Swordpoint: [Excerpt of letter thanking editors for new zine, with commentary after by Bee Bowman]

[page 10] JOHN CLOSSON 179 E. Houston St., New York, N.Y. 10002 ...Your fanzine idea ought to go over OK, and I wish you luck. I will try to do a plate for you, though as yet I have not thought it out. . . .Keep me posted, and when the plate is done, I will send it along./Just a brief quote from John's letter is given here, to give you HOOM readers something to anticipate. His informative discussions of the language for ENTMOOT are surely remembered and missed by fen who like to dabble in Tengwar and Certar. As Frank stated in his opening editorial, we hope to include something about the languages from time to time, but as all the staff of HOOM are rank amateurs at this, we shall have to depend on the experts. (If I could write the English language as beautifully as John, though, I don't know if I'd bother with Elvish!)