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Flora Bullock 1100 North 37th Lincoln, Nebraska

October 19, 1944

Mr. B.D. Hitz Indianapolis Ind.

Dear Mr. Hitz:

No, I have not disappeared from "this distracted globe," nor been engulfed in war work, nor gone into politics. I'm still here. I can't enumerate all the petty details of life that have obstructed my work on the bibliography. Sometimes even the beautiful days of summer and fall have called me out of doors just to sit and look and listen - wonderful days we have had. I've made many starts at the work, but something has always stopped me. Now for some days I have been looking over the various piles of papers, etc. that were moved and removed during the process of papering four rooms, etc. I seem to have lost two pages of the manuscript and the notes for them. It will not be a great deal of words to go over the material again and I hope to do that very soon. Am making the final check on the 1895 items.

I hope to have time someday to look up the McClure's Cather material. It is fun to follow a slight clue and find very interesting material - as I have learned.

Very truly yours, Flora Bullock