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are going to do fine things and it is my greatest desire that nothing shall hinder you from doing so. If having a child should interfere with you in this, I will already give up the idea of having one by you, even tho my desire is greater now than it ever has been. It does seem that we always go in contrast to each others feelings for is it not so that yours in this is the opposite of mine?

My mother writes me that they were dissapointed about the house they expected to buy. They had arranged to settle the buying of it last Sun. but when they got there the people who owned the place told them that they had sold it the night before. I consider this a dishonorable thing to do after having promised to give them first choice, Now they are looking for an apartment in New York. 

I also had a letter from your aunt who is still at Glen Cove and expects to stay there yet awhile as she feels that she is needed there. 

This afternoon I made the best sketch I have done so far. It is of some hickory trees in sunlight against the mountain in