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Chicago, Apr. 2, '70
Dear Jack:
Thanks for the letter and all the clippings. I was downtown today,
quite slushy, as the temperature is just above thaw point. Didn't see Wedlake, will 'phone him tomorrow and get his Michigan address.
I couldn't stand the female who is an assistant on his platform,
as she talks excessively and loud (first thing I always notice when I return from overseas noise, moreover the place is just too damn hot), so got my books, the Brian Aherne one - A PROPER JOB, also HOT WAR ON THE CON- SUMER, by David Sandford (I saw him on the R. Cromie BOOK BEAT Monday, saw Aherne saw weeks ago on the same program), a young sometime helper of Nader, published by Pitman and New Republic, I think.
I think Nixon's dirty work along with Jedgar & Nazi Joe Mc
some years ago has had a residue of great animosity amongst the Demos, many who were moral cowards in those troublesome times. So, he'll be a bit careful, even though he's put out a few trial balloons in the sec- urity area, then pulls in his horns. The young militants and the blacks weren't helping the embattled avant garde in those days, moreover, the Niseis are working hard to have the infamous concentration camps shut shut inserted in blue ink that the Nevada Mick instigated, always with help from Jedgar.
Much as I hate to pay for smallpox inoculation (got a free one
in Brooklyn some years ago, which spoiled me, and in England the cost never runs over 2.50) I had one done today, also got my ticket on the Icelandic Airline. Saved quite a bit there, though the line only goes to Glasgow and London (Gatwick, about midway to Brighton) once a week, on Tuesday. I'll get off at Glasgow, maybe see Edinburgh, then a bit of the midlands, maybe Birmingham, the steel and coal town, perhaps Camb- ridge. This time I think I'll go by ship to Ireland, a rather tedious trip, I would judge. There are two lines with rather small ships and I judge rather punk accomodations as compared with the big ocean liners. One is British Rail, which operates quite a few ships to various foreign parts as well as Ireland, then there's British & Irish, which leaves from the North Wall - about 3/4 of a mile east of O'Connell Bridge, the former from Dun Laoghaire, the south suburb. Both go and come on an over- night schedule and appear to take about five to seven hours. While in Belfast, we wouldn't get our morning paper from London if there was a fog, not until late. London papers in Dublin come by ship, the only one, which comes to Dun Laoghaire. Nightly there were two ships going "over the water," as the Irish in Ulster say, one to Glasgow, one to Holy- head in Wales. Thanks again for the books and records. written in blue ink Mead
written in blue ink in left-hand margin P.S. underlined P.S. I leave for N.Y.City on Saturday.. Fly out of Kennedy airport Monday night.