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I am so sorry that I was in the hospital when you came down to New York2 to hear Yehudi4's recital5. I did hear the recital, because his mother6 called for me and took me and my nurse to our own box, where I could sit comfortably with my bandaged arm in its sling. That recital was the only one in which Yehudi has ever disappointed me a little. Was it, I wonder, merely because I was worn out with the trouble of going to the concert when I would have preferred to be in bed? At any rate, Yehudi disappointed me a little, for the first time.
I am at home7 again now, but my right hand8 is utterly useless, and from the tooth-brush-before-breakfast, all through the day I find my left hand a miserable substitute. Now that your wonderful Boston9 orthopedist, Dr. Frank Ober10, has begun to take care of my hand, I begin to hope for an ulimate recovery. He comes down to New York once a month to watch over his patients here. (Lest this hand may sound mysterious, I must confess that it all came from my neglect of a sprained tendon in my thumb. From the first I fancied it would be put into a splint, so I went on writing letters that seemed to me very important until, after some days of steady penmanship, the confounded thing became so very painful that I had to go to my doctor and give up everything which one does with the right hand.)
I hope for a long visit with you, when I can hear all about Stephen11's wedding and his wife12, and all about Jack13's doings, which are sure to be interesting.
Affectionately yours, WILLA CATHER