8 may make your home with me and I will illustrate your articles That is well arranged surely Joanna is getting well quite
rapidly and we think she is going to get real well. Maggie is not as well as usual just now. Annie and Mother are about as
usual and so am I By this time they are all asleep but me and it is time I was sleeping too so good night I wonder if I shall
hear from you soon Love from all the sleeping ones and much from myself Affectionately your sis Mary in margin: 588 00795
5 books receive less of my attention than I like For some time I have been very busy- but it is so hard to dispose of pictures
underlined: these times that I have to work for little and so am not getting rich at all unless maybe in the practice and
training I have been crayoning portraits more than anything else deleted: for the in the past two years, although I have not
really neglected work in oil s I finished an oil picture 18 x 27 in. last Saturday It is a night scene a landscape It is from
one of Miss Cushman s pictures. I imagine you would think it good.