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Replying to your letter of October 20th, I beg to say that you can get a copy of my book "The House Behind the Cedars"1 by writing to Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, 5 Park Street, Boston, Mass.,2 and enclosing them a check or money order for $1.85, the price of the book being $1.75 and the ten cents to cover the postage.3
Yours respectfully,Correspondent: Fleta Harrison (b. 1903) is listed at the given San Antonio address as the 17-year-old niece of Alexander Harrison, a Black farmer, in the census of 1920. By the 1930 census, she is double-listed as living with her parents and working as a maid. No additional information about her life has been found.