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[[in pencil]] Dec. 18/94 [[/in pencil]]

Dear Clara,
  I want to give you a Christmas present, and I'm so afraid of not choosing what you prefer!  Why shouldn't I just consult you?  I think of a canoe like Parson's yet that might prove an expense to you in the end in transportation.  I have put aside in my mind fifty dollars

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or rather, comical as it appears I would send you the check now to get it with when the Season comes.
  How stupid and tactless I am! but I glory in friendships that are beyond question of tact don't you? -
  Write me, and don't make any trouble about taking anything from me - I have by the way an "arc of mind" [[left margin]] & no longer want the [[dress?]] [[/left margin]]

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that I didn't mean to leave to the end. viz-could you give the time to pose at a N.Y photographer Christmas week under my eyes for a Minerva?
Yours [[affectionately?]]
A.H.T.

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