I have been away for a fortnight, &Ⓐemendation I find on my return your pleasing invitation to be one of the Press Club’s guests, January 15. I should vastly like to be there, but, even if other circumstances did not bar me from going, I should be barred anyway by the formidable size of the trip in this mid-winter weather.

I was glad to be remembered by the gentlemen of the Club, but if I had been overlooked, I wouldn’t have taken it as a cold wave, but only as an oversight, for there has been a long interval since we foregathered there. (To give one the “cool shake” is vulgar &Ⓐemendation slangy. I use the other phrase in the interest of refinement &Ⓐemendation in deference to the weather.) I was glad to be remembered, because I had not slacked up in my remembering the boys, &Ⓐemendation one likes such things to be mutual, &Ⓐemendation I was also glad because the circumstances of my visit out there a year ago were such that I arrogate to myself as near a kinship to the Club as anyone may who is not an actual member of the family.

With the heartiest congratulations upon the success achieved by your organization thus far, &Ⓐemendation with best wishes for its continued prosperity,