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letterhead THE NEW YORKER NO. 25 WEST 43RD STREET EDITORIAL OFFICES OXFORD 5-1414 File:Silhouette of Eustace Tilley, New Yorker logo

February 5, 1954 Dear Jack,

   There's been a lot of company the last couple of weeks, then for last night I was invited to a social event at 10:30 p.m., & I'm going to a friend's piano recital tonight, & so I am rather worn out, though happy.  When I work up the strength, probably next week, I'll call Miss Weigh or otherwise seek to find "The Disinherited."
   I did not mean to imply that Wechsler meant to imply that you had led him straight to communism.  I knew your kind of proletarianism would be the best, anyway.  Wonder what you'd think of "Fire in the Ashes."  - whether it gives any real basis for good things working out in Europe.  Anyway, I felt I learned a good deal about what's