I hear you never saw Shaw s garden in St. Louis. He gave the city more than 5 millions and 40 years of work.- It is will ordains
an annual Banquet to cost 1000. illegible As I knew him more familiarly than most I am to speak May 19 on a toast to his memory.
My hope is to have a genial time. Yet my purpose was on first getting home never more to emerge from my hermitage. Still een?
in the ashes live the wonted fires who knows what I may do? If I ever travel again I will see more of California. and were
out my welcome with you. Nothing south of New Almaden have I seen. Two years ago I would have lingered there but could not
have believed I had started to gridle the globe till the Pacific rolled behind me.- Why dont you come and see us? Tell me
of your house hold Where will you be through the summer? No dweller on my street has dwelt here so long as I but I try to
keep in touch with the new comers.-with the young and hopeful I would feel so too. Yrs James D. Butler. 01571