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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 everything you say is I feel very miserable now and the only thing that I feel like saying is this mood is that I feel it a duty to you and myself to reconsider any thots of marriage that I have had. I would never be able to come up to your expectation of the kind of 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, forgive me for having been so blind to myself but it is only another one of my faults, my life and wake 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