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letterhead 140 NORTH DEARBORN STREET CHICAGO

June 17 - 1928

Dear Mary You have forgiven me so many times for my negligence that I hope you will again. Since I wrote you or heard from you I have had a long journey. Have been to southern Italy Egypt and The Holy land. I thoroughly did Rome in a half a day. Saw St Peters and the foot print of Peter himself on the Appian way where Jesus met him after the aforesaid Jesus was dead and told him to go back to Rome which he unclear done Saw plenty of other trinkets and things and then hied me to Naples. Then I spent a week gazing upon the bay of Naples, at Vesuvius and the other mountains around it. The most wonderful panorama I ever saw, I could lie and draw forever looking across the bay of Naples. It is not our unclear which reminds me of a naughty story I read about a girl a virgin with a unclear curiosity who finally managed to get it satisfied and remarked to a friend to whom of course she unclear that it was the most over advertised experience she had ever known. From Naples I went to Egypt which is really wonderful (over)