Transcription:
Menlo Park, 12 April. 1914 Dear Friend, If I have shabbily failed to write, it was not thoughtlessness, but because I
wanted to write too much, and also because I've really? had little chance? to communicate. I just want you to know that I
think of you fondly every day; that I am pushing ahead in the spirit illegible the part who says that tasks in hours of insight
willed May be in hours of gloom fulfilled I have been in many ways too absorbed to write to any publisher yet have little
idea what arrangements can be made. I sometimes feel I must go back to Italy to finish this,- but that is feeling; I am making
an honest effort to get the work into printable shape. But for this unfortunate loss of some four months of my best working
time, all would have been ready by now. I am wondering how you are? How you must feel the call of the wild these glorious
days I hope you have been steadily gaining in strength. I should like to be 05735