Viewing page 33 of 75

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

2 West 57th Street.

Dear Gertrude

You are the meanest girl I have ever seen. You send the Valentine according to our agreement & a letter with it with the best part cut out. It must be the best part or it wd. not be cut out. 

Last Saturday - Rollie being away, Papa having dinners, the servants in bed & Harry & the lonely old house passing the long evenings together. 

Solitude is not always what it is made out to be by some writers. 

So if at any time you feel meditative & the meditations be not of too private a nature, entrust them to paper & let them people this empty house with thoughts & fancies which, you know, will be more acceptable than many hiring presences & will make bright the midnight hours.

Yrs
Harry P. Whitney