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I wanted to go down the Red Sea to Hadida but it will be
too warm and I have not the time. I believe I told
you that the Government pays my transportation expenses.

When I return, unless you telegraph that you have
concluded to come, I will go and rest at some cheap
place in Switzerland for from 30 to 60 days, for I
assure you, that though stouter and heavier, than I
have been for 6 years I need rest. The confinement
and mental strain has been continual

I have obtained the Marswan Irade. I
wrote to Dr Wright about it last night. I was
much astonished at it, for I had about despaired.

I am glad Lena turns out happy + domestic --
it is natural that you should dislike to leave her now.
Everything here is quiet on the surface; but no one can
tell what may turn up at any time -- nor does any
one yet know the scheme of reforms that the powers will
present for the Christian provinces in Armenia.

Riddle has returned, + I sent him direct
to Brousa to examine about a naturalized German--
American who died there in jail -- he returns tomorrow.

When I return I intend to get just as quiet a place
as I can to save the point of respectibility{sic} and save money --

{written perpendicular to the text along the left and top left margins of the sheet:}
I find my mind clearer + capacity for work better than in two years. I sometimes
wonder only I did not realize how very much my mental force was impaired all those years
by pain and disease. I realize it now; + when a day of pain comes I dont try to work. I was much(?) in pain when at home last summer -- more than I confessed.