RD07848

February 16th, 1918.

Mrs. Rene E. H. Stevens,
New York City.

Dearest Rene:--

I got back to town yesterday after a
week out in the country and found your telegram which had
been here several days, waiting for me.

Mrs. Pyle, I believe, telegraphed
you last night, in anser to it and I am trusting that we
are not too late. You don't know how happy it makes
me to think that we will, perhaps, be working together
this summer. I can not bear the idea of your not doing
suffrage work, while there is so much need for you. I
am very proud of all the honors to which you have attained,
while I was in Rochester reverting to type, simply being a
clinging vine again, for a period of two weeks. Truly I
believe that that two weeks prolonged my life for a few
years, as I just about reached my limit. I was very
interested to hear about your daughter's marriage. Trust
that she will not have to part with her young husband, as
soon as she fears. Poor little Nance is all broken up
now, because her husband has been transferred again to the
cavalry in which he has his commission, and is ordered to th
front. He wrote her that he knew she would not want him
to refuse a commission, with the opportunity it gave him
to serve at a post of danger, which only proves that he
doesn't know her half as well as I do, because she says she
has gotten to the point where she doesn't care much about
the world or what happens to it, if only the war will stop
and let Jim come home.

Well, Rene, Dear, we will talk about
every thing after you get here, and I will try to be in
Huron to meet you.

With very much love, yours as ever

[Mrs. McMahon]