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Chicago, October 2, '73 my phone: 539-3046 2409 Warner is 3 short blocks from Western and Irving Pk. Rd.

Dear Jack:
 Though I returned last Thursday, I've felt more lethargic than usual (takes me 2 days to re-acclimate), so am tardy in writing, as I'm sorta

swamped by mail and other matters.

 No talk of shortages while in England, where I ate more meat than I've eaten here in recent months. Prices high on almost everything, auguring

more strikes in future. A "V-A-T" tax added on to nearly everything, meaning 10% extra, the delight of hotels, etc. This is the value added tax, another euphemistic invention by those who gave us "redundant" for unemployment, "retail price maintenance" for price-fixing, etc.

 I had the job of herding my daughter and granddaughter over a great deal of England, meaning considerable responsibility for "booking ahead"

for hotels. We were in Brighton, London, (saw the Queen twice one day at B'ham palace, and I'm all choked-up about it, as Jack E. Leonard - he came from the Humboldt Park area where we once lived, - used to say) Mersey and Colchester in Essex, where my wife's father came from, also Cambridge, and of course, Kent. We ate a meal at underlined: Bloom's, the well-known