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Stoughton Nov 14th 1920

Dear Doris

The check was received and I shall use it to buy the ribbon for those ties, for there is no charge for making those night robes. you were right there was plenty of room in them for you both to grow, but the ones Lena made shrunk terribly, and so did my boughten one that I am wearing now,& they don't wear so well, nor feel as comfortable on. We were both of us hovering around the stove last Friday night, trying to get warm, and the wind blowing a gale outside, only our kitchen fire going, for it came on so sudden. When Lena walked in with her new hat, it was bright red, it is quite becoming though she is out in the kitchen pressing out her last winters suite, she has put it off till the last minute as usual. Georgie Perkins is making over lots of things for her. her mother is very low and not expected to live thru the day. I was cleaning my sitting room Thursday and Friday my room, so when Pa came home at noon and saw my line full of rugs and carpets, say he was fit to be