1927 January 1

"Perhaps even you do not know how much you have given to me in your gentle solicitude. I have been really very nearly just what you thought me--at the end of any vigorous output. You haven't been an editor without knowing that routine work is not exhausting and does not prey upon one--that strategic problems are the greatest drain upon one's vital force. Yet with such problems, in every case, that arises, there is the hope that it is the exception..."