I'm sure you will forgive my delay in acknowledging your kind letter, offering to permit me to be even more closely allied to the Clan Campbell than I have been in the past, and the receipt of the book, both of which I have greatly enjoyed.

My mother has been ill at our house fro nearly a year and passed to rest on July 2nd, so that we have had our hands full. She would have been 75 in October, a ripe old age, and she was afflicted with a cancer of the throat which prevented her taking anything except fluids, we were quite ready to see her go and only thankful that she died with but little pain.

I shall be very glad to be included in with the real Campbell Cousins if that policy is to be adopted, and will send in a letter when it is wanted. My own immediate family is now pretty well wiped out and it is fine to be taken in with yours.

We hope to know you and your family better and would be delighted to have you stop whenever you are near. Our older daughter has been in the Damrosch Institute for two years but is uncertain as to whether she will return there this fall I get down usually two or three times per year to medical meetings, etc. and will try to hunt you up if time permits.

My family unite with me in all kind wishes to you and yours. Thanking you again, I remain