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You wrote me such a kind letter before you left New York2. It was such a nice way of telling one that one is growing older.
I want you to know that my brother Charles Douglass3, the one in the family who was closest and dearest to me, died of a heart seizure in San Diego4 three weeks ago. Don't answer this letter please, but I want you to know that I am going through a hard stretch of road just now. He came on to New York and spent two weeks and my birthday with me this winter.
Willa CatherP.S. I do thank you for the copy of THE LAUGHING HORSE5 you sent me. I laughed for the first time in a good many days. You and Mary Austin6 - indeed, all the characters are splendid, and the drawings are good, too.