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How can I thank you for the beautiful Italian flagons! Since a smashing disaster
some weeks ago, I have been pouring salad oil out of a cologne bottle, as I was too
busy to go forth in search of a new oil and vinegar set—most of them are hideously
ugly. I have certainly never seen such beautiful ones as these in
Please thank
From now on I shall be at home on Friday afternoons again—do try to come in sometime. They are not often as funereal as one you happened upon last spring!
Until I see you, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!