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image of hotel building letterhead 350 Rooms with Bath Telephone Watkins 7060 Cable Address - Cartotel Permanent and Transient HOTEL CARTERET 23rd Street At Seventh Avenue New York City Col. Franklyn D. Morgan Managing Proprietor end letterhead

in pencil Marion about May 1932 Sunday

Dear Charles.... I am writing you, as you see, on stolen stationary.  For a long time I have been 

thinking - of the shame in it that our communications have grown so thin -

 Knowing well enough Charles that it is my own fault  My own crowded life - my effort to get work

done- doing so little.

 There have been times when I might have come to see you. I did not like to ask you to come to

Baltimore, perhaps just for a brief hour of talk. Your presence is felt of course constantly in your work I have. There was the painting over the mantle in the living room - at Maurice's house - before he died. His son has it now. Perhaps you never heard the story of that house. After he died - of the mysterious murder done in the house. The story is too