He is courteous enough about it--that is the reason I do not resent him.

I suppose the whole thing will end in an answer some day." The letter follows.

The chief point in it is that the writer hopes he has not been importunate in the question he had asked about Calamus three years before.
"I [Traubel] said to W.: 'That's a humble letter enough: I don't see anything in that to get excited about.

He doesn't ask you to answer the old question.

In fact he rather apologizes for having asked it.' W.fired up 'Who is excited?
As to that question, he does ask it again and again: asks it, asks it, asks it.' I laughed at his vehemence.