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Miscellaneous letters to Helen Fox, 1933-1945
1933-01-16 Maureen Croly to Helen Fox Page 13
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13 bureau for Americans - no millionaires considered, only ordinary folks like ourselves who do their sightseeing by bus and train. I had a struggle to get the "Livre des Betes" for you. You see, I had read it myself some time ago; had the book, loved, lent, and lost it. Well, I went to Mudies, one of the best bookshops in London, and there the shop assistant a) apparently could not understand my marvelous French, so I wrote the name. b) assured me that no such book existed c) or if it did, was not worth reading. Finally, on my ordering him to telephone there and then to one of the big French book agencies, he
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13 bureau for Americans - no millionaires considered, only ordinary folks like ourselves who do their sightseeing by bus and train. I had a struggle to get the "Livre des Betes" for you. You see, I had read it myself some time ago; had the book, loved, lent, and lost it. Well, I went to Mudies, one of the best bookshops in London, and there the shop assistant a) apparently could not understand my marvelous French, so I wrote the name. b) assured me that no such book existed c) or if it did, was not worth reading. Finally, on my ordering him to telephone there and then to one of the big French book agencies, he
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