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PLEASE EXCUSE YELLOW PAPER HAVE RUN OUT OF WHITE AT THE MOMENT.

PARK LANE APARTMENTS
202 CHESTNUT STREET
ROCHESTER N.Y. 1965
APRIL 8 1965

DEAR VERN:

HAVE JUST FINISHED A LETTER TO KEITH WIESLEY TELLING HIM WHAT A DOLL YOU ARE. WHEN I THINK OF WHERE YOU WERE WHEN YOU WROTE TO ME AND ALL THE EXCITEMENT THAT MUST HAVE BEEN ATTENDENT [[ATTENDANT]] TO THE OCCASION IT IS HARD TO REALIZE THAT YOU WERE THOUGHFUL [[THOUGHTFUL]] ENOUGH TO REMEMBER ME AND WRITE AT THAT TIME. IT IS SOMETHING I WILL NEVER FORGET AND I AM MOST GRATEFUL TO YOU.

INCIDENTALLY, I HAVE BEEN OFFERED $50.00 FOR THE GENINI [[GEMINI]] COVER BY A COLLECTOR, BUT HAVEN'T THE SLIGHTEST INTENTION OF SELLING IT. IN FACT LATER, MUCH LATTER [[LATER]] PROBABLY, I AM GOING TO ASK YOU IF I MAY USE IT AND YOUR NOTE FOR THE FINISH OF THE SCRIPT. WHICH WOULD BE A BEAUTIFUL ENDING TO THE BOOK AND WOULD BE A SORT OF HISTORY OF AVIATION FROM THE BEGINNING UP TO THE PRESENT.

IN THESE DAYS WHEN NINE OUT OF TEN PEOPLE WHO THINK NOTHING OF THEIR WORD OR BROKEN PROMISES, I SALUTE YOU AS A SCHOLAR AND A GENTLEMAN. A RARE BREED THESE DAYS.