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Never worry about the turkey. Don't think I could have managed him if he had arrived.
But the plant from Thorley's was, and is, a great success: a cyclamen, deep rose color, with the beautiful leaves all fresh and strong. I enjoy beautiful plants just as much as I detest ratty ones. This one has given me great pleasure. I would love to write you by hand, but just in the middle of a piece of work which I was enjoying very much, my right hand went back on me complete and is tied up in a brace again. It cannot even get out to wish you a Happy New Year with a pen.
Thinking about years, Old and New, (in a period of enforced inactivity, one does
think, you know) it has occurred to me that you have had the things you most wanted
out of the years, and that I have got a good deal of what I wanted. Above all, I
have pretty well escaped the things I