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TELEPHONE, MONROE 825
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1437 WEST OHIO STREET
CHICAGO
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February 11th, 1914.

Dearest Gretchen:

I am telegraphing you this morning about not being able to go to Saranac until Sunday evening or morning, as I have to be in Town on Saturday and Saturday evening. I would so much like to see you and am wondering if there is any chance of your staying over another day. I am awfully sorry that it so happens. I could either travel on Sunday morning or evening, possibly mid-night Saturday,reaching you sometime in the afternoon on Sunday, though I am told that is a very bad train. Of course I would prefer to take a night train on Sunday; at the same time if I could see you on Sunday evening or Monday morning I would be glad to do that and could take a Sunday morning train. I am awfully sorry that it happens so.

When are you coming East? I had sort of hoped that you might come on to see Lucy Schwab but I presume that cannot be done now. She asked me whether there was any time you were coming East for she would so much like to see you. I told her I did not know. But are you not coming for the 27th and 28th for the Conference on the unemployed? I am very eager to be at that conference and hope to be able to stay in the city until then, but I have been suffering so much again with pains in my head that I am not sure what I shall do, and will see Dr. Van Cott in a day or two and will consult with him. I am sure that I shall have to go away for some time and am hoping that I may go to Florida early in March. Would it be alright for me to go, and could I make all the arrangements? I do not suppose you would be able to go off so early as that, though perhaps you can. That would be jolly. If I see you, of course these questions need not be answered in writing. But if I do not, you will let me know won't you?

It will be awfully nice if you can come to that unemployed conference and for both of us to leave from here together. If there is no chance of your going, would you object to my asking Melinda or someone else to come with me. I am crazy to see the house and the growing things, and see how your paintings have developed.

I stayed on in New Haven until Tuesday and saw Lucy again on Tuesday morning. She is really wonderful she has been under such very heavy strain.

^[[With heaps of care dear
[[signature]] Mary [/signature]]

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