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1946

WARREN CHAPPELL • FIFTY-FOUR WEST FIFTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK

Sept 21

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Dear Isabel

The Russian was amusing but so completely unexpected. I am all too aware, also, that I am constitutionally unsuited to job of advising a twelve year resident of Tahiti how to get started in New York. 
I was sorry to have our visit together thus confined. It was difficult for me to get over the fact that the great big old residence "represented more gruelling [[grueling]] labor" that I would have dared suggest, but that the result in the whole group will have some of that same realistic suggestion of detail which is at the very core of Jane Austin's method. I feel that Collins is excellent.