Letter from John G. Neihardt to Lucile Aly, February 25, 1963

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 infrom 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!!

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

Same as always - John