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Stoddard, Mrs.Elizabeth Drew (Barstow) to Mrs. Julia Dorr

329 E 15

Dear Julia

I am in dead earnest when I say that half the enjoyment
of your visit will be taken away if that dreadful perversity
Senses Dorr does not come with you. He can come. We expect to
lose this home on the 1st May and go to a tenement house, or
worse a boarding house or the most obsecure country place, and I
shall not be able to entertain even myself. Let him bring his
business with him.

If he still persists in his delusion, let him bring you
and stay as long as he can,and leave you here. I am selfish
about it. At any rate we shall be enjoyable with each other. Have
you seen Old Mrs Dink's doings in the three magazines for Jan?
The Atlantic poem is beautiful. I declare that man is a hero--
never free from grinding pain his intellect is a clear and calm
as ever. No one besides curselves ever knows how he suffers in
mind and body, in mind simply because the future offers only hard
labor, and most uncertain recompense. He had a fight with Scrib-
ner's yesterday and sacred the mean souls in the firm,but Armstrong,
senior partner, who is a man,told him he was right,and that he
should have his rights. They used his name without asking him on
the French vol of the BricaBrac, which he refused to edit,because
they wanted him to take half price,being a translation: Oh this
dirty earth.

All this from the Stoddards
to the Dorrs

Envelope addressed to Mrs Julia R.Dorr
Rutland Centre
Rutland
Vermont