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Contents<br/>1: L<br/>A: Lady Amherst to the Author. Inviting him to accept an honorary<br/>Doctorate of Letters from Marshyhope State University. An<br/>account of the history of that institution. 3<br/>B: Todd Andrews to his father. The death and funeral of Harrison<br/>Mack,jr. 12<br/>C: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner. His life since The End of the<br/>Road. The remarkable reappearance, at the Remobilization<br/>Farm, of Joseph Morgan, with an ultimatum. 18<br/>D: A. B. Cook IV to his unborn child. The origins of the Castines,<br/>Cookes,.and Burlingames. 20<br/>E: Jerome Bray to Todd Andrews. Requesting counsel in an action<br/>of plagiarism against the Author. His bibliography and<br/>biography. Enclosures to the Author, to George III, and to Todd<br/>Andrews. 27<br/>F: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly (and Lady Amherst). A de-clara-<br/>ti-on and an ex-hor-ta-ti-on. With several postscripts. 38<br/>G: The Author to the Reader. LETTERS is "now" begun. 42<br/>1: The Author to Whom It May Concern. Three concentric dreams of<br/>waking. 46<br/>N: The Author to Lady Amherst. Politely declining her invitation. 50<br/>E: The Author to Lady Amherst. A counterinvitation. 51<br/>2: E<br/>N: Lady Amherst to the Author. Rejecting his counterinvitatitm. 57<br/>0: Lady Amherst to the Author. Reconsidering. 57<br/>L: Lady Amherst to the Author. Confessing her latest love affair and<br/>the excesses of its current stage. 59<br/>D: Lady Amherst to the Author. Trouble at Marshyhope. Her early<br/>relations with several celebrated novelists. Her affair with Andre<br/>Castine, and its issue. Her marriage to Lord jeffrey Amherst. Her<br/>widowing and reduction to academic life. 69<br/>Y: Todd Andrews to the Author. Acknowledging the latter's<br/>invitation and reviewing his life since their last communication.<br/>The Tragic View of things, including the Tragic View. 80<br/>T: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner.• Progress and Advice. 97<br/>R: A. B. Cook IV to his unborn child. The history of A. B. Cooke<br/>III: Pontiac's conspiracy. 110<br/>0: A. B. Cook IV to his unborn child. The history of H. C.<br/>Burlingame IV: the first American Revolution. 126<br/>R: Jerome Bray to Todd Andrews. Reviewing Year 0 and<br/>anticipating LILYVAC If's first trial printout of the<br/>Revolutionary Novel NOTES. With an enclosure to the Author. 145<br/>W: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly and Lady Amherst. THE<br/>AMATEUR, or, A Cure for Cancer, by Arthur Morton King. 149<br/>S: The Author to Todd Andrews. Soliciting the latter's cooperation as<br/>a character in a new work of fiction. 189<br/>H: The Author to Todd Andrews. Accepting the latter's demurrer. 190<br/>1: The Author to Lady Amherst. Accepting her rejection of his<br/>counterinvitation. , 193<br/>M: The Author to Lady Amherst. Crossed in the mails. Gratefully<br/>accepting her change of mind. 193<br/>3: T<br/>T: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Third Stage of her affair with<br/>Ambrose Mensch. Her latter-day relations with Andre Castine. 197<br/>1: Lady Amherst to the Author. More trouble at Marshyhope. Her<br/>relations with the late Harrison Mack, Jr., or "George III." 206<br/>M: Lady Amherst to the Author. Three miracles in three days.<br/>Ambrose's adventures with the film company. The Fourth Stage of<br/>their affair begins. 226<br/>E: Lady Amherst to the Author. Her introduction to the Menschhaus. 239<br/>E: Lady Amherst to the Author. Not pregnant. The "prenatal" letters<br/>of A. B. Cook IV. 251<br/>S: Todd Andrews to his father. His life's recycling. Jane Mack's visit<br/>and confession. 