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April 28, '55 Dear Jack:

Sorry to hear you haven't been well, take care of those fancy innards of yours, and don't let them start a revolution. Remember there are clean

bones crying in the flesh - don't betray them yet.

The Algren letter was delightful: I showed it to a number of people here, and it had to go into several extra printings. Most thought it ranked

favorably with Thurber's reply to Sam Goldwyn. let me know how all the litigation comes out. Man is wolf to the man.

Here things go their hectic course. My second novel has been sent to the printer, and I'll be getting the proofs before long. I'll have a copy sent

to you this summer, as soon as it comes out. It is, I hope fervently, a great deal better than the first. I've been writing some poems, not many, but enough to assure myself I haven't disappeared. Karl Shapiro showed up today (he's giving a reading tonight), and he looks brown and chipper from his stay in Berkeley. He's met El Hagapian and likes him.

Did you hear about the Oppenheimer fiasco at our U? Higher education crawls forward. However, the strike raised about the refusal to permit him

to lecture has had some healthy effects: they (the president and the regents) won't be as quick to act high-minded next time. The faculty really has given them a roasting about it.

I hope to get to work on a new book before many days pass. I can feel it starting a log-jam in the back of my mind.
Tell me some news from your land - Algren, Woods, Gladys, anybody else. I miss all of you.
    All things,    Dave W.