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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY College Of Arts And Sciences Department of English 5315 Holmes Kansas City, Missouri 64110 Telephone (816) 276-1305 May 16, 1975 Dear Jack, Doctor of Humane letters,

 Here are a couple of copies of the Star article. You may have some mixed feelings about it. An interview never comes out exactly the way

you hope it will but I like it very much. It is a much more solid and yet responsive piece than I would have expected in the Star.

 Thanks also for your Anvil anthology. I was particularly caught by a poem from an old friend, Alvin Foote. Your bio-note didn't say much

about him. But I knew him in the early '50's where he very reluctantly enrolled in a Ph.D. program for a couple of years. He had been doing PR work for a couple of colleges and consistently had women and alcohol problems. He never got over his divorce from his first wife, the suicide death crossed out of his father-in-law and the Catholic priest's refusal to bury him, the end of the Spanish Civil War when he was about to sail from New York, and his love for the mountains. Last I heard from him he was teaching in a California State College and apparently willingly submissive to a woman who was keeping alcoholic needs in check. Both Sylvia and I liked him immensely.

 I hope you got back to Moberly without being seriously damaged by the ordeal we put you through. It was good seeing you again, and I

hope we have another less strenuous chance soon. Regards, Bob