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letterhead UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE BERKELEY DAVIS IRVINE LOS ANGELES RIVERSIDE SAN DIEGO SAN FRANSISCO SANTA BARBARA SANTA CRUZ Seal of The University of California 1868 THE PROGRAM IN COMPARATIVE CULTURE american african asian black chicano IRVINE, CALIFORNIA 92644

October 19, 1971

Mr. Jack Conroy 701 Fisk Avenue Moberly, Missouri 67270

Dear Jack Conroy:

What a pleasure it was to come back to California from Europe and to find underlined: The American Book Collector's beautifully illustrated article by the man himself who made underlined: The Anvil what it was! Thanks for thinking of me. You know, I had not only been thinking, but talking about you. I was in West Berlin interviewing a woman (for my new book--a biography of Henry Miller) named Renate Gerhardt, the owner and editor of Gerhardt Verlag, and what appeared on the corner of her desk but a copy of underlined: The Disinherited!