10 R. 255<br/>1: Jacob Horner to the Author. Declining to rewalk to the end of the<br/>road. 278<br/>L: A. B. Cook IV to his unborn child. His own history to the present<br/>writing: the French Revolution, Joel Barlow in Algiers,<br/>"Consuela del Consulado," Burr's Conspiracy, Tecumseh's Indian<br/>confederacy. The Pattern. 279<br/>S: Jerome Bray to Drew Mack. LILYVAC's LEAFY ANAGRAM. 324<br/>H: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly. A reflection upon History. His<br/>defeat by the Director at Ocean City: an Unwritable Sequence.<br/> Magda celebrates a certain anniversary. 332<br/>S :The Author to Jacob Horner. The story of a story called What I<br/>Did Until the Doctor Came. 338<br/>4: T<br/>P: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Fourth Stage of her affair. She<br/>calls on A. B. Cook VI in Chautaugua. Ambrose's Perseus<br/>project, and a proposition. 345<br/>I: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Fourth Stage continues.<br/>cooperation as Filmmaking at Niagara Falls and Old Fort Erie. Dismaying<br/>encounters at the Remobilization Farm. 353<br/>S: Lady Amherst to the Author. Her conversation with "Monsieur of his Casteene." A fiasco on Chautauqua Lake. A Visit to Lily Dale,<br/>N.Y., Spiritualist Capital of America. 361<br/>T: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Marshyhope Commencement<br/>debacle, and its consequences. 376<br/>0: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Fourth Stage concludes; the<br/>Fifth begins. Magda's confession. The Gadfly fiasco reenacted:<br/>Sequence. 379<br/>E: Todd Andrews to his father. Further evidence that his life is<br/>recycling: 11 R . 394<br/>T: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner. Der Wiedertraum under way. 401<br/>L: A. B. Cook VI to the Author. Eagerly accepting the Author's<br/>invitation. The Cook/Burlingame lineage between Andrew Cook<br/>IV and himself The Wetland Canal Plot. 405<br/>E: Jerome Bray to his parents and foster parents. His betrayal by<br/>Merope Bernstein. His revenge and despair. 424<br/>1: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly. Anniversary of the bees' descent.<br/>Encounters with jacob Horner and Marsha Blank. He identifies<br/>his condition with Perseus's, and despairs. 427<br/>E: The Author to A. B. Cook VI. A request for information and an<br/>he end of the invitation to participate in the work in progress. 430<br/>5: E<br/>L: Lady Amherst to the Author. Despair at Ambrose's irifidelity. Their<br/>Fifth Stage. 435<br/>A: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Dorchester County Tercentenary<br/>and Mating-Season Sequences. Ambrose's concussion, and its<br/>cause. 437<br/>R: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Battle of Niagara. Surgery for<br/>Magda. Lady Amherst desperate. 444<br/>Y: Lady Amherst to the Author. Odd business in Buffalo. 449<br/>V: Todd Andrews to his father. His Second Dark Night of the Soul.<br/>13 R . 457<br/>I: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner. His discovery that he is in love. 473<br/>S: A. B. Cook VI to his son. The first of A. B. Cook IV's<br/>''posthumous" letters summarized: the deaths of Joel Barlow and<br/>Tecumseh. 478<br/>&: A. B. Cook VI to his son. A. B. Cook IV's second posthumous<br/>letter: Washington burned, Baltimore threatened. 494<br/>A: Jerome Bray to the Author. The Gadfly Illuminations. 525<br/>C: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly. A lull on Bloodsworth Island. 528<br/>L: The Author to Jerome Bray. Admonition and invitation. 530<br/>F: The Author to Jacob Horner. Accepting the latter's declining of<br/>his invitation of May 11 and thanking him for several<br/>contributions to the current project. 