Obtained FH's address from Professor Teodoro Vives. Comments that FH has the nickname 'Enfant Terrible' in the academic community because of his 'theories and great mental agility'. Asks if FH has won the Nobel Prize; thinks that his work on stellar nucleosynthesis deserves it. Praises FH dedication to teaching science. Comments on the communication of scientific ideas in FH's science fiction novels, especially in The black cloud. Asks about 'Bok's Cloud', and about research into electronic neural nets. Asks for contact information for Edmund Cooper and James Blish.
Typescript letter, signed, from José Maria da Fonseca, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, to FH
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