TLS, three pages, 7.25 x 10, May 2, 1932. Letter to publisher Frank Doubleday, while aboard the President Roosevelt. In part, 'I wanted to get a letter of to you before sailing, but could not manage it...Besides, I was low in my own mind owing to illness and discouragement over the little I had been able to accomplish for the blind during the year. My fingers simply would not thrum cheerful words on this machine. However, I will use it now to greet you from a sea as smooth and blue as a millpond...It would have been pleasant to carry the sense of your hand clasp with me across the ocean into the spring loveliness of Cornwall and through the ceremony of receiving an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow...My teacher and Polly have each taken a turn at being ill since December...Since my illness I have felt the impermanency of life. Things do not seem as certain as they used to, and my work has always been so dear to me does not seem quite so satisfactory, perhaps because it is harder to keep going.' In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed by her companion, Polly Thomson. COA John Reznikoff/University Archives and RRAuction COA.
