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00200	\C846 Lathrop Drive
00300	\CStanford, California 94305
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00600	\F0\C20 December 1974
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01400	Mr. Robert L. Ferris
01500	Attorney at Law
01600	574 Fifth Avenue
01700	New York, N.Y. 10036
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01900	Dear Mr. Ferris:
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02100	\J	Let me assume for the sake of argument that you are a \F1real
02200	lawyer\F0 and not just another output device attached to COLLECTOR'S GUILD's
02300	computer.
02400	The $44.95 that they claim I owe them is for an owl that came to
02500	me when I neglected to send the card saying I didn't want it.
02600	When the owl came, I looked at it, confirmed that I didn't want
02700	it and sent it back as my membership in COLLECTOR'S GUILD
02800	allowed me to do.  When billed for it, I returned the bill with
02900	a note saying that I had returned the owl, and after receiving
03000	a letter requesting payment, I sent yet another letter saying
03100	that I had returned it.  None of the letters that I have subsequently
03200	received from COLLECTOR'S GUILD or from you acknowledge my two
03300	letters asserting that I returned the owl.
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03500		I hope this will dispose of the matter, but I doubt that
03600	it will, since I have heard fearsome tales of the persistence of
03700	bill collecting computers.\.
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03900							Sincerely yours,
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04300							John McCarthy