124. 1929:
[Rapid City, Man.]    July 1, 1929.

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My Dear A.L.P.

We are selling our furniture and packing up in the west. It may be a month or more before we leave here; and when we go east, we may not stop until we are the other side of the Atlantic.

As for my book, it seems I must accept defeat at last: there is, including my lecturing (which I cannot do), no ever so modest living in it. I have no new book coming and can't find a publisher outside of Canada. Canadian royalties will never yield bread and butter: and the bread-and-butter problem now rests [?] on my shoulders.

As for Canadian Nation: I am doing my share of the work [?] gratis, for nothing.

But I've giving it up.

In Europe, I feel sure, I won't very long go begging for a University job. So, unless something quite unforeseen happens, we'll be off sometime this summer. I'll be writing French, after that I suppose - though still on Canadian themes, the only ones I know.

Now, there are a few pieces of furniture which I cannot sell here . Will you take my desk? I mean, give it shelter and use it? If, later on, you would like to buy it, well and good. Do you know our big brass bed? The box mattress is no longer very good. But the bedstead is. Would you care to act host to it? On condition always, that you use it when the occasion arises.

I don't want to give it away. As the money, I don't need it - so I'd rather store it in some such way.

If the answer is yes, then will you be back at Winnipeg? I'd arrange to ship it when you are there, [?] things up here and leaving them with somebody who will see to the shipping.

Perhaps you would want to know what price I am counting on getting ultimately for desk and bed? (New price of desk, prewar, $82, of bed, prewar, $112). Asked price now: desk $40, bed $40.

I hope you are all well and your work at B.C.U. is pleasant and satisfactory?

Yours,
F.P.G.