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St Thomas, Nevada
Feb 12,1926

Dear Miss McManus:

Your good letter came, including the one from Sunset Magazine. Please send DRUMS IN THE NIGHT to "Fighting Romances" 1926 Broadway New York, which is one of the McFadden Publications and claims to have few limitations. Merely tell them that the background of the story is the Cuban negro uprising of 1912, and that I gathered the material during more than a year's residence in Cuba in charge of an archeological expedition.

I am inclosing three poems by our old friend Buck Sawyer, who has turned them over to me to sell if I can. Please copy them for me, double space, and send them all to the Saturday Evening Post, suggesting that they use them, if available,in their "Short Turns and Encores" section. Of course inclose stamps as usual, and retain a carbon on white paper of each.

Now this is important- in the poem"WHEN" [[strikethrough]] xx [[/strikethrough]] copy and send out only the verses I have checked in red, ommitting the others.

And instead of having them returned to me at St Thomas, Nevada as they are marked, have them returned to you. And after THE POST try them on Adventure, Frontier,The Open Road, the Sunday Magazine sections of the N.Y Newspapers, and finally try them on Peoples Popular Monthly at DesMoines, Iowa ; Laughter, in Philadelphia; and Farmer's Wife in St Paul. Please keep track of postage, etc. AND TELL ME WHEN YOU SELL ONE.

The Turbyfills have started back to New York, and now ,by gosh, [[strikethrough]] xx [[/strikethrough]] I'll have to do ALL my own typing again.

Yes! My family arrived safely in California; I ran down there to meet them and Sonny gave me your message! Mrs H and the boy are well, but I am sorry to say Mrs Johns is very weak. Give my best to the girls and to Mr

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Im still going to send this through but the parts where it states "XX" is strike through, I am not entirely sure. To me it seems like it is "X&."