• Title: Letter from John G. Neihardt to Lucile Aly, February 25, 1963
  • Date: February 25, 1963
  • Author(s): Neihardt, John Gneisenau, 1881-1973
  • Recipient: Aly, Lucile Folse, 1913-
  • TEI XML: nei.j4c.39.22-24.xml
No final word from Fullbright. I fear I may get the grant!
Feb. 25, 63
Dear Lucile:

You wanted to know about my plans for the summer with a view to our getting together for work on the MS. Isn't that the idea? Well, I've just told the Secretary of the Alumni Congress of the U of Neb. that I'm free to meet with them and do lyrics on June 6th. Then Stanley and I had planned a trip around the Indian Wars country, but that could be in late summer. We haven't made definite plans. He says he is going to visit me here for a day or two soon, so that we may work out a campaign, including a lecture tour of Nebraska in from Sep. to December.

So tell me how things stand with you and what the present stage of the biography MS is; and what you think we should do.

I'm pretty much in the dark and you are the only one who can enlighten me. ( I shudder to think of having to read another letter from you sometime (I don't either!), but I can do it if I must (You bet I can, can't I?)

I'm taking a part in a TV skit because a nice graduate student asked me pretty please, and I can't say no. The little play "opens" Tuesday (and also closes.)

Someone gave me this stationery and I don't know who. It came from Denver.

Lassie and I have just finished raising a family of four pups!!

They are all lovely children, and already have jobs with nice families.

I do too like you, but you don't like me. (You do too, don't you?)

Same as always
-
John
JOHN G. NEIHARDT
SKYRIM FARM
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI
Route 7
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COLUMBIA, MO. FEB 25 2-PM 1963 NEW HOPE FOR H[EARTS?] SUPPORT THE HEART F[UND?]

8¢ U.S. AIR MAIL

Dr. Lucile Aly, 1138 22nd Ave., East Eugene, Oregon.