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Chilean ambassador to Italy and his mother was educated there. Her husband died about a year and a half after they were married so Allende doesn't remember his father at all. His mother never remarried. ...... Mrs. Kloss, the coach of our play, is a young woman about thirty and hails from Cumberland, Maryland. Her husband is a civil engineer and head of the state highway department of this section of Pennsylvania. They have a little girl about four who looks something like Willie to me. Mrs. Kloss's name was Williams, so she may be a distant relation of mine, the family hailing originally from Wales. I like Mrs. Kloss for she is different and has enough of the South in her to make her rather easy going and warm-hearted and informal. We had a splendid ride yesterday out over Mr. Kloss's roads and I say my first real glimpse of Pennsylvania country. It looks just like ours except near Erie, where it is terribly flat. 

[[underlined]] To Mother, February 23, 1926 [[/underlined]]: Last evening Castellino, Hoddy and I called on the Duttons. Mr. D is a great talker and it's a liberal education to listen to him. I finally learned the full story of his career. He studied law and practiced for several years in partnership with one of the biggest criminal lawyers in Rhode Island. Besides that, he's done a lot of newspaper work in New York, and about everything else at odd times from managing a fashionable golf club to selling player piano rolls and acting as a telegraph messenger to a millionaire summer colony. It was his sudden disgust with criminal law that sent him into the ministry "to make my father's church (Congregational) liberal." But he had hard sledding at that job and ended by coming into the Unitarian ranks, where he certainly belongs. He is of the new school, lined up with Slaten and Deitrich for humanism. He has so many interesting books. There's a copy of "Jurgen" and in it, a personal letter from James Branch Cabell. 

[[underlined]] To Mother, February 24, 1926 [[/underlined]]: Too bad Freddie lost his GE opportunity. I don't believe either that his confession of hatred for electricity to Mr. Pfeif helped his cause much. ...... In line with what you said about all the great French philosophers being atheists, Dr. d stated emphatically that Voltaire did not make war on religion but upon the church of his day, which was cruel and terribly corrupt, and he created such a fear of himself in the church, that to this day he is hated. Dr. d said that Billy Sunday, in fact any evangelist, will always tell you three men who are in hell: there are always three and they are Thomas Paine, Robert Ingersoll, and Voltaire. He told of Voltaire's life and all his manifold accomplishments, for any one of which he would have been famous -- poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, philosopher, sociologist.

[[underlined]] To Mother, February 25, 1926 [[/underlined]]: Here is how "the Reverend" (as Mrs. D says) ranks the modern authors: