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happiness warming in the world. I certainly do
love this child of yours and mine tho. And
mother and father, he has done so brilliantly
out there in the East. Doubtless you have
been seeing the cables and the grand send
off they have given him in an introductory
paragraph to the first of them. But the poor
kid paid for his glory in bad discomfort -
his throat came on again & he had fever
to such an extent that he took quinine as
a part of his diet. And the bites - he was
covered with them - bad ones - and there are
a lot of small ones still not faded out. Had
to have his hair cut very short to get the
animals out! Besides all that he had loads
of work to do and very little money to do it
with and found few people to hobnob with
- no encouragement from anybody and feeling
so ill! In addition my letters were never received
on account of postal stupidity and oh dear
we both felt pretty bad. But now its all
over and we're together again and I've
done tons of things to improve the apartment
and he's crazy about it. He brought me a
chain of great heavy worry beads - and one
amber, big beads, with black coral and silver