Noveuber 1, 1937.

Mp, C, EB, McBride
The Kansas City ster,
Kanses Clty, Hoe

Dear lags

We were desolated to find, after we returncd
from luncheon, your ecard. ‘The fact thet we were not |
home to see the Uebride*s makes us feel torribly bad.

It happened that Bobby is a Phi Kappa Psi
pledge, and he had invited the Allen family to the |
Phi Fsi house for lumchcon, Ws had been gone but 2
few minutes before you arrived, ! |

Hes, 4llen says she is going to write urs,
MeBride a letter real soon, but we are just roturning
the last copy on the final proof of the new book, and
we have been so bloomin' busy that we haven't gotten

as fer es we would have liked in the way of visits.

I have thought for the last three weeks or
more that I would sit down and write you a confidential
angle on the Stanford situation. When you asked me
the questicn if I had ever been offered the Stanford /
he I knew that somebody had been talking, “hen Jvohn
junn and I met eye to eye dowh at Chamte early in |
Septerber I knew then that somebody hed been talking
ana pather reasoned tho whole thing ont.’ I told John
Bunn some things that made him oven his eyes, I
could see that he had been laboring mder delusions
that the Stanford pecple had not contacted me, but
= I lsft him I am vory sure he found that they

| I will write has Mac, and I will also tell
you a little of the Ralph Miller episodes - not to
print ? but just so you will have the true situation —
of this rather interesting angle,

I have been to Kansas City only once this

~ whole fall. I have been so dbloomin’ busy, and I

might say, happily busy, organizing this department
‘that when anybody tells you that I wouldn't be ha
doing what I am and gett out of this mess, ani

say mess coe eae surprised! I never.
knew that life co ® so pleasant away from a thing