Letter from Grace E. Hall to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway

March 12th 1896 High Noon My Dearest Your sweet Monday night letter reached me this morning as I started rather early for my lesson. With it came Daddy's saying I need not be home so early as I had planned. I shall probably delay a few days as there seems no hurry but my dear Clarence, do not on any account let any thing interfere with

your much needed holiday. I shall probably not be home until the 11th or 12th of April. I beg of you - do just as you have planned dear, that is of the first importance. Lunch time, more later - It is now long past midnight - but dear love, must chronicle a few words. Mr. Lorey called this afternoon and invited me to dinner and the theater afterward. I accepted, and have just bidden

him goodnight at the door below. And, oh so much has happened that I think I had better tell you than write. Clarence, he is absolutely trustworthy, and he loves Alice Oh, how I have worked tonight for her, and I dare not tell her because it would spoil the sweetness of the story to come from other lips. I will tell you all about it when I come home, you could not understand on paper

Well, dear, dearest one, a tender loving kiss from your tired out little Woman.

Froom G.E.H. 169 East 63rd St New York City

Clarence E. Hemingway 500 N. Oak Park Ave. Oak Park, Cook Co. Illinois