Newberry Library - De Bear, Mollie (?), Ben Hecht incoming correspondence, n.d.

User-Contributed Transcription There is no word for [[?]] but swindler. In literature - anyone who steals your birthright whether [[land]] speculator who gets [[avel?]] of your land (RH margin note) or what is yours by [[ ?]] (crossed out [[or one]]) who defies the law of copyright is treated as (crossed out: [[maddening?]]) a legitimate cause for madness, drunkenness or other kinds of despairing [[behaverer?]], caused by [[e?]] one is helpless to fight. In a story by Turgeniev called A Reckless Character, the young man cheated of his ancestral home [margin note] by a speculater like [[Men]] joins a troupe of drunken beggars and skips and dances down the Russian [[?ds]] that are all [[?]]

Unte Morgent[[?] --
Werfel [[?]] 'A p[[?]] was

(Sideways, top left)
Mme Masters is the source of the trouble.

Tell Mr. Cramer - the new Supreme Ct. [[?]]

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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 56 Folder 1177

BibID 992595638805867

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