - to stop over at Augusta on the way down from Bangor to Portland. I really feel I must do it. The presiding spirit of the library being so generous and kind there. I have [?] driven through Augusta but you never know a town until you have walked its streets - and spoken to someone. I do hope I can manage it + I think I can. Thanks to you for accepting the books. Sincerely Marsden Hartley.