Letter #2 (11 September 1986) includes a brief memory of the 1986 Atlanta Worldcon attended by Greg Pickersgill on his TAFF trip:
The ConFederation was a mixed experience for me. The Marriott Marquis is an incredible Worldcon hotel – it has a 42-story-tall atrium that looks, from almost any angle, like the actual embodiment of a 1939 Frank R. Paul cover painting, the design elegant beyond any I've seen before. And it was great to see Greg Pickersgill enjoying himself with a sort of belligerent bemusement at an American convention.
Letter #14 (16 October 1986) records that "Today Dan Steffan brought Greg Pickersgill to visit me here." Alas, the prison's "new visitation area" made communication almost impossible: Ted and Greg had to catch up with a phone call next day:
I called the Steffans this morning at about 11:30, and talked with Dan and Greg for more than an hour. It was all the visit had not been. Greg and I compared opinions of the people we knew, discussed how we each feel about writing (he feels about fan writing not unlike the way I feel about pro writing – that once you reach the peak of your abilities, your ambition to write better works against you, making you impatient with the level of what you're writing and making the task of writing grim work, and no fun at all), and agreed that it was a bloody shame that it wasn't easier and cheaper to commute between the US and the U.K. "I definitely want to come back again." I told him how much I enjoy driving cross-country and really seeing the West. "Linda wanted to do that," Greg said. I urged him to plan for it for a future trip here. And we talked about Brighton. "I'm looking forward to the Worldcon," I said. "This time I'll have a much more fannish convention." "The whole situation has changed completely since 1979," Greg said. We agreed the current state of rapprochement between the fandoms of our countries was a marked improvement, both for us each, personally, and for fandom in general. It was an excellent conversation, and one I'm glad we were able to have, away from the pressures of the Worldcon and in a more relaxed mood.