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1930:
Cumming's Bridge, Ont. June 29,
1930
My dear A.L.P.,
Again a little improved through the week. The wound is healing
at last; some of my strength coming back. Yet.40 lbs. weight
lost remain unreplaced.
Now listen, old boy! Tomorrow the text of my fall catalogue
goes to press; and A.L.P.'s "Towards Criticism" figures as
Vol. #3 of my list. So don't let me down! I have been waiting,
most anxiously waiting from day to day. At last the printers
told me: now or never - I mean with regard to that [?] catalogue.
Also, my travelers want to go not. I have kept them marking
time, at $35 a week each. So I shall now shoot them out - with
my new books and the Standard Classics. Off they go, like
blood-hounds on the trail of the possible buyer.
Two weeks from to-morrow I intend to start west - Winnipeg
, Edmonton , Calgary , Vancouver , to rent warehouses, etc.
where we can carry stock.
How does Ann like it; how Mrs. P.? How your own precious
self? Don't forget that you've promised us a week in Sept.
at the least!!!
P.
