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Dec 28 1906

1 West 121st Street,
New York.

Darling Girl

I have felt quite miserable the last few days. I have a mean cold and one of my teeth has been hurting me. The combination was not nice at all. However I think the cold is better and I am going to the dentist in the morning. It looks to me like an infected tooth but my face has not swollen up yet. When I feel miserable I always think of you so hard and wish that you were near me. How I would love to see you this very minute. You are so sweet.

I have decided to go to Briarcliff for over Sunday and go to Newburgh on Monday to spend New Years. I would much rather go to Newburgh for the whole time but these others are friends I see very little and I suppose I ought to keep up with them. You know the time to make friends and keep them is when you are young.

I saw a very sweet play last night called Clarice. I don't know whether you have ever seen William Gillette. He is very good. Well in the play there is a young lady almost nineteen who is a ward of a man about forty. He is a doctor and she has always helped him and sometimes gone to make calls on patients with him. All runs very well till her aunt tries to get her away from the doctor. She tries every way possible because she thinks the girl ought to go into society and marry some young man but the girl won't leave the doctor and says she would rather die 

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