Vassar College
Poughkeepsie N.Y.
March 2, 1899
My dear Lucy,
It is because you are my very best-beloved friend and such a cruel distance away that it becomes a comfort to address you by your dear name.
There is a great void in this place as long as you are not here and I have been able to only half rejoice today when everybody was in a state of jubilee. If you were here and well and enjoying life then I could be as merry as the
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