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If Elsie5 is not home yet, I am sure
Mary Virginia6 will read this for
you. How I wish M. V. could have been with us when Roscoe's7
family8
were here2! But never mind, some day
I hope to had a have an adobe house down
here where I can ask my nieces. I'm sure Elsie will tell you that their trip
worked out splendidly—the only drawback was that their stay here was so
short. Edith9 went back to New York10 the day before Roscoe's party left, and I have been plenty
lonesome, I can assure you. I have been working11 every morning up in Mary
Austin's12 new house. She has gone away for an operation and
was kind enough to leave me the key of her house and big library so that I
could write there. But I am getting rather homesick and tired of being in
Santa Fe2 alone. Douglass13 telegraphed that he was coming
last week, but he did not come, so I am going down to Taos14 in a few days, to stay for about
three weeks.
I hate to go back to New York LA FONDA
Santa Fe, New Mexico
FRED
HARVEY, MANAGEMENTwithout stopping in Red Cloud3 again, dear mother, but I am afraid I must. I
have to be in New York for a few days in August—indeed, for all the first
week of August, and in the heat of July you and Elsie will be more
comfortable with the home15 to
yourselves. Every extra person makes more trouble and confusion in hot
weather, and you and Elsie ought to have a quiet summer. Perhaps I can come
out to see you in the late fall, and run the
house for you for a few weeks while Elsie is at school. I am so much better
in Nebraska16 in cold weather. The heat really makes me awfully
sick, it's not fussiness, I simply get sick.
Edith liked the twins17 almost
as much as I do. She thought they were splendid company. I do hope you can
let West Virginia18 come to see you
this summer—she wants to awfully. I think of
all your grandchildren she is probably the one who loves you most. She is
very devoted LA FONDA
Santa Fe, New Mexico
FRED HARVEY, MANAGEMENTto
you, and I hope she will get to see you this year. I don't believe she will
make any trouble. I think Roscoe's family is turning out awfully well, and
his little girls are lovely to him. I'm so glad, he deserves it!