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\F1\COct 2,1978









Dear Peter:

\JYes, Peter, my request for an advance \F5is\F1 a favor, but my God,
you have a very short memory!  Remember January 1977 when your company
was to perform an "experiment" with my book? 
Your company was to do the conversion to typeset output.
Whatever happened to Bob Graham?
Remember the date April 15, 1977? It was then that I was to 
 have the first copy-edited material back from your company? I
got it in June and it was lousey. I remember  six months of 4am mornings 
styling, editing, formatting, and finally punching tapes for your company.
I remember the frustration of trying to get straight answers out of Holmes
Typography. 
After that kind of crap I expected more from you than "ok this
time, but don't make it a habit, 'cause we're not a savings and loan."

Among other things which I remember, I also remember our correspondence
about publishing costs. McGraw-Hill  was to donate the difference 
between actual costs
and traditional costs to Stanford AI, Stanford Computer Science Library, and
the Frank Fuller Memorial Scholarship at San Jose Mathematics Dept. Do you
still plan to do so? 

Also, I have been giving my personal copies to professional colleagues
since the distribution is still losing. Dr. John McCarthy of Stanford,
and Dr. Patrick Greussay of the University of Paris
received copies from me. They are either teaching or will be teaching
LISP courses. I wouldn't mind  receiving  replacement copies. 

Finally, to end this "mad letter" (we both need lessons in tactful letter writing!)
I am officially requesting that my HP affiliation be removed for the next run of
dust jackets.
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Yours sincerely,



John R. Allen

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