
I feel as though I cannot begin the new year without wishing you all possible health and happiness. I hope you will appreciate these greetings of a stranger when he tells you that to him you are no stranger but an ever present comrade.
Besides telling you of the great good you have done me I want to assure you of the
hearty love you are winning, among the students and teachers here. To me you have
been—a guiding star—a light in the wilderness. I trace my highest and best
thoughts
and feelings to
your poems. I wish I could give you some idea of how I feel towards the author of
"Leaves of Grass."
I hope you will not think this a bait for an autograph, I am above that – I merely want to thank you for the good you have done me.
Your humble admirer & wellwisher, O. F. Hershey.

