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CHERRY CROFT.
Dear Mr Stoddart
It was a great pleasure to me to receive your letter and I shall certainly call and see you when I am in the city But I am over head and ears on a novel that is to be done by August first and do not expect to leave it a day until it is completed But what is to hinder Dorothy & you travelling
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up to Cornwall some day. I would like to talk to you and see your face again. I often think of you not only when "The Era" comes but at other times. I hope if I am in New York this winter to see a good deal of you. I have heard much of the beauty of your daughter Dorothy & I doubt not she is as good as she is fair. I am going to