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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 19, November 1941

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12 FOURTH ANNIVERSARY
[drawing of three figures, the middle and tallest one is a woman with a jutting chin saying "RAIL-LEE! You MUST come to LOS ANGELES in 1942 for the science fiction World Convention! Plenty of room for everyone! I'll meet you at the station -- RAIL - LEE I will!" The rightmost figure is much smaller man holding a cigar saying "I hope we get furnished with hot and cold running chamber-maids! Anyway - this PACIFICON sounds good! I'll be there with belles on!" The leftmost figure is a little monster with no arms and a curled neck labeled "MASCOT" saying "ME TOO!!" drawing is signed "R. B."]
[Somoswoth?] via "Del Monte", Kangaroo Pt Rd, Sylvania, NSW, Australia: "I am once again back in hospital. Exactly one year ago I was here (Sep 30), in the same ward, with the same nurses, and hating it with the same ferocity. But on to stfnal matters. My comments on Aug VOM and autres. In the Denvention bundle I liked the Denventioneer the best. This was closely followed by the 'Odd Jno' VOM and the Denvention LE ZOMBIE ESSmith's speech was a peach.... Ryt's sheet was a waste of stencils and paper.... the printed booklet was super-doopa.... the hairy men ("e.-t.") failed to impress.... Starlite was spoilt by its rottenly put-together back pg. The first (mighty) STARLIGHT, however, was A-1. As to the latest VOM (Aug)--well: the Denvernews was interesting and the British Broadcast reminiscent of the Denvventioneer VOM British Edition. And speaking of British Editions, if any Yanks want these unique reprints of Astounding and Unknown for their collections, I will trade them for current American prozines -- especially FFM, Weird Tales and any of Marguelies' mags. Say: what happened to 'Strange Stories?' (Discontinued 41 Feb) '' John Cunningham has gotten himself a lot of publicity with his WAR RELIEF scheme yet here am I--a stf starved fan--and no mags arriving. ~~~ As a matter of fact 4e you forgot to put any stamps on the Denvention bundle and I had to pay 4/6 (about a $) customs fine. Watch that in future." (Kara Vol: I don't noe what the diablo hapnd but it positively is unso! The pkg woudntve left the local P.O. without proper postage--I noe from pastrouble.)

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12 FOURTH ANNIVERSARY [drawing of three figures, the middle and tallest one is a woman with a jutting chin saying "RAIL-LEE! You MUST come to LOS ANGELES in 1942 for the science fiction World Convention! Plenty of room for everyone! I'll meet you at the station -- RAIL - LEE I will!" The rightmost figure is much smaller man holding a cigar saying "I hope we get furnished with hot and cold running chamber-maids! Anyway - this PACIFICON sounds good! I'll be there with belles on!" The leftmost figure is a little monster with no arms and a curled neck labeled "MASCOT" saying "ME TOO!!" drawing is signed "R. B."] [Somoswoth?] via "Del Monte", Kangaroo Pt Rd, Sylvania, NSW, Australia: "I am once again back in hospital. Exactly one year ago I was here (Sep 30), in the same ward, with the same nurses, and hating it with the same ferocity. But on to stfnal matters. My comments on Aug VOM and autres. In the Denvention bundle I liked the Denventioneer the best. This was closely followed by the 'Odd Jno' VOM and the Denvention LE ZOMBIE ESSmith's speech was a peach.... Ryt's sheet was a waste of stencils and paper.... the printed booklet was super-doopa.... the hairy men ("e.-t.") failed to impress.... Starlite was spoilt by its rottenly put-together back pg. The first (mighty) STARLIGHT, however, was A-1. As to the latest VOM (Aug)--well: the Denvernews was interesting and the British Broadcast reminiscent of the Denvventioneer VOM British Edition. And speaking of British Editions, if any Yanks want these unique reprints of Astounding and Unknown for their collections, I will trade them for current American prozines -- especially FFM, Weird Tales and any of Marguelies' mags. Say: what happened to 'Strange Stories?' (Discontinued 41 Feb) '' John Cunningham has gotten himself a lot of publicity with his WAR RELIEF scheme yet here am I--a stf starved fan--and no mags arriving. ~~~ As a matter of fact 4e you forgot to put any stamps on the Denvention bundle and I had to pay 4/6 (about a $) customs fine. Watch that in future." (Kara Vol: I don't noe what the diablo hapnd but it positively is unso! The pkg woudntve left the local P.O. without proper postage--I noe from pastrouble.)