We are getting along about as usual. All hands pretty well. The shaving-stand you got for me is just the needed thing. It suits exactly. It compels the morning shave. Consequently, I have not missed shaving on any morning since I have possessed it. I thank you very much—& you may believe Livy does also.

We vastly enjoyed Mr. Slee’s visit—but you knew that before. We have had a letter from Mrs. Slee, & I hope she will come, too, next time.

Love to you & all the rest. —& punchⒶemendation up The about the telephone. I will sing you to sleep, nights, from the farm.

Livy disapproved of the other sheet of this letter, so I tore it up. She’s awful particular!

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I wish I could have been at your telephone exhibition. Your account gave me a very vivid appreciation of the marvels of the instrument—the most vivid of any I have had yet, I think.