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Oct. 14th - 24
Dear Grace and Grandma:
Magnificent days -- the past week and today also. I am glad to be free from the office during this week -- as I hope to take long walks, write, sleep late and read, and perhaps take a few days with Brown in Wood-stock. (He is still living there on the slope of a mountain.) yesterday, tho[?] a holiday, I spent at the office by special request as there was some final work on the catalogue to be finished up. You may be interested to know that my [?] turn there seems to be quite certainly assumed and I'm on very good terms with the entire organization. I'm, accordingly, looking forward to many more months there, and a rise in salary within 2 months. I certainly deserve it, and my clothes[?] are now [?]ing me real amass[?]. There comes a stage in repairs when almost daily attention is needed -- and that, in itself, can amount considerable funds.
I'm enormously happy in this back room. Ever since moving in I've slept better. And it's fixed up almost as charmingly as my old room at home. It's only about one third as large, yet there is the view, which compensates for lack of inside spaciousness, and room enough for one to pace back and forth plentifully which a poem or idea is brewing. At first I thought I should keep the old front room, too, but the first week's [?] rent proved ridiculous for one of my means.
Sam, as I wrote before, has been working in a bookstore. For nearly two weeks I didn't see him at all. Then last Saturday I called on him at his shop and invited him over for Sunday evening. He brought that queer Lovecraft person with him, so we had no particularly intimate conversation. Just as well, of course, as I am sure they would have been the same disparagements of everything and almost everybody, as usual. He isn't getting along any better with his [?] here than he did
