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Dear Mrs. Blake:

We did love to hear from you and we really hope to see you in March of [[strikethrough]] next [[/strikethrough]] that year. The children loved the pictures in your paper. We are leaving it around for them to enjoy - so you will have done something that makes a real impression on people who ought to be around and remembering you in 2050. Annie in particular loves insects like she loves all animals. I told her, when she saw a picture of a grasshopper in a book and asked me if it bit people, that no, it did not bite people. It only ate grass, which is why it is called a grasshopper. And when I was little, I used to catch grasshoppers and hold them in my hand, and then though