7 FINCA VIGIA,SAN FRANCISGO DE PAULA,CUBA 4 31/5/58 ‘ Dear Mr, Demastus : . I think you! are possibly mixed up on quite a few things. . then Dunabeitia told um me you had’ been .at thse door end he had told you I was busy he did not lmow that you had been invited .Dunabeitia is not a satellite of mine .He is a Basque sea captain vho had a severe heart attack a month ago and has been convalescing at our house . He fought with me in the. last var and = am very fond of him . He gges to sea again day after thuorrow . : The . younger man “fs” @ “friena. ofp mine from Venice ,fiis family are friends of mine and Mb te writing a novel. He served brilliantly acer, :iowuel’ in the, osert yes invaltded | hone and wahen Italy| ‘went in with, us he led 4 Partizan band in the north :, He 4s one of my best friends but he is no satellite . His’ father ,whd | Was an admirable man, was shot and thrown into the ‘river that ran in frort of their cinquecento villa . My father | Killed himself . We have both fought and béen wounded and comuanded Partizan troops . This makes a bond between ua even if | we were not great friends for the pleasure of our company and becatse we. both love ‘a tom named | Venice and emuntey” around it 7 oes I was “talking with Gianfranco when. you |’ came to the house but we suspended. it and: talked |, with you and when you left, we both thought you were a nico kid + - 7 \ | Ny other sateliices woffe Col. Taylor Williams - of, Sun Velley. Idaho who ,with my. wife , won the marlin tournament for biggest fish , We were ought from very early morning until sunset on Friday ,Saturday and Sunday and did not give a thought or a shit for anything else dureing these hours . You think and worry too mich about yourself and about personal and literary relations . Why not fust write ? I never Imew at what age I wrote anything . I never Iméw | - what age I was really ..I think it 4s comico but unavoidable that I should be fifty now and soon will be: fifty one . But who gives a except the undertakers and who stands | Reside | thom to profit by ones deagh except the writers that will no longer be blocked off You ean pick up- your two books of Mss, ~~ sketches and notes any time here or I will have them shipped to any permanent address you give ... Thank you _ for_letting we ‘read them and “gécd luck t . witig = goon lek fe. you n= your | Please wish me good - iuek “yourself. Yours ver traly Gusstttenarion,