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after death a little Brussels Griffon whom they all loved. He was killed by Eugenes Amdales. It will be such a blow to Ellen & is one to your Aunt Jamie. Those big dogs ought not to allowed near the house - it is hard on Ellen after all she suffered over here. 

I suppose that Alexander returns to Harvard the last of the month. I have the portraits of you as a boy a pastel & a painting which will go to the boys — I have given up my villa at Grasse, when I got back from Grasse in the Spring I found I had high pressure & one week out here returned me to normal. Never once in the last three years at Grasse have I been able to sit in the garden more than one

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The spelling of the names due to the handwriting is questionable.