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I have it all together, and I'm sure I mean to send it to Columbia. That's what I intend to do. It's labelled “extra Roosevelt material.” I don't know, this manuscript out here may be the manuscript, my copy of the manuscript that I gave Taubman to work on. I didn't have too many copies, you see, at that stage of the game. I didn't have several copies. It's typewritten manuscript, not handwritten. Nobody has handwritten manuscripts? Oh, yes they do. I think a lot of very good books are written by hand. Henry Beston writes by hand, always. If you want to write beautiful English, you almost have to write it by hand. Yes, you do! Beautiful and polished English.

I imagine Boswell wrote by hand only because he didn't have a typewriter.

Oh well, in those days of course it couldn't be helped. It had to be. But I still think that beautiful expression a beautiful phrase, comes out of the written page. But then I don't understand the man who takes his pen in hand, as Marion Crawford used to, and in this fine beautiful Soencerian writing, writes a whole novel without a scratch or a bit of editing. I don't know how they do it. It just conceived it with no gramatical or errors of use of language or anything else, nothing that needs correction,