Part of a collection of letters to José Rodríguez Feo, a Cuban who edited the magazine Orígenes in the 1940s and 50s. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 5659 for more information.
Telling him that she remembers him "very well"; saying that she doesn't think she will make it to Cuba "in spite of [his] kind invitation"; commenting on the political situation between the United States and Cuba: "I was always in sympathy with all people who were trying to be free, and I still am. I am only just a little tired of this country being forever damned as an imperialist tyranny while being expected to foot the bills for other countries' revolutions"; commenting on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway; thanking him for sending some of her letters; asking if he has "a story of [hers] in [his] collection of Cuentos Norteamericanos"; offering to send him a copy of her collection of short stories; asking if he has read her novel, Ship of Fools.