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[[preprinted]] TELEPHONE MONROE 825
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1437 WEST OHIO AVENUE
CHICAGO [[/preprinted]]

January 29, 1916.

Dearest Dad:-

          Lo and behold this morning came a beautiful package from you containing that very lovely and charming candle shade.  I am perfectly delighted with it and thank you a thousand times!  I am so fond of those black drawings and I will at once begin using it.

     Raymond came on Wednesday morning on his way from Texas to Canada and tonight he leaves for Toronto.  I am enclosing one of his new itinerary cards for you and you will see that he will be once more traveling like mad from east to west.

     Last night we had dinner with Harold and Anna Ickes in Evanston.  Their little boy, you know, was named for Raymond and he is a very beautiful, wide-awake, strong child of three and - half years.  He is full of mischief and devoted to anything mechanical.  His greatest joy is to have his older brother Wilmarth take the Victrola apart so that he can see the wheels go round.  He will stand entranced looking with awe and reverence and asking for nothing better in life.  He still calls himself "Ick".  His grandmother, Mrs. Wilmart is an ardent pacifist, but little Raymond says he is a belligerent because he loves the University cannon.  He speaks English very correctly but every now and then invents words to suit his occasion.  Instead of