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                                                                                     1939 PANAMA STREET
                                                                              PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
                                                                                                         19103

                                                                                                                                written August 19, 1972

Dear Jack:

    Such a long time since we've exchanged

vibrations. I thought, for one thing, I would make sure you got THE DREAM AND THE DEAL. I told Little Brown a while ago you were reviewing it for Chicago Sun-Times and that your review copy was to go directly to your home. Should have come by now. Publication date is Sept. 25th, and before that time Herman Kogan has promised to publish an article I wrote for him about the Writers' Project in Illinois - to kind of pave the way for the book. *

  I've received only a couple of advance notices

so far, which I enclose, one from Kirkus, the other from Loren Eiseley. By the way, C. Werkley tells me she stopped by your home and helped pick some books off the floor. A very neat woman.

  September seems to be a special month for

me - one new book and two reissues all coming out then. The reissues are a MOUNT ALLEGRO and THE WORLD AROUND DANILO DOLCI, which is Harper and Row's new title for A PASSION FOR SICILIANS. Crown is publishing MOUNT ALLEGRO in cloth and paper; THE WORLD AROUND DANILO DOLCI will come out as a paperback.

   I'm enclosing Crown's new release about

MOUNT ALLEGRO because it occurs to me that you might be able to interest them in republishing THE DISINHERITED as a young adult book, which means it would be used in schools and libraries. Remember how I begged Hill and Wang to keep MOUNT ALLEGRO in print because of the growing school interest in ethnic books? Well, not long after they let it go out of print the Phila. school system decided they needed 2,000 copies.

    Anyways, the person at Crown to write to

about THE DISINHERITED, if it isn't in print, is

written in ink in left-hand margin * Well, you let me know if you see the piece? It's impossible to buy Chicago papers here..