.MTQyNg.MTIzMTU3

1. July 13 1968 Dear Jack. ViVA!

  NOW to answer yours of the 8th - for which, thanks.   Please give my love to Margaret Jean.  I guess Tillery is what the late Clem Lane called "A mugwump"  AA - ? - his mug in AA - and his "Wump" in a tavern.  Tell James to work and abstain for the next decade.  And see if he doesn't feel a little better.
  I haven't heard from the Markham AA yet - but underlined:  maybe I will.  Julie is a model woman - and John is a model father.  I think model daughters are underlined:  more attractive than model fathers.  I speak objectively - for I am neither.
   Tomorrow (Sun) will be Bastille Day.  I mark 27 years free of a curséd 30-Camels-a-day.
   9,862 NN days - and 295,860 Camels that R J Reynolds and Co. did underlined:  NOT sell me.  when I quit in 1941 the standard brands were 2-packs-for-a-quarter.  
   Tell all this to Gladys and ask her to snuff out her last coffin nail and join me in a penitential but cough-less life.  We are going to have 27 Candles