Newberry Library - Ratoff, Gregory, to Rose, Ben Hecht incoming correspondence, 1957

User-Contributed Transcription [[?]]rd - and I shall bring it with me to Italy.
I shall be there to meet your unbelievable husband.
The book about Ben - should have been also written by some one else but himself -
because only others know Ben - the way he is.
He himself knows it - but not the way I know him and who he is - only I have no talent to write. I only have talent to apreciate his real greatness.
And everything he is as a writer is nothing compared to what he is as a man - as a human being - as a "menche".
I have met him many times in my life - at different stages of my life, but this time - I met him again - when I am so anxious to see the skies full of almagases[[?]] .
And he is trying his best - his most wonderfull to keep me

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Archival Collection Title Ben Hecht papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, Society of Collectors

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Call Number Midwest MS Hecht Box 61 Folder 1556

BibID 992595638805867

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