EDNOTE. Beautiful image. Must refer to one of those business envelopes with  a squashed oval  transparent pane over th name of  the addressee. An image that will probably be a great mystery to VN readers in 2050.

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Subject:	Re: quote of the day? nashla
Date:	Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:55:25 -0800
From:	Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To:	"D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>

The check comes forward in the smiling envelope.

'An Evening of Russian Poetry,' first published in 1945 in The New Yorker.