Letter : Charles Scribner's sons, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York, to Gilbert Seldes, 22 November 1933.

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Letter : Charles Scribner's sons, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York, to Gilbert Seldes, 22 November 1933.

Discusses business arrangements for a Ring Lardner collection. Mentions that he had a "Scott Fitzgerald night last night, but came through it pretty well."

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