Dear Marion,

Thank you for your letter. Unless your plans change, I
will meet you at Logan Airport at 11:00 a.m. on Monday,
July 25, when you arrive on Sun Country flight SY 251.
Getting off the plane, retrieving your luggage, taking
it from Terminal C to Terminal E and depositing it with
Air France will probably take the better part of an hour.
Since you should check in with Air France two hours
before the scheduled departure, you would presumably
have three to three and a half hours between planes.
I will bring the car, and hypothetically we could drive
to Belmont, forty-five minutes away, - but much longer
if there is heavy traffic. I would think it wiser to stay
at the airport, so as not to miss your flight to France, -
but will do whatever you wish.

The letter in which I mentioned my preference for driving
and my dislike of contemporary air travel is on the Konnarock
computer. I neglected to copy it and can't review what I wrote.
"Humiliation" is perhaps not the best term to describe my
feelings. I don't like to wait in lines, to be directed where
to go, to be told I mustn't get up from my seat. I don't like
crowds and the close confinement with strangers which air
travel entails. I have a proclivity to claustrophobia, which
I can control, but which makes me uncomfortable nonetheless.
Driving my own car, by contrast, I find exhilarating. I much
prefer ten hours on the highway to one hour crammed into an
airplane.

Your account of compulsive conventionality in Japan I read as
a reminder that the integrity of spirit, the intellectual 
honesty which is the ideal of Western culture, although in
many respects betrayed, should not be taken for granted
but recognized as the monumental achievement of the confluence
of Judaism, Christianity and Hellenic culture.

As for the medical records, it would seem best to me, if you
would take possession of them and let me make copies on your
return from France. However, if you decide to have them
sent to me, U.S. Mail is probably better than fax, which in
my experience is sometimes illegible. However, I have a fax
machine which I connect on prior notice. The number is
617-489-1043. When a fax is to be sent, I must be instructed
by telephone to turn on the machine.

Jochen