Sunday
My very dear Miss Addams --
Max & I were much pleased to be remembered with an invitation to your banquet. He proudly assured me it was his invitation as well. How I wish we might be there! I can hear the many old & young ones vying with one another in their flowery efforts to tell you how lovely you are. Be sure your heart can stand the many thrills you are going to have! Not that you are not used to banquets & tributes & the like, but they aren't half often [enough]. It is so much more the way to wait until one leaves these parts.
I am sure you know how much I appreciated your remembering me with the H-H glimpses. As I sit here in our living-room on a there is a book shelf where we look most & you can't imagine what I have on it -- only this, your old picture [page 2] (The L. H. Journal one), then one of the little H.H. etchings, then a photograph of Tolstoy, then another H.H. etching & then a very good likeness of Abraham Lincoln. So there you are in a row, I hope enjoying one another's society. Books above you, below you, to the right & left.
I am ashamed to say this is my first Christmas letter. Mrs Bowen was good [enough] to really write me something of herself & I mean to tell her how good it was to really hear from her. Jessie promises us a visit soon so then I'll really get some news.
We feel the news of Mr Hamill's death we found in the N.Y. paper yesterday. Max told me of his visit with him lately. I always so hoped she might not be the one left. She is so frail & somehow so dependent with her deafness.
Aren't you the greatest the way you put all these physical disabilities behind you! I'll never forget the day you had a half dozen teeth out & came home & went right on with the everlasting correspondence. [page 3]
Max always urges me to go with him on his Chicago business trips but I haven't anyone to leave with the children. I may be overzealous at it but I see nothing better to do than to be on the job when they are this age. We haven't had a cold yet this winter & went three & half years without a Dr. seeing one of the four ↑save for [some annual] [overhaulings?] when well↓ and it pays in the end. But Max & I have poured [enough] pennies into medical & surgical coffers to make up for it. Just now I find myself with half my money to him due to intestinal cut ups etc & it is a real nuisance.
Max is quite fit provided he rests [enough]. He often has a day in bed in the the end of the week to rest.
This has been a wonderfully beautiful winter's day. We can with difficulty get to our nearest town but we enjoy the beauty & out of doors here.
Many thanks for your kind [thoughts fine?] & a heart full of love always Lucia F. R.
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