Dearest
Your letter cheered me mightily -- for verily the righteous are having a reward.
Mrs Blackstone has given $3000.00 which completes the ten as I have just written to Mrs Bowen. This puts you down for 2500, which I shall always regret unless that old Cook mortgage pays up.
I am now sailing on trying to get the remainder on the gym fund but feeling much encouraged! The Ponds are slower than usual about the moving of the building and I spend much time in poking them up. [page 2]
I called at the house yesterday. Aunt Sarah was lunching with your two brothers and looking very housewifely and happy. Your brother Frank and K. were here to dinner and we had really a very jolly time. I haven't seen Mrs Herrick at all for which I am very sorry.
I miss you all the time, perhaps the awful lapses are worthwhile -- but I doubt it!
With love to your father and mother -- always yrs J. A.
May 15" 1901
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