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than enough of all these people & of anything that they can do or give- A few of us went for lunch at the country club & afterwards Aldis & I started off on foot to "see" Lake Forest- First we stopen [[stopped]] in a Mrs Rockerfeller McCormick's place- I had had dinned [[dinner]] & spent the evening talking with her several days befor at a very [[strikethrough]] nice [[/strikethrough]] "swell" dinner party at Mrs Small's- Her Italian XVI cent. "palice" [[palace]] & grounds cost over $2,000,000 & its a botch-  The stables here - the house there - a garden here - a pool there - no ensemble - nothing in proper relation with the rest- No sence of harmony or completeness & very little respect for detail. And then - of course - the shoking [[shocking]] incongruity of the whole thing---a white walled- red tiled XVI cent Italian villa in the middle of an oak forest & sun against a hard bleak northern sky & slate colored water!