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Joe Kennedy
84 Baker Ave.
Dover, N. J.
Dear Lee,
Lovely issue, Lovely duplication. The whole mag is reminiscent of the better issues of Cosmic Dust in format --- and orchids to those little Thurberish male-versus-female cartoons scattered throughout the pages. Material is still light-weight, but maybe that's good in these days when so many rival fan journals seem to be adopting pompous, dead-serious slants. Got a kick out of "How To Waterproof Your Fanzine" --- and how about a sequel on how to make prozines fireproof or something? The possibilities are endless ... It's good to see a veteran contributor like de la Ree present. "Lights ... Camera ..." reveals a fondness for the word "hell" I hadn't known I possessed. "Thru Charleston with Gun and Typewriter" is the most curiously restrained fan travelog I ever read, probably. It reads like Hemmingway or something ((Ghod)) --- at least the last part of it. I like the little pics you sprinkle thru the letter section. Cute. Good issue.
Best regards,
[JoKe]
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Gerry de la Ree
277 Howland Ave.
River Edge, N. J.
Dear Lee,
QUANDRY #4 in yesterday. You're getting there, chum; mag is improving with each issue. Your format is now quite readable and the illustrations pretty good. I don't like Phillips' pics, however. Try to keep your editorial a little more organized instead of sticking pieces of it in all over the place. Letter section interesting. Keep 'em Coming.
Sincerely,
[Gerry]
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Bobby Pope
SW Hill & Hanover Sts
Charleston, S. C.
Dear Lee,
Received this here thing, QUANDRY it sez on the cover, today and read it. I've seen better publications by Fiction House, when there's a Bradbury concerned ... By far the best ish yet!
Editorial -- good! Lights Camera -- Okey-dokey. The Jaundiced Eye -- Oh well, such things will slip by. ... RRP's pic - What do you think!!?? More From Me -- anudder editorial yet> Phantasy of the Night -- Good! How to Waterproof your Fmz -- Pretty good. Let's have more of them articles! Bohea -- Vurry good. And such is The Kingdom -- Pretty good. Pres. M. B. -- So? What does that make her, left handed? Thry Charleston With G & T --- Ha Ha Ha, that's a good one. ..... Our Spacesuit Built For Two -- Oke. Art on 17 -- Shlpendid. They -- good'nuff. Sez You -- Hummmmmmm. Ads -- I intend to write RRP 'bout some pics .....
I'll send along some kind of material soon's I scrape the time to work on it. With fall migration on I've been as busy as a tufted titmouse trying to keep up with the changes ... MY HEART KNOWS WHAT THE CANADA GOOSE KNOWS .....
By-yi for knoww ....
[Bobby Pope]
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Tom Covington
315 Dawson St.
Wilmington, N. C.
Dear Editor,
I enjoyed the "light-and-crazy-vein" of your fanzine very much. I can't especially say that I like it, but it was a swell change from the general seriousness found in most fanzines today. I have a feeling that it could become very monotonous if one read more than a few fanzines possessing it but just one is okay. Keep it up.
You, as an editor, are perfectly prepared to give your zine the aforementioned quality. Without your illustrations the stories would be "out of place" and without the light-sided material you print, the illustrations would be lost. If you can get better material QUANDRY should go places.
QUANDRY four was a definite improvement over the third issue of your zine. I can't figure out what was good about most of the material with the exception of Kennedy's article which was interesting, but it was enjoyable. ((There's a law against that??)) Maybe I liked it because it was well-written. Who knows?
Sincerely
[Tom Covington]
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J. T. Oliver
712 32 St
Columbus, Ga
Dear Lee,
Your fanzine is a neat thing, Lee. I like those little cartoons and illustrations you sprinkle thru the mag. I don't like the full page pics, tho. The contents were interesting and well-written but most of it was too short. Fragments are a bit disconcerting: they get you interested and then stop. Letter section was interesting. Reminds me of an old fashioned fanzine, somehow. I assume all that unsigned work was done by you, right? How come you don't sign it? If you'll get some longer articles and some interesting fiction, you'll be okay. You've got the most legible mimeo'd job I've seen.
So long,
[Jay]
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Gilbert Cochrun
Route 3 Box 51
Claremore, Okla.
Dear Lee,
The queenly lady on page 17 seated herself in my mind and I knew that she was the goddess who has conducted me in visions through the lowest rooms under the floors of the world's deepest prisons. She has the power of engress and egress through the world's mightiest doors behind which are the world's heaviest criminals. She is the goddess of the overseers of prisons. I think that is why the picture in the upper right of the page shows Lee's mother leading him away from danger. T'sh, t'sh, some are no doubt surprised. Perhaps one did not know that beauty commands madness and if one does know also that beauty commands oneself.
