September 6, 1913
commercially made, lined paper notebook
8 3/8 x 6 15/16 inches
Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
all over his front porch. And in our conversation we did the same, we lolled all over some topics, sprawled over others, while still others caused us to stretch - and we immediately abandoned them. Oh it is pleasant to be with one to whom we can talk freely knowing that he makes no note of our short comings or our other idiosyncrancies - one to whom we can say anything in fact and know that he will take the right meaning.
Among other things I invited him over for next Sunday afternoon when Joe is entertaining some fellows. He then informed me that he and his mother were going to Cleveland that day which brings me back to that ever present but purposely disregarded fact that Joe + I will soon be in Cleveland. We leave exactly two-weeks from yesterday. Bill said he could not come to Joe’s supper as he and his mother were going to Cleveland the morning of the same day. And this for the