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RAMABAI, PUNDITA MAR 17, 1898
36 Rutland Square Boston, Mass March 17 1898
My dear dear Friend, It is in want of sympathy in gratitude or love to you that I have not written so long - I received your most kind letter of third of November last when I was making preparations for my departure, but being overwhelmed with [?] was unable to answer it. You spoke in this letter of sending a book to me, I never received it so did not know what your [?] was. But I found it out from reading your letter to Mrs.
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Granger which she sent to me a few days ago. I am so sorry for you my dear sister and ? sympathise with you. The Lord comfort[?] heart for he is the father of the fatherless and judge of the widow - [Lord?] [knows?] winows trust in me is this end - and I can but may to Him to give you the comfort and strength, which he alone can give bear the great sorrow. I have not forgotten your sweet home and the kindness received from your husband and yourself. [?] and I
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unafraid of the contiued kindness you have shown toward me lay helping [?] should go faithfully. In so long time - I do most certainly want to come and thank you personally and shall soon be able to tell you that you may expect me in Indianapolis - the 10th annual meeting of our association is over and now I [?] me to go around visiting our friends. How I wished and prayed to send [?] to your school five years ago. In I had told you I would like to send her
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to you when she was twelve years old. But circumstances prevented me from doing so. The next best thing I could do for her was to send her to another school in [Poona?] - for I could not keep her in my school as I did not want her to be always in the company of girls who were not innocent as she was. Then two years ago I sent her to England where she [?] high school education in the North [Leondon Conegrate?] [In?] and now she is preparing for work in [?] field. She wants to be a
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missionary to her people so I felt that I should keep her where she would get in training for her life work. I should however like her to see you sometime as she will stay in this country for two or three years work. I am very grateful to you for your kindness to her and to me. I shall have many things to tell you when we meet, but oh what a [?] meeting it will be from the [?] one. I feel very deeply for you and now our dear sister Frances Willard has gone. God bless her memory. It is a loss to all womankind.