Arthur, dear,

Where is Hal? And is he really going to be in this country
until the first of May? I haven't got the proof of my book yet myself,
the bestial printers are so ornery; but when I get it I'll send it on to
him, if you can tell me where he is. Weren't you cute, sliding off to
Iowa without calling me up again? ---Ah, well! Iowa is a good place for
ex-lawyers, and middle-aged poets, and other landed gentry! (Now will you
be bad!)

You knew darned well I was in Cincinnati when you wired me, ---honestly, when you and Hal get together you are perfectly ridiculous. But you are both nice and tall; which is something.

I have to give a reading up-town tonight, in place of Robert Frost, who has the flu, God save him. If you were here, I should ask your advice as to just what to wear, although I suppose I can't make them think me Robert Frost, no matter what I wear. Besides, you are never here, somehow.

That's all, I guess.

As ever, ---as far as I remember,

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Cailin Davison Fichao
228 West Third Street
Davenport,
Iowa

Arthur, dear, ---

I am indulging in a nervous break-down, a little one.
I shall be myself again soon---whatever that may be---but for several
weeks I have been somebody else. I don't refer to a temporary madness,
but rather to a temporary anaesthesia. You know how it is, old dear.
Too much City, I dare say. I spell it with a capital now, like the
Juggernaut, and other oppressive things.

Sweetest Love, you wouldn't lie to li'l' Edna, would you?
Of course, I believe in fairies, and all that.

But I hear that you are very fur-lined lately.

And I wonder.

'Twould be like you to be drawn towards a most unsuitable child.
Yet, of course, I believe in fairies; I can't deny that.

And many old ladies have been young to me.

It doesn't make any difference, either way.

But you wouldn't lie to me, would you, Sweetest Love?

I have sent the proof of my book to Hal in California. Somebody said
he was in New York a few days ago. Could that be?

I wanna go to China, too.

Arthur, dear, whoever it was that was so sweet to me, was terribly sweet.
I shall go into the country a little while, and get all rested. Tell her
that. Or keep it to yourself. You must have known, even if I am entirely
wrong, that I would think this, as a possibility.

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Cecilie Davis Fick, Eng.
228 West Third Street
Davenport,
Iowa