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Flora Bullock 1100 North 37th Street Lincoln, Nebraska

April 10, 1945

Dear Mr. Hitz: I had hoped to send you long before this the complete Journal bibliography, but so many things have stopped progress. Last week when we were snowed in by a 9.8 inch snow - the record for the winter, I believe, after that beautiful false spring, I made some headway in final copying and felt encouraged. I had a "date" with a friend of Miss Cathers - one who can tell me much about her work on the Journal. But the demon of sciatica swooped down upon me and so I'm merely nursing myself, with "page 10" (1895) waiting on my typewriter. I've done the "spade work" for 1893 and 1894. There are most interesting items and knotty problems. If I could work steadily every day it would not take long to finish; that, however, is not possible. When I feel a little better I will finish copying 1895 and send it to you.

I find I had made a note in the