p.

810 Washington Avenue
December 30, 1920

Dear Miss Bates

I received the [?],
yesterday and had good reason that
you should have gone to all that
trouble in packing them. I should
have told you to fold them for an
ordinary envelope. Many thanks
all the same. One of these
days, before long, you will receive
a book as a slight return for
all the copying you did for me
last summer.

May you have a happy
New Year, and find your way
to Peterborough.

Yours always sincerely,

E.A. Robinson

[written vertically in right margin:]
Please be sure that I appreciate the honor
of being favored.