{"id":8434,"date":"2018-04-22T08:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T08:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2018-04-22T08:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T08:59:37","slug":"letter-received-regarding-stuart-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2018\/04\/22\/letter-received-regarding-stuart-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter received regarding Stuart Little"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a letter to the writer E. B. White in 1977 in which I asked him whether he planned to write a sequel to his novel Stuart Little<\/em> and whether I could perhaps help to write it. The letter I wrote was a bit imperious but I managed to inspire a response.<\/p>\n

I received this letter from his wife Katharine S. A. White in which she explains why some literary works are left open and are not wrapped up neatly.<\/p>\n

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The letter is dated May 27, 1977 and at the bottom is scrawled “Forgive my handwriting. I am almost blind this week.” In fact, Katharine S. A. White died on July 20, 1977, just two months after she wrote this letter to me. I learned later that Mrs. White, born in 1892, had been a central figure in the establishment of the New Yorker Magazine, once a great literary institution, but later reduced to indulgent gossip in the 1990s (from which it never recovered).<\/p>\n

This letter touched me profoundly and gave me a sense of mission in my writing thereafter that carried me forward. I happened to come across the letter when organizing my old correspondence last week.<\/p>\n

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