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[[preprinted]] 118 EAST 54TH STREET
NEW YORK [[/preprinted]]

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for Thanksgiving.  I brought her home with me here for the night, and she is at present writing letters, waiting for a telephone call which will connect her with Carnegie.  She has been very well received everywhere, and apparently people have been eager to help her, and she has received a good deal of encouragement even here which is all very nice.  She leaves tonight to go to Boston where she will see Kate again, and then sails back for home tomorrow.

I did have a wild scramble to meet Kate, but, fortunately, managed.  I had a letter from the Cunard office in Boston saying that the steamer very likely would not be in till Thursday which made me feel quite certain that it would not be in until very late Wednesday anyway, so I attended on Tuesday a meeting of the State Executive, and, later, of the State Committee of the National Progressive Party.  This was an all day meeting, and, when I came back later in the evening, just about a half hour before supper, I found a telegram which was so ambiguous that I didn't know what it meant, but I found out that the steamer would probably be in Wednesday noon.  We had another Executive Committee meeting that evening, and, in between that time, I had to pack my clothes and get ready to catch the mid-night train.  Fortunately, Miss Scott was a saint and helped me, and I got, without any difficulty, the one o'clock train, reaching Boston Wednesday