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on left GAYLORD CRUMP [[image of man at a podium with lighted match, ready to set a bomb on fire]] From underline Life Sentences for Everybody /underline (1966) As a youngster he got a big bang setting his little brother on fire, as a grownup he got his kicks being a pyromaniac by night and a fire insurance salesman by day; later, when he became ambitious to set the world on fire, he got himself elected to a seat in Congress, and now he preaches the gospel of atomic warfare.

  - Jerre Mangione

P.S. PEACE! on right in pencil Mangione, Jerre

The Virginia Center for the Arts

Sweet Briar, Va. 24595

Feb. 16, 1982

Dear Jack: I apologize for the Stationery. It is not suitable to expressing my sorrow - and Patricia's - over the news of Gladys' death. We had not know about it until last week when I had a letter from the professor who is writing a biography of you. Must be a terrible blow. One way to ease it, I would hope, it to keep on writing, and Wixson says that you are doing that.

 The good news in his letter is that there is now a new edition of underline The

Disinherited /underline with an introduction by you. I'd love to see it. What do you say we swap: My first book, underline Mount Allegro /underline for yours? Instead of an introduction I wrote a new chapter "Finale" for the edition published last year by Columbia University Press, its fifth publisher in 40 years. I see that Laurence Hill is still your publisher, and that is good - better than having had to cope with five different publishers (of which L. Hill was one).

 Patricia and I have been here at the Virginia Center of the Arts (the Yaddo of the South)

for nearly five weeks, and