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pencilled annotation in top margin Dunlap, Frank [1978]

Hi Jack,

  How you doing?  I'm still in this world.   Hope you are too so we may more readily communicate.  I'm in a fine little cabin back in the redwoods doing the bachelor thing and trying to finish underlined:  Miss Amerika which I've been at 5 years.  Maybe by June.  I did a novella called underlined: the Wave about this area and it's come back from Doubleday and Knopf.  No 4 bucks to send it out again, but by and by.
  I'm returning this interview I've had for a couple years.  I thot [sic] I'd lost it.  Sorry about that, but happy to find it.
  I got a horse in Montana last year and rode him across Idaho to Baker, Oregon where I broke my wrist.  Maybe ride him on down here in summer.  Penrod finished his novel and it bounces around publishers now.  We aren't talking still.  Willie gets his snits.  Perrill lives here up the mountain and is finishing a novel.
 What's with your writing and other activities?  The autobiog?  You in OK health?  What's with Algren?
  Do you have an agent now?  Any clues on where to send a novel?
  The weather is wet but warm out here.  Beautiful place.
  Let me hear your voice, oh Sage, if you're still ramblin' around.  And all the best to you,

Frank Dunlop