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Why can't you get some sort of secretary who will write your letters and do all that sort of thing for you?
I know you won't have a man secretary; but there are lots of women now who can write shorthand and typewrite.

You could doubtless get one in the clan--someone with a desire to better herself.

I know you would make her happy here.

If she is not too young, all the better; she will have learned to hold her tongue and mind her own business, and not be too inquisitive.
That would be a nuisance when we are finding our way about in a new country and trying to reconcile all sorts of opposites in a whole new country with new people, whom at first we shan't understand, and who certainly won't understand us; where every man carries a gun with as little thought of it as he has of buttons! Good-bye for a while.
Your loving RUPERT.
_From Rupert Sent Leger_, _Vissarion_, _to Janet MacKelpie_, _Croom_.
_February_ 3, 1907.
I am back in my own room again.