You know there have been so many distinguished professional men in the Eustace family and they of course did not for one minute think a girl like me could do anything and I did not really think so myself.

Sometimes I wonder how I had the courage to keep on writing when I was so uncertain but it was exactly as if somebody were driving me.

When I had the book finished, I was so afraid it ought to be typewritten, but I could not manage that.

At least I thought I could not, but after awhile I did, and in a way that nobody suspected, Aunt Harriet sent me to New York.

You know I am not often allowed to go alone but it was when Grandmother had the grippe and Aunt Susan the rheumatism and Aunt Harriet had a number of errands and so I went on the Twenty-third Street ferry, and did not go far from Twenty-third Street and I took my book in my handbag and carried it into Larkins and White's and I saw Mr.Larkins in his office and he was very kind and polite, although I think now he was laughing a little to himself at the idea of my writing a book, but he said to leave the MSS.