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RAY M. LAWLESS 900 East 83rd Terrace Kansas City, Mo. 64131

June 23, 1967 Dear Jack,

  Your recent card has bestirred me to write you, but my health is rather precarious these days, and I am not up to doing much of anything.  This note, however, is not designed to recite my woes.
  On June 5 I retired from teaching, after 35 years in Jr. College crossed out: work here in K.C. and 11 years elsewhere.  More and more the futility of teaching has weighed on me, but we have made some wonderful friends, and I have had, I suppose, more than my share of brilliant students.  And of course the folksong crossed out:  business activity has been an outlet.  (Seems to me I'm not writing what I intended to at all!)
  Warren French's brilliant review of Studs Terkel's underlined:  Division Street: America ought to engender some serious thinking - I hope it will.  I haven't read the book yet, but hope to get at it sometime this summer.  That's another thing:  there are so many books I want to read, I'll never get them done.  Warren French came over to the English dept. reception for me (card enclosed), and I got acquainted with him then.  I will say the Eng. Dept. laid themselves out for me.  The are all (well, underlined: most of them) my good friends.   The Terkel review prodded me