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   May 11,1952

   Dear Frank:

   Meant to write you the day the Angler arrived, just to

   thank you, the woodcuts alone are worth ten times the price of

   the book. What a weird world we live in when so beautiful a

   thing can be owned for life--for the price of a ticket to a

   Broadway movie palace, or l/50th the cost of having one tooth

   capped.

   Well, if your books cost what they're worth I couldn't

   afford them!

   You'll be fascinated to learn (from me that hates novels)

   that I finally got round to Jane Austen and went out of my mind

   over Pride & Prejudice which I can't bring myself to take back

   to the library till you find me a copy of my own.

   Regards to Nora and the wage-slaves. HH

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   September 30, 1968

   Still alive, are we?

   I've been writing American history books for children for

   four or five years. Got hung up on the stuff and have been

   buying American history books--in ugly, cardboardy American

   editions, but somehow I just didn't think the stately homes of

   England would yield nice English editions of James Madison's

   stenographic record of the Constitutional Convention or I. Jefferson's

   letters to Adams or like that.

   Are you a grandfather yet? Tell Sheila and Mary their

   children are entitled to presentation copies of my Collected

   Juvenile Works, THAT should make them rush off and reproduce.

    

   I introduced a young friend of mine to Pride & Prejudice

   one rainy Sunday and she has gone out of her mind for Jane

   Austen. She has a birthday round about Hallowe'en, can you

   find me some Austen for her? If you've got a complete set let me

   know the price, if it's expensive I'll make her husband give her

   half and I'll give her half.

   Best to Nora and anybody else around.

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   16th October, 1968

   Miss Helene Hanff

   305 East 72nd Street

   New York City, N.Y. 10021

   U.S.A.

   Dear Helene,

   Yes, we are all very much alive and kicking, though rather

   exhausted from a hectic summer, with hordes of tourists from

   U.S.A., France, Scandinavia, etc., all buying our nice leather

   bound books. Consequently our stock at the moment is a sorry

   sight, and with the shortage of books and high prices there is

   little hope of finding any Jane Austen for you in time for your

   friend's birthday. Perhaps we will be able to find them for her

   for Christmas.

   Nora and the girls are fine. Sheila is teaching, Mary is

   engaged to a very nice boy but there is little hope of them

   getting married for some time as neither has any money! So

   Nora's hopes of being a glamorous grandmother are receding

   fast.

   Love, Frank

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