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90 rue d'Assas.

My dear Mother,

I have been writing a good deal lately. Many a fine sheet of paper have I destroyed.
You would hardly think to see those letters in the paper that outside the notes on fashion it was mighty hard work, and some hours labor.

I have received your letters which inform me you have read two of the letters. And a letter from Bess in which she described the new member of our family David. And our