By the Grace of G-d 9th of Sivan, 5734 Brooklyn, N.Y.

Greeting and Blessing:

I was pleased to receive the material, which you were kind enough to forward to me. I must apologize, however, for the delay in my acknowledgment, due to pressure of duties, so that it is only now that I had the opportunity to peruse it.

Next, and in order to give credit where credit is due, I want to express my pleasure at the report I received about your participation in the recent event in Detroit, where your address had a very strong impact, as I am informed. No doubt you must have also received similar reactions from other quarters. At any rate, it is my pleasurable duty to express my appreciation of the encouragement to our activities in Detroit, which your words stimulated.

While on this subject, I would like to make an observation in connection with a remark which has been attributed to you during your speech, an outline of which was sent to me, in which you are purported to have asked rhetorically how does a reform Jew come to participate in such a gathering which has to do with Lubavitch work? I am sure that this remark has been misquoted, for you surely cannot be considered a reform Jew. But since the misquotations may have received some currency, you will surely register the strongest possible denial of any such idea. There is no need, of course, to elaborate to you on this.

With personal regards, and With blessing,