Boston bookstore

(1952 September 23)

By the way, [while in Boston] one day took a cab to Goodspeed's 2nd Hand Store and must say I was disappointed. All orderly as a library, cataloged by subjects - in 25-cent and 50-cent stack were old school books and books on politics. Prices I thought high - book we have on Saints and Festivals, $3. But I would go there for good books like a set of encyclopedias etc. No one there but me and a woman, uncompromising but wise, except 3 men. One man was introducing a man who looked like Glencannon (Saturday Evening Post) to a 3rd man and was saying he was from Paris and came here searching out crime and wanted help. I pretended to look at some old books to hear more but couldn't. Anyway, don't expect too much from Goodspeeds in bargains!