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March 19, 1969

Dear Olgavanna,

Every day I think of you and hope I'll have a chance to telephone. But the difference in hours throws me off - trying to catch you not at a lecture, not at dinner, not at mealtime. I know what an interesting busy life you lead. So mostly I just give up and think about you with loving thoughts. 

Tell Doctor Joe that I'm making progress, but slowly. You are quite right...it does take forever get over that fibrillation. How you ever stuck it out for five months I'll never know. I think I'm to hear from Iovanna on the subject of the Spring Festival, but she sounded a little like she had the flu the last time I talked to her. 

Dear Pat is having a frightful time with his eyes. One eye is not quite ready to have the operation for cataract and the other eye is affected; so he suffers trying to read a paper with a magnifying glass. It takes a heavy toll of his energy and strength, but he has finished a wonderful book called "Election '68" and as soon as it's off the press you'll get one.

The book he's on now is something that is quite an honor, he feels, and he's putting his best ideas into it. It's the history of the Associated Press, which is well over a hundred years old. The AP in a sense is the most communal thing we have in the world. It belongs to no one, but to all its member-newspapers. It's world wide, and its wire service makes a network as broad and complex as a scientific project.

I'll add to this longhand and hope you can decipher my script. Writing letters doesn't work very well from a horizontal position. I