6 I did not recover from the grip attack so as to be able to work as I anticipated this winter but hope for better luck
in the future. I want to thank you for and congratulate the many who have been waiting anxiously for your last book that
illegible come to them and is giving so much delight - as I hear of it on all sides in words of praise. By the way thinking
that you would be in Hollywood. 7 I left with Mrs Funk the copy of Stickeen in which you kindly wrote for me but failed
to sign your name - which of course I want; so I shall look forward to having your autograph in it some day. May ask her to
send it to you The days here are now delightful and I am very reluctant to illegible California - but want to have ten days
in Pasadena, and then spend as much time as I can with my invalid brother in Iowa City This town has just had a revolution