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letterhead RIPSHIN FARM TROUTDALE, VA.

FEB 193? ? Corpus Christi, Tex. Dear Jim.

  We certainly didn't 3 unclear words mother, after coming so far South.   It was hot & rainy the last days in New Orleans and as soon as we got here a cold wave struck this event.
  As a result no 2 unclear words for me, a rotten cold that has laid me low.  It's hell.   The ?, 7 years make them great slaves, work to be done etc. only to see them blow up.
  Am sending back Paul's little book and also 3 unclear words Reader."  How ? and terrible we are.  Paul's play touches about the absolute in that.
  In the ? I took I was particularly struck by the ? on the Russian countess.  It seems to me that she has been ? something I hadn't seen ? before, all of the ? of things you know in your heart