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The Mentor
a penal press publication

box 100, south walpole, massachusetts 02071

edward m. mellow, editor

March 26, 1966

Doctor Miriam Van Waters
14 Clark Street
Framingham, Mass.

CENSORED
March 29 1966
Correspondence
Dept
M.C.I. Walpole

Dear Doctor,

Hopefully this letter will reach you before you
receive the March issue of the Mentor. While poring through
my unanswered letters (which I have been joyfully answering
for the better part of this day) I noticed yours and remem-
bered that I owe you an apology.

Here is what happened: The editorial which had
been written for the March issue was "shot down", and at a
late date. So it was decided to use some letters to fill the
space in order to meet our deadline. In a rush I was bould en-
ough to presume that you wouldn't mind if we used part of your
letter. I hope that my being so presumptuous does not offend
you. In any even I apologize for not requesting your permiss-
ion to repring that portion of your letter that I did publish.

The offer I made, to send anyone you might wish
Mentors, in the editorial note would now be a pleasure to per-
form. A sort of pentinence for my impudence and the extension
of the olive branch.

Very sincerely yours,
Ed Mello [signature]