What a nasty letter I wrote you the other day. I started out to tease and didn't quite accomplish my purpose. "If you were here you would be telling me what to think of New York" I said. That was beastly.
It was unnecessary because if it was true at all it is only true in a meaningles superficial way. I have been so influenced to good by you. I have never been influenced in anything second-rate. You are an egoistical brute but that is your great sensitiveness - I do very deeply love you.
I was startled to hear that Paul was already in the army. He is at a station near Washington and I am going to Washington to see him next Saturday and Sunday. He begged me to come and offered to pay my R R fare. He can afford