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over alone – or come over at all before it is safe.

And when will it be safe?

Percy Grainger has this instant come in, in khaki, with his hair six inches shorter, on his way back from a concert in this neighborhood to New York – He is a bandsman in a military band, that may have to go to the front - He says that a safe way of crossing the Atlantic is by a Scandinavian line that calls at some port in the North of Scotland – you had better inquire –

My headquarters will be here, perhaps all summer, as I like the studio I have just got to work in - at the top of a skyscraper, with all the air that one can get – It is muggy and sultry here, but not unbearable so far –

Sometime or other probably in the autumn I shall have to go to Washington for a week or ten days to do the President – He can’t fix a date yet on account of Congress, but thinks it can’t be before September and even that is vague - I dare say you wouldn’t mind a few days in