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Pacific Grove, California, Dec'r 10, '08 Dear Uncle John: Many thanks for your big Christmas present, and many more
for your kind thought of us all. There is so much I hardly know what to do with it but just now I think I'll keep it a while.
It is lovely to know you have a little of the needful in case of an emergency. I wish very much you could think you could
come to P.G. if only for a few days - think of the pleasure it would give Mother to have two whole brothers to come and see
her. And you three could wander along this rocky shore and if you 04336