Correspondence from Wilfred Talbot Smith to Charles Stansfeld Jones

 

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[22 November 1925]

 

 

However, what matters one more disappointment in a life that is so largely made up of them. You have had many and so have I. I feel disposed to tell you, not to hurt your feelings, but because I have always been open and frank with you even to the point of the ludicrous, that the change as far as I am concerned is a good thing. I feel myself entirely alone, and I say it is Good, for I was relying entirely too much on you and your opinion. I will sink or swim by myself now.

     

Let's forget the subject, even though our erstwhile mutual interest may have been the basis of it, I do not want to break a friendship if it can be avoided, for I think we both loved.

 

 

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