Wed Sep 23, 2020, 04:03 AM
Beth,
Your mission, Beth, should you choose/decide to accept it is to transcribe and translate a Slovak Nursery Rhyme. As always, should you or any of your Impossible Mission (IM) Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This email will self-destruct in five/ten seconds.
Seriously, Beth, the attached image is of the 1st page of Wanda’s letter to Becky. It is in bad shape but has more than sentimental value. In the letter, my Dad writes the words to the Slovak nursery rhyme that he and Uncle Richard sang at your house.

Once again, we (I) need your contacts in high places.
John, IV
P.S. Years ago, the television show Mission Impossible always began with a scene in which the team leader, Mr. Phelps, would receive a tape describing his next mission. The tape invariably began, “Your mission, should you choose to accept it…”