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[[preprinted]] ELEVATION, 4,000 FEET [[image - drawing of a wreath containing the initials MLH]] T.G. PORTERFIELD MANAGER Lake Hotel Corporation OPERATING Mountain Lake Hotel (GILES COUNTY) COOLEST PLACE IN THE SOUTH TELEGRAPH AND POST OFFICE IN HOTEL ADAMS AND SOUTHERN EXPRESS OFFICES N. & W. AND VIRGINIAN STATIONS PEMBROKE, VA. LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS Mountain Lake, Va., [[blank line]] [[/preprinted]] used & distributed over 100 copies of Alexander's pamphlet based on your essay I have taken frequent occasion to call attention to the inspiration we can derive for a [[bringing back?]] of our American Christianity out of its [[indoorness?]] its hot-house sophistication - a cure for its scientific intolerance & its ridiculous & wholly [[?]] pretense at a monopoly on God & truth. To realize all those good Indians meant is a liberal education in essential Religion. Of course I am deeply interested in the Vedic [[?]], in the Gattas of Zarathustra, in the Edda - & all the great mythologies &[[underlined]] epic cycles[[/underlined]]. but nothing here so tremendously gripped me as this