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Friday Night.

Dear Folks,

Your letter and the enclosures came to-day.  Thank you very much for all of them.

I am sorry that you have to stick to the house so closely.  It makes it very hard for you.  I am sorry too that Mr. Holmes takes things so unhappily.  Anyone who has worked as hard has he has his whole life long and been so good to everybody ought, it would seem, to be happy in [[strikethrough]] ther [[/strikethrough] his later years.  I do hope that he will get over the feeling sometime that everything is wrong, and enjoy peace for a while.