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We5 are here in the old town2 again—great showers of rain
and bitter cold. We left New York6
in intense heat, both of us exhausted by packing. Here we will shop a little
and rest in bed a great deal. So many hard and sad things7 have come down on me in the last six
weeks that I am rather
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wreck. I didn't quite know whether I could take the noon train for
Boston8 on Sunday. Just as I was
putting on my hat to take the cab, a box of great gardenias dropped down
into my lap [illegible] sent
by Yehudi9's darling little new
wife10 with such a tender message.
inside Somehow it did hearten me. I
can't feel utterly knocked out so long as the young love we me. Nola is just the right wife for my
boy,—and just
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kind no one would ever have selected for him. I am hard to please, and I was
very jealous for Yehudi. I might have thought
she wasn't wasn't brilliant or picturesque
enough for him. But he sees the souls of people—that is his peculiar gift.
She is the right one.
Dear child, I was and am so glad your kind
mother11 thought of giving me a little place in D the service for Douglass12 by having that first
dedication13 read. It would never have been
taken out14 if it hadn't been
such very weak verse. But I'm glad I wrote it and felt it, if it is poor
verse, and glad that we three15 loved
each other so dearly in our youth and always, though it breaks my heart now,
and it seems to me that I never can care
care very much about living again.
Give a warm and loving greeting to Elizabeth16 when you write
Lovingly W. Admiral Beatty Hotel SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK CANADA 754 Oak Street Colusa3 Miss Margaret Cather1