Viewing page 56 of 86

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

^[[Mary Dreier
Dec 7. 1914]]

[[preprinted]]
TELEPHONE, PLAZA 815
[[logo]] 12

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

[[stamped]] [[logo]] ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART [[/stamped]]
^[[Mrs. Peter Voorhees 1959]]

Dec. 7th, 1914.

Dearest Dodo:-

This is to, reach you on your birthday by the morning mail. It brings you Dodo dear a whole heart of love and good wishes and congratulations. You dont know what it means to me to think of you as being so much better than last year when we had to give up your beautiful treat to the opera because you were so ill. It means so much more than I can tell Dodo dear , for it means a year behind you of such courage and cheer and brave acceptance of patience and endur ance that you have given many of us a lesson not to be forgotten, especially when we t[[strikethrough]] oo [[/strikethrough]] somtimes lost patience and became discouraged. And you have accepted it all with so much sweetmess that you have been a source of inspiration to go and be liek [[handwritten indication that this should be "like"]] you. I think this is just the day to tell you this and that is why I am writing it to you. I hope you wont mind that it is the typewriter I am using but it will be pleasanter reading and the letter wont seem half so long as one in long hand would. You will have so many letters that you really wont want a long one. I wish you a very happy birthday dear, and all good things and entire return of health in the new year. 

I have sent up some things for your birthday which I hope will give you pleasure. I wish I had found something better though I did the best I could with reference to something you wished and I got for you. Lizzie will show you when the times comes and you will know by it not being exactly what you thought. never mind if it doesn't suit return it. I will scour the city for the thing you have in mind. Is this all mystery? You will soon find