Letter : 45th Infantry, Camp Gordon, Ga., to Shane Leslie, 8 May 1918.

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Letter : 45th Infantry, Camp Gordon, Ga., to Shane Leslie, 8 May 1918.

Thanks Leslie for reading and commenting on two chapters of his novel and writing to Scribner about it. Suggests that Leslie write a novel about young men to counteract the present gloomy realism of modern English fiction.

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