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in pencil Mead, Frank Chicago, 2/8/55 Jack Conroy 6012 S. green Chicago [To Be read on a Long week-end] Dear Jack:

 Received the Sean O'Casey book today and am looking forward to a quiet week-end with and - crossed out - after our nursery closes

on Saturday night -, my daughter's kids, you know.

 Seeing "Conroy's Folly" on the book wrapper made my wife & I laugh, as we were reminded of the English tendency to hang such handles

as "Mon Repos" on villas (an absolute passion (Villas, I mean) in British suburbia) about the size of tiny bungalows such as we have here for the working-stiff. I think the practice may go back to the days of the Grand Tour, perhaps it is taken from Italy or France. Walking south of Maidstone along the Loose (pron. "Lose") road to Boughton monchelsea, where my wife hails from, it was bewildering to me in my young and ignorant state to see majestic names stuck to front gates (rare is the place, be it ever so humble without a fence or wall or a good-sized hedge to confer privacy) of modest homes belonging to clerks and