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How much étrennes shall I send you for the concierge? Or shall I have Amy go up & give it to her?

M. Thierry died suddenly last week & we went to his funeral on Monday. It was sad & we came home pretty tired as we had to go from the church way up to Père Lachaise. Mme Thierry & her son are much shaken by his death although it could have been expected at any time as he was nearly 85. 

We are getting on all right. Christmas was naturally a very quiet affair but the Danes had a little tree. All Danes have to have a tree. I think Christmas trees must have been invented by them three or four thousand years ago. 

The Stewarts are back from New York. They went over in October & got back Christmas day. When they arrived in New York, blasting was being done opposite their hotel for the cellar of a building that was to go up - a building