CaryNorman18650920_003

Answers to remarks in letter.
I will buy the atlas but not as a birthday present
for all the furniture etc. are birthday presents
I thank Alice for the gold pen gift but hesitate
about accepting it. I expect to pass my 16th.
birthday in the cellar of Latin Common No 4.
splitting + sawing wood. By referring to the
Almanac I see that it comes on Sunday so I retract.
The [Equinortial?] storm raged here from Monday
morning until Tuesday noon. Monday morning it
was 48[degrees] with rain + NE wind + cold. At noon 48[degrees]