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Leona Farms,
Cary, Illinois.

July 31, 1936.

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Dear Tom:

Thanks very much for your good wire. I returned from Kansas City late last night to find word that things looked as if I would be free to go to the coast. In view of the fact that your friends have left and there is no great rush, I plan to fly out Tuesday night (arriving Wednesday) unless something unforeseen should intervene. In my complicated life I can never tell what may happen or where my lucky (?) star will lead me from day to day. So unless you hear to the contrary, you may expect me in sunny California on Wednesday and will call you in the morning. 

I do appreciate tremendously your helping me with your friends, and I shall be delighted to advise them on any subject while in Paris, even at this great distance. Perhaps also, Mr. Seligmann can be of some help over there, but in any case we can talk this over when I see you. I do hope that I will be able to see some of the collections you have mentioned in your previous letters. Imerely [[I merely]] mention this now because I thought a day or two notice is always more satisfactory, and I remember that you were good enough to say that you would arrange this for me.

Do you think I could see Mrs. H. P. Russel, the Crockers, Mrs. Armstrong Taylor (the lady you are going to tell me the story about), Miss Harriet Levy, Edmond Herrscher, and others? I know the Fleishackers whom I met in New York this year, and I know the Ehrmann offspring very well in New York. Anyway we can chin about all this when I see you.

Helen (my wife) will not be with me as she has to go to New York to see the architect about our new house which we have taken for five years; but she will probably join me late on.

Best wishes, thanks again, and I am looking forward very much to see you and that amazing state that I have heard so much about all my life. 

As ever,


Mr. Thomas C. Howe,
California Palace of the Legion of Honor,
Lincoln Park,
San Francisco, Cal.

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