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[first page missing]] 2 I resolve and prepare to beat this heat but the merciless sun rises and beats me and my resolutions and bravery melt away. Last Friday I had to take a winter landscape to this gallery - a landscape the Book-of-the-Month wishes to reproduce- and use as a greeting card - for the Christmas Season. Mr. Melkin who lectures on art in West Palm Beach happened to be in the gallery - and he told us that the heat in Florida is unbearable. His report coincided with its reference to the heat and the consequent mold trouble you are having, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] which you described in your last letter, I was terribly sorry and he told me that you expect to come north sooner than you had planned. I think you are wise to have changed your plans. The heat here is intense but not so steady or constant as in