Letter, 1941 Jan. 3, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. to Zelda [Fitzgerald].

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Letter, 1941 Jan. 3, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. to Zelda [Fitzgerald].

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Perkins writes to Zelda shortly after considering works of Fitzgerald's might be published posthumously. "We'll find some wahy to do him justice in a book, but I must wait to see the manuscript of the book he was writing. The first part of it that I did see, was as good as anything he ever did do. We must not move too fast. ... As for Scottie, though I haven't seen very much of her, I have kept track of her, and I believe she should have a good life. And what's more, she is assured of the devotion and effort of myself and several others for your sake, and Scott's, and her own. ..."

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