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Elm Cottage Hudson July 19th/68 My dear sister: Abby, my dear, it did as much good to hear you scold it did Mary Tyler when she was so homesick, and went home and cried all the time till her mother began to scold, and she said "it sounded, so good". So I thought the tone of your letter sounded so good, so like old bygone's, that I was half tempted to do something to make you scold some more. But as to writing, I can't endorse your proposition of writing "two or three letters to your one" al all. Because you must reasonably conclude that I want to hear from you as often as you from me. And by endorsing your proposition it would simply imply that I wished to hear from you only half or two thirds as often - which would be absurd in the extreme written down left hand side of page