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Your letter sent thru Colliers Weekly reached me a few days ago. I have delayed answering it hoping I could tell you that I had found the letters but unfortunately I cannot.
My letters were packed with other things when we went to Europe in 1906
Mrs E. A. Abbey is writing the life of her husband and asked me to lend her his letters. I have been looking for them for some time. but they have not come to light yet.
My letters are all together and when I find them I will find your fathers and
Abbeys.
We made a one day excursion into the mountains in search of character, going
Mrs Frost and
I will try to recall any incidents that might be of interest to your book and when anything comes to me I will make a note of it.
I did not know that a part of that beautiful dedication had been placed on his
tomb. Will you kindly tell me the passage: that
I will go on looking thru my boxes till I find my letters and will let you have them at once.
Your father used to write me that he had just received another "blue eyed letter"
from me, I always wrote on
I hope I will have the good fortune to find the letters tomorrow