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With as much love as ever, 
Andrew

Woodstock, New York.

E 8-6-08

My dear Grace, 

After rereading your letter several times I realize how to true every thing you say is. I feel very miserable now and the only thing that I feel like saying in this mood is that I feel it a duty to you and my self to reconsider any thots [[thoughts]] of marriage that I have had.  I would never be able to come up to your expectation of the kind of a man you would like to have for a mate, for the reasons you mention in your letter and many that you do not.  Why should I want to ruin your life, for give me for having been so blind to myself, but it is only another one of my faults, my life and make up seem full of them to me, my life has been a ruined one from the start, all that I can see that there is for me