Sept 15th 1913
Dear Miss Addams
I have thought that perhaps there will be some among those who will attend the Memorial Meeting which you are going to hold about my husband, who [page 2] would like to have a copy of the portrait of his soul, [which] as you know it was my joy & pain to prepare out of the poems of Browning -- but as you will also know, out of your deep sympathy, I fear to offer what may not be wanted, or to suggest that people [page 3] care to think of him more than they do, but your last letter causes me to send you 50 copies & 12 of this portrait of his face -- & I will rely on you, dear Lady, to consign them at once to the flames rather than let them be carelessly treated or irreverently ignored.
If I can I will write you a message, but I doubt if I have anything to say. I am so wrought with pain, of which I have not a glimmer of the meaning, that I am but a poor conveyance of any truth.
I have left the beautiful Cloisters, & am now settled in this little house on the top of the Hill -- having enriched many homes with many of our possessions, things only to them, memories of glad life [written at top of page 1] to me.
Lady you are dear to me.
H O Barnett
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