Bless your heart! It was dear of you to tease the lecture committee in my favor, and it will be very good to look forward to a meeting in the Fall! Do you know Bliss Carman's poem? - "The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry of bugles going by!" It will be like that after frost, for I seem to remember that you have
a lot of hard maples. I wrote you the other day just before your letter came. Tomorrow we begin the new semester. I'll have at least 160 in my Epic America course. The largest class thus far. I'm beginning my 13th year —! Where did the time go, I wonder? What's the meaning
John Neihardt