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5 ALs (of varying number of pages) from Jimmy Pasta to his childhood friend, Henry Miller, along with a photocopied brief memoir of Miller by Pasta.

Pasta attended P.S. 85 with Miller in Brooklyn, and later got him a job at the office of the Brooklyn Park Commissioner, where he earned enough money for his passage to Paris. Pasta appeared as Tony Marella in Miller's Plexus & Nexus, and is referred to many times in Miller's notebooks of outlines for The Rosy Crucifixion. These letters were written when both men were in their eighties, with news of old acquaintances and comments on Miller's writing: "I have glanced thru Vol. 2 of 'Friends' - Henry, I think you are now beginning to show to the world the depth and warmth of your true self - your compassion and love for people and their struggles for a better and more fruitful life..."