WILLIAM  M.FOORD 
ATTORNEY  AND  COUNSELLOR  AT  LAW 
36-38  STAMFORD  NATIONAL  BANK  BUILDING 
STAM  FOR  D  ,  CONN. 
Dec  erab  er  If ,  19 15  . 
Mr.  Walter  Deane, 
29  Brewster  Street, 
Camb ridge.  Mas s . 
Dear  Mr.  Deane 
I  have  received  your  recent  letter  and  intended 
to  give  it  an  immediate  reply  but  the  press  of  other  matters 
has  prevented  my  doing  so. 
Our  address  is  still  Stamford,  Connecticut, 
as  all  my  mail  comes  to  the  Postoffice  box  and  is  brought 
to  the  office. 
We  shall  be  delighted  to  receive  what  you  have  to 
send  us  and  I  can  assure  you  it  will  be  valued  very  highly 
for  the  sake  of  auld  lang  syne. 
I  have  forgotten  when  I  wrote  you  last  but  I 
guess  it  was  before  the  wedding,  at  all  events  we  are  now 
settled  in  our  new  home. 
It  is  a  delightful  place  ill  the  country  just  out¬ 
side  the  city'.  It  is  situated  up  on  a  little  hill  which  gives 
us  a  fine  prospect.  We  have  also  about  an  acre  of  woodland 
as  well  as  lots  of  room  for  gardens  and  other  elbow  space, 
I  am  very  sorry  to  learn  of  Mrs*  Deane1 s  and  your 
bereavement  in  the  loss  of  her  father  and  mother  as  I  remember 
them  very  well. 
I  recall  her  father  as  an- exceedingly  fine  type 
of  the  old  fashioned  gentlemen  and  remember  particularly 
Ms  frequent  references  to  Latin  quotations  and  phrases  in 
a  humorous  way. 
He  certainly  lived  to  a  ripe  old  age  and  was 
blessed  with  the  company’-  of  his  wife  for  so  many  years. 
I  often  think  how  sad  it  is  that  after  an  aged 
couple  become  separated  that  one  of  them  is  left  on  in  more 
or  less  solitude  for  years  after.  Although  the  blow  does  come 
