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10-20-53 Dear Jack

   I'm enjoying underlined:  Midland Humor immensely.  Now I know where Dogpatch talk comes from, from A. Ward, I say.  I put thru' a transfer of my subscription to the underlined: New Yorker - for you, but it probably didn't take, as I still got a copy the other day.  So I'm putting it thru' again.
   Nobody is madder than I am about those cocktail-party pics.  They have never arrived, & I am about to send a 3rd & underlined:  cool reminder.
   My new apt. has charms & a certain cozy hidden quality, caused by its large window giving out on W. 47th St - where I can see & hear the world passing until dawn but they cant see, or hear me, nearly as well.   I am just high enough, 3rd floor, & by great luck there is no obstruction between my window (at the rear of W. 48th street) & that next street back.  There is just a small tho' vociferous parking lot.
    It sounds almost as if you were thinking of coming to N.Y.  Could be?