14 East 95th St.
New York City
December 12, 1952
To “her friends at 84, Charing Cross Road”:
The Book-Lovers’ Anthology stepped out
of its wrappings, all gold-embossed leather
and gold-tipped pages, easily the most
beautiful book I own including the Newman
first edition. It looks too new and
pristine ever to have been read by anyone
else, but it has been: it keeps falling
open at the most delightful places as the
ghost of its former owner points me to
things I’ve never read before. Like
Tristram Shandy’s description of his
father’s remarkable library which
“contained every book and treatise which
had ever wrote upon the subject of great
noses.”(Frank! Go find me Tristram Shandy!)
I do think it’s a very uneven exchange
of Christmas presents. You’ll eat yours up
in a week and have nothing left to show for
it by New Year’s Day. I’ll have mine till
the day I die — and die happy in the
knowledge that I’m leaving it behind for
someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale
pencil marks through it pointing out the
best passages to some booklover yet unborn.
Thank you all. Happy New Year.
Helene
注释：
step out of 从…走出去（上一篇刚注释完）
eat up 吃光
You’ll eat yours up in a week 你一个星期后就会吃光你的
booklover 爱读书的人
收藏句子：
You’ll eat yours up in a week and have nothing left to show for it by New Year’s Day. I’ll have mine till the day I die—and die happy in the knowledge that I’m leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some booklover yet unborn.（不得不说，太有文采了🤓）
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