Letter from Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard to Edmund Clarence Stedman

14 April 1897 Dear Stedman, Dick tells me to send you the enclosed, and to add that he is tearing his hair with griefhe is comital to see Edgar Saltus praise Edgar [?] and Edgar [?] praise Edgar Saltus. I can't tell you how happy [ ?]is. it makes me afraid - he is very busy, yesterday a California manager came here and was closeted with him - he has had another application

for [?] from England and it looks as if he were really on the road. As for me I have had a fine spell, final a dreadful cold, when that inter-costal neuralgia - fine isn't it. It would be good to see you - and to find you well and [?] Ever your EDBS