BR TO KATHARINE TAIT, 13 JAN. 1944
BRACERS 52586. ALS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell

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HOTEL LAFAYETTE
UNIVERSITY PLACE
AT NINTH STREET
New York 3, N.Y.
Jan. 13, 1944

My dear Kate

Thank you for your very nice letter. You can write again to this address when you feel so disposed.

I shall be at Northampton Mass. (Smith College) March 27 and 28, and I will come to visit you just before or just after that date, if it suits you. I find I can’t manage it sooner.

Now I have to tackle a matter that may worry you. You are still a minor, and need the permission of the Court of Chancery if you stay abroad. Your mother and I both undertook that you would be in my care while in America, but I am going home in the summer. I don’t know whether the Court will give you leave to stay after I have gone home. If you stay without leave, your mother and I are both liable to be sent to prison. I must write to Tylor about this. I suggest that you send me a statement giving such reasons for staying here as you think likely to appeal to the Court; I will forward it to Tylor. For my part, as you know, I would rather you came home, but I do not want to exercise authority about it. You can, if you like, write direct to Tylor or to your mother; but let me know what you do.

Alas I have no time for more. Much love, dear Kate.

Yr aff
Diddy