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{Joseph Jastrow}
JASTROW THE ALTRURIA MADISON WIS 237 LANGDON ST.
The Jastrows to Mrs Fairchild: Wednesday, November 30th Three to six
A welcome, with a cup of teaAnd a birthday cake to lure youGood cheer, old friends, light cuisine, Your coming will assure you.
My Dear Mimi - I know you can't come; but I couldn't leave you out. JJ
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Chicago March 19
My dear Madam - I have been for some time anxious to write to you - for I wanted to tell you that I am not ungrateful for many of the pleasantest recollections I have of Madison. During the whole time that I was a resident of your city from yourself and from every member of your family I received marked attention and unremitted kindness. I can not but be sensible of it - for when ever my mind retraces the last two years, it always discovers you or yours contributing to my pleasure and comfort. I am sorry that I have remained silent so long - It has not been occasioned by a forgetfulness of you - but in the hope that I might at the same time give you more accurate information in regard to my plans and prospects. Even since I can not
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do it any farther than to say that I am to be connected with the Eastern Land gran Road in some capacity. In all my operations here I have endeavored to arrange it so that I might be returned to Wisconsin if not immediately at least in a short time. I want to speak again of your friendly treatment of me - but I am conscious of the hollowness of words and how inadequate they are some times to give satisfactory expression to the real feelings I trust that you will accept in the same confidence in their genuineness with which you have always received me into your family - my acknowledgments of you very many kind attentions and my high appreciation of the disinterested and unremitted civilities I have always experienced in my acquaintance with you and with every individual member of your family - I hope that the first time any of you go east you will grant my Mother the privi
