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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! So, inevitably, we talked of the book, then of you, the little contact I had had with you, and again of the book. Turned out she wants to publish it in Germany, and I told her I would send her your address--which I will do in a day or two. (Hers is Renate Gerhardt, Gerhardt Verlag, 7, Jenaerstrasse, Berlin). I suggested she might use your "Home to Moberly" autobiographical piece as an introduction (not Aaron), and so make a new edition. So, you see, it was a real coincidence, since I had just been your agent abroad, to get your splendid article. I've been interested in underlined: The Anvil, but never knew much about it, and I am glad to do so now.

  I still hope that we'll meet sometime.  Let me know if you ever head out here.

Cordially [[signed: Jay] Jay Martin JM:bo handwritten at end of typed page Now I have your letter too, which arrived later. Yes, if you are going to swing out here - CA State, Sacramento, etc. --I am sure that I can get an invitation down here - but probably not for much more than $100, I'm sorry to say, since budgets are so bad! Hope it will work out. Yes, Jim Hall is still at UC Santa Cruz. / Jay