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in pencil in top margin Onah? [ 16 Jan 1963 O. Spencer] Dear Jack:

     How are you & family?  Well, I do hope.  Looks like it will be March before I am on my feet & perculating again.  Have a variety of notes & clippings on subjects saved to insert in letters to you, but they are at my house & looks like a couple weeks yet before I leave my sister's place where I am at present.  Result, I'm short on underlined:  brilliant subjects to discuss.
    Read Nelson's "Walk on the Wild Side," & liked it a lot.  Missed the movie which I wanted to see for comparison as I imagine it was hoked beyond recognition.  Yet I thought they did a pretty good, in fact excellent job on "Man With Golden Arm"   My favorite of all I've read by Nelson is still "The Face on the Barroom Floor."  Fact is, in my opinion, it is one of the greatest short stories of all time.
   As I mentioned in last letter been too busy with family affairs going to work & stopping too often at taverns to catch up with reading.  However, at no time did I neglect making copious notes on my book & other shorter pieces.  Result, I have besides the book a number of 

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