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The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II

March 3, 1922

To William Gerhardi

I meant, only the first chapter, not the ‘confession.’1 No, I don't think that's a bit too ‘tragic.’ I can assure you I never stick pins into my cat; he's far more likely to stick pins into me.

1 Futility, in the original version., p. 250.

page 191

And the reason why I used the ‘florid ’ image1 was that I was writing about a garden party. It seemed natural, then, that the day should close like a flower. People had been looking at flowers all the afternoon, you see.

Thank you for your delightful letter. I shall write en quelques jours. Just for the moment I'm having rather a fight with the rayons X.

1 “I had written jokingly to K. M. of a criticism [of The Garden Party] overheard on that score.” W. G.