February 20 manhattan Mon fils, i've got fifteen mins sooner than i need to go away for my New tuition writing workshop, within which I shall speak about your Fraser piece. despite the inserted paragraph, it’s very good—watchful, alacritous, expert, and the ultimate paragraph (“It is Friday . . . ”) is echt Salter, priceless of your signature. The Carlyle citation is nifty and apt and the nipper (last line) sleek and tidy. you will have a diverse destiny. yet how—what? —ordained that an analogous factor should still include a photo of our Glenway. an identical morning it seemed on my neighborhood newsstand, G. phoned to learn me your letter and his answer. This morning he referred to as to check your Aspen deal with and browse me a preposterous word from Fox’s secretary apropos of the second one set of web page proofs of sunshine Years. The underlings in publishing may be fed to pcs dwell. besides, he’ll write the squib, and allow us to pray it’s usable. He’s wanting to meet you back and costs me to rearrange this, so please take me back to the fact whilst you’re in ny back to haul Glenway up our seventy four steps. the day before today I acquired quantity XXI of père Jouhandeau’s journaliets. He despatched it with an inscription, “Où en sommes-nous? ”—“Where the hell are we? ” It covers the months from July 1966 to February 1967 . . . Now off to type. i've got a well-iced martini in a thermos bottle. it is going to seem like innocuous Sprite whilst I pour it out. April eleven And bloody chilly, snow far and wide, the water frozen within the mornings Dearest Robert, convinced, i'm placing on like a bulldog, i feel ultimately an contract is ready to be signed on a movie for Redford—at least he known as me the opposite day and stated, let’s cross . . . We needs to speak over summer season plans. If I do signal, it's going to contain a visit to Europe. possibly we will move while. The paintings there'll be effortless for me: hearing taciturn mountaineers speak about their climbs, a few of their motion pictures, seeing the Turner exhibition if it’s nonetheless on, maybe a splash to the ocean. i need to maneuver the furnishings round in my lifestyles. It’s the sort of mess how it is. I needed to visit la final week to determine the motion picture that would were status in our manner (The Eiger Sanction, now not but released). without notice i discovered myself satisfied. The odor of oranges within the air, the a bit depression stretches of town taking a look just like the ’30s, the fantastic Hispanic names, the damned solid hotel—oh, these days I used to widespread the St. Regis and feature lunches wear the invoice! I’m going to learn Brendan Gill’s publication [Ways of Loving]. I’m dutifully plodding via Harvey Swados’s [Celebration]. expensive guy. He as soon as confessed to me, a day in France: i've got each caliber of genius other than expertise. In a cafe in Hollywood (Joe Allen’s) there has been N. (! ) and a girl on the subsequent desk named Dascha Auerbach Stuart whom I hadn’t visible for years. She remembered me as a firebrand, she stated, “Tell me, have you ever replaced your rules given that then? ” “I don’t know,” I acknowledged, “What have been they? ” do we see Glenway? He gave Fox a really great quote, a piece too full of adjectives (don’t inform him that, please) accordingly, i believe, of Fox’s artless urging (They did it at the cellphone, I’m told).