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me again with many thanks for your kind
invitation

Affectily yrs.
Lillie [?] G. Sartoris

New York
Feb. 15th '89

Mr. dear Mrs. Stanford

I cannot tell you
how deeply I appreciate
your kindness in asking
me to visit you this month
with my mother & how much
I wish I could have accepted
you kind invitation, but you
know that I am in mourning
& not going out at all this