Gentlemen:
The books arrived safely, the Stevenson is so fine it embarrasses my orange-crate
bookshelves,I'm almost afraid to handle such soft vellum and heavy cream-colored
pages. Being used to the dead-white paper and stiff cardboardy covers of American books, I never knew a book could be such a joy to the touch.
A Britisher whose girl lives upstairs translated the£1/17/6 for me and says I owe you $5.30 for the two books I hope he got it right. I enclose a $5 bill and a single, please use the 7O¢ toward the price of the New Testaments, both of which I want.
Will you please translate yourprices hereafter? I don' t add too well in plain American, I haven't a prayer of ever masteringbilingual arithmetic.
Yours,
Helene Hanff
I hope“madam” doesn’t mean over there what it does here.
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