The Correspondence of, and to, Charles Hoy Fort

Fort to Dreiser

No Date

Dreiser!

I'm a lost soul. Strange orthogenetic gods have deserted me. Either I shall never write again, or I shall not be permitted to write again until March 13, 1918.

Carl Brandt sent for me + has "X" and "Y." He said that to him "X" is striking in details in impressionistic bits, but that he could find no design in it as a whole, that nevertheless so strongly recommended had the book come to him that he could not turn it down because he could not see what even its trend is. He wants a list of the publishers who have rejected "X" and "Y." Will you send me this list? Maybe I'll keep it myself as a monument to what you have

done in this matter. I begin to suspect something. It may be thatthere are reasons why "X" and "Y" must never be published.

Charles Fort

445 W. 43rd St.

Courtesy of the Theodore Dreiser Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.

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