wrote. Finally, he tried being reasonable, addressing the Friedmans as a couple, through Elizebeth. “I am an old man going down hill; you are young people climbing up and it is for you to decide whether your opportunity lies at Riverbank or elsewhere.” He said he wanted to talk it over with Elizebeth in person, in Chicago, given the “rather unsatisfactory” and slow nature of mail. Elizebeth shot back in a letter, “I am inclined to agree with you that in most cases, correspondence is rather unsatisfactory. But with you I confess it has some advantages—for, you see, in conversation you insist on
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