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Free Acres, Scotch Plains, N.J.

Dear Dr. Williams--

It is many years since I met you,
and a lot of blood has certainly flowed in the moat since.
Hope you are just as well and hard-working as ever. I have
settled in this part of Jersey--this is our third summer,
and we like it much.

Am also the father of two kids--one nearly four, the other seven months. The reason I am writing is this: I remembered you had Puerto Rican blood in your bxxx background. I spent a month there quite recently, wrote a series of articles for the Daily Worker on the trip. Also, I brought back a 14-year old orphan boy, Miguel Angel Villa-Lobos by name.

Small for his age, probably under nourishment, quick, and bright, good ball player and swimmer, never went beyond sixth grade, however, and is picking up English fast. Years of irregular life and bumming have left traces on his temperament. Any one with patience and time could iron them out, educate the lad, and give him a better chance than any hewill ever get in PR--this was the reason I brought him up--now we find it will be too much of a job--my wife has her hands full with the two small children--and with the political situation as it is, we even feel the financial pinch about an extra mouth to feed--worst of all, is temperament however--he has got on my wife's nerves!

We shall probably have to ship him home--but I wondered maybe if someone else here might want him--and thought of you among others--if you are at all interested, o drop in sometime and look matters