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in pencil in top margin Rogers, John C. Jack oboy oboy:

    Wrote to Judy, promptly at your suggestion.  Didn't hear nothin' - poor fellow, I'm afraid something serious has happened - he was always a happy-go-lucky cheerful sort of fellow - can't imagine him with something like CANCER to plague him.  Called the last phone number I had - no answer.  205-438-4805 -- got him one time at that number.  Judy and Murrell Edmunds - Edmunds wrote me that he seldom goes out - sits in his room and contemplates I suppose, like an ancient ?stoic?.  I couldn't figure out his last book, underlined:  Reservoir - not the ending no way - no way.  Guess old Murrell was trying to tell us SOMETHING, but it somehow failed.  Murrell has a lot on the ball - I'm sorry for him the book did not come across stronger.  You can see the same thing in Alexandria - only the black-white couples go about it quite openly - with what results I am afraid to guess.
   How's the wife.  Better I  hope.
   How am I?  Just hanging in there.
   Yep, the ole FOOLKILLER got a big staff, but not much git up and go.  A good magazine tho', once hit gits out.

Yrs, Jack II