Wilson expresses excitement at Whitehead's coming, glad that an eminent philosopher will be arriving at Harvard to replace some of the great Harvard philosophers that had recently retired or died.
Rand transcribes Bliss Perry's toast to Whitehead in Latin, sends him an article from the Harvard Crimson and Boston Globe celebrating his 80th birthday.
Pickman sends Whitehead a passage from the writings of Hilary of Poitiers quoted by Ernest Lavisse in 1885, and suggests inserting it into his paper delivered to the Augustinian Society ("Religious Psychology of the Western Peoples").
Sedgwick asks Whitehead to consider publishing some of his forthcoming Lowell lectures in the Atlantic, and maybe even publishing all of them as a book with the Atlantic Monthly Press.
Eric writes of the excellent food and asks ANW to ask Evelyn to send him more paper and envelopes, as he is using his last envelope to send this letter. He died on March 13, about three weeks later.