Dear Felix,

Ben Kaplan recommended me for a job with the American Jewish Congress under Will Maslow. Maslow would like a further recommendation from you. His request was for a Law Review man which I am not and I suppose he wants reassurance that I have been guilty neither of rape nor sodomy in spite of that fatal defect. I am quite interested in the work, although I have several other interesting possibilities. It is very hard to choose.

I hope that everyone is well at home and would like to see you all again very much. Perhaps my fiancée and I might come down to Washington before the end of June.

You don't know my work, Felix, which makes this something of an imposition. I've done a great deal of written work of a more or less analytical nature; when I didn't make Review, I went ahead on my own and did my own research. I won two prizes with it, published an article, and had another essay on Latin-American commercial law used in Soia Men-tschikoff's course on Advanced Commercial Law. I'm a very energetic guy and I suspect that that is a good part of whatever success one pursues.

Thanks a lot if you can do anything.