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Faithful Florida correspondent Bob Chittim reports a call from Blanche Mclnnes in Boca Grande, where she was visiting _ a son. While she was preparing for her trip, she blacked out and was rushed to the local hospital, where she was fitted with a pacemaker. Since then she's felt better than she had in years. Bob Blanchard also has been hospitalized and then transferred to a nursing home, where Bob Chittim and Jack Fitzpatrick visited him. They didn't find out the reason for his hospitalization, but what seemed to bother him most was the plastic tray that held him in his wheelchair. Bob C. says his grip was strong and he was glad to see them.

A letter from Bill Fenton arrived while I was out on an April cruise (1998's second). The great news is that The Book is out and has received glowing comments from, Bill says, "the six people whom I expected would read it." I knew it was to be published by the University of Oklahoma Press but didn't know previously that its name is The Great Law and the Longhouse. A flyer from the publisher gives it the subtitle A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy, 800 pages, price $70, and I bet Bill can get you a discount. Bill also says that he and Don Hight are going salmon fishing "after Win Stone's picnic"

which implies good news about Win's health. And in May Bill and Nancy are going to London again, this time looking for family roots. And I'm off again as soon as I mail this, now on an 88-passenger container ship departing Houston, about July 3, after a counter-clockwise circuit of the Gulf and Caribbean, with stops scheduled in Mexico (two), Costa Rica, Colombia (probably for some cocaine), Venezuela (two), Barbados, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Then no more until I go to Hanover for the September 11-12 Leadership Weekend meetings, where I hope '30 will have a gang warming up for our 70th.

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