DEAREST PAPA,--Will you please ask Aunt Carrie to please help you buy these Christmas things? I enclose fifty dollars; (your check.)
A white serge dress pattern, like mine.
A book of lovely foreign photographs of buildings and pictures for March.
2 pairs of white kid gloves, number 6.
2 pairs of tan kid gloves, number 6-¼.
1 pair fur-lined gloves for March.
1 pair ditto for Mr. Blossom.
A year's subscription for the Woman's Hearthstone Journal for Maria-Ann.
A small shirt waist ironing-board for Aunt Tryphosa.
1 pair brown woolen gloves and one pair of those fleece-lined beaver gauntlet driving gloves like those of yours, for Chi.