Letter from John G. Neihardt to George Seymour, July 13, 1921

Yes, I'm here!

Send on the PACK together with the skeleton for the Introduction. I'll get the proofs back to you in a hurry.

Tell me truly — do you want the Poetry lecture? I was officially crowned at Lincoln on June 18th, and used the lecture as my response to the official notification speech. It really made a splash. You might issue it as the Laureate address! The whole affair was dignified and there was lots of enthusiasm. Before I left a committee from the University waited on me and asked if I would make my home in Lincoln a part of the year for a salary without duties. This last is, of course, not to be made public yet.

I hope you are just as hot and not a bit hotter than I am at this moment. However, I know where there is a crystal swimming hole with a pebble bottom and a big tree hanging over it — the sort that looks as though somebody had gotten it out of his imagination. And the road leading to it runs through a forest of walnut and hickory. It's four o'clock and my children are reminding me that it's time to go there.