TYPED LETTER, SIGNED TLS , to Stanley Perlmutter, dated 13 January 1972. One page on letter-size bond, signed Murray Leinster with Will F. Jenkins typed below

by Wil Jenkins

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

Reply to a request from Mr. Perlmutter for science fiction reading recommendations. Jenkins begs off, pointing out that the problem is too much, not too little, to recommend. He suggests the anthologies of Croff Conklin as a good starting place. Replying to the correspondent's mention of his own 1951 anthology GREAT STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION , he points out that, although he was the editor, I didn't pick that title for a book that had two of my stories in it. The publishers christened it,

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