p.

Dear Miss Bates

Thank you for your
letter and for the Christmas
compliment. Your brother
is an able poet, and I am
always glad to see anything that
he does. - I fancy that
the enclosed is the alcoholic
stupidity to which your
friend referred. Please accept
my best wishes for the New
Year.

Yours sincerely

E. A. Robinson

December 25, 1920

[vertically in right margin]
For some reason or other the [script?] hasn't come
but probably it will in a day or two. If it
doesn't, perhaps I'll be generous enough to let you
copy it again. But don't do so until you hear
from me.