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Dear Mr. Anderson I have to laugh. It seems that each time I write you I opened up with a different reason (reason, not excuse) for not having written sooner- just as if you were sitting there and wondering, "Why dont I hear from Emmett?"! The last time I said (and you know it was true) that I didn't want to be forcing a frequent correspondence upon you- and it brought me back a piece of magnificent original thinking, as fine an expression of modesty as I have ever read and with some kind personal words in it that made it a letter for me always to be very proud of. I hope you kept a carbon copy for it was literature- so fine, in fact, that I have been hesitating ever since about even attempting a reply. How can I give you back in my letters anything that even seems to "hold up my end" of the correspondence? And so, you see, here I am again at my old