Please don’t put anything on exhibition that can even remotely suggest me or my affairs or belongings. How could you conceive of such an idea? God knows my privacy is sufficiently invaded without the family helping in the hellish trade. D Ⓐemendation Keep the ceursed portraits at home—keep everything at home that hints at me in any possible way.

I have stolen part of my Sunday holiday & have read your chapters. I like them very much. I lost a good I put in a good part of Friday & Saturday hunting for the first chapter, but failed to find it. But I will find it yet. It makes me horribly nervous & uncomfortable to have a man’s MS under my care. I am nearly sure to put it away so carefully that I cannot find it again. Why don’t you send it in large batches that can’t be mislaid?

I read before a large audience here, Friday night, but not until all the newspaper men had sworn that they would say not a single word about it, either before or after the performance. I take every precaution against unnecessary publicity—assist me in it; don’t do the opposite thing. With love to Mollie .,