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MANSFIELD COLLEGE
OXFORD
OX1 3TA

TEL: OXFORD 48567 (KIOSK)
49175 (3 LINES)

10 February 1982

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

News of your surgery was on the BBC television this evening as I returned from the library. Immediately afterwards I began to think of your life and service, and that time made me want to write to send you best wishes.

Even more so, let me urge you to rest; your health matters to many of us. Please see this time in the hospital as one for recuperation as well as reflection on your work to come.

Now I am a bit embarrassed in having realized my directives to you. For you would never listen to someone with a credential from Yale, also a graduate student in theology at Oxford. But your work has always impressed me; enough so that this impecunious divine decided to write you out of respect.

Know that you will be in my prayers for a swift recovery, Dr. Kissinger. And I know that your sense of the world will increase in the coming days because of a greater sense of yourself as a human being through this hospital ordeal.

God's blessing upon you and your family, sir.

Via V. Veneto, 7
00187 Roma
Tel. 4158861-461354
Telex 612144 Enservi

February 18, 1982

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Massachusetts General Hospital
Fruit Street
BOSTON, Massachusetts 02114

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

I am one of the many Italian friends of yours who express to you our best wishes for a prompt and complete recovery, so that you might be back in the area of the foreign policy in this particular, difficult moment.

I take this opportunity, just for your personal information - to attach copy of a leaflet on a film on the Soncino printers, which is part of a program including the restoration of the House of the printers in Soncino.

I was born in Soncino where I still have my home and, since many years, I am associated with a group of friends from Italy, U.K and USA with the aim of developing a collection of materials on the Soncino printers.

With our best wishes

Att.