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which delights me. Florence Bentley
is here for a few days - the poor
child is painfully inert and undeveloped.
Dora came over last
eve, and I took a short drive
her carriage makes driving very
pleasant to me and she is most
kind about lending it. she is a
very sweet woman in many ways.
and always a lady. I shall be
so glad to see Jean again - I
miss his dear little presence very
much - I dreamed that she had
him in the studio on the way
home and he opened the door
& slipped out without thy noticing.
and thee could not find him - don't
that show the unnatural tension
of my mind. Just a month from
today, and I hope our second son
will be born. Lovingly Margie

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August 20th 1900.

My darling,
I had quite made up my
mind not to write to thee today
but the incompleteness of life
without some word to or from thee
impels me on. A heaven sent
change in the atmosphere last
night seems to make the world
a new and more lovable place
this morning - how woefully dependent
we are on external conditions.
the 2nd vol. of "Les Grandes
Dames" lies on my table. I had
thought not to read it, but there
is a some thing in octave
which attracts me despite his Don
Juan characteristics and I want
to see what Genevieve will do
with him