Just after Saul Bellow‘s death last month, his son Daniel Bellow received an empty envelope in the mail with his father’s return address on it. It was stamped “Received unsealed” and “Received without contents,” and according to a Boston Globe report by David Mehegan, “The end flap was open.” He called his step-mother Janis Bellow to find out what had been in it and learned it had contained a copy of his father’s last book: a 50th anniversary edition of The Adventures of Augie March that his father had inscribed with a final message. A spokesman for the United States Postal Service says, “It’s not a hopeless situation. The good news is that it’s a specific unique item, not something generic like a fruitcake.” Says Daniel Bellow, “It’s just a book. But I’d love to have this last token of affection. Someone, somewhere, has my father’s last written message to me.”