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Dear Jack" - Fanny Cooke's address is 7068 Maryland, St Louis - sorry I didn't send it sooner:... I told her you'd been brought up here by friends from Moberty who would only stay an hour. Write her, & write me so I know what you wrote her... Blankfort was in town, spending tomorrow at Vanguard; me chairman says he's going to Moberly next... Went up to old man {Michardt's} to fire him & give him enough of my mind to keep him busy for the next nine minutes, but he pled mightely and to some purpose, for when I left, "Sholem Asch's new book, "The Mother" was under my arm and my soul, my poor bartered soul for $4.16(?) was with him... Even dogs have their day, and did you see Rohn & Phillips defence in the N.M. with an editorial We Reply?.... Gregory's Anthology seems to be getting it too I see... Haven't had chance yet to check printers with [Pretzhold.] Have you written [Brals] people yet? - What's new? - Many lustrums!! Jack [Balath]