646 West 158th St.
New York, June 1, 1911

[Address]

Mr. Ellery Sedgwick,
4 Park Row, Boston, Mass.

Dear Sir: -

Through Mrs. Charles
B. Perkins I have received
the manuscript of "Malinke’s
Atonement," which I hope
to put into shape for you
very soon. I am preparing
to move to the country,
and am too much in-
terrupted just now to do

good work. From the
passages marked for cutting
I gather your intention,
but I cannot say till I
have had more time to study
the manuscript how far
I am convinced. I shall
do my best to satisfy you.

As I have one or two
short things on hand that
interest me, I may be
tempted to go on with those
before returning to Malinke,
unless you wish to have
it ready for an early
number of the Atlantic.

Your comments on

my work, passed on to me
by Mrs. Perkins, have interested me
greatly. Your praise, I must confess,
flatters me; some of it surprises
me. I can never know just
what my Malinke or Rösele
looks like in your eyes, no matter
how fully you express yourself; but
what you and others have said does
give me some idea of the figures
my poor Jewish people make when
standing detached from their
overwhelming history, in the sight of a world that knows them but little.
Malinke, to me, is Malinke with a
thousand years of Jewish sorrows
behind her, and a thousand years
of empty hope. It is when I hear
from my critics that I realize how
little has been recorded of those
centuries upon centuries. I must
by all means bear in mind the
fact that not all things are in the
reader's mind which are in the
author's.

Thanking you for your kind
interest, I am
Sincerely yours,

Mary Antin Grabau

[Writing in lower left corner: "(Mrs. A. W.)" i.e. Mrs. Amadeus William Grabau.]