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pencilled in top margin Bogan, Jim [1980]

?Romantics? Dept. UMR Rolla, MO

Dear Jack,

   Wanted to keep you posted on my Missouri works:  Johnny's Bar and "Missouri Litany."  I have a feeling that I may have sent you a copy of Johnny's bar already and if I did, pardon the redundancy.  If I didn't, here it is.  "Missouri Litany" is hot off the Xerox machine but probably isn't all the way done because somebody is always telling me a new one that wasn't on any of the official maps.  I admit to making up two place-names in the poem but I defy Joe Teasdale to tell me which two.
  I hope you are ever so well.  One thing I liked about The Dispossessed was the weed & wildflower lore that appeared now and again.   This time of the year is the best there is.  October is not far behind though.
  I'm not going to be able to make the KC conference again - as I'm getting