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00100 February 27,1973
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00500 Dear Susie,
00600
00700 Well it is 5AM and I can't sleep, so I might as well
00800 write you now and send you your check. I just got a letter today
00900 from a John Miller who is in the Mathematics Department of Trinity
01000 College, Dublin. He thinks his wife is a relative of mine and says
01100 that if I am the "right" John McCarthy, the my father came from
01200 County Kerry, "married a Jewish lady from Russia", and that I
01300 should have an aunt in Boston. Since all this is true, I think I
01400 must be the right John McCarthy, and I have written him to that
01500 effect.
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01700 How do you like our new printer It can do lots of different
01800 type styles. Soon it will be able to print pictures in the same
01900 text.
02000
02100 Not too much is new here. Sarah finally completed her
02200 Heathkit radio and offers to build another Heathkit for me if I
02300 can find something I want in the Heathkit catalog. I haven't
02400 thought of anything yet.
02500
02600 Well, perhaps I'll be able to sleep now and finish the
02700 letter later. Today after my class, I am going to visit the
02800 Environmental Protection Agency office in San Francisco and
02900 find out whether they really believe their proposal for gas
03000 rationing in L.A. in 1977 is a good idea or whether they are
03100 simply going through the motions of preparing a plan that
03200 will achieve the level of air quality specified in the law.
03300 I suspect they are crazy and really believe in it. The woman
03400 I talked to on the telephone tried to persuade me to take
03500 the train to San Francisco and made a point of saying that
03600 she doesn't own a car.