- Verso w. sm. spot w. remnant of formerly tipping in. Folded, but fine.

= Interesting letter to Faulkner's literary agent and friend Ben Wasson, i.a. on the death of Wasson's dog and on the wherabouts of the manuscripts of "Snopes" (refering to the family name of the characters from Faulkner's novels The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion). "(...) I don't want to nag you to death about the mss. but that copy is the only "Snopes" I have; also some of the short stories (...)". Faulkner asks Wasson urgently to get in touch with Crump (Owen Crump, the artist who shared his apartment with Faulkner in late 1928), who apparently still has manuscripts in his possession. "(...) So will you please try to get in touch with Crump and get there and - since you are planning to go abroad - and [?] to Hal Smith, with this letter; it will explain. I don't know where Crump is. He married a Brooklyn girl whom Jim Devine knows, and Lyle Saxon knows Jim. So if you had rather, will you give this letter to Lyle and get him to do it? I know this is ask a lot of a man with his own troubles, but I can't get up there before fall, and I'd hate to lose the mss. (...). P.S. Send me the ones I did leave with you. I can make good stories our of them, I believe".