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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