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in pencil in top margin Bartlett Dec 28 '40

letterhead PRIVATE OFFICE HOTEL FARRAGUT KNOXVILLE, TENN.

Saturday Dear Monte - We came home to a sad Christmas. Eleanor's mother a very beautiful and remarkable woman, we all loved, had been found dead in her bed. It is a grand way to die and she was old and tired but something inside her never had tired. Her death wrecked us. Monte dear, your confession of love is the finest Christmas gift I could have. I shall hang it up on a peg in my inner mind