Letter from Sinclair Lewis to Marcella Powers, August 30, 1945

              ftp  '  SINCLAIR     LEWIS  2601    EAST   SECOND    ST.  DULUTH   5,   MINNESOTA  Thursday August 30  I was relieved, when I heard your voice at midnight  last night, to find you less worried by the job.  Sut to hell with it; if it remains Just a grind  of selling — about on a par with having to mouth  radio commercials or acting in Western movies —  then life is too short for it, when there are so  many things you can do.  By all means we'll talk  with Dorska about possibility of starting a firm  of our own. It's only movie sales that would bother  us, and we'd get some one in Hollywood for that.  I leave here a week from yesterday.  I'll be seeing  ^ you in two and a half weeks. And our trip will be  8  i & glorious — thru a little of Canada, the Adiron-  c«ibQ£4<» dacks, which I have never seen, and some New Sng-  °""5-31:5 land.  I might even peep at Cape Cod and see Would  pjjj g^ H mmm there be a hotel for you and me if you ever  1& i 1 cm get that vacation.  QV» -OSS 0)    °  2a*»""o . It's timet for me to leave Duluth.  The house is  •hp^ lovely, 8nd so comfortable and practical; the  S^ba^-S weather is good and the view gorgeous; I get small  <d-h5o3 snatches of chess with Marvin and Maliak; I see  s^ph a variety of people and the planning of the the  ouss^c next novel marches on steadily, tammm so that the  4-> % ca a coming here for 4 or 5 months at a time is valuable;  4t5MS>° ^ut I have been thinking of the East as home and  ^h >lS been restless to Start Home....With possibly you  m    •Sf'd in it, could that bet  ^c^w^5 Don't worry for one am second about financial as-  ^ ><tf c?o5 e pects of your job. Remember that just now, at  4)«sfl®^» least, even if never again, I am Flush.  c!h m * § q> I've talked to Lillian about her and your mother and  *4 * c  ""o S worl£ and ' think everything will work out fine for  ^^^ *.  ' them.  I'm against the idea of your sending your  HJP(DqalaQndry out nere t0 your mother — I'm afraid it  ob-h^m agmlght detract a little from her dignity as Misatress  ""§ f '* as of the Manor House. Ain't there still laundries in  %  .rf5SHNew York.  3 <D <£ n-» <D —  Do you really exist, most sweet improbable, most  improbable sweet?  me