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Burton Emmett

Dear S.A. Perhaps this hot afternoon, things will stay quiet enough for me to do something towards answering your two last letters. The big delay has been due, as a matter of fact, only to the feeling that they deserved something special in the way of reply - not mere surface acknowledgement - and this "special" stuff comes hard for me and, hence, is easily postponed. Even now it wont come. This will be only a surface letter after all. Replying first to the one from Helen Go?, a lumber camp, of April 17: It seemed plain enough as I read it that I had hurt you a little - not only that you were disappointed in me in finding my standards