127. 1929:
Bobcaygeon, Ont.    September 21, 1929.

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My dear A.L.P.,

We did go here after all for 2 weeks. We are in Eayrs' cottage, the one he had painted last year and which he has now bought and rebuilt, enlarging it. The Clarke's having left - we met them still here - we are using your living room since the fire-place in Eayrs' cottage has not yet been built. It has been very cold.

I left a number of crates at R.C., addressed to you, containing 1 desk (4 crates), 2 desk chairs (1 crate), 1 wicket chair, 1 tea-wagon. Please use all these things freely - whether you wish to buy them or not. If you can, preserve the crates, so that they can be used again.

The sale was a disaster: we realized $95.00; things were practically given away - many others, first sold, fell back in our hands the last moment. We chucked them into a stable which is not used; and there they are.

Here, it is the Search for America all over again. We shall remain in Ontario till Nov 29 when certain royalties will be due. After that? The deluge. "It Needs to be Said" sold in 126 copies. Rogers does not anticipate any further sale. Well, there you are.

"Abe Spalding", "Adolescence", "Tales from the Margin" are ready for printing but go begging: I offer the lot for $2000 cash, wiling to part with them for half that but find no bidders. However, I am at work on an entirely new book: "In Praise of Poverty" [Enomicum Pauperatis] about which Mrs. G. is in ecstasies.

Well, I hope you are all well. Address, till Sept 27: Bobcaygeon, after that, till Oct 30, Cauton, Ont.

Bye bye,
F.P.G.