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and that harassed my mind - I had just written him and sent. 

I kept looking at your painted birthday remembrance and thinking how dad was sitting in that big chair of his when I opened it - and our enjoyment of it together!
 
I had it plainly in my mind before you came that your birthday would come just after your visit, but when you left here I became all burdened up with my huge unaccomplishments and goaded by that book of Gladwins, determined to digest it and sitting up late at night -

Oh I wish I were with you this very minute to wrap you in my heart and tell you how I love you, for I do adore you