To Grace Hall, Madelaine, and Leicester Hemingway,

Summary

20 December [1931]

Dec 20

Dear Mother, Sunny and Caro Les:—

Hope this letter reaches you by Christmas. Am sending it Special Delivery.

Carol should be here tomorrow. As soon as we were in K.C. wrote her telling her we expected her for Christmas and to Come as soon as school closed. She wrote she was going on a houseparty but would be down some of the time. Later houseparty was cancelled. We had written her again sending her money for trip a couple of [day]s before received your appeal to write her.

Pauline was in plenty bad shape and me working 18 hrs or so a day on book until completed. That was why didnt write. Then you may recall joys of travelling with new born babies; nurses who get sick etc. In the midst of all this a man is supposed to write books.

Fine weather here—practically no mosquitoes— No northers yet this season— New house will be fine when fixed up—

These Christmas checks are small on account no money—Send me a list of your birthdays and will see what can do about them—2

Greg weighs 11 lbs 6 oz—Patrick very well—Pauline fine now—Bumby doing excellently in school— Hadley well— They probably going Switzerland for Christmas—