Autograph Letter Signed, 1 page, square 4to, July 17, 1960, to painter Fran Herndon, a friend of both Duncan's and Jess', about visiting plans, "I'd talked to Jack and suggested this coming week-end for you to come out to visit; but the plans have altered. I hadn't set it with Jess, and Robin and Don Allen are coming that weekend. We can't manage more than one round of friends a weekend" and commenting upon work in-hand: "If Jess should be in the thick of collaging - as he is this weekend, we can go to the beach, pickwick style. This week I can hardly get him to come to table. I'm trying to root out angel-lore, still stalking around and around the 'material' for the book, or trying the water apprehensively: with no courage to commit a paragraph.

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• As New
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• Fine (F)
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• Near Fine (NrFine or NF)
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• Very Good (VG)
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• Good (G or Gd.)
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• Fair
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• Poor (P)
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