
I am too sorry that you are not well enough to see me, but I trust I may be able to do so, when I come again—I read with much interest the celebration of your seventy second birth day—You & I are nearing the other land—I was seventy two in November last—
I did want to see you so much—I had a little old shoe with me, with which I wanted to inspire you to write me some verses—
It was once worn by my darling & only little grandchild—it always speaks volumes to me about her sweet ways & her new angel life—
Could you write me something
that I can preserve of your own, written in your
seventy third year I should value it greatly—
I wish I could read you what is said in the "Lawyers and judges of Maine" about Judge Whitman. You would like him, so perfect a character—
But I have said too much.—
May our Heavenly Father spare both you & I for sometime yet
Truly your friend Lavinia F WhitmanMy address is 2337 N. 18th st Phila