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The University of the State of New York State Museum JOHN M. CLARKE, Director Director's Office Education Building, Albany, N.Y. [[Handwritten]] Jan. 21, 1919 Dear Old Pal: Your last letter did me a heap of good. It was cheerful to hear of your happiness, of your [[?Anna]] and of your boy. God bless you all. My [[Anna?]] is a wonderful girl and makes things wonderfully happy for me. She's a good deal of an Indian but doesn't know it yet. Melville is down in Philadelphia at school. He is a great worker and during his last vacation made enough money to buy a liberty bond 9 War Savings stamps (like enough he has $75.- in there now), and last but not least he bought a bicycle though he wrote asking me if I thought he shouldn't buy another bond with it. I wrote thunderation [[?]] No. He is a fine boy but a problem - such a