FPK to Mr. Greenslet April 27, 1920
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Title
FPK to Mr. Greenslet April 27, 1920
Description
Safe Bridge
Lady Blanche Farm
Lady Blanche Farm
Source
From the Collection of Frances Parkinson Keyes Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library
Date
1920-04-27
Contributor
Melissa Beckett
Format
Copy of typewritten letter
Type
Document
Coverage
American Northeast
Washington D.C.
Washington D.C.
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Text
2400 Sixteenth St.
Washington, D.C>
April 27th, 1920.
My dear Mr. Greenslet,
Your letter of yesterday, which has just reached me was a great relief to me in one way, for apparently you didn't consider mine to you either "fresh" or conceited, as I was afraid you might. I wish very much that I could see you for an hour0 and that right away. there isn't any chance of your coming to Washington soon, is there? As I suppose there isn't, I'm afraid I shall have to risk being very tedious, and seeming very egotistic and write you a few of the reasons why it seems to me best to try to have a novel as soon as possible, why Lady Blanche Farm is perhaps the right one, and why, in any case, I can't begin another as present and hold Lady Blanche up for it.
A little while ago I had a letter from the editor of Good Housekeeping, who had read "On the Fence" and liked it, asking me if I wouldn't undertake a rather difficult piece of work for him. He wanted someone who was not a newspaper woman- for Cabinet officers are proverbially uncordial to newspaper women-to go to Mr. Meredith, the secretary of Agriculture, and ask him to explain a statement he made at a dinner in New York that his department touched the lives of the people- not just the farmers, but all the people-more intimately than any other, and then write an article about it. I get the appointment all right, for our relations with the Merediths are very pleasant, but when I found the article would have to pass the Secretary before it could even go to Good Housekeeping, I shook in my shoes, for I'd never tried to do anything of that kind before. However, he kept six people missing while he talked to me for nearly an hour, throwing all kin of valuable material into my hands, and being as kind and helpful as possible; and when I sent him the article, it not only came back stanped with his approval, but wih a good deal more than that. He said that he had enjoyed it immensely, and the he felt it would be wonderfully interesting to hunderds of people who had never before known what I had been able to tell them; and that if I would undertake further agricultural writing, he, and the whole department, would be glad to help me in any way they could.
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Washington, D.C>
April 27th, 1920.
My dear Mr. Greenslet,
Your letter of yesterday, which has just reached me was a great relief to me in one way, for apparently you didn't consider mine to you either "fresh" or conceited, as I was afraid you might. I wish very much that I could see you for an hour0 and that right away. there isn't any chance of your coming to Washington soon, is there? As I suppose there isn't, I'm afraid I shall have to risk being very tedious, and seeming very egotistic and write you a few of the reasons why it seems to me best to try to have a novel as soon as possible, why Lady Blanche Farm is perhaps the right one, and why, in any case, I can't begin another as present and hold Lady Blanche up for it.
A little while ago I had a letter from the editor of Good Housekeeping, who had read "On the Fence" and liked it, asking me if I wouldn't undertake a rather difficult piece of work for him. He wanted someone who was not a newspaper woman- for Cabinet officers are proverbially uncordial to newspaper women-to go to Mr. Meredith, the secretary of Agriculture, and ask him to explain a statement he made at a dinner in New York that his department touched the lives of the people- not just the farmers, but all the people-more intimately than any other, and then write an article about it. I get the appointment all right, for our relations with the Merediths are very pleasant, but when I found the article would have to pass the Secretary before it could even go to Good Housekeeping, I shook in my shoes, for I'd never tried to do anything of that kind before. However, he kept six people missing while he talked to me for nearly an hour, throwing all kin of valuable material into my hands, and being as kind and helpful as possible; and when I sent him the article, it not only came back stanped with his approval, but wih a good deal more than that. He said that he had enjoyed it immensely, and the he felt it would be wonderfully interesting to hunderds of people who had never before known what I had been able to tell them; and that if I would undertake further agricultural writing, he, and the whole department, would be glad to help me in any way they could.
LAST GRAPH OF DOC 1962