2 hand-written pages, plus envelope
It was good to hear from you. You had seemed so far away. I feel much encouraged, knowing that your promotion, of which I had not heard,) will give you more control of your time, as well as more help and more money! I should be able to plan so as to be with you when you can MS) you can recast the text to include corrections and suggestions. This, then, will give us a firm basis for further progress. I'm glad you said that about
stagefright! The word explains some things very much unlike the Lucile I don't like at all (I do too), the Lucile who wrote the finely done, flowing passages later on.
You know what you (and I too) call my "stories". Those are the flesh and blood of the biographical business, and I know you can make them come alive in your narrative if you first
know them and feel them.
Anyway, be happy, and there'll be a fine book. Note the enclosed about Bancroft. It
could somehow lead off the chapter on the Bancroft days. (Think how much I
did do in that town, and how it would have encouraged me to know what the chipping tells!!)
I don't know about India yet. I can't go in November.
I'm so eager to know something of your experiences there.