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1437 WEST OHIO STREET
CHICAGO

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^[[Gretchen]]

August 31, 1914.

Dearest Dad:-

I arrived Saturday morning and mailed my postal card written on the train and had hoped to write to you Saturday afternoon or Sunday, but so many things happened that I have had no moment till just now.  In the first place, Olive Sullivan, Stella Franklin and I were sitting in a little tea room on Michigan Avenue when who should suddenly and unexpectedly walk by but Miss Sherris and Miss La Lacheur, the two young English women who are Elizabeth's neighbors in Henfield and our neighbors in Florida.  They were somewhat forlorn, not exactly knowing what to do with themselves in this big city and so I brought them up for dinner and showed them the Chicago Avenue municipal playground park and so forth.  Then at midnight Raymond arrived and we talked till two and I was somewhat sleepy in consequence.

Yesterday one of the leading Progressives from Dixon, Illinois, Mr. Fordham, took dinner with us.  He is State Treasurer and is running as State Senator. In the evening Dr. Martin came to see Raymond and gave him some tonic to take with him on his way.  He has lost forty pounds and looks quite young and boyish.

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