
          the loss you have sustained
Your departed wife was
no common individual.
She was a woman of talent
energy, and of high moral
aspirations. She was warmly
attached to my family and
exerted a beneficial influence
on our daughters.
She is gone but her influence
still survives and its
effects will continue to the
end of time. In the midst
of your grief you have cause
to be thankful for the
        