Letter from John G. Neihardt to Slade Kendrick, February 14, 1964

It was so good to hear from you again! I'm not sure that I owed you a letter, but I have an uneasy feeling about it. At any rate, your friendship is dear to me, and I always have a happy feeling when I see your handwriting on an envelope.

I'm sorry that Sandy Gray did not write you. He is a hopeless correspondent, and sometimes months go by before he answers a letter from me. Yet he is a dear fellow, loyal too. I do want him to get in touch with you and I've jogged him a bit. I think you'll hear fairly soon. I was up there making video recordings for the University of S. D. in November. We recorded for three days. Sandy didn't say a thing

My TV [prog?] course, The Twilight of the Sioux is going beautifully, both on Instructional circuit on open circuit. Really, Slade, it is a rich and very interesting series. I know it would hold any audience anywhere, and I sometimes feel it's a pity that the series should be limited to Missouri. (To think of the poor stuff that is broadcast night and day!)

My traumatic pleurisy does make me very shortwinded if I do anything much in the way of physical effort; but I'm better ( [I?] I like to think) and I want to renew the Fulbright business this spring.