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Such a lovely little book4! It warms the heart
and overwhelms one with memories of a time when the world was free and the
different countries of the made a beautiful
and variagated pattern under a sky undarkened by death. You were kind to send it
to me, and to thus let me know that you are back in Brooklyn3.
I spent a rather dreary summer; four weeks of it in the Presbyterian Hospital
having my gall bladder taken
out5. The operation went well enough, but the long afterward, when
one is neith neither sick nor well, but
simply strengthless, has tried my patience.
I have been up here in the Berkshires6 for a few weeks, not so very far from Monterey7, and have enjoyed the quiet and
the remoteness from my own life and apartment8 which seemed so saturated with with illness. I am leaving for Boston9 tomorrow and will let you know when I get home.
"Happy Times in Norway" was forwarded to me here by my typist10.