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me - you must try and keep them reminded - I wish I could send a Christmas box - I should like so to send the boys each one of the little dark blue capes with hoods that the little French boys [[were?]] - I was going to bring them some if I had come home this autumn. 

You are all back now. I wish Belle could have stayed longer in Phila - I am very glad you are to have Miss Chandler - Jolly to have her teach the boys to speak and talk like her. The English language is so much more beautiful than the American - Radcliffe thought I had very few Americanisms - and I was so glad I think I have improved - It is so important - It is one's stamp wherever one goes. Looks - that is dress goes for so little over here that one learns to listen for the voice - and can tell a great deal by only a few words. Of course you can at home - but - here even a tine of American seems common after you have heard a good deal of real English.