Dear Rabbi & Mrs Lamm, Greeting from your Anglo-Saxon friends! It's a girl!! born on 14 July כ"ד תמוז at 11:50 pm is to be names שושנה – what a relief and excellent timing. Naomi attended the final speech day and promptly afterwards at 4:30 pm we despatched her off to Wallingford Hospital. ב"ה both are well and doing fine. Hopefully I will have some time this summer to catch up on my vocational delights: fiddling, reading, writing & being with my wife & family for a שבת (what a change!?) I would like to send you some ideas on חב"ד for your forthcoming book & if you give me a few weeks I'll be writing a longer letter.May I in the interim make one suggestion. You seem to want to cover a tremendous field within the confines of one book and yet at the same time to resent the profound Hasidic ideas which will require concentrated thought and study. You mention that you don't want to adopt the anecdotal style of Buber or non existentialist/but academic approach of Schulem. If your format is to be selected passages from classical texts & commentary, won't you need to be either highly selective in what you choose or compete with the 8 vols. of שט"נמן on באר החסידות.Anyway be that as it may, I would like to write to you my favorite stories, ideas on חב"ד.The merger between junior/sen school goes ahead in September. I'll be teaching English & social studies across the board & a Rabbi Kelman (a talmid of yours?) is coming to join the staff.With fondest wishes from the Tabor trio to the Lamm sextet, I end with an observation of the previous Rebbe on the state of wester & particularly American society: He says that in America the מחלה is איך מאג, איך קען but the chassidim of old used to say:וואס מען קען זיט – קען מעין זיט אבאר זיט אלס וואס מען מאג בדארף מען טאןThose were the days ...?!כידדות עוזמיכאל תי