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3 a lot of hell here. There was a time when country weeklies did have life and influence. What happened was that the kind of young men who used to go ?at such work got sucked up by the city ward movement and went off to the city dailies. There is some reaction to all that now and it might be built up. I could take money from some such man to do that. I mean to go about, speaking to young university men etc about the possibilities and by ?ting and ?aking start a drift that way.

I have been sick, with flue but am better now.  It was very difficult reading the Van Gogh letters.  I identified myself with the man so closely.  

You know he has long been one