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1420 Octavia Street New Orleans December 26, 1940 Dear Eleanor and dear Sherwood.- All of Christmas day I was thinking about you. Lucille told me when I got back from a Florida fishing trip about Mrs. unclear death. I was shocked and made very unhappy. I don't know why, shocked, because I knew that lately she had not been too well; but; I don't know; there was something about her, something in her personality that made her seem so spiritual, so, in a sense, immortal, as thought she never could die. She wasn't altogether. For I knew I'll always remember her. But unclear-Ripshin? and Marion will be lonely for you. I'm so sorry, and send my sympathy. I feel as if I too needed comforting. So I can tell how hard her