532<br/>A: The Author to A. B. Cook VI. Expressing dismay at the latter's<br/>presumption and withdrawing the invitation of june 15. 532<br/>C: The Author to Jerome Bray. Some afterthoughts on: numbers,<br/>letters, and the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimera. 534<br/>6: R<br/>N: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Sixth Stage of her affair. The<br/>Scajaquada Scuffle. 539<br/>0: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Sixth Stage continues. The Fort<br/>Erie Magazine Explosion and Second Conception scenes. 546<br/>V: Lady Amherst to the Author. Distress at Mensch's Castle. 557<br/>E: Todd Andrews to his father. 13 R, a visit from Polly Lake, a call<br/>fromjeannine. 561<br/>N: Todd Andrews to the Author. A series of 21's and an intention to<br/>bequeath. 566<br/>0: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner. His rescue of Marsha Blank from<br/>Comalot Farm, and present anxiety in her behalf. 569<br/>U: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner. His last Progress and Advice<br/>session before "Saint Joseph's" deadline. 579<br/>D: A. B. Cook VI to his son. The third posthumous letter of A. B.<br/>Cook IV: the Battle of New Orleans and Napoleon's surrender to<br/>Bellerophon. 582<br/>R: A. B. Cook VI to his son. The fourth posthumous letter of A. B.<br/>Cook IV: plans for the rescue of Napoleon from St. Helena. 607<br/>E: A. B. Cook VI to his son. The fifth and final posthumous letter of<br/>A. B. Cook IV: Napoleon "rescued." 617<br/>C: Jerome Bray to Bea Golden. Inviting her to star in the first epic of<br/>Numerature. 637<br/>H: Jerome Bray to his parents. An ultimatum. 639<br/>H: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly. His final such letter: the plan<br/> of his abandoned Perseus story, conformed to the plan of his own<br/>life. 646<br/>I : Ambrose Mensch to the Author. A left-handed letter following up<br/>a telephone call. Alphabetical instructions from one writer to<br/>another. 651<br/>T: The Author to Ambrose Mensch. Soliciting his advice and<br/>assistance in the LETTERS project. 653<br/>U: The Author to Ambrose Mensch. Replying to the latter's telephone<br/>call of the previous night. 655<br/>7: S<br/>E: Lady Amherst to the Author. Explaining her fortnight's silence.<br/>The Burning of Washington. Two more deaths and a memorial<br/>service. Preparations for the Bombardment of Fort McHenry and<br/>for her wedding. 659<br/>L: Lady Amherst to the Author. Her wedding day and night. The<br/>Dawn's Early Light sequence and the Baratarian disasters. Her vision <br/>of the Seventh Stage. 677<br/>F: Todd Andrews to his father. His last cruise on the skipjack<br/>Osborn Jones. 692<br/>I : Draft codicil to the last will and testament of Todd Andrews. 733<br/>S: Jacob Horner to Todd Andrews. The end of Der Wiedertraum. 738<br/>scenes. 546 A: A. B. Cook VI to his son. A summons to Fort McHenry and to the Second 7-Year Plan. 745<br/>M: A. B. Cook VI to his son and/or prospective grandchild. With<br/>a postscript to the Author from H. C. Burlingame VII. Each<br/>explaining A. B. Cook VI's absence from the yacht Baratarian. 750<br/>0: Jerome Bray to his grandmother. His business finished, he<br/>rsha Blank from prepares to ascend to her. 755<br/>M: Ambrose Mensch to Arthur Morton King (and Lady Amherst).<br/>and Advice Proposing marriage to Lady Amherst. She accepts. 758<br/>A: Ambrose Mensch to Whom It May Concern (in particular the<br/>ter of A. B. Author). Water message #2 received. His reply. A postscript to<br/>n's surrender to the Author. 765<br/>A: The Author to Germaine Pitt and Ambrose Mensch. An<br/>alphabetical wedding toast. 769<br/>L: The Author to the Reader. LETTERS is "now" ended. Envoi. 770<br/> |
