July 12, 1941.

live Ge Os Surnside,
Carpenter Paper Cos,
Oklahoma City, Okla.

Dear Cob:

Thank you for your good letter of the 9th instant.
Iam enclosing a copy of a letter that I received fron —
Henry Iba as of July 7the = gore

i em not replying to this letter because it does _
not call fora reply, It is merely the end of our series _
of games that ws started because Henry activated a number
_ of newspaper men and friends of the University in getting
on the schedules low he apparently does not want to con=
tinues

| , + certainly would have been happy to heve been dow
at the celebration of the new Carpenter Peper Company's
inaugurale I know how busy you have been. But I em happy
that you had that eastern trip. Jirse Allen loves the Haste
She says it is all so beautiful end "a finished thing", so
to speak. She is a worshiper of beauty. She has never.
liked the West like she ‘does the Uast. She would love to
live there, she says. I imazine I am one of those rough,
rugged individuals that does not went a thing too finished.
i have always been very happy in Kansas and I imew of no”
place that i would rather lives 1 say that frankly. If

i wanted to go on a vacation to spend some noney I would
6° to California, but it would be of only a month's dure
ations 4

i would never want to spend ever two weeks in New
York or any of the large cities. Me for the seashore or
the mountains for e vacation. But for everyday work,
good fellowship end intelligent imtercourse 1 will take
the Kansas peoples Persomily, I think they are tops.
True, it gets warm here occasionally, but the last two
yeers have been perfect summer weather, and nowadays when
man with his scientific kmowledge can take his climte
. @long with him, I am not ome of these fellows tc complain
mughe !