Letter from Susan M. FitzSimons to Mr. Osborne — page 2 (Gaillie's slow walking; bedding; old stove for sale)
Book 1, Page 284 ·1880–1895
Transcription
difficulty & used a stick & walked slowly & only a short distance at a time. The Drs told him it would take him a full month before he would be able to walk again. I want to ask a favor of Mrs Osborne to look over the bedding & see if it is all right & let the windows up, that the air may get into it a little on some fair days. I kept hoping I might get up if only for a few weeks but had to give it up altogether but am so thankful to have my son well again I think of little else. My old stove I would like to sell & the heavy iron pots
AI Notes
Second leaf (unnumbered) of Susan M. FitzSimons’s letter to Mr. Osborne, continuing from p. 283 and continued on p. 285. She finishes the description of son Gaillie’s slow recovery — he still uses a stick, walks slowly only short distances, and the doctors told him it would take a full month before he could walk again. She then asks Mrs. Osborne to look in on the bedding at the (Mills River) house and air the room on fair days, and confesses that she herself had hoped to get up if only for a few weeks but has had to give that hope up altogether — so thankful is she for her son’s recovery that ‘I think of little else.’ She closes the page turning to the disposal of household items — her old stove and the heavy iron pots she wishes to sell. The writer herself is also unwell and resigned to her decline, which helps date the letter to her final years.
Letter continues on p. 285.