[Letter] March 28,1925,[plus envelope]321W.92nd St.,New York City.

March 28, 1925, [plus envelope] 321 W. 92nd St., New York City.

My Dear Friend:
          I learned, through the
Times, of the delightful celebration
of your 70th birthday that
was arranged by your colleagues in the
Political Science Faculty, and want
to add my own profound congratulations
on the event that they celebrated.
I am so near to my eightieth year
that seventy seems to me a
moderate age and, when attained
with vigor fully preserved, positively
youthful. I rejoice with you and
for you in that happy fact.
 It has made me turn
back in memory to the literally
youthful days that both of us
spent in our homes on the Connecticut
River - years full of the pleasure
of work that, it is safe to say, was
fruitful. If I were writing a
commentary on Cicero's De Senectute,
I think I should draw a contrast,
not in degree but in kind, between
the pleasures of anticipation and
those of retrospect. The latter have
to be connected with sorrows that
anticipation is, in general, free from
but the backward look combined with
the quiet forward look that is free
from the sense of strain and care, has
its advantages. May you have many such
tranquil years with your family and friendly
I am. Yours in the bonds of long tried
and affectionate comradeship.

                    John B. Clark