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in green ink in top margin circa 12-1 - '73

Dear Jack -

   Thanks for yr letter.  It was simply that I had this last submission to be made & there was the coincidence of seeing yr review, etc. as stated.  It was the answer I expected.  So I picked a pub. by lot & yesterday I sent off Submission #321 [approx. - as with the Kerchel catalogue, there is some doubt...] maybe the 93rd for HOGBUTCHERS,  and that's the end.  It dates back to 1958, not 1959,  & damn near sold in early 1959.  But of course they wanted changes - some crap abt making it a "Beat" novel or something - ...
    The way I felt about underlined:  December, et. al. is shown in Pt #6 on the reverse of this.  [ From underlined:  Small Press Review ]  I feel about this just as I feel about boycotting grapes & lettuce - same general idea   By now I've heard all the arguments against this stand - without being convinced.  What may be heartening, though, is that the editor of the magazine received a half dozen letters from Little Mag editors & mostly they agree with my stand.  In the past, they've resorted to all sorts of snide ad hominem attacks, breast beatings about their services to literature & elaborate poor mouthing.  [ One lament I received was typed with electric typewriter on 20# rag stationery embossed in two colors!]  Well - after  27 years & 14 books etc. etc. I'm happy to be through with this crap.  Mostly I've done good work & this shipwrecked sailor bids you & everybody else to keep sailing.

Felix Singer