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of holly from Constance - and we had'nt sent them a thing as I intended sending your things when they came and did'nt have them on my mind though we often think of them and wish them here—
Uncle Joe's is with them a note from Aunt Sarah tells us and so their plans I hope will soon be settled poor things—  Also the mail brought us christmas cards from the Powells with which we were delighted assuming from them in the midst of a homey Christmas-    May locked me in and then came and got in my bed in the morning and we gave each other our presents—  hers to me  much too much for her to have spent on - a photograph I had admired in a shop window and an awfuly swell leather photograph case—  Mine to her were four big tubes of Garance dorée [[doré]] and Laque Robert - the ever needful and expensive—

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Last evening in mud and rain I trudged but not unwillingly to get some flowers for our good Esté's and got a lovely bunch of tea roses with a big bunch of violets down at one side and some ferns up the other - (fcs 2.75.) all done up in a cheerful white paper with a card and inscription - "Merry Christmas!"  Greeting from The 'quatrième to the troisième" and had Jean take it to their room—  Also I got some nine pins for our landlord's little boy - and with these parcels staggering home felt quite Christmasy—  And when I offered them to Madame "pour le petit - pour son petit Noël"  she beamed and told me I was trop bonne—      The Esté breakfast party was perfectly delightful such kindness and cheerfulness—  They made their own and all our hearts glad—  I wore my blue wrapper and a little sprig of 

Transcription Notes:
greetings from the quatrième to the troisième (from the 4th to the 3rd) Likely referring to the floors of the building, where both lived.