This letter was previously published only on the Ayn Rand Institute website.
April 28, 1950
Dear Lorine:
Thank you for your post card. I can’t tell you how homesick it made me for New York and for the nice evening we spent with you.
I don’t know yet when I will be back East, as I am deep in work on my new novel. It’s going along wonderfully and I am very happy with it. Your rose quartz is here on my desk as reminder and inspiration.
What are you doing? Have you been writing any articles or reviews? What has happened to your proposed article about me—or is it a subject the magazines are afraid of at present? Did you ever meet Archie Ogden? He has just gone back into the publishing business and is now editor of Appleton-Century. Do let me hear from you when you have the time.
With love from both of us.
This is the last correspondence between Rand and Pruette in the Ayn Rand Archives, but Rand moved permanently to New York City in 1951, and her daily calendars show numerous dinners with Pruette from 1951 through 1958.
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