My dear Friend
I find it very hard not to be in Lake Forest this morning and my heart is there as you must know.
I had two telegrams from Hull-House before yours came and I telephoned you to be quite sure before I started for Chicago. I wanted very much to go and I am not [page 2] quite reconciled to having given it up.
My affection for Miss Culver was very profound, founded on admiration and gratitude but deeper than either of those can ever be by themselves.
Your note written a few days before the end, reached me yesterday -- letters are so slow on this remote island -- [page 3] and I very much appreciate your writing me.
In view of that letter and your two telegrams you must have thought my telephoning very abrupt. It is curious that one is never quite prepared for the end [although] one's mind grasps the situation exactly -- and I felt very grief-stricken that evening. [page 4]
I am sure you will now let me express the admiration I have long felt for the tender care and affection with which you have so long surrounded Her, no children could have been more intelligently devoted to a mother nor given her more love than Mr Ewing and you have done. I have been much touched by it. [page 5]
Mary Smith and I hope that you are all coming east in Sept. as you had hoped to do and that you are coming to see us here. I am leaving Sept 9th to meet some engagements in Philadelphia and New York en route to Chicago, so please come before then, in addition to all the other reasons for wanting to see you both is the overwhelming desire [page 6] to seek comfort from those so beloved to Her.
May I send my deepest sympathy to your children and to your mother but above all to Mr Ewing.
Always affectionately yours
Jane Addams
I am [enclosing] the only statement I have yet seen.
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