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LAW OFFICES OF Mc DONALD MEACHUM PETROLEUM BUILDING HOUSTONTEXAS :February 22nd, 1945. Senator W. J. Bryan, P. 0. Box 44, Abilene, Texas. Dear John: I see from that splendid write-up you sent me that you are up to your old tricks still of making people happy and enjoying a little of it yourself. That surely was some "swell" story and I can endorse and vouch for every word of it. It made me feel lone- some when I saw that photograph of you and those high collars and that "beaming smile". I often think of you anyway without this and how I used to turn around and you and I would have our "confab" saving the country-- anyway, John, we did just about as well as these late fellows in our statesmanship and I am "kinda" proud of our record there in those good old days of our youth, and "vim, vigor and vitality" as my secretary, Miss Hunter says. John, you are evidently very happily situated there and you have everything to make you so, including the good will of the people, your neighbors and friends. I greatly appreciate your thoughtfulness and kindness in sending me the clipping about you. I am passing it around to the girls here in the office. They all feel here that they know you, and Miss Hunter remembers having met you and says that that winning smile of yours still is in evidence from the write-up you sent us. I wish you held some good state office so you would be where we could get "at" you occasionally. You know it t es a good while to go to that great country of yours --- the mighty West. With love and best wishes to you and your family from each of us, Devotedly, yo' r friend, McDonald Meachum.