
Your letter of 5th, enclosing Logan Smith's, came to hand last evening—as I was about to answer it today comes along the Complete L. of G. and letter of 6th announcing it! Thanks, dear Walt, many thanks for the good book with its good inscription and thanks equally for the good letter accompanying it. The finished book at last! After nearly 40 yrs building and polishing! Well it is worth it, it has (that same book) a wonderful future before it. What scholars will ponder it in the ages to come! What commentators darken it! What annotations load it with heavy & weary notes! but also what thousands and thousands of young men and young women and middleaged men & women will rejoice in it and find their lives deepened & widened by it! Yes & many will be driven to madness by its enticements to unfathomable deeps of thought & feeling. When it becomes known for long & long it will be THE BOOK—all others will stand on a lower plane. I am satisfied that I know something of it and of you—that is greatness enough for me—yes and greatness enough to carry my name down thro' all the ages
Love to you, dear Walt, now & always R M Bucke