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Cottage B. Sherrys
Narragansett Pier
Sept 18th 94
I hope you are quite well my dear Mrs Stanford, we have all talked of you and I have often thought of you and hoped you have passed the summer comfortably.
I have had a very happy summer here with first Col Fred and family and then my Nellie (my white dove)
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and her son and daughter. They too are sweet and gentle as are Freds children.
Nellie is now in Washington, where she writes since she has secured a pretty little house with a nice sunny room for (dear mama) me, with her own room next it where we can enjoy an early cup of tea. This is a pleasant antiscipation [sic] is it not? and dear Mrs Stanford I am sure you will think with me
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I visited the West last winter, though I did not meet you my dear friend who were so kind in making my journey home again so pleasant.
Do you know I really think it made me ill, not seeing you.
I am writing entirely of myself and mine but I think to interest you and now my dear Mrs Stanford will you not write of your self to me? Your sincere and loving friend
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P.S. Please remember me to your brothers Mr Henry and his younger brother who so kindly promoted my departure last spring. They were so kind as was Mr Ash I broke upside down when he told me how ill you were. I was so weak myself is my only explanation. Do write
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wonderful works of our Creator.
I am here alone at Narragansett with Mary. I expect Col Fred and family for a few weeks, then Nellie and her young party. I have invited several old friends from Washington but they had all gone to their places for the summer and are too feeble to make another move
I want you to know that my thoughts are with you to day will you think of me July the twenty third?
I am always with love sincerely your friend
God bless and keep you my dear Mrs Stanford
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Narragansett Pier
Cottage B. (Sherrys.)
June 21st 94.
My dear friend
It is just one year ago to night when "The Son of Man" came and called your beloved companion away. It is a long, long year, and you have been doing great work and may you be spared to finish it.
I have just been reading your letter
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written from "[Sisson|Sissons]] Mt Shasta" you wrote to me when there with your dear husband. I remember you telling me how you both enjoyed the superb scenery, the great forests, and the soughing music of the wind, as you sat together under the protecting shadow of their great boughs meditating over the
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I thank you ever so much for this, your kind thought of me and the great comfort it brought me but most of all I prized the affectionate telegram you sent me at San Francisco. I was so disappointed at not meeting you that I really was ill. I went all that long long journey across the Continent to see you my dear Mrs Stanford and for no other object. There was so much I wanted you to tell me and so much I had to tell you Oh! how much may I not hope still to see you some day? I find my son Fred and family located in a tiny little house (very pretty though) with just one pretty little spare room in which I am made more than welcome
