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in pencil in top margin Peggy Werkley

October 9, 1977 Dear Jack -

    I am delighted to hear about your wonderful honor, and certainly no one deserve it more than you do.  I am glad to know that the Missouri Library Association showed such good judgment.  This should spur you on with the autobiography.
    Incidentally I have an idea for a picture for your book jacket.  If you do leave the autobiography a boyhood account, or largely so, what about using a young boy photograph?  I think this would be different - maybe it has been done before, I don't know.  But Dr. E. had a darling photograph of himself at about age three sitting holding a book and I alway [sic] told him underlined:  that was the photograph I