Letters

E: The Author to A. B. Cook VI.A request for information and an invitation to participate in the work in progress.

5: E

L: Lady Amherst to the Author.Despair at Ambrose’s infidelity. Their Fifth Stage.

A: Lady Amherst to the Author.The Dorchester County Tercentenary and Mating-Season Sequences. Ambrose’s concussion, and its cause.

R: Lady Amherst to the Author.The Battle of Niagara. Surgery for Magda. Lady Amherst desperate.

Y: Lady Amherst to the Author.

Odd business in Buffalo.

V: Todd Andrews to his father.His Second Dark Night of the Soul. 13 R.

I: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner.His discovery that he is in love.

S: A. B. Cook VI to his son.The first of A. B. Cook IV’s “posthumous” letters summarized: the deaths of Joel Barlow and Tecumseh.

&: A. B. Cook VI to his son.A. B. Cook IV’s second posthumous letter: Washington burned, Baltimore threatened.

A: Jerome Bray to the Author.The Gadfly Illuminations.

C: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly.A lull on Bloodsworth Island.

L: The Author to Jerome Bray.Admonition and invitation.

F: The Author to Jacob Horner.Accepting the latter’s declining of his invitation of May 11 and thanking him for several contributions to the current project.

A: The Author to A. B. Cook VI.Expressing dismay at the latter’s presumption and withdrawing the invitation of June 15.

C: The Author to Jerome Bray.Some afterthoughts on numbers, letters, and the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimera.

6: R

N: Lady Amherst to the Author.The Sixth Stage of her affair. The Scajaquada Scuffle.

O: Lady Amherst to the Author.The Sixth Stage continues. The Fort Erie Magazine Explosion and Second Conception scenes.

V: Lady Amherst to the Author.Distress at Mensch’s Castle.

E: Todd Andrews to his father.13 R, a visit from Polly Lake, a call from Jeannine.

N: Todd Andrews to the Author.A series of 21’s and an intention to bequeath.

O: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner.

His rescue of Marsha Blank from Comalot Farm, and present anxiety in her behalf.

U: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner.His last Progress and Advice session before “Saint Joseph’s” deadline.

D: A. B. Cook VI to his son.The third posthumous letter of A. B. Cook IV: the Battle of New Orleans and Napoleon’s surrender to Bellerophon.

R: A. B. Cook VI to his son.The fourth posthumous letter of A. B. Cook IV: plans for the rescue of Napoleon from St. Helena.

E: A. B. Cook VI to his son.The fifth and final posthumous letter of A. B. Cook IV: Napoleon “rescued.”

C: Jerome Bray to Bea Golden.Inviting her to star in the first epic of Numerature.

H: Jerome Bray to his parents.An ultimatum.