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to his return in per-
fect health next
winter. With your
beautiful ideas and
views of death it will
be much easier to
become reconciled
to it and be thus
enabled to think
calmly and peacefully
of the beloved companion
of your life having
gone to join your
dear young son in
the other and more
beautiful world where
sorrow and parting
are unknown.

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How little I realized,
when the Senator kindly
gave me his auto-
graph last winter,
how soon his dear
hand would be still
and how much I now
cherish the signature
would be hard to tell.
If I were only nearer
to you I should feel
honored to be able to
place beautiful flowers
on his casket but dis-
tance forbids.
Mama, papa & brother
wish me to express
to you their profound