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Did you get your Aunt Anne's
letter dear at New York?

How do you like France, Edward,
my dear? Many letters which I see
give charming accounts of it. I hope
that you will find it equally charming
and come back charged with pleasant
experiences. Perhaps you will stay at
one of the beautiful old chateaux
of France as a number of the
Billings boys seem to have been billeted
in them. Some of these having
been built centuries ago. There is romance
about such an abiding place.

Hoping that you will write soon
and praying that all good may attend you.

I miss my dear Edward,
your loving grandmother Susanna Panton Rixon.