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[Letterhead] Nicotinic Nobodies GENERAL OFFICES . 800 SOUTH HALSTED ST. . CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Sunday Aug. 29 1949.
Dear Jack: Yours of Aug 16 from Yaddo received Aug 27 when I got home yesterday. Mary and I vacationed in Ohio and didn't have our mail forwarded. I'm glad to hear you've given up the struggle to become a gentleman-drinker - a role for which I am sure you are unsuited. I have been attending AA on Wednesday morns 10.30 to 12 noon at 51st & So Parkway - and occasionally at the same place Saturday morns 10.30 to 12. I'll give you a ring soon and see if we can't make that Saturday meeting together. I had never heard of Yaddo which I would have surmised was a variant of Judo - except a friend of mine, Jack Gibbons Morris was in town recently - and in a 6 hour flow of talk told me ha has a novel in