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in margin: 434 58 April 26/05 Dear James Davie Butler: With all my heart I congratulate you on your 90 long happy whirls
through the starry heavens, all of them serene beautiful like the stars themselves. How well you have borne the burden of
joy grief, heat cold of your 90 year day, in the midst of it all going again again round the world like a moon. Surely few
lives have been happier than yours, always doing some good, radiating smile-beams through dark light, steadfast true like
a tree in all sorts of weather fortune. Happy man Good luck to you for the remaining yrs for the yearless life beyond. Ever
your faithful scholar admirer friend in margin: over