T: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner. Der Wiedertraum under way.
L: A. B. Cook VI to the Author. Eagerly accepting the Author’s invitation. The Cook/Burlingame lineage between Andrew Cook IV and himself. The Welland Canal Plot.
E: Jerome Bray to his parents and foster parents. His betrayal by Merope Bernstein. His revenge and despair.
I: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly. Anniversary of the bees’ descent. Encounters with Jacob Horner and Marsha Blank. He identifies his condition with Perseus’s, and despairs.
E: The Author to A. B. Cook VI. A request for information and an invitation to participate in the work in progress.
5: E
L: Lady Amherst to the Author. Despair at Ambrose’s infidelity. Their Fifth Stage.
A: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Dorchester County Tercentenary and Mating-Season Sequences. Ambrose’s concussion, and its cause.
R: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Battle of Niagara. Surgery for Magda. Lady Amherst desperate.
Y: Lady Amherst to the Author. Odd business in Buffalo.
V: Todd Andrews to his father. His Second Dark Night of the Soul. 13 R.
I: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner. His discovery that he is in love.
S: A. B. Cook VI to his son. The first of A. B. Cook IV’s “posthumous” letters summarized: the deaths of Joel Barlow and Tecumseh.
&: A. B. Cook VI to his son. A. B. Cook IV’s second posthumous letter: Washington burned, Baltimore threatened.
A: Jerome Bray to the Author.The Gadfly Illuminations.
C: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly. A lull on Bloodsworth Island.
L: The Author to Jerome Bray. Admonition and invitation.
F: The Author to Jacob Horner. Accepting the latter’s declining of his invitation of May 11 and thanking him for several contributions to the current project.
A: The Author to A. B. Cook VI.Expressing dismay at the latter’s presumption and withdrawing the invitation of June 15.
C: The Author to Jerome Bray. Some afterthoughts on numbers, letters, and the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimera.
6: R
N: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Sixth Stage of her affair. The Scajaquada Scuffle.
O: Lady Amherst to the Author. The Sixth Stage continues. The Fort Erie Magazine Explosion and Second Conception scenes.
V: Lady Amherst to the Author. Distress at Mensch’s Castle.
E: Todd Andrews to his father. 13 R, a visit from Polly Lake, a call from Jeannine.
N: Todd Andrews to the Author. A series of 21’s and an intention to bequeath.
O: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner. His rescue of Marsha Blank from Comalot Farm, and present anxiety in her behalf.
U: Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner. His last Progress and Advice session before “Saint Joseph’s” deadline.
D: A. B. Cook VI to his son.The third posthumous letter of A. B. Cook IV: the Battle of New Orleans and Napoleon’s surrender to Bellerophon.
R: A. B. Cook VI to his son. The fourth posthumous letter of A. B. Cook IV: plans for the rescue of Napoleon from St. Helena.
E: A. B. Cook VI to his son. The fifth and final posthumous letter of A. B. Cook IV: Napoleon “rescued.”
C: Jerome Bray to Bea Golden. Inviting her to star in the first epic of Numerature.
H: Jerome Bray to his parents. An ultimatum.
H: Ambrose Mensch to Yours Truly. His final such letter: the plan of his abandoned Perseus story, conformed to the plan of his own life.
I: Ambrose Mensch to the Author. A left-handed letter following up a telephone call. Alphabetical instructions from one writer to another.
T: The Author to Ambrose Mensch.Soliciting his advice and assistance in the LETTERS project.
U: The Author to Ambrose Mensch. Replying to the latter’s telephone call of the previous night.
7: S
E: Lady Amherst to the Author. Explaining her fortnight’s silence. The Burning of Washington. Two more deaths and a memorial service. Preparations for the Bombardment of Fort McHenry and for her wedding.
L: Lady Amherst to the Author. Her wedding day and night. The Dawn’s Early Light sequence and the Baratarian disasters. Her vision of the Seventh Stage.
F: Todd Andrews to his father.His last cruise on the skipjack Osborn Jones.
I: Draft codicil to the last will and testament of Todd Andrews.
S: Jacob Horner to Todd Andrews.The end of Der Wiedertraum.
A: A. B. Cook VI to his son. A summons to Fort McHenry and to the Second 7-Year Plan.
M: A. B. Cook VI to his son and/or prospective grandchild.With a postscript to the Author from H. C. Burlingame VII. Each explaining A. B. Cook VI’s absence from the yacht Baratarian.
O: Jerome Bray to his grandmother. His business finished, he prepares to ascend to her.
M: Ambrose Mensch to Arthur Morton King (and Lady Amherst). Proposing marriage to Lady Amherst. She accepts.
A: Ambrose Mensch to Whom It May Concern (in particular the Author). Water message #2 received. His reply. A postscript to the Author.