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will be going home next weekend. We've run out of stationery hence the use of this, which I sent my Senator & Congressman earlier this year.

  Incidentally, you may want to

come to the Virginia Center sometime A good place to work - you have a studio as wellunderlined as a bedroom, all the privacy you want, and you don't have to worry about your meals. Applying is a simple procedure and if you do, tell them I suggested it, and let me know so that I can write them a letter of support.

    I wish you were going to be in N.Y.

March 1st. The N.Y. Public Library, in connection with a big exhibit of WPA books, is having a fancy reception followed by a panel discussion about the Writers' project after the talk I'm scheduled to give. Among those in the panel : Lionel Abel, David Igpage cut off Ralph Ellison, Arthur Schlesinger will be the Moderator, Some of the best people for such a discussion are no longer around - or they live outside of N.Y. like yourself. Incidentally, the