Out of hours
Sir: Whatever gave Mr Charles Moore the idea that I am in the habit of lugging one of my three typewriters to 'a' (there is only one) public library, which has none? As well as a stack of Spectators, stationery, Tipp-Ex, etc, and all of this without a car. I do, however, enjoy a roomy apartment with two desks and eight well stocked bookcases. I own an excellent encyclo- paedia and any amount of dictionaries in a number of languages. Rice paper, as I understand the term, does not lend itself to being fed into a typewriter. It is the kind Roman missals were printed on. And Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones Peruanas. Since airmail paper seems to have gone out of fashion around here, I use copy paper. The bulkier an envelope, the greater the risk someone may think there are cheques, money orders or whatever inside. Please set the record straight.
Yours sincerely, from my own study, at 1.15 a.m. on the 22nd (library closed).
Theodora J. M. van Lottum
A. P.2355 01901 Guatemala
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