Letter from Aunt Ellen, Charleston, June 8, 1872 (page 3)
Book 1, Page 211 ·1872
Transcription
A handwritten letter sheet in cursive ink. The page is numbered 3 at top center.
much more accessible stage than when you were here. He is an interesting child, & wins my heart by looking like you, & Mother, & Katie — with a lovely complexion. — He has a little ripple in his laugh like Kate’s too — Dear [Macinie] I think of all you were to her & us last year, and what a difference your coming, and all you did for her, made to her & to us. We often have to do for others, what has been done for us, but not often to the ones who loved & cared for us — but you did for her all the tender loving help she needed — as she did for you in your Babyhood. I know you feel it as we do, to have been a treasure
AI Notes
A page of the multi-page handwritten letter from Aunt Ellen, numbered 3 at top center (album order places it after the sheet numbered 4). The writer praises an interesting child who resembles the recipient, her mother, and Katie, and reflects on the tender care the recipient gave ‘her’ the previous year — care that mirrored what had been done for the recipient in her own babyhood. Letter continues onto the next scan.
Letter continues on next page.