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3/7/37

Dear Russell

It was a great privilege to see you. My thanks are due
your institution for making it possible under quarantine conditions.

It is useless to say I regret the shortness of our visit it
was not because I was in a hurry, but Mrs. William F. Hummer,
who is over sevently had driven out with me in the car. She is not
well and it would not have been good for her to wait
longer. She, like Clarence Darrow, has spent her long life
in service of others.

Short as out visit was it brought me great satisfaction.
Our letters are like our talk. I did not feel strage at all.
Of course you have grown up. And it seems to me you have
done a good job of it. No high school boy
seems to me to have as much sense as you. You
have been shut away from so many things people
think worth while but you have gained your
own soul, so to speak. Perhaps it is the hard
knocks you have taken. They destroy many that
thay, or else something in you yourself, have
developed your character. I feel that I was talking
to an old friends, which of course you are.
Many would have grown better: you keep
your interseted in everything.

I shall try to come more often. I
would have came before but I had not
the money. The Women;s Club I was invited to speak
to paid my expenses.

That speech went pretty well.
Immediately afterward I left by air plane for
Cleveland, My sister [Beckic] has 3 children.
The toungest I had not seen since she was
3 mons old. She is a real person.