The Fur Person [antikvár]

OF course The Fur Person was a real, not an imaginary, cat. He, Brusque Voice (myself), and Gentle Voice (Judy Matlack) lived together for many years in Cambridge, Massachusetts. All this was a long time ago, so, of course, Tom Jones is no longer alive. But he had a long, happy time on earth and now he is, I am glad to say, becoming immortal as a literary personage. Only the other day I received a carefully printed letter telling me, "This is the best book I have read." The writer was nine years old, and I was gratified. There has been considerable underground murmuring because Tom Jones was out of print. Now he will be in circulation again and discovered by a new generation of readers. I hope some grandmothers will read The Fur Person aloud, for it was meant to be; it was meant to be a book for whole families to enjoy as well as "the fervent lovers and austere scholars" whom Baudelaire called the particular friends of cats. When my kind publishers asked me to write a preface for this new edition, I wondered how I could 7