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in pencil in top margin Sheridan, Ruth

P.O. Box 8114 Anchorage, Alas 99508 March 6, 1975 Dear Jack -

      Got a letter today from Gene Nelson and learned of your forthcoming autobiography, I should say, already published, autobiography.  Gene flatters me by saying I should review it.  I think he'd do a much better job, faster, more workmanlike and very simpatico.  So by all means have your publisher send him a review copy.  I'm bogged down in a work syndrome for the next three years until I can join my retired friends.  I'm dropping out as soon as the system says I can collect.
    I recall that in our exchange of Christmas greetings you were surprised there was a University in Anchorage.  There are two.  The University of Alaska here is a junior, senior and community college and the big squak [sic] among the teachers is that the administration in Fairbanks controls the strings and calls the financial tune, so that instructors were getting a better deal in Fairbanks.   Living costs are now approximately the same in both cities.  The state has money.  I mention this because I felt you might be thinking about lecturing here.  If you were I might be able to make some inquiries although I have no "influence" as such.  The instructor who taught the history course I took in the fall left for Bordeaux to study there for nine months.  However, the head of the A.CC. branch of the teachers union is a member of the English Dept.  Her name is Edie Lynch.  The other college is AMU, funded by Atlantic Richfield money and the Methodists.