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does the same. Mother and Father did the same, always. In Hartford, if Father went away, say, Tuesday morning, with the intention of coming back Wednesday, they exchanged a letter. And when we were in Paris & Father spent the greater part of the winter of 1893 in New York; attending to some business (the robbing of and bankrupting of the publishing-house, of which Father was really the head, by his nephew by marriage who conveniently died before he was discovered), the mail came in twice a week, invariably containing three or four letters each for Mother. 
Do write me a list of your various ages. I simply cannot keep them straight. 
Sold any of my carving? Oh, mercy, no. Everyone is as poor as a church mouse this year and artists are suffering. Even