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[[handwritten]] Gretchen [[/handwritten]]
[[preprinted]] TELEPHONE MONROE 825
[[image: [[?]] ]] 236
1437 WEST OHIO AVENUE
CHICAGO [[/preprinted]]

November 2, 1914.

Dearest Dad: -

          I was so glad to get Mary's letter this morning and to hear of you and how well you are.  I am sorry not to have sent you word weeks ago about that little egg cup which you use for drinking coffee.  I went to Field's at once and found that unfortunately they had none of them left and no chance of replacing a broken one.  I then wondered if you would like to have a cup with a top to it, and thought I had written to you about it.  As I evidently have not done so, won't you let me know if this would please you, and I will have one sent.  I am going to ask Olive Sullivan to make one more try for the other, meantime.  She will also gladly attend to the film and send it to you after Raymond and I have gone.

          Raymond is off for his last speeches tonight.  The Daily News and the Chicago Herald have come out for him, and every paper in the State is carrying a copy of the enclosed advertisement.  A nice old manufacturer is making that his contribution to the campaign.  Whatever the outcome tomorrow, Raymond has made a splendid fight, for not a single newspaper of note in the city is supporting Roger Sullivan, and the democratic evening paper, the Journal, comes out in the most perfunctory fashion endorsing him.  The fight has been a thousand times worth while, and the great support which Raymond is receiving from men of all parties shows that at any rate a group of citizens understands the underlying issues of the campaign.  Senator Owen, the democratic floor leader of President Wilson's administration, has come twice to Illinois to speak for Raymond, and the republican senators Norris and LaFollette, have sent letters and telegrams for Raymond, and Congressman Monaghan of Minnesota, also a republican, has spoken for him, and Teddy has not only spoken and written but telegraphed in his usual very emphatic fashion.  I will wire you the result, whatever it may be.

          With much, much love,
          [[signature]] G-
          [[stamp: ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART]]