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[Says that Maxwell Perkinsagrees with him about the manuscript. Suggests that since landscape is such a broad subject and hard to make interesting that material on Charles Gustavus Roeblingbe included, and the material on Central Park reduced. ]

[Includes maps of Western North Carolina, newspaper clippings and postcards regarding Asheville, North Carolina, clippings, postcards, from Moore's travels, clippings regarding Thomas Wolfefrom The New York Timesand Asheville Citizen Times, clipping of a poem about Wolfe by Dr. Willis A. Parker, clippings announcing deaths of Aline Bernsteinand Sinclair Lewis, letters from Maxwell Perkins, and copies of Wolfe's letters.] (Bound in brown imitation leather with gilt decoration)

[Discusses her work with the deaf; mentions Maxwell Perkins' interest in her work; suggests she put her ideas on paper; recalls her story about a deaf boy; feels it would make a wonderful piece; suggests sending it to Alfred Dashiellof Scribner's Magazine. ]

[Promises to speak about her story about deaf people with Alfred Dashiell, which is all he can do in the way of helping to get it published; thinks the piece would be suitable for the series "Life in the United States" which has been featured in Scribner's Magazine; says Maxwell Perkinswould be interested because of his own son's progressing deafness; asks her discreetness about this fact should she ever meet Perkins.]

[Declines invitation to Tulsa, saying that he and Maxwell Perkinshave decided to stay out of the lecture circuit, though he may lose money; thanks her for sending pair of rabbit's feet for luck; mentions being troubled and tormented since October with demands put on him; explains that he does need, and has little chance to win, the Pulitzer Prize, and that he had Perkins pull the book from consideration; expresses disappointment at not being able to see her soon.]