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IMAGINATION! #12 38 Sep
without any inducement other than the prize of being included in the anniversary number... in the meantine i'm anxoius to know how much article in the last "Madge" was received. Pleasure rush me August number."

RICHARD WILSON JR drops a line (facsimile follows) in lieu of a signature to "Compositors, Imagination!"
from the Science Fiction       News Letter, — 86-10 117 St; Richmond Hill/NY: 
"Greetings!   All apologies to Nancy Featherstone for my graoning table. If she will
express it to me I shall do my best to ship to her in its place a kitchen, dining-room,  multiplication or whatever other sort of table she prefers.   Just so long as it isn't a table d'hote.    (My exaggeration, however, did have two G's in it.) 

Wahy Out West is in top form again, thanks be.   Pogo's biography was interesting, as were Lowndes' paragraph and Louis Kuslan's wish-fulfillment article 'Tempus Certainly
Does Fugit!' (at least it should have been left so) was a little gem.   'Dead Reckoning' was a bit too gruesome (or growsome), tho the cut illustrating it was a masterpiece.   ~~  To think that a magazine of science-fiction should sink so low as to incorporate a graphology 'expert' in its pages!   Imagine an astrology department in Astounding!   Horriblehorriblehorrible.   ~~   * 'Ether Series' are dull... I sympathized with T. Bruce Yerke's indignation in 'Dreamland'.   Does this make me a Michelist? I liked 'Way Down South on Broadway' as I do all peeps into goings-on at LASFL meetings.  A loud hussah, or something not SO old-fashioned, for the six pages of comment,   Enclosed are 3¢ in stamps for the Shroyorejection..."

MADGE is happy to hear from that Goofy Gal "Trudy":
"Don't print my address, but if someone wants to write
to me, tell 'em to send whatever info they have or want, to me in c/o WT, Chi." she PS's to a lengthy letter which we had to halve, much as we regret:   Dear, dear Madge!   Just hadda dig out the old typer and let you know how very, very much I liked your mag,   —  It seems the July issue brot out dubble columns, steda full page print - hum - for m'own opinion, I prefer the double column, reading is easier - mebbe my eye alignment isn't just what is
should be,------and then, horrorrrrrrs of horrrrrors, I find a misspelled word in Way Out West - kindly tell BussHodjkns that the word is "accede" and not "acceed".   (Haha,!  One on you too: "Worrud" aint speld that way but wurde--we think.. .now I've got us wor'd!)   Peculiarly, I like the cockeyed paragraffing, although it will
probably take months n months to do it m'self.   Ah, me, - slaves to convention, we
are. (Speak for yourseIf, Trudy]   —Madge) Hoo, wot, won, ware and wy is WOW, which pops up too mysteriously often in this issue,   (Way Out West)   ~~  Voll, hollo, Chas Hornig - long time no hear about- Tempus fidgets no more than I when friend Boss Mac decides to take an hour to dictate two memoranda - '1933 - I'm not the office boy, I'm the eddytor*   tusk tusk, as the walrus said, what is this worruld coming tu with
all theso infant prodigies..,   ~~  Hoboi hobol did I laff at Dead Reckoning by A. Ghoul...   ~~   come the vox poepuls - Friend Hornig and FJA got a liberal panning from most of the readers - why? - further  perusal, proves that the eddy torial staff goes in for the same thing as Coblentz - I'll betcha like puns and coffee for breakfas' - (it's stale, but so are the puns).   ~~  Why not a back cover to Madge - would you and you and you attire yourself in garments that covered just the front of you?  (Now none o' that back talk!)


