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letterhead ROBERT B. STEWART, M.D. 947 WEST EIGHTH STREET LOS ANGELES 14, CALIFORNIA

December 12, 1949 Dear Jack =

     I was glad to find your good letter in my mail on returning from a weeks medical meeting at Santa Barbara -
    No, I wasn't able to get away for the Chicago meeting in October.  I surely would have looked you up and should have written you I wouldn't be there.
    I have seen the reviews on Algrens book but havent yet read it.  Masses & Mainstream hop on him for not being more prolabor - answer - a man writing about life sees life through trained eyes and somewhat disciplined emotions.  These times a writer would have to hunt around to find a prolabor character even among the working