Dear Marion,

Thank you very much for your letter and for the generosity with which you
tolerate my writing. I agree that a table of contents would be desirable,
and I intend to implement your suggestion.  It's a matter of time and of 
priorities. I would like very much to proceed with the next installment
volume 5 of Vier Freunde.  The turning point of "Doehring" (Your spelling
Doering is correct in as much as my greatgrandmother's name was Katharina
Doering) is Chapter 6 in Volume II on page 60. It's a chapter that might
interest you. You might also find Volume II, Chapter 19, page 283 worth
looking at. So far as Vier Freunde is concerned, the only part about
which I'm confident is Volume 4, - and there you might look at Chapter 7
on page 133. It's embarrassing, after having inflicted more than a thousand
pages on the reader, to admit that Vier Freunde is only now getting started. 
That, it seems to me, is a very poor prognosis.

It's comforting to be back in Konnarock. The house is getting older,
but by no means as fast as are Margaret and I. One behaves as if this life
would go on forever, but one knows it won't. In some respects, the last act
is the most difficult one to get right.

Our new acquaintance Juergen Hartmann is writing a history about the
"Oerlinghausen Synagogengemeinde" and has asked me to write "ein paar
Saetze" about my reflections about Oerlinghausen, a challenge which
becomes more daunting, the more I think about it. I don't know what
to write.

I hope that you are well and happy. Best wishes.

Jochen