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June 20th 1895

If the world had turned round and gone the wrong way the turn things have taken could not have surprised me more.  Alice Shepard of all people!  Alice the saintlike, the angelic Alice who of all people we thought would be the last to pain or hurt anyone, especially her mother.  But I must come to the point and begin at the beginning or rather at the end but to me the beginning.  Last evening we were sitting out on the piazza after
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dinner when a telegram was brought out to Mama.  We get telegrams very often, still I felt somehow that something had gone wrong.  Mama went into the house to read it and when a second later her voice called me I knew my fears had been realized.

"Who is Mr Morris?" she asked

"Munson Morris", said I

"No, some other Mr Morris".

"I don't know", I said and with that she read me the telegram
"Alice Shepard was married to-day at 5.30 at Dr Houghton's Church to Mr. Morris.  See Emily have written". 
C. Vanderbilt.\\\