[4]In another week we shall go to San Francisco and try to get the little shelter there in order, and a week after that Fred and Alice will probably go east for three months.Im affectionately yoursKatharine Hooker[1][letterhead]May 4My dear friendBoth your letters have come and if I get all your affectionate wishes for me bring why I shall have much more than I deserve!I\u27m not proud of being so busy, on09999 [2]the contrary I am rather ashamed of it. One might so order one\u27s life so that serenity would reign--unless there were a grief that destroyed peace.I felt it was like you to buy that old home so full of memories. But it is full of emptiness now and I do not see how you[3]can make it sufficiently inhabited to keep loneliness away...