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I love to look back on the last few months and note the changes that have taken place with me.  How I have been influenced for the good and higher ambition in everyway.  To know that you love me makes me feel capable of doing & accomplishing most anything. And being naturally ambitious I hope and pray that some day I may do something worthwhile.

I often think how your mother and all the rest will miss you this winter and I feel that I am at the bottom of it all. That

is, if we hadn't fallen in love perhaps you would not have gone. I feel and have felt sometimes that your family bear me a little grudge for seeing you so often and loving you but I could no more help it than fly and I felt that no matter what happened, I would try to get you in the end.  And now that we love and understand each other I am as happy as I can possibly be and and building all my hopes and future and everything might be you.

These last days of a season are always rather sad and this time