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Here we3 are, beyond the Azores4, and the splendid autumn flowers you and
Irene5 sent me still make our dinner table
lovely day after day and turn my thoughts to my dear friends at home. So far we have
had a rather rough passage, heavy seas with intense heat—a rather unusual
combination. I was terribly tired when we left New
York6, but Mary Virginia7
cane came down to the boat with us and unpacked all my
steamer trunk and all my toilet things so deftly that I set off with a neat cabin.
Before we were out of the narrows I went to bed and stayed there for 24 hours. For
the first time in my life I had dinner and breakfast in bed on shipboard! Yesterday
I began to feel like myself again, and today I am enjoying everything. I am never
sea sick, but to be terribly tired is almost as bad.
This letter is for Irene as well as Mary, and it will be REXput off at Gibralter Gibralter and sent back on La Savoire, sister ship of the Rex. I want to tell Irene that the remedy against sea-sickness my doctor gave Edith has worked perfectly, and she has not been miserable, even in the very rough weather. It is a new German preparation, very effective, but one has to have blood tests and heart tests made before a physician will give it to one.
Irene kept urging me to make this trip, after I had rather lost heart about it, and
if the
any spring comes back into me (as I begin to believe it
will) I shall feel that I largely owe it to her. She was
with me at in the darkest hours8 of my discouragement about Isabelle9, when I was too tired to decide anything
for myself. The slippers she sent for Isabelle are in my big trunk, just as she did
them up. My love to you both and to Carrie10
goes with this. I get so much comfort in thinking of our long friendship, and how
it
has grown so much stronger through the years, binding us all together. If I didn't
have those things at the bottom of my heart I wouldn't get much out of blue seas or
sunny lands.