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Typed Letter, signed. 11x8½". With original envelope. Signed at close 'Buk'. Includes carbon copy of Weissner's reply.

Letter to Bukowski's European agent and German translator, Carl Weissner. Bukowski thanks Weissner for the birthday gift of George Gosz's 'Ecce Homo', about the weather and smog at his home, a piece he wrote on East Hollywood, and his disdain for mass readings: "I stayed out of the mass reading in Italy after reading the list of American names. Just heard from Amsterdam, another mass-reading, same American names. I told them "no". They offered pretty good terms for a lone reading. Either i said "no" to that or I didn't respond. The poets just love to read. What does it mean?"