15-3-1996

Dear Bill,

I received your letter N 1 dated 3-3-1996. OK regarding the answers contained. If you have problems for the France visa, it is possible to obtain it here in Italy, because we need other visas for a tour I am organising (a surprise) and we must go in Milano for this problem.

Regarding the Government assistance I send you my best wishes!!! The interest about fowls is a cultural, archaeological, aesthetical and biological item, and so on. But, frequently, the fowl is only that bird in the supermarket ready to be cooked.

Now, a big disaster: I have accidentally erased in the computer the file of my correspondence with you. Impossible to recover, nor other copy in the other computer. The fact is very easy to happen: it’s possible to select a group of files to erase, all together. Some days ago, after the last letter I sent you, the replay letter, I erased all the backup files in the correspondence’s subdirectory to have a faster copy on the tape. I selected all the backup file, but it happens that if you are pointed on a file not backup, this file becomes enclosed and erased. Have you understood all these pleasures of our electronic time?

In synthesis: you must collect all my correspondence on paper and bring to Italy. Using the scanner and by hand I will rebuild the file. I hope you have again all my letters! YOU ARE MY LAST HOPE.

I am awaiting for the letter N 2.