Dear Mr. Blathe:

Thank you for sending your partial sketch of the embroidered design on the wedding dress. On a personal note, I was not aware that such a photo existed, nor am I aware of the details of my systers involvment with the CRA. It's troubling to me that there is so little that I know.

Back to your sketch. No currently living researcher has had the opportunity to examine this design as far as I know. While I cannot be sure, I am pretty sure what you sent me is a partial example of CLB. Historical documents refer to CLB's written form as having "a pleasant, rounded structure that matches its pleasant sonic qualities."

I've worked to translate what you have given me with my limited information, and I've come up with the following:

The glyph is composed of two, perhaps three, words. If you look at the image closely, you can see where two separate curves meet and diverge again near its midsection. At the bottom of the glyph, there appears to be a stylized six. That may be a separate lexical unit, but I can't be sure.

You wrote that this was the top-most part of the text. From that I concluded that the first word is very likely a name. In CLB, word order is strictly enforced with the first word being that of the most important person or object referenced in the sentence.

The second word is probably a role marker. This will likely indicate that the object or person will do something at the request of the speaker or writer.

If there is a third word, it is probably a tense marker. Not all sources agree, but the most authoritative ones, especially including "Interdisciplinary Symposia on Disparate Physicalities Intercommunications: 1935 -- 1945," state that CLB tenses are marked on the nouns. The default tense is an unmarked simple present.

I am conferring with a colleague whom I trust and hope to have a possible description of its meaning soon.

Thank you,

Sarah McGuire