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Mother, we saved your cloak, black shawl, breakfast shawl | Mother, we saved your cloak, black shawl, breakfast shawl | ||
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with you for it would have been impossible to have saved | with you for it would have been impossible to have saved | ||
but as small part of it had it been here. Frankie | but as small part of it had it been here. Frankie | ||
saved her green suit and black suit, cloak and | saved her green suit and black suit, cloak and quite | ||
a number of under clothes, so she will be quite comfortable | a number of under clothes, so she will be quite comfortable | ||
Her furs too, she saved. | Her furs too, she saved. | ||
I saved a few of Lammie's clothes and almost all of | I saved a few of Lammie's clothes and almost all of | ||
Mr. H's outside clothing and my more antique, black | Mr. H's outside clothing and my more antique, black | ||
silk, | silk, grenedine, brown silk, checked silk, satin and | ||
velvet cloak, with nearly all my valuable laces | velvet cloak, with nearly all my valuable laces | ||
and embroideries, my winter outside garments, | and embroideries, my winter outside garments, | ||
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is a mass of shapeless wire. | is a mass of shapeless wire. | ||
Mother, if the friends will give you a home this winter, or until | Mother, if the friends will give you a home this winter, or until | ||
we are organized again I will do something | we are organized again I will do something for them | ||
sometime. I am sorry I cannot offer you a home | sometime. I am sorry I cannot offer you a home | ||
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Mother, we saved your cloak, black shawl, breakfast shawl and I am so glad that the best part of your clothing was with you for it would have been impossible to have saved but as small part of it had it been here. Frankie saved her green suit and black suit, cloak and quite a number of under clothes, so she will be quite comfortable Her furs too, she saved. I saved a few of Lammie's clothes and almost all of Mr. H's outside clothing and my more antique, black silk, grenedine, brown silk, checked silk, satin and velvet cloak, with nearly all my valuable laces and embroideries, my winter outside garments, and three shawls. But our library was completely destroyed - not a volume saved (too heavy to carry of course) and all my beautiful silver gone the words 'beautiful', 'silver', and 'gone' and are underlined. If we could have carried a trunk could have saved it but that was out of the question. Although it seems to you but little is left, still we did astonishingly well everyone says that sees all we carried. All your bedding has gone with mine. My splendid piano is a mass of shapeless wire. Mother, if the friends will give you a home this winter, or until we are organized again I will do something for them sometime. I am sorry I cannot offer you a home