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pencilled in top margin Ames, Russell letterhead 15 CHARLTON STREET NEW YORK 14, N.Y.

written in pencil 16 Dec 58 Dear Jack & Gladys -

  No Xmas cards (or pens) here, but thanks for yours, & Jack's note.
  I have more advice, or questions.   Jack, why don't you do an article for American Heritage o(or other) before finishing The Rosewood Casket?  This occurs to me because I'm thinking a piece on teenage folklore (autograph albums, camp songs, gags & jokes), wholesome & non-Freudian for this publication.  Or even Reader's Indigestion.

written in ink 20 Dec. Also my old roomie at old Harvard, Duncan B. M. Emrich, while chief of folk at The Library of Congress, had a piece once (I've learned recently)