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Her books stand next to yours, and along with Jane Austen and E.H. Young and Ethel Sidgwick. Christmas I can't quite face this year, the world is too much with us early and late. It is a comfort to have friends, but no fun being eighty with no grandchildren, and in a body that is not what it might be. However, with our young manhood & womanhood sacrificing to the limit, I have no complaint. I have had my life! My kindest regards to your sisters three, Sincerely your friend, Samuel M. Ilsley. I