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Yes, it's pretty good, considering that I really didn't give her anything to write about. You know, the minute you give anybody anything to write about that had any guts to it, it would make so many people either angry or critical that it would just interfere with what one does. And so it's rather mild, you'll find.

When does it appear?

In the fall sometime.

In the fall. The reason I ask about Charlotte Curtis was --

She's noted for bitchy writing, but any bitchiness she might have written was taken out by my friend, Mrs. Cahan. If there was any. I'm not sure that there was, but Mrs. Cahan eliminated anything disagreeable, so --

Yes, she's always --

She's always got a sting in what she writes.

Terribly so.

Yes. Terrible. Like the piece that she wrote about Mrs. Mellon, when Mrs. Mellon and her husband had given a vast collection to the National Gallery, that her zipper was undone one or two inches -- some snapper didn't snap on her dress, or something like that. So, totally mean in her --

Or women who war white gloves are taboo with her.

Yes. I mean, just difficult that you didn't know how to put yourself --

But you've seen the copy since?