Letter from Thomas Gold to Dr R N Manchester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hasbrouck Laboratory, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Thanks Manchester for his leter and most interesting paper. hew agrees that the question of field structure and aprticle velocities near the light cy,linder are still a matter of debate - but not that observations rule out any model where the emission is from the vicinity of the light cylinder. 17 July 1974