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take good care of my panama, that it doesn't get out of shape. My but how I long to see all your dear faces, it seems so long since I left, and such a long while yet to wait before I can get back, what a joyful time that will be! I am hoping and trying for Sept. 1st but there my art sitting are hard to arrange with, there is so much waiting as this time is all filled up with weighty affairs. I can hardly realize that I am actually near the point of painting the King! the Romantic Albert, and yet the nearer I get to his Royal highness, the more collected I seem to be, After all these great world leaders are very human and simple, they would not have reached the positions they have attained were it otherwise. 

How are the precious children, my thoughts are with you and them all the time, and I know how intently you all await news of my experiences, I wish I could write of them more fully and adequately, but much will have to be left untold until we sit around the old fire side at Hewnoaks. Give love to the dear friends, I would like to write to all of them, but if I did I would do nothing else  tell them about me, and that I love to think of them,   With a heart full of love,
Affectionately Douglas

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I do hope Jerry is with you or will be soon
and that you have a car and will be careful, do get Wendell to ask for a good leave of absence, and now if I could only hear that Marion is there, how happy I would be.
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Transcription Notes:
* panama - hat, presumably, "that it doesn't get out of shape" * Hewnoaks - their house in Maine * Gerome or “Jerry” - son * Wendell- son * Marion - wife & daughter (unsure which is refernced here)