It was good to hear you on the 'phone.
I am so eager for you to have a contract for your book. It is the important one now, and mine can (perhaps should) wait until the adult section is completed and I have the whole book ready. I' am moving on now with the adult portion.
We have needed your book for a long while, and how wonderful it will be to see it (actually!) between covers. That will be a very high point in my pilgrimage! I do hope you may not have any difficulty with Bruce. He is so quicksandish, as it seems so me. I'd love to be wrong here.
Golly, Lucile! What a book! Do step on the gas and get the MS down here before too long. I may be gathered to my Fathers where I have one of many mansions waiting for me; and I do want to read all about me before I go.
Black Elk Speaks is a best seller!!! Can you believe it? It's growing and growing all over the country too, and in Europe!
I'm glad Stewart hasn't been obliged to go forth and give his life on the alter of Liberty, so to speak. They have Robin over there, and we may hear and day that he has been riddled with machine gun bullets! And the thousands upon thousands of other Robins!!
Did you note how long ago I wrote certain poems?
I'm afraid I knew even then.
The Swedes are now about to issue a translation of Black Elk. Up to date there are the following foreign editions: German, Dutch, Danish, Flemish, Italian, Swedish, Serbo-Croatian.
The movies are after us! Wouldn't it be side-splittingly funny if I'd get rich just before the funeral? Wow!!
Gaki (John N.)
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