Typed letter signed : [United States], to "Kyoto" [Wilbur Goldhurst], 1960 December 7.

Writing the letter from the viewpoint of a Japanese family to their son fighting in the war and praising his work in the resistance, discussing the concerns of the family, and requesting more yen; saying how glad he was to hear that Wilbur liked his book since it was written for him and others of the same mindset; comparing publishing a book to dropping it in the ocean; describing that the original title of the book was "The bad man from Bodie" [published title is "Welcome to Hard Times"]; revealing the end of the book and how it affected him; disagreeing about the thematic manipulation of characters at the end; admitting that the book had structural problems at the end that he couldn't completely resolve, but admiring the flaws; adding the next letter will be about Wilbur's book and saying "(This is to make the classifying and cataloguing of our future biographers easier, whose life, god knows, will be difficult enough)".