Transcript Date
December 21, 1949
Dear Dean:
As one who was tempted, day before yesterday, to go into the baby's room and say: "Go on, get up. You're going to work today. I'll get in the crib", and who has since existed only on the reflection that "this, too, will pass", I find no words to say how deeply moved I was by what you did and said this morning. Based on the past, you did me too much honor. Perhaps the future can correct some of the disparity.
Incidentally, the main burden of your remarks made a deep impression on the College, and Gen. Bull said he thought there could have been no audience who would have better understood, or more correctly understood, the final quote from Holmes.
George Kennan