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June 16

Dear Mrs. Blake:

Please excuse us for not writing for so long. We had house guests. The wife of a couple we know in Binghampton, New York - old friends from Urbana - came down suddenly with her eight-year-old daughter. They are moving to New York and she was looking for an apartment and a school. She is one of those hyperactive people who stays up to all hours and talks constantly, and she was no help with the housekeeping - that is one of her peculiarities - so we (and particularly Doris) are worn out. Doris is exhausted - it is just after dinner (the guests left this afternoon) and she is getting some desperately-needed sleep. Tonight we were going to catch up on all the business we have left unattended these last three days, but at dinner she was like a sleepwalker and I haven't the heart to wake her up. She will finish this letter as soon as she does.

I hope at least your weather has improved, as ours has. Your troubles are indeed hard to bear, but you seem to be handling them very sensibly. I don't agree that you are easily taken