29 March 1941

Dearling:

For your check, my thanks, my special thanks because I
am writing this letter to you from Michael Reese Hospi-
tal where I am being served by a staff of physicians.

I came here because I smoked too much and drank too much
and talked too much, in consequence of which I had a sore
throat. I came to the hospital to have my throat sprayed
and now find that I have gout, incipient diabetes,
incipient paresis, incipient paralysis and incipient
leprosy.

I can't promise to do very much with the next issue of
the magazine, but I will put it where people will see it.
After all, the Fortean Society is a sort of extravagance
at the expense of common sense and too many of our
customers, alas, don't want to be extravagant in that way.
But I do promise to sell an enormous number of copies of
MONA LISA. Is it all right for me to offer to provide
personally inscribed copies?

Tiffany Thayer, Esq
Box 129, Grand Central Annex
New York, N. Y.

mha