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Champaign Ill Mar 31st 02

My Dear Monte

Your letter recd this A.M. & Jeanette insists that I shall answer it this very hour. We were glad to get a line from you again. You are a dear kind boy to think of us in the way you do. & I fear sometimes you do more than you can afford. That phrase "strenuous life" that is quoted so freely by the papers now adays--appeals to me. & seems to express the atmospere I live in just now--Just a bustle &