To Ludwig Lewisohn[1] Dear Ludwig Lewisohn: Your book[2] has arrived, has occupied me a good deal, and I would have written to you sooner were it not that my morbidly swollen correspondence, the product of these times, some days keeps me from my own writing. Today I received the news—or rather the confirmation of a [...]

Dear Thomas Mann, Your kind letter has done me a world of good; I am grateful for it. To know that a new story of yours is near completion is a joy. It gives me something to look forward to again and to be curious about. There is something strange and mysterious about our feeling [...]