s Sarah is
lookin right peaked and not near so buxo as formally. All of us
ladies and gentlemen of African scent is rejicing that you will
soon go down into the deep waters and return again once more to
Kaintucky. No more at present. Plese excuse blots and a bad pen.
Lewis wushes me tow add that he done furnished the stamp fer this
here pistle.

Aunt Mary lows she aint long fer this here world but I knows she is
still got the strenth tow make other colord folks work.

With umblest respecks,

CAROLINE JACKSON.

* * * * *

From Miss Julia Kean to Mrs. Edwin Green.

Molly Darling:

All day I sing: "What's this dark world to me? Molly's not here."
When the wedding breakfast was over and you and your Edwin were
really gone, we all of us collapsed like busted balloons. Polly
Perkins was cheerful beside the rest of us. He says he always cries
at weddings. I believe he is thinking of Josephine Williams and
weeps because he knows she never will marry him. I don't blame Jo,
but I do feel sorry for Polly.

Your Mother and I are plunged into getting the Bents' studio in
order for them. We are determined that they shall find it as
shining as they left it. What a place it has been for us and how we
have enjoyed it!

The d'Ochtes will soon go back to Normandy. They have asked Kent
and me to visit them during the summer. Won't that be grand?

I have seen Frances Andrews several times. I never did see any one
improve as she has. I think it is your influence but I know you
will say it is the angle at which I am looking at her. I believe
Philippe d'Ochte is really becoming very much interested in her. I
wonder what Cousin Sally will think. I fancy she will think poor
Frances a far cry from her choice for her son, namely: our own
Molly. I still think it is a pity we can't keep La Roche Craie in
the family, but I see no way to do it.

Pierce Kinsella is painting like mad on a portrait of your mother.
He says he has been crazy to paint her from the moment he laid eyes
on her on the steamer. She says she rather likes posing because it
means she can sit still and think. We have been in such a whirl
that it might be some comfort to sit still, but I fancy I'd get
enough of it in a half hour sitting.

Pi