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I am just recovering from a long spell of septic fever, and I am still too shaky to use the pen; so you will have to excuse the type-writer, which is a despicable medium for a private letter.
While I was ill, Mr. Johnson, of the Century, sent me a blue print reproduction
of your latest Brer Rabbit. The blue print was a very poor one, but it was
sufficiently clear for me to see that this new Brer Rabbit is the best of all. I
don't know how you manage to get human character into the animals, and I dassent
ax you, but it is there for a fact. This latest Rabbit is just as I have imagined
the Rabbit of the negroes to be—[?]a creetur with human attributes, and just a
touch of the humor that is almost as serious as it is funny.
I also saw a reproduction of your drawing for the Adam and Eve nonsense, and it is very fine. It suggests a new stanza for the stuff, and I going to write it out if I can; but I am afraid my thinking machine is not in good working order. I hope all is well with you and yours.
By the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, in conjunction with the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.