Typed letter signed : Rio de Janeiro, to Wes [Wesley Wehr], 1966 Dec. 18.

Describing the difficulties of the last few months, noting that Lota's illness caused them to cut short their vacation and that she is currently in the hospital. Also discussing a set of minerals she is sending and regretting that it is now illegal to send fossil fish out of the country, but noting she will try to arrange for a friend to hand-carry a specimen to New York. Remarking that she notices "a depressing Brazilian tendency these days to tell me that Pound is their favorite poet (even if they can barely read English). This I believe is one of the subtler forms of anti-Americanism, and I never ran into it until quite recently here..."