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Letter from Lillian Whiting to May Wright Sewall.

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WHITING, LILIAN MAR 9, 1917

March 9/17

Dearest May-

It does seem too bad that just as Time, Place, & Circumstance combine so beautifully - a vacacy, - even on your floor - & you there, & I wanting & needing to go to N.Y. - (was to have been a guest at the N.Y. Anthem Club tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon, & then spoken before an up-town Ethical Society on Sunday evening -- that with all this - I [?] not avoid saying of so [?] &

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delightful an opportunity. But I went into bed before six last night with hardly the strength to undress even - I am up, this afternoon, & go about my [move?] & I shall be speedily better - This [proving?] I begun having ultra-violetray -- high frequency - treatment -- from Dr. Strong - a specialist in Electro. Therupeutics - of the Chair of Electrical Science in Tuffts College - & even the are treatment helped me - I am to have another tonight - it is curious how this [?] bulb, lighted up with

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the brilliant violet color - playing over [arms?] chest & throat seems to penetrate to inner organs at once - taking hold of them like the touch of a hand - I should have been so glad to go - now - had it been possible - But I am always believing in the gospel of the second oppportunity & I do trust it may be so that I will be there while you are - Will you stay all the spring? I need to go over - & stay for a few months and least. -

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It is not like me to be ill - I don't know myself under such conditions.

Well -- what a tragic drama we are in -- the country -- What do you think? I feel sure that all the nations will merge - in time - in a civilization so beautiful - so much greater than we have ever dreamed - but between this time & that ---- What may lie? I have the greatest confidence in the president -- have not you?

I feel sure that -- by a felicitous turn - "a vacancy" -- I shall ere so very long be under the same roof with you -----

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This cough has really pulled me down to almost invalidism -- for the moment -- I can only with difficulty walk to the elevator ( I ---- who walk all our town --- always) --- but it cannot last.

Do you know Professor [Brine?]- [guard?] of the Public Library - I've no doubt that you do - but if not, - why I will enclose this card. He is a mystic - a thinker - one of the most charming of men.

Dear love to you -- Lilian

Have you [?] "Raymond"? It was on that

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