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If you can, get Paul Bruntons "In Search of Secret India." It's a costly book but well worth it. It shows so well how the author evolved in this [[strikethrough]] sarch [[/strikethrough]] search from the skeptical westerner to the comprehension of the greater life within us all, so well understood by the Indians. It was loaned to me but I have the sequel, I treated myself to it during the war, the only time I ever earned enough to do so. It's a much more evolved & complicated thing & I feel the western genius for complication raises its head again. It's called, "In Quest of the Overself."

Little Tilly Losh is the fattest beagle & great company. Sometimes my heart sighs for Billy & Timmy, but not to wish them back.

I'm getting very old I don't know if I'm 53 or 54 yrs this May, is it autome or is it in the winter of life at this age, I cannot tell. Your friend says you look very young. Flo Beswick is over here from Maderia & I was shocked by her looks. She has aged so, quite suddenly. I suppose one does. The only thing I feel about it is always tired. I think that war work took a lot out of me, besides taking 5 years of my artistic life. I sometimes wonder into what stations of life I & you & others will be reborn into, shall we meet & recognize, will it be the same old thing because we have not learned