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1 Dec. 21, 1950 Dear Jack -

 The story of the underlined: returned "Midland Humor" is a complicated and elusive one, with all of the elements of a pseudo - third degree

flutter budget Kafka: hence I hesitated to pen the unbelievable facts which only a New York post office could produce. I received underlined: two notices that the book had arrived, and went faithfully to the post office, only to be told that the book had not yet come back from the postman's rounds. During the time, I was given a book for a neighbor and told that the whole thing was probably a mistake - that I had received the underlined: neighbor's post office notice. I took the book to her, and she in turn gave me a notice she had received -