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Future - and leaves you darling; yet a little while to us, who love you so. Had you gone before, I tremble to think what it would have taken from me. Oh! cherish for our sakes darling? all that is left to you of strength. We need you so in this sad world. I cling to you, not less than your own children. How many years ago it is, that my heart learned to love you both. In those sad days when your own life seemed trmbling in the balance. when in sharing your husband's cares and 

anxieties and day, and learning how precious you were to him. I came also to have a share in that dear heart, which has been always since, one of my greatest treasures, almost my only treasure left now. I long so to be with you now, but my poor sympathy could do [[strikethrough]] so little [[/strikethrough]] nothing in this bitter moment, neither can these words I try to utter. Only time can sooth, and bring sweet memories out of the sad ones. I hope soon I may come to you, and stay a little while with my dear friend. I am sure I am beginning to feel better this