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Then I did not wait for consequences but took some medicine at once. To-night [[?]] sup lightly, so I may get away with everything.

I wish that Doris would take up illustrating nature magazines. She not only has the art ability and good taste for the work, but she knows so uch about the birds, flowers, insects, animals, etc. and has a sympathetic appreciation of them that will make her work outstanding. And is the kind of work - rather than the scientific - that I think she would most enjoy. She does the other so well, I [[?]] wonder she got absorbed by it, but I have always felt that she [[mis?]] adopted to be an artist of one kind or another. I had thought of her writing. Maybe she will [[?]]

The clip of the foliage plant I brought back in my hand bag [[?]] [[?]] [[mos?]] time is now a large thrifty plant with branches of every leaf [[seen?]].

Doris work too steadily on your sewing. Save a little for days to come. [[?]] is fine to  have the longer days? Hope to get another good letter from you soon.

Lots of love, 
Lena.

Tel. Stoneham
0827-R

I am sending one of my violets I have had quite a number blossom inside.

15 Keene St., Stoughton, Mass.,
February 22, 1935.

Dear Mrs. Holmes,

I intended to write you last week, but for some reason, which I do not now remember, I let the time for doing so slip by.

Yesterday I went down town to meet Ruth White Hyatt, and take her a little "mother and Daughter" plant-like the one I gave [[?]] that day you called out here to see me. By the way, it has just occurred to me that you did well to remember my street address off hand. I hope that you do it again.

I gave Ruth a leaf of the plant the day that she called on me dorm at Chestnut Street, but if did not live, so this time I started it in a tiny pot for her. If ought to grow for her, and I guess it will. She is looking well. I asked her if