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letterhead A A Wyn INC. PUBLISHERS 23 WEST 47TH STREET - NEW YORK 36, N.Y.

August 23, 1954 Dear Jack:

    I was both pleased and terribly sorry to get your letter.  I can only begin to imagine how sad and upset you all were.  I never met your son - I think you and I were just stags foot loose in Chicago.  If I had though perhaps I could realize still more how you must feel.   The outsider is always so damnably helpless.
    London - where I have been for more than two weeks - is, as always, just marvelous.  The people are friendly, the food good and the city is, in spite of the horrible wet & cold weather, truly warm.  Have been too busy to wander down the narrow streets, browse in the book-shops and sit in the parks - but I've been here before and just love it.
    There aren't any geniuses that I know of but believe me - I'm looking.  Whether or not any books come out of this trip it will be worth while.  Get your hiking boots out & try that long walking tour.  Whether you need it or not England will make a new man out of you.