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How clever you were to go to Chicago3 and have your party just as you planned! I am so glad you did. Those things do one a lot of good. Jack4 could not come. We had a quiet Xmas for Edith's5 eye was bad again. Xmas Eve I went to the Hambourgs6 for dinner, and Xmas night we had Joe Charter7, our young widower and Sanborn8 the musical critic of the Globe9 here10 for dinner and sent them away at 9 oclock because of the game eye (Edith's).
Yesterday we were in health and had a very gay Friday afternoon, about 30 people
came, many of them friends from Pittsburgh11
here for the holidays, among them Alfred
McClung12. After din tea I had to dash
up to the Biltmore to dine with some friends from Boston13. Today I'm quite tired, but I had to go to a concert with the Hambourgs this afternoon. On
Wednesday I lunched at their home with Harold
Bauer14, the pianist, and his
wife15, and Kreisler16 the
violinist. Isabelle makes a charming hostess for artists and celebrities.
Isabelle17 and Jan18 gave me two grad beautiful
Russian candelabra for Christmas, beautiful c design
and each one holds five candles. They make a lovely light for tea. We have also a
new tea table, but our grandest possessions are three wonderful new paintings19—scenes along the Mediterranean
and the Ionian sea by her artist friend, Earl
Brewster20, who lives in Italy21. They are so large and handsome that it will positively
impoverish us to frame them. His pictures bring from $200 to $500 each now, and
these are very fine ones. They are not a gift outright,
but he says he wants us to keep them for years and years.
I have a trifling little story22 in A Gold Slipper Harper's Monthly23 this month. It might amuse you if you happen on it. It is so bad that I got $450 for it. I quite needed the money. The 'high cost of living' makes our expenses here2 about a third more than they were last year. It takes 25¢ worth of apples to make one pie, and chickens are 42¢ a pound. A five pound chicken costs $2.10! Beef is 36¢, nearly as bad.
Well, we'll probably manage to keep the wolf off Bank street somehow, and meanwhile I positively rejoice in your Chicago adventures, my dear Bobbie.
With much love Willie