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Accept my most heartfelt and grateful thanks for your most generous and welcome xmas present to myself and our dear Lou. We intend to do just what you advise and wish us to do; spend it upon ourselves in getting necessary clothing, which both need. I cannot and have not made Xmas presents since my severe reverse of fortune, and it is a real disappointment to me that I was not able to give Xmas gifts to the few relatives and friends who have remained legal to me in our adversity. I have this satisfaction, though, that they all know just how I am situated and therefore I