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do the kind of work that I personally prefer to do, or something else which seems to be more necessary in the big scheme, it will be the ultimate [?] I shall be waking for, with personal preference negated as much as possible. I was dissapointed at finding nothing in Mr. Whitehead's offer for you. The more I see of N.Y. the more I realize that one must have a real position be fore he should (or she should) come to
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live. I think your parents need have no fears of your coming to N.Y. Not that I should have advised you not to come had there been a position for you. As things stand I can advise you no more than I have already. Miss Mir rielees had left for Chicago before I arrived in N.Y. so I didn't get to see her. I hope to hear
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that Mr. James has accepted you in his course.
Goodbye sweetheart for the present. When the roar of the City diminshes a little and the rest of the fellows have gone to bed - it is now after one AM. - I shall feel your lips pressing mine and hear your heart throbbing near me, and I shall remember ways you have looked when I have been with you, and I shall think of you as my Edna - my great little woman.
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worthy of me, and I shall be worthy of her. And my word to you in parting now, Edna, will be to - no, it shant be wise and [sage?] ad vices - it shall simply be that it is the great little woman that is you, whom I love, and whom in my loving her, and she me, will be my influencial star.
