Letter from Buck Hill P.O., Va., Nov. 26/95, to 'Dear Kate' (page 3 — closing, signed William)
Book 1, Page 130 ·1895
Transcription
A handwritten letter, page 3 of multiple, in brown ink on lined paper. The body of the page is written across the full sheet in a flowing cursive. A short closing block is written perpendicular to the body in the upper-left corner.
[Closing, written sideways in the upper-left corner of the sheet]: Yrs for / so many / long years / goodbye / Aff yrs / William —
handle them in such a / way as would be entertain- / ing to you. — It may be that / I am a little tired and that / its late. but tired or rested / I love you all the same / and I cannot bear the / thought that you are / sick — and suffering perhaps — / and I hate this horrible / world and its life. its / needs, its necessities and / its duties for keeping / me here and you sick / there and makes it- / impossible so to speak / for me to come & see you / just for a little while / and when I’ve not seen
AI Notes
Page 3 of a multi-page handwritten letter in brown ink on lined paper, continuing the letter begun on the previous scans (Buck Hill P.O., Va., Nov. 26/95, to ‘Dear Kate’). The body of this leaf reflects on the writer’s tiredness, his love for Kate, and his hatred of a world whose duties keep him from coming to see her while she is sick. The closing of the letter — ‘Yrs for / so many / long years / goodbye / Aff yrs / William’ — is squeezed sideways into the upper-left corner of the sheet, suggesting the writer ran out of room. The body breaks off mid-sentence at the bottom; whether further leaves follow is not clear from this scan alone.