I knew about the hurricane in Portland and on the coast. Also, I read, or heard, that Eugene had some damage,but I did not know you were hit so hard. I supposed the Coast Range would protect you a great deal.
I feel almost as tho' there had been a funeral — to think of those two lovely, lordly trees going!! I can hardly believe it. And the noble pines on the campus! It's a tragedy, but with no apparent meaning. I am so sorry. (I've petted those trees in your yard.)
It's a matter for rejoicing that the House of Happiness didn't get smashed. Those trees could have wrecked your roof.
Of course, in a few years, it will be as tho' nothing bad had happened in your yard. Few will remember
I'm thinking of what a spectacle that strange, savage coast must have presented with such a wind pulling up the sea! My god! It must have been terrific!!
I'm excited too about your adventures in the worl my world of 1912 and 1913 in Minneapolis; What days! One baby and another coming soon. Everything doubtful! I felt so vurl vulnerable, and it seemed my best might not be
good enough! (Laughter) If I had only known! But I was receiving a big, big salary for the time and place, and I feared to lose it.
Of course you know my work at sight, and you don't need a by-line. Do keep on looking in the Sunday edition, sacred editorial page,
I have never read Francis Grierson, al altho' I've know his name and felt
I should read him for years & years. I wonder if he was writing as early as my Poetic Values. Strangely enough, just after I received your letter, I looked at a copy of the Midwest Review published by Wayne State College, and there I saw (but did not read) an article about Grierson! Queer coincidence —
or was it so?
Yes, dear lady, dear friend, the pattern does work out. We'll all be in the other world within a century certainly, and something good will be left. So it's all right, isn't it.
Mrs. Winkleman has had a bad time with the hospital. An operation and fairly slow recovery at work. She wants to write you.
I don't like you or Bower or Stewart or Perky — do I?
John.
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