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in pencil in top margin [1950] letterhead WILLIAM G. WEDLAKE 601 DEMING PLACE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Columbus Hospital 2520 N. Lakeview Chicago, Ill. Dear Jack Conroy,

   The Age of Anxiety finally caught up with me and laid me out with a bum ticker.

However, the Genus Hobo is one of the most difficult forms of life to destroy. Long ago in the jungle at Janesville, Wisc. a bearded old airedale strained some sterno through a sock and produced a libation called Derail The continued use of such gentle potions has not been good for the pump.

   Prof. Walter Rideout has told me how kind and helpful you were to him during the preparation of "The Radical Novel."  I finally obtained after a long search mint copies of both "The Disinherited" and "A World to Win".   The first issue of the American Mercury that I came across in my heedless youth contained your story "Pipeline" and is now in my meager collection of Conroyana.  My weakened condition prevents further conflab

Yours for the Revolution Bill Wedlake