Salem, N,Y, 

 October 26th 1923 



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Dear Mr Deane. Ow^W*/*- 



Your last letter was written from Shelburn where I am glad 

 you had such a pleasant summer. I suppose you are now busy with 

 your various interests and I hope will have a good winter free 

 from sickness or sorrow. My summer passed quietly with friends comi 

 ing and going and three weeks spent at the seashore which I always- 

 enjoy. I have had some beautiful rides this Autumn and the foliage 

 has never been more brilliant , now the leaves have fallen and the 

 country looks cold and bare. this morning we had a flurry of snow. 

 I am alone with my old servant at present but the 4th of December 

 I close my home and go to Louisville to visit my sister Hattie now 

 39 years of age she is very feeble and 1 feel + must be with her ft 

 for a time. I shall tehn go to Daytona Florida for two months and 

 spend another one somewhere not ye + planned for. getting back to 

 Salem in April. I shall be glad to avoid this year our cold weather 

 and get away from, many things here. My old friend Miss *oung Will 

 go with me and a lady from here from join us later in Florida, so 

 1 shall not be alone in a strange land. I have put my little plefe 

 in order and have not much to do now .1 shall leave my house in 

 care of the landlord who 1 ives next door to me so t think all will 

 be well looked after. I have been pretty well of late though I have 

 neuritis still in my hands and often get very tired. but $ have man; 

 biers ngs and comfofcts in my tiny home. This Fall my de^r cousin 

 Leonard Tyler died and the family are fast passing away. he was onl; 

 47 years of ^ge =>nd leaves a wife and three children who need him 

 sorely. I now have no near relatives all my cousins have gone and I 

 have now only second and third ones ,who being young and of this 

 age do not always live Just as seems fitting to my old fashioned 

 ideas .they nre very kind to me and 1 visit among them occasionall; 



