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Please excuse this picturesque stationery! I have stayed away so long that I have no other left.
The Shattuck InnAlmost a year ago, last November, I wrote you a letter and sent it to the
Belleclair. It was returned to me. I telephoned Elsie Sergeant3, but she could not give me your address. I am
so glad to hear from you again and to be abe
able to reach you and explain my seeming neglectfulness. And I'm so glad to
know you are well, and holding out against the wear and tear of Time.
There
The Shattuck Inn
and Annex
AT THE
FOOT OF MONADOCK MOUNTAIN
JAFFREY, N.H.
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR
200 GUESTS
ALL MODERN
CONVENIENCES
AMERICAN PLAN
OPEN ALL YEAR is
an old lady of eighty here at this
hotel4, and she seems quite young—is a splendid bridge player. My
own mother5 is now seventy-two, and my
father6 seventy-four. Both are
well and very active. I spent a part of the summer with them. Please
remember me most warmly to Mrs. Boas7.
A cordial letter from her was forwarded to me in New Mexico8 last spring, but I lost a suit
case full of papers on a long motor-stage trip, and her letter was among them. I could not remember her
Paris9 address.
I think you will like my new book10, Mrs.
Stanfield, for it is about the New
York11 of a better time than this, about 1904 1904, when I first knew it. I hope the German
quotations in it are right, I don't know much German, and proof-readers
nowadays don't know any! The present
generation staggers you, you say—I can assure you
The Shattuck Inn
and Annex
AT THE
FOOT OF MONADOCK MOUNTAIN
JAFFREY, N.H.
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR
200 GUESTS
ALL MODERN
CONVENIENCES
AMERICAN PLAN
OPEN ALL YEAR
this present New York staggers me. I took pleasure in doing a little picture
of it in another time—with other manners! It
The book is out October 20th. If I were in town I'd send you a copy, but I wont leave the country until late in November. I'm driven to death in
town. The only way I can live and possess my soul at all is to stay far from
New York for at least eight months of the year.