Dear Nick,

Some afterthoughts and unsolicited advice. Keep a copy of your letter to the President of Yale in a dated computer file with a designation such as: "20190409_letter_to_....",  identifying both date and content. If you make a habit of preserving all your non-trivial writing, then as days, weeks, months and years pass, you will accumulate an electronic image of your thinking and feeling which may prove very valuable to you as you grow older.  You may also wish to preserve in this manner, letters or other documents which you receive and which seem important to you. At some future date you may wish to publish some or all of your collection on the Internet.

For many years I was persuaded that the "classical" literature that has been transmitted to us was preserved because it was inherently more valuable than what has been lost.  However that may be, to some extent the converse is also true: Many texts now seem valuable primarily because they have been preserved.  The value of such texts is not in themselves. They function as mirrors into the spirit of the reader. The Bible is the outstanding example.  Absent the fortuitous preservation of the Scriptures, I would have no opportunity to devote myself to that "understanding" (verstehen) which seems to me the essence of intellectual if not spiritual existence.  

The collection of documents relative to myself is presently accessible on the Internet at IP 96.252.35.229  This is a dynamic address which will change.  In time I will get a static address. Until then I will provide the current address by e-mail to anyone who is interested. The Apache2 server exists on a 32 GB USB thumb stick on one of my laptop computers. The bandwidth into the Internet is slow, and large .pdf files of scanned documents will take too long to download. However the downloading of the much smaller .txt and .odt files seems to me practical.  I very much hope your health continues to improve and that you are occupied with creative projects which keep you happy.

EJM