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and pains, but is much better today

 And Thursday came your lovely and too generous basket of delicious fruit - which we wanted to thank you for but couldn't because we had on our hands several

hundred lettuce, cabbage, onion, cauliflower & broccoli plants and the beds weren't ready for them. Now that the old folks' home has been given up, we can't treat ourselves to the luxury of a "hired man" so I have to take his place. And after a long day's work on "the farm" one is in no shape for desk work. It is so cold today, I'm going to seize the opp. to get off some corresp.

  You ask about the Kelly's - I'll enclose some letters recd from them, which don't return: Other details I'll tell you viva voce, as it is quite possible letters are opened en route these days. But I doubt seriously