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73 Avenue Kleber,
Paris, March 27th/97

E.C.S.
My dear old friend,
I breakfasted with your handsome Ted this morning and with all his tribe in the rue de Bassane.
After our modest carousel was ended, I was solemnized into a religious frame of mind by reading in a Boston newspaper your recent essay
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on Ruth and Boaz.
I have known you for than 40 years in more than 40 characters - suffragist - journalist- lecturer- historian - traveler - prophetess - materfamilias - housekeeper - patriot-nurse - baby tender- cook - milliner - lobbyist -
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parliamentarian - statistician - legislator - philosopher - tea= pourer - story=teller - satirist - kite=flyer - ches=player - and I know not what else but I now think that, after all, you shine chiefly as a theologian!
Go on, O sacred scribe and commentator!
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I always find a pious satisfaction in reading everything that comes from your biblical pen!
If Hattie, Maggie and Bob are at present under your roof, [pls] tell them that I send them my friendliest regards.
As for yourself, O mother in Israel, I send my humble wishes for an interest in your prayers!
Ever yours as gold,
T.T.