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I write you because I knew your
While I was working in Pittsburgh, the newspaper people always managed to get my transportation back to Lincoln
in the summeron
along
When I had any free time I was always writing a little, simply because it interested
me more than any other form of recreation -- I wrote just as people who are really
fond of music love to strum on the piano. Your father was always then and ever
afterward my soundest and best critic. I used to think he knew the inside of my head
better than I did. We always met at home
Roscoe and I were not much together again until some years after his marriage
although we wrote to each other very very often and never in the least felt apart. I
was not able to spend any long time with him until I went for that never-to-be-forgotten visit to
.rcan't
His early business career was in a free world
I am afraid this is a queer kind of letter of condolence but it is the only
consolation that I can find, now that my comradeship with your father is cut off. I
had just written him a long letter and
signed it
Good-bye, my dears, you will, I am sure, always remember your father's gentleness -- and gentility.
I am cutting my stay here short and will go down to
I am sending all three letters to you, dear Margaret, because I am not so sure of the address of either of your sisters. Please forward them for me.