MAY 8   RECD

RFD 2 Middletown Connecticut May 6, 1948

Miss Mary E. Ray, Secretary Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists 118 Nassau Street Princeton, New Jersey

Dear Miss Ray:

   Thank you for your letter of May 1 in reply to mine of April 23.   It is unfortunate that my rather exasperated telegram crossed your letter,  but that is the way things happen. 

   A day before your letter arrived I received from the Committee a new leaflet or flyer entitled "A Policy for Survival".   Since this included the original six points,  and since it brought the political situation up to date,  it seemed more suitable to our purposes at this point in our humanities course.   Mr. Arthur Squires,  who is going to talk to us on May 13,  is now relying on our students being familiar with this article;   hence my second telegram to you,  today,  asking for 125 copies of "A Policy for Survival".   I hope you can get the material off to us.   If copies of the other leaflets arrive too,  you may be sure they will be distributed. 

   A very nice letter today from Miss Holcomb in New York clears up the other unanswered letter to which I rather sourly alluded in the telegram.   I take it that I should address correspondence concerning speakers and literature to her in the future. 

   I do not believe that contributions of money would be easy to obtain from our students,  and I do not feel it would be considered appropriate by my superiors if I used the occasion of the lecture  or subsequent discussions for soliciting,  but you may be sure that I shall distribute every last scrap of paper you send me.   Then things will take their course,  aided I am sure by Mr. Squires' speech. 

                    Thanking you for your cooperation,  I am, 

                           Sincerely yours,
                            John Parke