To rotate the image, hold down SHIFT and ALT on your keyboard, and then click and drag on the page.
are the days spent at happy. flowery –
Ingleside – A Sister in a letter
writes "Your friends names in Va. &
particularly of Ingleside, have become as
familiar as household words." & adds,
"Your special friend Miss Bettie has become
dear to us as such" – Little do some of the
kind and generous hearts of this Noble State
know when prompted by christian or other
motives to acts of kindness towards the
defenders of their homes how each act of
kindness simple though it my be, sinks
deep into the warm and grateful hearts
of anxious ones far away. – rising again
on altars of devotion as worthy incense to
One who sees the ways of all the children
of men – I would have my friend
Miss Bettie feel that the bond which exists
in our relations is appreciated in such
a spirit as this. – and I would prove
worthy of it – I desire to be no ordinary
friend. I crave a higher & nearer position