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auto are here &, I feel now like home. We have had some glorious days, but today is as bad as Paris gloomy dark a thunder storm all afternoon, there is a great variety in the climate.

I had a letter from Mrs Spencer who is in Paris with her son & now Mr Spencer, she wrote two or three days ago, & spoke of the death of Elsies child - I supposed it was the baby, but last night I had a letter from Ellen, & she tells me that little Cassatt Stewart is the one - What a blow, & to the Grandmother, he must have been older than Alexander - I have thought of little else since - I know your kind heart will feel for the parents, no matter who has passed.  Ellen says it must have been awfully sudden for Elsie was at a ball the day before & danced until morning. I don't know what sort of a mother Elsie is, but not any mother could lose a child of that age & not be overcome - And now after all the wish to enrich Elsie and Ed at Robs expense your two boys are the only ones. One is appalled at what happens in this World.

Ellen says you have been