Letter from Florence Fenwick Miller to May Wright Sewall.

MILLER, FLORENCE F. MAR 5, 1901

Hotel Le Paris Cannes France March 5th 1901

My Dear Friend.

You letter one from Jan is always welcome - cam to hand just as I was about to start for a little holiday in what is traditionally known as " the sunny south", though in reality is it soo much the East - windy south. However, it is always that pleasant thing, a change of scene to come away & so I come when I can, & this is an opportunity of which I hope

available myself - no great preasure of work, & a little extra money earned this year to justify the expense.

Well, fortunately your letter arrived sufficiently way before my learning to allow of my ? you the little service you asked. I have procured & posted you a representative collection of the special publication about the death of our dear Queen. Of course, the immediate publication was over long before I got your letter, but if you will for some of the

daily papers I can no doubt procure them for you from the offices on my retur. That I took you to mean the more permanent records of which I hove sent to a representative gathering. Naturally there were im? able 'special' numbers of the ? journals & to send you all works be an immense undertaking; but I think I have probaly ten you enough to answer your purpose. As to the cont. ? day no more about that, it is but a small matter, & I am ? too pleased to have an open ? to do any little matter ? you in rememberance of your ? & sweet? to me

in 1893, on my happy visit to your country & your congress.

A school girl's life in so brief a span that I dare say these eight (fancy it being actually that many!) years have no doubt [rewarded?] [from?] the girls Classical School of Indianapolis nearl all those whom I had the pleasure of seeing & personally addressing. But if there are any left they may be specially interested in hearing my own contributions to the tribute to our Queen, in the Ladies Page of the Illustrated London News (where I use the nom de plume of Filomena) & in the Weekly Sun; so I send both of these.

Dear friend, how much more pleased life would be

could we but live near those with whom we are in sympathy! As it is we are scattered over the world, some in one town & others in another, some in one country & others over the seas, & we have just to possess on [some?] with patience in the knowledge that there are our congenial spirits somewhere. When I wonder shall we meet again?

I am out of the way here, of course, of hearing much of the American women I love. I wonder how Miss Anthony keeps. The world is a better place while a few of those older women are in it than it will be when they leave us: & of these Queen Victoria