14 East 95th St.

December 2, 1955

DO YOU MEAN TO SIT THERE AND TELL ME YOU'VE BEEN PUBLISHING THESE MAMMOTH CATALOGUES ALL THESE YEARS AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU EVER BOTHERED TO SEND ME ONE! THOU VARLET?

New York City

I shall be obliged if you will send Nora and the girls to church every Sunday for the next month to pray for the continued health and strength of the messrs. Gilliam, Reese, Snider, Campanella, Robinson, Hodges, Furillo, Podres, Newcombe And Labine, collectively known as The Brooklyn Dodgers. If they lose this World Series I shall Do Myself In and then where will you be?

As it happens, the only thing which MIGHT interest me is the CatulIus, it's not the Loeb Classics but it sounds like it'll do. If you still have it, mail it and I'll send you the -6s 2d as soon as you translate it, Kay and Brian moved to the suburbs and left me without a translator.

Regards to Megan if she's still there. And what's become of Cecily, is she back from Iraq?

Don't remember which restoration playwright called everybody a Varlet, I always wanted to use it in a sentence.

Have you got De Tocqueville's Journey to America? Somebody borrowed mine and never gave it back. Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

h. h.