It was good to hear from you again. Thank you for your nice comments concerning Neihardt Day. I wish you could be present sometime.
I know you must enjoy being in your childhood home, but I am sorry that you are having trouble finding someone to assist with the "chores". I am wondering why you are in your childhood home if you have retired from teaching. It would interest me to know.
You say you wish that I would publish the first part of my autobiography. I have decided not to do that because my biographey, by Dr. Lucile Aly of the University of Oregon, is scheduled for publication in 1970, and this should come out before my autobiography does. However, you will be interested in knowing that I am writing steadily and am very happy with the results I have been getting. I am now in the year 1898. The autobiography, as you know, is not a chronological record of events but rather a chain of recollections that seem to have special human meaning.
That is a good one about the Turkish farmers and the holes in the sky. It reminds me of the gardener who complained about Daylight Savings Time on the grounds that it caused his tomatoes to burn up because it gave them too much sunlight. Or how's this one——which also appeared in the newspaper——a woman actually wrote in the Letters to the Editor, back in the days when manned space flights were first seriously under consideration: "Why don't they stay home and watch television as God intended them to do?"
My grandchildren are all fine. The one who named her doll "Grace Seiler"——little Lynn——was married last summer and is happily living in California. Or was it Erika? She too is married and lives in St. Charles, Missouri.
Thanks again for your letter. I hope you have a good winter.
