Box 1

"Dear Saul- Will you try to forgive my tardy thanks for your [sweet message]--for not telling you sooner how much I admired your photographs of the best friend I've had...."

"Thank you for remembering me and writing to me. Gertrude was repeatedly asking me why doesn't Jack Dobbin write..."

"What a wholly delightful Christmas card. The Infant Jesus and the black sheep and the quite too lovely handkerchief- How very kind it was of you to send me these..."

"How kind you are to say you think of me- and to remember me with such a charming gift. I am very touched and thank you many many times..."

Consists of 89 handwritten letters and postcards, and 1 telegram to John E. Dobbin, Brion Gysin, and Sir Francis and Frederica Rose. Also included is one typed letter (as secretary to Gertrude Stein) to John Hinsdale Thompson.

"Many many thanks for your remembrance of me- the charming card and the exquisite handkerchief. It is too kind of you and grand attention touches me deeply..."

"Pray pardon my far too long delay in thanking warmly for your charming card and its good wishes and the lovely handkerchiefs. Have you not already been scolded for your continious attentions to me..."

"Of course I will be delighted to see your friends and to have news of you - but you can't half fancy how much more pleasure it would be for me if you were accompanying them...."

Consists of 89 handwritten letters and postcards, and 1 telegram to John E. Dobbin, Brion Gysin, and Sir Francis and Frederica Rose. Also included is one typed letter (as secretary to Gertrude Stein) to John Hinsdale Thompson.

"Basket and I quite exhausted by Paris are having an agreeable quiet restful vacation in an enchanting old rambling house in a vast-walled garden..."