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Chicago Nov. 2, 1967 ℅ Old Town School of Folk Music 333 W. North Ave, Chicago 60610

Dear Jack

     First let me apologize for not showing  up at your luncheon last spring.  I wan't showing up anywhere at the time -- in fact I was out of circulation for three months but, what the Hell here I am again half full of Piss and Vinegar.
    Dan Russell asks about you as does Bill Wedlake, Paul Romaine, Studs, Dawn Greening and others in which I join.  How are you?
    I took dinner with the Terkels last evening and they are their usual selves -- Ida still mounting the barricades in Peace Vigils and demonstrations (she was at the Pentagon of course), and Studs his usual ebullient self.  Studs' play re-written for the umpteenth time will be presented by the University of Michigan Drama Dept. next month.  With the success of "Division Street USA" he is much sought after and seems to be thriving on  it.  WFMT has been bought by -- hold your breath -- WGN Inc. but everyone is assured by the new management that there will be no change in policy, Honest injun!
   Norm Luboff and I finally finished our cantata "Freedom Country" about Gov. Edward Coles and the anti-slavery struggle in early Illinois 1823-24, and it is now at the printers.  It will be performed many times during the Illinois SesquiCentennial.  The first performance is scheduled at Northwestern U. on Feb 14th.