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culties of our partnerships will agree with

me that the best ones are those in which both are devoted to each other and have the courage to live with the friend. Those friendships have more chance to last. I do not care whether she lives with her friend or not, but she must not think the example she gives of her life is so wonderful that it should be copied. Also when her secretary saw THE LADDER and made the remark about the 'stuff in this moment she had the chance not to admit but still to say something concerning the subject. She should have tried to raise the general understanding..."

"B.G., Kansas City, writes sympathetic letters."

"Fannie Hurst showed very much 'profile', I think. I liked her straight words in the end of the Showcase program concerning censorship."

"Why Sten Russell's poem is called 'The Faithful Soldier' this I cannot find out. Is it the poem of a female soldier to her girl or otherwise what has a soldier's poem to do in your LADDER? I do not understand what Sten Russell (whom I like otherwise very much) thought."

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"I like your meetings and discussions! I

should like to be there."

"Please, here is an answer to R.S. in Winnipeg: (I had prepared an article about Radclyffe Hall in 'Kontakt'). I Yes, know the poetry by Raddyffe Hall you mention. Do you know her other prose too? 'Adam's Bread', for example, and 'The Unlit Lamp'. Those are printed by Falcon Press, London. Did you read about her in 'Living Authors', a book of biographies, Wilson Co., New York, 1937? There I found the poem she wrote when she was a little girl, 'No wonder the birdies