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12 EAST EIGHTH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10003

Dearest darlings-

So late! Forgive! What a lonely and exquisitely wrapped package you sent! I was fascinated by color schemes, labels, all. As to contacts, Helen, the gloves are superb and they are a universal size [[strikethrough]] style [[/strikethrough]], easily fitting over my swollen arthritic finger. What a useful and also beautiful thing to receive. As for Pete's and Lorser's sweet things, I sure smell good. You know me well with my perfume craze, and you know how to satisfy it perfectly.

I too have tried to phone you several times without success. But I do love you and think of you very much. I have been too busy socially, as well as with the perennial museum staff, with the result that I can't call my soul my own. Now things are about to calm down, thank God. Fun was added but the pace made more frantic by the fact that I went away for ten days over Christmas-New Years. It was a gesture of independence (since it was