Dear Comrade:

Bully to hear from you again! If I have seemed less than friendly, it was only seeming. I've been soused in my work and very happy.

Tell the young lady, please, that she should not complete her thesis before July, when she could have a proof of The Song of the Messiah to study. It will appear in September. Just now I'm doing the few last lines. I'm grateful

With the old affection,

Jno.>
Neihardt Branson Mo
BRANSON JUN 5 3-PM 1935 MO.

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