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go into my pockets anymore & I will have to borrow a market basket.  

I wonder if American Life insurance companies are that way & I wonder how long it [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] took to give them the money.  I just got the papers & have not looked through them all yet.  [[strikethrough]] I wonder [[/strikethrough]]  I will though to see if there is anything in them about Joanna's skating.  Bill Sartain will probably want to look too to see if there is anything about something else but I wont let him though for the love I bear Joanna.

I am not accustomed to read my letters but before reading them to myself & only when I saw Mrs Sartain is much better I read it before I thought that he hadn't known she was sick & so was the trouble.

Write to me if there is any news of his mother to give, not to Bill & I will tell him.  I think this is best for if Poppy wrote to him it would look like interference [[strikethrough]] where [[/strikethrough]]  When it will be asked for then we can give it direct.

I think if Emily has put her mind on accompanying her mother that she would not stop even at misrepresentations of her health but [[strikethrough]] Bill [[/strikethrough]] I do not think it likely even then she would accomplish it for it would probably only bring Bill home.

I think [[strikethrough]] maybe Bill [[/strikethrough]] likely Bill did not mention the plan of bringing his mother on.  If so I hope for God's sake Poppy didn't give Emily that hint ever, if Bill himself [[strikethrough]] wouldnt [[/strikethrough]] didnt & was content to wait more for news, keeping his decision to himself.
He knows that Emily is trying to get on here.  [[strikethrough]] He w [[/strikethrough]] Her letters are full of society news &c.  If she would no doubt now like to know the Bonheurs & Europeon etc.    This may seem ridiculous but it is not to a girl who has perversed herself like Emily.  I ought to have written to Bill Crowell two months ago but I keep on putting it off.  I am so tired at night I hate