Dear Ms. Chambliss,

Thank you for your e-mail. I'm pleased that things are going well for you,
and I wish you the best for the prospective surgery. Please keep me 
informed as is convenient.

My grandson Nathaniel about whom you asked is presently in Europe functioning
as an administrative assistant to the Boston Youth Philhatmonic Orchestra.
He seems content. In what manner, if at all, this position will "advance"
his career remains to be seen.

Dr. Lou's comments about me, which you report, I interpret dialectically,
to the effect he doesn't know what to think about me - how could he, if
even I myself have no clue -, and that his comments have the diplomatic
function of making the patients I send him comfortable with the referral.

My two months in the Virginia mountains have passed in splendid solitude.
My visitors include blue jays, mourning doves, cardinals, mockingbirds,
chipmunks, squirrels, and a mejestic white skunk who comes every evening
to scavenge the sunflower seeds which the other animals have left behind.
There has as yet been no olfactory encounter.

My domestic duties which include food preparation, dishwashing, laundry
and lawn-mowing take little of my time, most of which is spent writing
to myself and communing with the friendly ghosts that live here. I am the
surviving member of my father's family, awaiting my turn.

I plan to return to Belmont on June 29, uncertain about the rest of the 
summer. 

Best wishes to you and your family.

Sincerely,
Ernst Meyer