Well!!!
All I have to say to YOU,Frank Doel, is we live in depraved, destructive and degererate times when a booksjop- a BOOKSHOP- starts tearing up beautiful old books to use as wrapping paper.I said to John Henry when he stepped out of it:
“Would you belive a thing like that, Your Eminence?” andd he said he wouldn’t. You tore that book uo in the middle of a major battle and i don’t even know which war it was.
The Newman arrived safely almost a week ago and i’m just beginning to recover.I keep it on the table with me all day, every now and then I stop typing and reach over and touch it.Not because it’s a first edition; I just never saw a book so beautiful. I feel vaguely guilty about owning it. All that gleaming leather and gold stamping and beautiful type belongs in the pine-panelled library of an English country home; it wants to be read by the fire in a gentlemen’s leather easy chair- not on a secondhand studio couch in a one-bedroom hovel in a broken-down brownstone front.
I want the Q anthology.i am not sure how much it was, I lost your last letter.i think it was about 2 bucks, i will enclose two singles, if I owe you more let me know.
Why don’t you wrap it in pages LCX2 and LCX3 so I can at least find out who won the battle and what war it was?
HH
