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This morning3 I wrote Alfred4 telling him why I didn’t the type (12 Caslon on 14), and this afternoon comes your telegram saying that you are going to humor me once more and give me the kind of type I like for this story5. How good you are to consider my preferences in these things! Believe me, I appreciate it. I drank my tea with a light heart after opening your telegram.
The silver candlestick you gave me has now made its second trip to Grand Manan2, and lights me to bed every night. All my flowers are doing splendidly, and the tall spruce trees which girdle the yard on the land side stand up still and silvery on these soft nights of full moon. A steady rain came on today, and we need it.
Please greet Pat6 for me, and tell him he will hear from me one of these days.
With love and happy thanks, dear Blanche, W. S. C.