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He did not suffer very mutch pain and passed away quietly and easy But he will be mutch missed in church and community by all, for he had no enemies. Your aunt Eliza will be a very lonely woman. Her sister that lives at Spirit Lake 120 miles west of her is here now but cannot stay only a week. Your aunt requests me to say to you to be sure to come and make that visit you promised uncle John and family this summer, and the boys and my [[underlined]] sons [[/underlined]] and my [[underlined]] daughter [[/underlined]] that are located here all join in the request [[underlined]] especially [[/underlined]] do I ask it of you for your aunts satisfaction and for all the ballance of us. And at the same time make the trip profitable to yourself by lectures in regard to your work or any subject you see fit to. we have a good location here for lectures in the summer time when there are plenty of campers and visitors here about our beautiful Lake. Please to write me what you would ask an evening for 2 or 3 lectures and what would be your subject. I take and feel a great interest in the noble and grand work you are doing and I have a deep interest and great satisfaction in the great and grand advancement that women are making in the different avocations for profit and [[se?]] your aunt and [[I to?]] partickular desire that you send the cuttings from papers you spoke of giving further history of the work you are doing. It is due to you that I should tell you who I am and why I feel an especial interest in seeing and having a visit from you. I am the father of H.E. and D.H. Palmeter that their business card is on this letterhead and also of Mary McGraw the wife of E. J. McGraw whose name is on the envelope as partner in the business. My son H.E. married Emily Eliza Fletcher uncle Johns only daughter March 10th 1874, she died May 22nd 1882 and left 2 motherless children a boy of 5 and a girl of 3 years old, Emily was a