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Preserve! 570 Park Ave. Telephone Regent 4-8354 IMAGE *W*S*C* Dearest Irene; I’ve let myself in for a lot of hot parties and dinners, and this home is only half done, so it looks as if I'll never have time to write a real letter again. (Five days later) Since I began this note Myra Hess and the Menuhins (the whole family have arrived, so I am more frantic for time than ever. But this I do underlined want you to know, dear, that I have a home, that it looks like a somewhat glorified Bank Street, and that we have Josephine back! The old original Josephine, somewhat subdued by misfortunes, but with all her bubbling southern nature still in force,–and a better