Q alem N, X 



March 2?th X927 



Dear Mr Deane. 



Your letter with its sad news came a few days since and i want I 

 to send to you and yo rs my deepest sympathy in your sorrow. I have known] 

 for some time through your brother Mr Ruthven that Mrs dexter was fail— I 

 ing and I am greived that you should nave had a break in your circle. I 

 hut as we grow older parting must come and this winter I nave lost three! 

 near and deer to me so know what it means to have ties of a llfe-tinme I 

 broken. My sister Battle now eighty eight end myself are the last of our I 

 line and generation in this country. and x have felt very lonely this I 

 winter with so many passing away.i am giad that you are well and hope I 

 ere this Miss Brown has recovered from her cold. We are having cold and I 



disagreeable weather now ana today snuw fell. The birds are coming nnd I 

 there are a few signs of Spring. The end of April I expect to go tosee I 

 my sister Hattie in Louisville and will be away about a month. I think I 

 the change will do me good, not that i am ill, but I get tired and now 1 

 live so alone i feel my work is over and there Is no one who resllyneedsl 

 my love and care anymore. I hope that your sister and brother near you 

 will keep well and that your summer will be a pleasnat one.i suppose 

 you will return to Shelburn as usual for it must be a second home after I 

 all the years you have been there. My brother in Australia has been quite! 

 feeble of late he will be eighty on the 8th of April. and his wife the I 

 same age on the 23d of May so they are old people. My nephew who lost 

 his right arm In the war is doing well but he would love to be on a 

 Sheep run which is what he was brought to up to / *e and was an expert 

 on Wool but he cannot do it with only one arm a.nn that. the wr °ng I 



