Title: Correspondence 1970 Category: Fan/General
Written: 1970 Pages: 1,810
Description:
Part 1 - Primarily fan correspondence, with friends and un-agented business sprinkled throughout.. Roughly alpha by name in sort order, A through C. Highlights include: Poul Anderson, Robert Bloch, Chesley Bonestell, Arthur C. Clarke. High concentration of "get well" and health queries after peritonitis scare early in the year.Wedding invitation from John Campbell re his daughter Leslyn's (named for RAH's second wife) upcoming nuptials.
Part 2 - Primarily fan correspondence, with friends and un-agented business sprinkled throughout..Roughly alpha by name in sort order, D through G. High concentration of "get well" and health queries after peritonitis scare early in the year. Highlights include: Avram Davidson, Sprague and Catherine de Camp, Phillip Jose Farmer, UPI report of alleged "Stranger in a Strange Land" tie to Charles Manson at pg 332. "Communique of the International Science Fiction Symposium" Japan, 1970, signed by a list of notables in the field, pp470-477
Part 3 - Primarily fan correspondence, with friends and un-agented business sprinkled throughout.. Roughly alpha by name in sort order, G through J. Heinlein extended family members tend to be sorted as 'H' even for Lermer, Bacchus, etc. Highlights include: James Gunn,Philip Jose Farmer, Letter from "Aunt Kathy" passing on a letter from the White House regarding Ray Heinlein's invitation to attend a reunion of Bates County, Missouri veterans of the Spanish-American War in 1899.
Part 4 - Primarily fan correspondence, with friends and un-agented business sprinkled throughout.. Roughly alpha by name in sort order, J through M. Highlights include:Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane), RAH dissecting a story he agreed to read/critique for an amatuer at pp940-943.
Part 5 - Various dates primarily in 1970. Pp1200-1500 Primarily fan correspondence. Roughly alpha by name in sort order, M through S. Highlights include: Alan Nourse, Jerry Pournelle, Fred Pohl, George Pal, Frank Robinson fan mail in serial at pp 1457-1466.
Part 6 - Primarily fan correspondence, with friends and un-agented business sprinkled throughout.. Roughly alpha by name in sort order, S through Z. Highlights include: Robert Silverberg. Exchange with USMC fan acknowledging an error in Glory Road and the use of literary license in not attributing a famous quote in Starship Troopers, pp1788-1789