January 10, 1909.
My dear Mrs.Summerhayes: I have just read the book.

It is a good book, a true book, one of the best kind of books.

After taking it up I did not lay it down till it was finished--till with you I had again gone over the malapais deserts of Arizona, and recalled my own meetings with you at Niobrara and at old Fort Marcy or Santa Fe.

You were my cicerone in the old town and I couldn't have had a better one--or more charming one.
The book has recalled many memories to me.

Scarcely a name you mention but is or was a friend.