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Home.Dear Gertrude,
I would not trouble you with any more of my notes or letters but really it seems almost necessary.
I want to ask you if you will please not write me any more unkind sarcastic words. I would not say anything about it, but I am feeling so badly now about something that it seems as if I couldn't bear it.
We expected Auntie home this week in a state of good health that she had not known for many years. But just as she was ready to start on her drive through the Mts. last Sat. she fell down a flight of hard wood stairs and broke her leg. She has suffered terribly and will have to stay away up there for weeks if not months. She is so dependent on the fresh air that it always makes her sick to lie in bed.
I did not go to her because some one must stay here at the house. My Uncle is with her also and a splendid nurse. He feels terribly and if Auntie has anything the matter with her we are all wretched. We hear daily from her, but it is so hard to have her away up there. I know you will feel sorry for me.
I was about to send you the book, but hope you will find it in Phila. It is published by E. P. Dutton & Co. W. 23rd St New York.
Very truly yrs
Carrie