Bullock Family

119 N. Tasmania Pontiac 16. Mich Nov. 22^nd

Dear Mark and Family:

This letter is to wish you all a happy Holiday. How fine it is that you are near all your children! And grandchildren I should add.

I quite agree with you that "flying saucers" are much imagination now. But always such yarns precede some new investigation that really counts. Do you know that Robinson Crusoe did more to

stimulated the imagination of the English to make those early explorations more than any other single factor? I enclose a review in N. Y. Times of Keyhoe's book also a review of new book on the facts and fancies of interplanetary traveling certainly are ending lngh, in imagination, into a new universe and I like to follow it all, even if much of it is fiction. It's good to stretch one's imagination of this old planet and its warring factions.

I cannot write as you do in your last "no frost here so far," but we have enjoyed (?) only 3 or 4 light frosts so far. While the leaves are gone, -- except -- on my rose on porch and those turned yellow only last week -- the grass is still green on my lawn. We are supposed to have rain today turning to light snow tonight. But Oct, and Nov. have been very fine months so far. As you recall, of course, the deer-hunt is on

now. Last evening the radio announced that men are returning from the north disgusted, for there has been no snow to date.

You certainly were Courageous to start your journey to California years ago so late in the Autumn when out one year on a lecture trip across the country I was stalled in December over twelve hours between Leadville and Salina, Col. Our train was warm but we had no food for

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our diner was taken off to attach on the train going west. We stopped at Salina for breakfast; then went on following snow ploughs.

Under another cover -- long envelope -- I am sending you some old letters that have been packed away with Mother's things all these many years. They are from Uncles Marvin and Melvin and written in Cal. between 1853 - 69 I think. You will, I am sure, enjoy reading