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Pull away at your straps - The books say. There is scarce a case of nervous prostration, where there is plenty of arm and shoulder exercise. I am working at aunt E. to keep her up with all sorts of goings out to the park and exercises. It is pretty constant work but we are getting better - and she is beginning to take a little interest in some things - you ought to see how your letters are devoured and read over and over & over again. Grandma never gets enough of hearing & reading them. We keep very still about your staying longer away. We just go on from day to day and don't care to know too much future. Your horizon is getting so much broader - it must make life very full - and exciting & absorbing and so much encouragement in your art. Now I have only begun my letter.

Love to May - How about Italy?

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Poured out liberally on the subject so dear to your heart and life. I do think and feel no end about your work - and its absorbing interest and importance. If your stay is so prolonged - how will it seem to you when you come home to us again? Will we look old and pinched I wonder? Grandma does look very well now, and she walked all the way to the Muirs - today and home again! I went to town, & [?]. I got Daisy Bacon a beautiful pair of gold bracelets in a pale plush (blue) case! Wasn't it just the most un-fortunate arrangement for us to have them come here to do their marrying? Mrs. Bacon would have shivered at the proceeding, I am sure.- A quiet ceremony among them selves at Norwich - & then coming here to settle down, would have been in so much better taste.