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dislike to have you display it.

I will be home on the 11th. Our University is to meet Berkeley on that evening, so that I shall be unable to be present at the Vermonter's. I have been elected vice-president of our Debating Society - a position of no little honor and of much influence. On that account I shall represent our Society at the Debate in the probable absence of the president.

With love from your boy "who is always going to say by his mother & comfort her"

Your son Jewell. (nobody else's)

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that you're not so tall yourself. On my poor shoulders must rest the reputation for the tallness of the Perry family. As for her being about Margie's size: she could wrap Margie up in napkin and put her in her pocket, and no one would know that "the other Mrs. Perry; the young one, I mean," (as the callers used to say) was inside her pocket.

I am glad to see ethat you have at last gotten over the foolish notion of worrying about me and the various friends who have