
Let me send my hand & heart to you in this pen-scrawl,
bearing loving, reverential, congratulations to you on yr 70th birthday.
I'm so glad you are still here in
your familiar form: the other Walt the "Comrade of all" will be
among us always. Accept then my love, my hopes of other birthdays, my fraternal &
gladsome kiss and word on this birthday
I would have liked to have been at the dinner, but as
I did not know of it till within two days, having had no word or "invite" I could
not arrange. However I offer you my congratulations.
