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Typed Letter, signed, with holograph correction. 11x8½". With original envelope. Signed at close 'Hank' with sketch of little man and bottle. Includes a 2 page carbon copy of Weissner's reply.

Bukowski writes to his European agent and German translator, Carl Weissner. "Things here, in spite of the wedding, so forth, do not go well. Linda has physical and mental problems and there are days here, weeks of blackness and raving. There are many books written about the problems of women --mostly after 40--and we are told to sympathize and understand their plight but I haven't seen any books written about what happens to men who live with these women. It's as if the women have claimed the areas of depression and madness and the men are simply supposed to endure...It effects my work and my work is one of my few joys."