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best equipped by experience to deal with it are usually inarticulate.

  The chimney sweeps of London for example never had anyone to portray them in human terms.
  The Cornish miners of the Upper Peninsula have left no record in literature of their struggles here.   I have found only one very dreary novel of that life called, The Long Winter Ends.
   Frank Mead writes from Chicago that the indomitable Jimmy Sheridan is in very poor health.  I feel a deep sense of failure and regret on my part in not keeping in closer touch with him.   Those were the golden days when he was the uncrowned king of Chicago Avenue and lent his glib vocabulary to the gatherings at Thompson's Restaurant, also known as the Maxim Gorky Park of Culture and Rest.
   I do hope that you are continuing with your memoirs.  This can be a real magnum opus so take your time and make it great.

Best Wishes Bill Wedlake