Letter from Aunt Ellen, Charleston, June 8, 1872 (page 5)
Book 1, Page 210 ·1872
Transcription
A handwritten letter sheet in cursive ink, continuing from the previous page.
you live with now. — I was so glad to hear from Lydia that you were going to have a nice Home, & not live far from your work. — I wonder if New York is going to be as good for you, as Grand Rapids has been for Gaillie. — He says he never remembers getting thro’ a winter without several colds till last winter in G. R. — where he did not have one — in spite of sleighing in all weather &c. — The little child who was at St Lukes Hospital, whose Mother was a Miss Cain, (Annie’s first cousin) is a very far away cousin of yours too, by way of those Cordes and Gendrons who are responsible for so many of us — I often think of her parents having to give her up for two years, knowing they would not have the means
AI Notes
Continuation of the multi-page handwritten letter from Aunt Ellen. The sheet is unnumbered. The writer expresses gladness at hearing from Lydia about a new home, compares New York to Grand Rapids (where Gaillie has been wintering), and recounts the story of a child at St. Luke’s Hospital whose mother was a Miss Cain — a distant cousin via the Cordes and Gendron lines. Letter continues onto the next scan.
Letter continues on next page.