Letter from Rueben H. Nelson to John G. Neihardt, January 1, 1971
How Kola! — It is too long since I have greeted you. A letter has been on my mind & your address on my work table since October. Surgery for myself & three deaths in the family have delayed me. Even now there is not time for the type of letter I would prefer to send, but, I can not let the holiday season
SALOON
1920
for I know that you have so very much to "remember". Also, I suppose your propensity for "living" every day "now" tends to slow up the completion of the books (I should say books & for I understand it is running to two volumes at least)At long last — Leonard Jennewein's daughter has completed a through survey of her fathers notes and tapes and has reported to me — unfortunately the result as far as
we are concerned is negativeSo, we ^still do not know what he wanted to tell me about the printings and Murthly Castle in Scotland (you may recall I sent you pictures of the paintings — which were taken by Jennewin — they appear to be Miller's painted for Sir Wm Durmond Stewart)
Two more Neihardt's added to my library — at last "When the Tree Flowered"; also "The Splendid Wayfaring"