Dear Bettina ...

Dear Bettina,

I am reading the "Correspondence Of F. Scott Fitzgerald" again, per your instructions. I have so many bookmarks and Post-Its attached that the entire 8th and half of the 7th floors are bona fide fire hazards.

Very Truly Yours,

xxxHarryxxx

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c.14 May 1923
Great Neck, L.I.

Dear Mr. X:

Thanks ever so much for the copy of "Flaming Youth." I had of course been reading it as it appeared in the Metropolitan and enjoying it immensely. It will be a great pleasure to start from the beginning and read it thru as I had missed several installments.

Who in the devil are you? Do you know at least a dozen people have asked me if I wrote it. I wish I had but I'm sure I didn't--so who did. Tell me immediately and oblige

Yours Admiringly + Gratefully

F Scott Fitzgerald