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                                    December 15th, 1955


Dear Wilbur:

Now that Christmas is near I want to take time out to write a few letters to my good friends. I feel that a letter is much nicer than any old Christmas card. 

It's a blustering evening but I feel cozy and snug as I seat here typing this letter by the fire, sort of half listening to the radio and sipping a double Martini. I only wish you were here to join me in one but since you are not, the least I can do is toast your health and happiness, so time out while I bend my elbow to you.

I also took time out to mix another Martini and while I was out in the chitcken I thought I might as well drink it out there and mix another out there and in so doing I feel I'm beginning to feel pretty hih. It's funny how a cold dring can warm up your stomahc and insprie your thoughs isn't it? I must have been sitting to close to the fire for I startew feel a littet dizzy so I mixed another Martini and nowmy head fels a clear as a bell agin/ O you can9t beat the combnation of good gin vermouth and stiffed olives, beer and squoth and bourban are allrighr but you can't beat gin ermouth with even pickeld onsions. 

Now i like alittet dring now andthen and I have tak a foruth or maybe afifth and I am more than evew convincde that any man shqe doesn8' is stufid and not inth proer sprit/ O icould drinh Matrinis alday and nefer quibber an etelash an be so sworse a citizeb that I ws vebor. LThis country isgood as it evew was. We al know tazes are higt, but still we arewell off in Mézico. 

Say dese Matrunis isallrighr, when wev neded stinualhys we sure do even in some people don8t like ti who are blunooses and its a pretty kinf of a kettlfish is i can't drinj a toatst to old friend. O i could dronk matrinis by the quaet to yourr haelth all night and still pass anu so sobrity ats sos heres again to your healtj. xMqerry cxrisPmasQ.

Afectnatly urours,