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3-8-75 4916 N. Magnolia Chicago ILL 60640 Dear Jack,

And what a dear you are! - offering to give your valuable time to my ms. But as it happens, fresh out of the hospital (

know now that medication & beer or whatever will not do so am learning to sleep via the hot milk routine, & when wide awake after 2 hrs. or so, wash clothes etc. till I can sleep again). - anyhow I wobbled across the street to the library, my mailing address for anything too large for my locked mailbox (you know what city kids are like these days) and there was the return envelope from Sam B. Barker of the graduate school of University of Alabama. After seeing his wife's use of a piece of Bunni's sculpture he bought last spring while in town for some educator's convention - he's an art collector, & had no sculpture of wood, & someone told him about Bunni's exhibit at the library that month - he bought "Beggar", a beautiful cowled bent head on a figure with maimed feet, and one of B's smaller things, a pregnant woman - B. turns them out by the dozen for quick sales, carved from table legs. Anyhow he took B. to dinner, saw his studio and both had a marvelous time - he's English & highly cultured. So at Union Pier just after Christmas I saw the card