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Burton Emmett

Dear S.A. This correspondence is getting very active, isn't it? I have here, unanswered, your letters of May 7, May 22 (about) and May 24. And what letters! How inadequate they make me feel when the time comes, as now, for me to "hold up my end". Even if I had time to be adequate, I haven't the stuff in me to make the interchange an equal or a fair one. Working backwards seems best in this case - answering the last letters first, even if only in a perfunctory way. Even this puts me at a disadvantage. If we were arguing, I might be able to say, or to feel, in one?. But your dandy last letter seems to remove all course for argument and I