.MTM0.MzE4MzA

stationery embossment ? NU? SaLPK? /embossment

Clinton W.C. Nov. 25th, '51 Dear Sister Jane,

 The object of my writing to you today is to scold you, to give you a real talking to, now dont say you dont deserve it, and try to plead off innocent, for you cant do it: you have earned it, and you richly merit a good long lecture.  Do you not begin to feel guilty, are you not sorry?  only think of it, leaving a poor sick sister, twenty six miles from home, three weeks without a letter.  Isn't it too bad?  Dr. says, write to her and give her a good scolding and put her in mind that there are folks in N.Y. state as well as in Mass., even if you have gone there.  I wish I could remember all he says, but I cant; for every evening when he comes from the P.O. and brings me the sad news of no letter he has something or other to say, and very often finishes with "tell her so, when you write."  if I could remember it all I rather think I should have no room to say anything else on the same sheet, so it is as well, perhaps, that my memory is poor.  You see the doctor lays all the blame on you and lets Mary go free, but I think she comes in for about an equal share.  he is not quite so well acquainted with her as he is with you, which, I suppose, accounts for it.  However, I think you stand upon the same ground and from your negligence deserve the same punishment.  Dr. has just been in, and wanted to know if I was writing to you; I told him, yes, and a real bad letter too: he said he didn't believe it, he didn't believe I would scold you at all.  he would change his mind if he only knew what I have written, but you think so?  Dear Jenny, I must confess, I cant scold you with all my