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[Letterhead] DARROW, BAILY & SISSMAN Lawyers 1202 Ashland Block Chicago

Clarence S. Darrow Jacob L. Baily Peter Sissman Telephones Central 925 Automatic 44139

          Dec 6th  [1915]

Dear Mary

 If I could write letters as you can, I would write all the time, and if you knew how I like to get them & read them you would send them to me. Really no one can write as you do & it is always a joy to get them.
 Life runs on the same way with me, most of the time is spent trying to get some poor person this or keep them out & I often think it does no good for the everlasting flood mens in one of a hundred doesnt? amt - Shall what does do good, & if here & there you can help one specific case it may be just as good

as good as working unstintingly for is cause which recedes as fast as you approach it. What an everlasting engima is life, & how we do get lost in its dark maze - No wonder do we plant our feet in something that seems like solid ground than we find the sand shifting under us & we look for something else. I wonder how much of truth, these