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1913 1 Martinez, Apr. 3, 1913. Dear Mrs Hooker, I'm glad you're all going to take a travel rest It will help to blot
the past and heal cruel heart-sores. Marian too will get the rest she so sorely needs and has so bravely won. For faithfull
Ellie too the trip is just right I would enjoy going with you, but enjoyment of this sort has never been mine and I suppose
never will be. all perhaps for the best. I would like to see Athens and Rome a few of the Greenland and Antarctic ice-floods;
then I'd willingly let my legs rest. I like the little picture you sent better than the one I have framed. but both are impressively
bad Strange is it not