One more from E. B. White to Jack Case, March 30, 1962:
The next grammar book I want to bring out I want to tell how to end a sentence with five prepositions. A father of a little boy goes upstairs after supper to read to his son, but he brings the wrong book. The boys says, “What did you bring that book that I don’t want to be read to out of up for?”Related reading
And how are YOU?
Letters of E. B. White, ed. Dorothy Lobrano Guth (New York: Harper & Row, 1976).
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