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145 Dartmouth St
Boston
Mass

Dear Joe

I started a letter of some dozen or sixteen pages to you the other day but was interrupted before finishing it, and it lay about my studio for nearly a week, last night I read it over and was so astonished and disgusted to think that I could have possibly written such weary trash that I tore it up and cast it in the fiery furnace.

Last night I had the pleasure of dining with Minty Taber and his sister and this evening Taber was good enough to dine with me at the Tavern Club.  Miss Florence looked particulary charming I thought and had on the most fascinating