Day twenty-seven of our daily readings from “Dear Los Angeles,” a collection of letters and diary entries from 1542 to 2018, while all of us quarantine in 2020.

Today’s entry from 1972 is from a letter written by crime fiction author Ross Macdonald (the pen name for Kenneth Millar), to another author named Eudora Welty. They had a complex relationship, an “almost romance” which took place mainly through their written correspondence over many years. Their fascinating story is written up here and here.

We love you, Los Angeles!