a note from Dennis

"We really appreciate your considering coming down to help out the city--This city is going to need all the help it can get.

I should be back by the `15th and we should have a room for you without any trouble.

I want you to plan on coming ---and when I get back to New Orleans give me a call so I can put something aside for you---we have some repairs to do and not all the rooms are up and running as they should ---so work with me and we will see what we can do-

We of course always take care of our friends."

so that's next month. this month it's a hotel in the quarter, probably the only time in my life, I fly down on Frday it turns out. So I'll be there to walk around all day saturday and sunday, ellis marsallis is at snug harbor friday night and now I can go after all. Topsy Chapman is there on saturday night, or will i find something else? I really don't know what I'll find, but I think I still have to pack my own towels.

A P.S. (from Dennis): "If you don't mind stop by and talk with John Marshall of Mr. Paul and tell them hello--Let them know that you will be coming back in the middle of December."

I surely will.