February 8, 1980 Dear Mark I just received your fine letter of January 22, along with a number of other letters, Nana writes that you are staying on with your mother, which personally is a great source of satisfaction. Before commenting on your letter (the illustrations, by the way were excellent and much to the point); Today was visitor's day, In addition to the Christian clergymen about whom I whole your mother, we had the Son of the Iman Khomeini himself. TV cameras whirling. One suspects that Today's large mail delivery was hot unrelated to it. I have written one letter to you, in which I quoted St. Paul, and received from you a letter, a much appreciated Card of Mt. Desert in the winter Time with useful (I mean that!) recommendations, and a paragraph in a joint letter of 3 of you, which commented on my TV appearance. Keep writing. It makes a big difference. Try an occasional letter to me. directly, U.S. Embassy Tehran Iran, with 31ct, postage and we'll see who gets there first. About you letter, my health indeed is good because my spirit indeed is strong. Never have I felt more it peace with myself, and my circumstances Page 2 are certainly conducive, as you suggest, To great spiritual advances., The physical limitations of where I am now simply drive one in to contemplation. There one several ways this can come out, One can be bitter about what and who got me into this predicament. I have avoided that from the first, One can spin endless scenarios about solutions to this problem. I tried that, and it gets one nowhere. Or, one can bend one's mind to the love that God has shown me in the past, and what he may let me de in future, and of ways that I can improve in order to make that possible. Love to you and to all. Keep writing, and keep after your music! M