ll have missed you--at bridge and tennis
particularly.

Sincerely yours,
Mary E. Wells.
July 18, 1923

My dear Mr. Baines,

I have just heard of your success in getting your book
published. I have always had a great admiration for you and
your work, and I am sending this little note to assure you of
my regard, and to wish you still further successes.

Yours very sincerely,
Madeleine Strickland.
March 10, 1923

My dear Miss Gwynne,

I am very sorry that I was out when you called. I hope you
will come again soon for I do so much want to see you.

Sincerely yours,
Katherine G. Evans.
February 16, 1923

It may be of passing interest to read a letter or two from distinguished
persons to their boyhood friends. Here is one[14] from the late John
Burroughs:

Esopus, N. Y., June 1, 1883.

Dear Tom Brown:

I have been a-fishing or I should have answered your letter
before. I always go a-fishing about this time of year, after
speckled trout, and I always catch some, too. But dog-fighting
I have nothing to do with, unless it be to help some little
dog whip some saucy big cur. Game birds are all right in their
season, but I seldom hunt them. Yet this is about the best way
to study them.

You want to know how I felt as a boy. Very much as I do now,
only more so. I loved fishing, and tramping, and swimming more
than I do these late years. But I had not so tender a heart. I
was not so merciful to the birds and animals as I am now.

Much of what I have put in my books was gathered while a boy
on the farm. I am interested in what you tell me of your Band
of Mercy, and should like much to see you all, and all the
autographs in that pink covered book. Well, youth is the time
to cultivate habits of mercy, and all other good habits. The
bees will soon be storing their clover honey, and I trust you
boys and girls are laying away that which will by and by prove
choicest possessions.

Sincerely your friend,
John Burroughs.

[14] Fr