I miss the stimulating influences of the cock-tail hour. Not that I was one of its devotees, but now I can't have anything I am contemplating homebrews and stills. It will probably be quite too much trouble to fuss with, however, and the cigarette is still left me, though out of deference to Mother's views I try not to let my right hand (neighbour) know what her left is doing. It enhances the value of a Melachrino enormously. And my clothes, in spite of the fact that I planned them knowing the Center, don't seem to fit in quite right. selling my giddy green tea-dance frock to my hated cousin in Chicago, with the French lobe) transferred from my quiet brown. The profit is going to swell the travel fund which we have already started. If I only had a few more hated relatives I could do a good bit of business in Oriental commissions but I hate to sting my friends.
I wish you'd send me some papers. Just now I'm keen for every detail of Shanghai life. I suppose the memory will all slip away from me little by little, and I shall be much more concerned over the fact that Jedediah Wilkins has enlarged his garage than that there is a new cabinet in Peking, but help me to keep a cosmopolitan viewpoint as long aa I can. I think of Shanghai now as being as rich and colourful as its own embroideries and am remorse ful that I didn'& get more of its real meaning. Don't y miss it.
Love from Jack and me. Pui.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.