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in pencil in top margin Rogers, John C.

Sep. 25, 1978 Jack oboy oboy:

    What makes you think the Alexandria Library carries Soviet Life?  It carries a magazine from the Peoples Republic of China, but nothing so subversive as a Soviet publication.  Did you get my card with the "421" address?  I thought so, a renowned writer like you.  I'll try and get an address for you, if I have to call the Soviet Embassy, after all I was once suspected of being a known subversive and I still have a warm spot in my heart for things Soviet.  I suspect the mag is published in New York.  But old Rogers will deliver the address.
   Guess Old Judy has kicked the bucket - he don't answer you and he don't answer me.  A good guy gone.
   The old haunts at North Garden were not much - I went into the Brass Rail in downtown Charlottesville, and had me five Bud's - thought that was the least I could do to boost the economy, which was booming with a new Mall, etc.  Met a guy I hadn't seen for some 20 years - a miller from North Garden.  He was prosperous and worried about the future - he thought we were being sold out to the Communists!  Letting all those Viet Nam into the USA!

Jack II.

written in left margin Soviet Life Embassy of the Soviet Union in the USA Oleg P. Benyukh, Editor 1706 18th Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009