Anais Nin last visited Henry Miller at his home in Big Sur, California, in 1947, nearly 15 years earlier. She writes, "Our mutual interest in Roger Bloom [a man serving a life sentence in the Missouri State Penitentiary] renewed our friendship. Henry gave me a present of the copyright on his letters to me."
Henry tells her his success is meaningless. What gives his life meaning is a few special letters he receives from people like Anais, who writes, "I do not think of him as a lonely man. His relationship to the world was always more important to him than his intimate relationships. He never loved anyone more than himself. He would never die of a broken heart."
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