I don't want to think you are sick, so I'm telling myself you are head-over-heels in work. And I'll bet you are. Anyway, your last letter still makes the best of reading.
I enclose a note I received from our Chairman, Dickinson. If it's a matter of recommendations from my colleagues and our President, I should receive a very, very large Fulbright grant!~
I've just heard from Mrs. Bennett that she has been reading your dissertation in microfilm, and she says it's "perfectly fascinating". She says the microfilm hurts her eyes and she can read only "30 pages an hour", but she was almost through. She comments on the "tremendous amount of work" you've done on the dissertation and how much you must have done since. What pleases me is that people who read your
dissertation are greatly impressed. Dr. Ghose read it last week. He wanted material for articles in Indian periodicals. She He will be lecturing in California this spring. I wish he could see you.
I ve just bought two sweet little high-bred Hackney mares. Both are chestnuts in color, and one has light mane and tail. She is a sweetheart - only 46 inches tall.
I tried to kiss her when she arrived today - her nose is so soft and kissable. But she put me in my place. Evidently her mama told her never never to kiss strange men! The other mare is an inch or two taller - also a chestnut, not quite so pretty, but a sweet girlie anyway. I'll raise some colts with my stallion, Lockburn Lucifer. (The little chestnut daddy sold for $8,000 in Texas!)
John