I note this M. Baxter ... I wonder if she has noted those spiraling little flashing objects that bauche in a screw-like motion into one's magical charms. They come from a prison Head Screw's riding crop or cane. Hm-m- this would learn some one how to change one's luck.
Happy magic to the patrons and readers of Quandry,
Sincerely,
[Gilbert Cochrun]
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Hector S. Torrie
1414 E. North 36th St
Savannah, Ga.
Dear Lee;
Hic! Isha good zhine ... Reel purty. I mean the colored paper and the little folks running in and out. Invite tham back, will ya?
Hurry up on the next ish.
Yours,
[Heck]
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Vernon McCain
c/o Western Union
Ashland, Oregon
Dear Lee,
Thanks muchly for the sample copy of QUANDRY. Enclosed you'll find one buck for a sub ((Ah, an intelligent lad!))
Your zine is an intriguing thing. It has a definite personality and .... what's the word I want? Puckishness, maybe. Anyway I like.
How did you manage to revive Joe Kennedy? I thought he'd turned into a VAMPIRE long ago. The stuff in your zine and his article in the last SPACEWARP were the first I'd heard of the lad in over a year. I have fond memories of JoKe since he was riding high in the letter columns about six years ago when I first became a steady reader of stf and long before I entered fandom myself.
Your art-work is quite good for a mimeoed job.
Oh yes, I liked the edt. comments, both written and drawn.
Yerz
[Vernon L. McCain]
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Shelby Vick
Box 493
Lynn Haven, Fla.
Dear Lee --
QUANDRY is a nice little zine and -- tho they don't have a gosh-darned thing to do with s-f -- I think your little 'characters' running thru the pages are a very enlightening element.
However only one thing places QUANDRY above any good, average fanzine -- that's the fact that it comes from Savannah which is in Georgia which -- and now we come to the important part -- is in the South. If I wasn't so dawgonned lazy I'd even try to put a zine out muhself ...
Nawthin' -- other than yer sketches -- was particularly outstanding but (more important) neither did anything in the issue strike me as below the level. The whole thing was definitely good enough for me to want to see more 'n' more, however.
Luck!
[Shelby]
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Ed Noble, Jr.
Box 49
Girard, Pa.
Br'er Lee, greetings ---
Glad you like EXP --- Quandry (I spelled it right despite the awful tendency to do otherwise) ((bless you)) arrived along with your card and I may reciprocate the compliments by sayin' it's a nice lookin' job --- I like the little characters wandering here 'n' there about its pages -- you are doing them, yes? ((uh huh))
They remind me of Thurber, and Thurber is superb at times.
S-Fictionally,
[Ed]
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Neil Wood
Route 2
Corsicana, Texas
Dear Lee,
Quandry I like very much. Please keep featuring these coves. "Lights ... Camera ..." was a pretty good article but doesn't the author consider TV as the next medium with Buck Rodgers and Captain Video already cluttering up the place? How To Waterproof Your Fanzine" was the most interesting article in the zine. This should increase fanzine circulation for now mermaids can subscribe.
[Neil Wood]
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Alfred Lane
Dear Lee,
Still improving. You need a few meaty items for the backbone of the zine. An article and a story or two, of decent length plus a regular column or two. Steady or semi-steady. You;ve made a start towards this I see. Hmmmm, I may dig out some old fanzines toward a sub.
JoKe's little item was a nice bit of speculation. Johnny Blyer's bit was neat. I doubt muchly if it'll be tried very much, though, if at all. And why not institute a regular feature of presenting autobiogs of your contributors? Should prove interesting. Especially to us older fans who don't know too many of the younger, newer group now coming to the fore. Your experience visiting Bobby Pope was interesting. I've had an experience or two like this myself. This "Hoff" is a pretty good artist. "They" could have been developed more. The letter section is an up and coming readers' column. A column such as this sure helps a zine ... if it's good. I might add that those lil peepul all thru the mag are very enhancing to the general tone and format of the zine.
Yours,
[Alfred Lane]
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William Rotsler
Route 1 Box 638
Camarillo, Calif.
Editor, QUANDRY
As a member of that GLORIOUS organization (devoted to literate self-expression and dog-copulation) I have not needed to subscribe to fanzines ... and yours will not break my rule. Had a coupla funny things in it tho, notably the tiny cartoons & two titles (but not the story: SPACESUIT BUILT FOR TWO and "How To Waterproof Your Fanzine." Another funny thing - one which kept me in a "Quandry" - was the nonmention of who the hell the editor and publisher are/ I think it is Walt Kessel, but in case you aren't Kessel you better put your name in the next one.
[William Rotsler]
((The pic accompanying this letter is by Rotsler ... and we swear we ain't Kessel))
Data entry by Judy Bemis
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