I could ROT over here before you'd send me anything to read. I oughta run straight down to brentano's which I would if anything I wanted was in print.

You may add Walton's Lives to the list of books you aren't sending me. It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on, but you can't even get Walton's Lives in a library over here.

SLOTH,

What do you do with yourself all day, sit in the back of the store and read? Why don't you try selling a book to somebody?

MISS Hanff to you.

Doesn't matter, Q quoted enough of it so I know I'll like it. anything he liked I'll like except if it's fiction. I never can get interested in things that didn't happen to people who never lived.

You can look at it. They have it down at the 42nd street branch. But not to take home! The lady said to me, shocked. eat it here. just sit right down in room 315 and read the whole book without a cup of coffee, a cigarette or air.

(I'm Helene only to my FRIENDS)

p. s. tell the girls and Nora if all goes well they're getting nylons tor Lent.