April 19, 1942 « Pound by Pound

Lookin' back and rememberin' my far distant childhood on the corner of 47th and Madison Avenue where there is now such [a?] sumptuous Hotel Accommodation. Thinkin', thinkin of my Great Aunt's family furniture, moved a few blocks up the street ... Ernest Poole might write a book on the subject. Another bloke whose name I forget might write a book on the subject. Wrote a novel I rather liked, about a New England family goin' to seed on a farm that was like a white elephant. ...