Your kind letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was received few days ago and the Certificate came all right a short time previous. Gratefully appreciating the trust imposed, I hope you may not be disappointed even though "the good deeds needs must be so small."

You will have been showered with Christmas. Greetings when you receive this but hope there will be still room to place one little thought for me.

I am not given to saying complimentary things or pretty speeches so in place of them I feel inclined to tell you of one happy memory I have of the lecture room

There was one lecture which carried me beyond all the others and that day the light around you divided into its prismatic colors and rested in a perfect miniature rainbow, like a crown upon your head. It was a picture not easily effaced even if in my crude way of thinking I did not catch its full significance.

I send you a few sweet violets not that I think they will be a rarity to you, but they grew here in California and I picked them this morning out in the garden.

I will write you the condition of affairs here when they become a little more definite.