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that reviewed it in the New Yorker was Hamilton Basso, and he came to see me. It was a beautiful review. It was so much better than the book. It was, it was a beautiful review. He came to see me, I remember, and the Times man came to see me, and the Tribune fellow. Anyhow, I saw them all. They wanted to get some kind of a feeling, life, about it for their reviews.

Of course, nobody knew what the reviews would be. It came out in Collier's first. Not completely, but the publishers sold a part of it to Collier's, you know, for excerpts. That helps a publisher on the cost, when they do that. It doesn't help you any. The publisher gets that money, you don't get it. The publisher's advanced you $20,000, we'll say. They sell for $5000 certain excerpts of it to Collier's. That does two things. It promotes the book, you see. A very wide audience of odds and ends of people read Collier's, and some of them like it and some of them buy the book, but anyhow it gets talked about and it gets sort of spread that it's going to be good and so forth.

So that had been out. That came out --the first issue that had any of this book in it--in August, and I was in Maine. I stayed there, all right. But I got an ecstatic letter from Henry Bruere, who was up in Swampscott, in which he said, “Oh my God, Frances, I bought Collier's with