Livy darling, I hope you are resting, & getting well of your cough, & that you will become cheerful & not feel lonely. Remember, you have the dear children with you, & the immortal Jean, & are heaps better off thatⒶemendation I am. And then I am coming back, as soon as I can, & then we shan’t be separated again soon.

I called & saw Ida, but the children were already abed, I judge, as it was about 9. Charley was gone over the river to meet Ida’s sister, so I did not get a chance at him. Ida said Charley was feeling pretty fine, to-day, & so she herself was in good spirits—her spirits go up & down with his. She was bright & cheerful & full of talk. I was sorry to have to cut my visit short & see so little of her; but I must get up at 7 in the morning. Sue is at the Murray Hill with a heavy sick headache; if I had only known she & Theodore were there I would have stopped as I passed by from the station.

Good-bye, & love to mother & the children, & a world of it to you, sweetheart.