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and force myself to behave & be gentle & less critical. What has happened to your eyes? Did you inspire them in some way? I hope you have found a good oculist & not some quack. Bill Stribling has just had both appendixes cut out. The operation was a very bad one& he is seriously ill, though Margaret wrote as though the danger were past. Yes, I shall be right here all summer, & as soon as a carpenter can be gotten I shapp arrange for a work-bench out under the trees as my rooms faces south & would be too hot to work in later. In fact I am afraid I shall be here until a year from next May or June. I had hoped that the Redding house would be ready to receive me by January-because they have begun on the house now-but it seems that as the furniture from the N.Y. house & whatever is now in storage is to be moved in there, that the decorating will take until spring to accomplish after the house is finished sometime during the winter. I am ever so sorry, because while the country is pretty around here, it is s till not house life & as soon as you grow to like someone they go off either well or ill to sample something else. What are you working at now? The tile-work? Don't get one of your non-writing states of mind on, please. This long & finely written epistle is going off without being reread & corrected, so please excuse the mistakes which will doubtless be in it. Did I send you a crazy phot of me standing on a toboggan and another on skis? I meant to & I can't remember whether I did or not. With much love to the Brush-pack (Does Mary remember me?) & very kind regards to Robert, Yours most affect. Jean L. Clemens