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to my "blues". I was going to write to you that I would not meet you in either of them should come on the boat with you. I would, in fact, rather not see them again (so perhaps I am still under the effect of rheumatism) but I don't want to influence your friendship in any way. I say this because you say in your last that you hardly ever see Lee and you seldom mention Russel.
It was all my fault - because I had not the strength of will and ingenuousness that you attribute to me, at the beginning & partly be-