This issue of the literary journal Prose includes M.F.K. Fisher's piece "Notes On A Necessary Pact", in which Fisher gives her thoughts on the importance of witnessing death and dying. Reprinted in Bitches & Sad Ladies, ed. Pat Rotter. NY: Harper 1975. Also printed in Fisher's 1983 book Sister Age. In a February 19, 1972 letter to Arnold Gingrich (reprinted in Fisher's posthumous volume of letters titled A Life in Letters), she wrote "Today . . . I organize a thing for Prose, which I think I told you about . . . an odd-ball publication, beautifully printed by a zany young billionaire."