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Monday evening 9 P.M. 1/27/96 My darling Grace, - At noon today your Friday night and Saturday afternoon letters greeted me. Your chosen proof was left with the photographer this afternoon, - I am sorry that it was the one with the coat unbuttoned, but it is the features and not the clothes that you wish I am certain.- I am so pleased that your Randall cousins have proved so delightful, - each new friend adds so much to ones expansion in social circles and self appreciation of all that is good. Certainly you are wise, but it is not an old head on youthful shoulders, - you are surely more than excellent compared
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with the great majority at your age, but sometimes my thoughts seem as you expressed yours so recently, and then I stop and say, - Oh! - 'tis all easy to explain, - we have had opportunities of development and in fact have taken them and leave the results to show, whereas so many of our friends have failed to either improve or profit by others mistakes. Yes, my dear, my thoughts of you on Friday night were not in vain, - you wre with us, and you today received my report. - How truly united we are in thought, word, and deed.- But am going to bed now [early ?] and get up rested and clear for Prof Ingels exam tomorrow a.m. Dr. Roberts did not come near [to, for ?] this one, he only received 76% as the other. - But trust can raise that. - A good night kiss [ ?] Claire
Tuesday 7am Jan 28/96 Good morning Sunshine! - Yoou have not come from the far east as yet this dark morning, but as Uncle Lovejoy has said, I shall always, "Get up at Sunrise, - daylight or no daylight." Am in good shape for the written [ ? ? ? ]sketch book with me to read on the car, and will think of you. - My dear these lines seem very short, but you can read between them I am sure, for again yesterday on my way home I had the delight of acknowledging all to Mrs. Woodward. - She said. - "Ed, how do you get along without your beloved?" - Oh, said I. - "Very well!" "Whatever makes Grace happy , make me happy too."
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knew that I had known you very well, - but I assured her we had known each other for some years, and were now certainly intended for each other. She goes on South to Florida today with Stanley. - Katie went a week or two ago.- Good Bye now my own dear one who is ever so near and true. Your own, Clarence
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5 pm [ ?] exam Miss Grace E. Hall. New York City. N.Y. No 169 East 63rd St.
Postmark: CHICAGO, ILL JAN 29 1896 1:30 A
