Luck chain letter. "Luck by mail" type with list of names. US, 1967.

   THE COPY OF THIS LETTER CAME FROM THE NETHERLANDS. THE
LUCK OF THIS HAS BEEN AROUND THE WORLD FOUR TIMES.  THE ONE
WHO BREAKS THE CHAIN WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.

   DON'T BREAK THE CHAIN

   DON'T KEEP THIS LETTER: DON'T SEND MONEY.  PLEASE COPY
THIS LETTER AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS (SIC.) FOUR DAYS FROM NOW.
SEND THIS ONE AND FOUR OTHERS TO THOSE YOU WISH GOOD LUCK
TO.  CHARLTEN HESTON RECEIVED $60,000 ONLY TO LOSE IT AFTER
BREAKING THE CHAIN.  YOU ARE TO RECEIVE GOOD LUCK FOUR DAYS
FROM NOW.  THIS IS NO JOKE.  YOU WILL RECEIVE IT IN THE MAIL.

   PUT YOUR NAME AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS LIST, LEAVING THE TOP
ONE OFF

ALAN ROSENBLAT
ALVIN FLORES
MAYNARD FRANK WOLF
ANDREW SIMPSON
HENRY STEINER
BILL ANDREWS
CHUCK HOEPPNER
GEORGE MCGUIRE
RICHARD J. POWELL
NICHOLAS FINTZELBERG

Typed on Berkshire Cotton Fiber Erasable Bond watermarked paper. Keystrokes preserved.  "Charlten Heston" may be a corruption of "General Austen" from le1954u. Sic "(SIC. )", "Charlten". Collected by William Hansen at Berkeley from late 1966 to early 1967 (according to WFH and NF). Close to versions of 1954.

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