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Oakland, June 8 -'86 Dear friend John, It is mroe than kind for you to remember me, and I appreciate it fully, sending
you a thank you for every separate and in- dividual cherry. I would have acknowledged sooner, but was in the mixed -up- a-tive-ness
of getting Hen- ry off in the countr. (he had been very sick again,) and then had a thousand things at home and in the library
to see to, at once. This is my first free moment before 10 P.M. o'nights, at which time, or by which time, I haven't 01232