Dear Mary:

I have received all your letters. They come promptly. I always answer them just as soon as I can. I sent you two from Washington and two from here. This is No.2 from here.

I have been signing and dictating as fast as I can here. Just finished signing a folder full of public documents and I must now sign some three or four hundred letters. It is no vacation - a change of scenery.

You must not get touchy about things in your Chapter O.E.S. or anywhere else. Don't read Doris Fleeson and those fool columnists. No one pays any attention to them at all.

Now if you go around all the time expecting someone to do you a bad turn you can always find them doing it. That K.C. introduction was my fault and I didn't do it on purpose. It won't happen again. Now we've got 'em licked let's be generous and make 'em like it.

I didn't mean to give you a lecture but your letter sounded rather sorry for yourself. You don't have to be that as long as I live.

Hope you have a nice time at all your meetings now and keep going. Pay no attention to supposed slights and think only of the nice treatment.

Where would we have been if I'd paid attention to the smart alecks. Take care of yourself.

Lots of love.

Harry