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Letters from Louis Bromfield, Accession #7533 , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was a gift from Clifton Waller Barrett on May 21, 1964.
This collection consists of letters from Louis Bromfield, written from France, New York City, Long Island, and Ohio, 1928-1940, and n.d.
Thanks him for his interest in him as a writer and is flattered by his desire for the autographs
Hopes to see him in New York or Washington after Christmas
Comments on Zelie's anecdote about chaplains saying that he himself if from Congregational and Scotch Presbyterian stock; relates that his work appears in New York papers unsigned but that his prose and efforts in verse appear signed in the Evening Post and the Times ; comments on his new novel "which begins the night before the armistice and deals with the problems during the reconstruction period of a young American who was rather upset by the war and too close contact with the French philosophy and social system"
Includes verse from The Ancient Mariner and writes that one needn't go farther to "collect all the beauties imaginable in English poetry"
Comments on the chaplain's article in the Monthly and relates his own experiences with Frenchmen and the French army in World War I; inquires as to whether he has read Philip Gibbs' Now It Can Be Told
Comments on his questions concerning the greatest man alive and happiness; mentions his books The Farm , The Green Bay Tree , and [ The Strange Case of Miss ] Anne Spragg
Explains that he has been in London where the children are in school and that he has been working in Paris and traveling when he finishes a job