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in the country after the uncles [[?]] & I cannot wish you anything better than the weather we are having, it is even too warm & bright & every thing bursting into bud & already the tender green leaves out -  I was at Beaufresse last week for the day and felt homesick for the country, but I am expecting different friends here during the next few weeks, Mrs Haveminger & her husband are to be here the last of this week & wish me to join them for a trip, but that is impossible & her other friends will be here who have been to Egypt & are now in Naples, so that I shall have quite a busy time with them all. Paris is looking better than ever with the bright spring weather & this quarter that used to be so quiet is now as noisy & bustling as automobiles can make it. I had almost made up my mind to give warning
& take a smaller apartment, but I find this so convenient that I cannot decide to give it up just yet. I still have a years lease, so perhaps I may yet see you here. What you tell me about Elsie's hopes is very interesting but I also want you to be the first in the field, just think all ones hopes of continuing the name on that side depend on you & I do most sincerely wish my brother had the delight of a grandson, besides the pleasure of knowing you & Rob happy in a child; your father in law I think does deserve that pleasure, so devoted as he is to children, you must let me know all about it if it ever comes to pass. I suppose poor Emily is counting the days when she must give up her little girl, still she accepted it & knows that all will be well with the child, I do think it is all

Transcription Notes:
I believe the word after uncles should be "gaieties"