Letter from Sinclair Lewis to Marcella Powers, July 13, 1945

              IS*5*  SINCLAIR     LEWIS  2601    EAST   SECOND    ST.  DULUTH    5,   MINNESOTA  Friday, July 13  My darling, my darling forever, I was filled with  such sadness when I heard your voice last evening, so  small and meek and neurltistic, and the sadder that  I shall not be seeing you in two weeks. But if I  did do so, I might get stuck in Mew York for even a  couple weeks after 1 wanted to leave, and you would  be so sick of my, ""No, I didn't get a ticket today,  but I'm very hopeful — I hear where a fat woman for  Fitzamashwa, Ioway, may give up her reservation to*  morrow.w _o    u  As it is, instead of staying here till into October,  then, I'll come to New Yorklabout mid-September, hoping  that we shall have our week on Cape Cod, and probly  stay on in NY all or almost all winter, if I can find  a flat, say in Greenwich Vge.  Pat the Pretty Cat — its final and irrevocable name  — is lying on my bed, coming in now and then to  say, ""Wrltin1 to Aunt Marcella? Tell her to tell  mi Mrspowere"" — that's how Pat insists it is spelled —  ""that I miss her like the ddvil."" Pat does, too; she  constantly goes to Mrs, Povah's room, looking for her/  When your mother left here yesterday, she was excited  and gay about seeing you, but I don't think she missed  one other single thing in the East, not even her old  friends.  She loves the spaciousness of this place  and th« quiet and the lake and trees and Pat, and  couunting for something in a big establishment. Don't  discourage her but decidedly encourage her if she  should want to come back here for something of a stay  when I go East. I tfcink it's given her a new life,  hugely though she does miss you.  My lecture Journey to Moorhead and Bemidjl — come  come now; c seats of which counties? — was a success and I liked the miles of forest on the way and  teachers and kids when I got there. Only two more  talks here, and two more Esquire pieces, and I am  a free man, except ——-  J. Wentworth Mouse  1