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Well, anyhow, I went to London and I didn't think much about it on the boat, but I thought a little about it, and I began to make a few little notes, kind of little jottings of what I could remember, and the kind of order they would take. When I got to London, almost the first day or two I was there, Viking Press agents and George Bye's agent in London, a member of a very reliable firm, called me up. Bye's agent was a member of an English authors and book publishers' agency. They were legally authorized. They had a cable from Bye and they had a cable from Viking. They were representative all right, and it was legal, and they came over.

By this time I was busy, you see, getting ready for I.L.O. and doing things that had to be done in London, meeting committees, preliminary meetings. My daughter Susanna was along, and she kept urging me to do it. “Oh, do it, Mother, don't be so stupid. Just do it!”, and so forth. That irresponsibility of the young--they don't know what it is to do a thing like that. They've never put their back into anything in the world. They're always willing to urge their parents to crucify themselves, you know.

Well, anyhow, I signed the contract and that was that. Never gave it another thought, of course, for the next two months, really, until coming back on the boat. When I





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