ROBERTUCKER twice: "Upon being awakened from my easy
slumbers this cockerow, did find your welcome presence upon my humble stoop, and ever the daily eye-opener of tomato juice and brandy did digest your august (pun) self.
I did not find your cover as eye-appealing as the July visit, altho the taste of
color you have is to be commended. On the inside front cover I find the announcement of the Birthday party, therefore find enclosed a contribution to make it livelier. I prefer the type of contents page as you had in the July issue.   ~~ But, upon turning to contents page — ugh!'   I did find that you have resorted to tho previous method dropped double columns. Am distinctly not in favor of this, tho if it affords you less work and more words, as you claim, will abide with it. *W-O-W' is positively

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IMAGINATION! #12 38 Sep without any inducement other than the prize of being included in the anniversary number... in the meantine i'm anxoius to know how much article in the last "Madge" was received. Pleasure rush me August number." RICHARD WILSON JR drops a line (facsimile follows) in lieu of a signature to "Compositors, Imagination!" from the Science Fiction News Letter, — 86-10 117 St; Richmond Hill/NY: "Greetings! All apologies to Nancy Featherstone for my graoning table. If she will express it to me I shall do my best to ship to her in its place a kitchen, dining-room, multiplication or whatever other sort of table she prefers. Just so long as it isn't a table d'hote. (My exaggeration, however, did have two G's in it.) Wahy Out West is in top form again, thanks be. Pogo's biography was interesting, as were Lowndes' paragraph and Louis Kuslan's wish-fulfillment article 'Tempus Certainly Does Fugit!' (at least it should have been left so) was a little gem. 'Dead Reckoning' was a bit too gruesome (or growsome), tho the cut illustrating it was a masterpiece. ~~ To think that a magazine of science-fiction should sink so low as to incorporate a graphology 'expert' in its pages! Imagine an astrology department in Astounding! Horriblehorriblehorrible. ~~ * 'Ether Series' are dull... I sympathized with T. Bruce Yerke's indignation in 'Dreamland'. Does this make me a Michelist? I liked 'Way Down South on Broadway' as I do all peeps into goings-on at LASFL meetings. A loud hussah, or something not SO old-fashioned, for the six pages of comment, Enclosed are 3¢ in stamps for the Shroyorejection..." MADGE is happy to hear from that Goofy Gal "Trudy": "Don't print my address, but if someone wants to write to me, tell 'em to send whatever info they have or want, to me in c/o WT, Chi." she PS's to a lengthy letter which we had to halve, much as we regret: Dear, dear Madge! Just hadda dig out the old typer and let you know how very, very much I liked your mag, — It seems the July issue brot out dubble columns, steda full page print - hum - for m'own opinion, I prefer the double column, reading is easier - mebbe my eye alignment isn't just what is should be,------and then, horrorrrrrrs of horrrrrors, I find a misspelled word in Way Out West - kindly tell BussHodjkns that the word is "accede" and not "acceed". (Haha,! One on you too: "Worrud" aint speld that way but wurde--we think.. .now I've got us wor'd!) Peculiarly, I like the cockeyed paragraffing, although it will probably take months n months to do it m'self. Ah, me, - slaves to convention, we are. (Speak for yourseIf, Trudy] —Madge) Hoo, wot, won, ware and wy is WOW, which pops up too mysteriously often in this issue, (Way Out West) ~~ Voll, hollo, Chas Hornig - long time no hear about- Tempus fidgets no more than I when friend Boss Mac decides to take an hour to dictate two memoranda - '1933 - I'm not the office boy, I'm the eddytor* tusk tusk, as the walrus said, what is this worruld coming tu with all theso infant prodigies.., ~~ Hoboi hobol did I laff at Dead Reckoning by A. Ghoul... ~~ come the vox poepuls - Friend Hornig and FJA got a liberal panning from most of the readers - why? - further perusal, proves that the eddy torial staff goes in for the same thing as Coblentz - I'll betcha like puns and coffee for breakfas' - (it's stale, but so are the puns). ~~ Why not a back cover to Madge - would you and you and you attire yourself in garments that covered just the front of you? (Now none o' that back talk!) ROBERTUCKER twice: "Upon being awakened from my easy slumbers this cockerow, did find your welcome presence upon my humble stoop, and ever the daily eye-opener of tomato juice and brandy did digest your august (pun) self. I did not find your cover as eye-appealing as the July visit, altho the taste of color you have is to be commended. On the inside front cover I find the announcement of the Birthday party, therefore find enclosed a contribution to make it livelier. I prefer the type of contents page as you had in the July issue. ~~ But, upon turning to contents page — ugh!' I did find that you have resorted to tho previous method dropped double columns. Am distinctly not in favor of this, tho if it affords you less work and more words, as you claim, will abide with it. *W-O-W' is positively