"Written report submitted by John Kings relating to certain reactions he and Tessa Dalton had to problems growing out of Chapters IX through XII. This was sent by mail to Erskine, with a carbon to Nadia Orapchuck. I did not wish to see the report, since I was then working overtime on the final chapters; long ago I learned that it was fatal to allow such outside criticism to intrude before the base manuscript was finished, so I refused to read this one. At such times I want comments from nobody, not even Erskine, and will accept none, for it is too dangerous. However, Erskine and Nadia did digest the report, did find many good things in it, and did later make recommendations which appealed to me, too, and which I did incorporate in the rewriting of these chapters. I would judge that the comments were sound and that they improved the quality of this part of the story. Others of the ideas seemed quite irrelevant to my grand design and were properly discarded."