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Fairholme, Denbigh stationery

April 11 1878 My dear Nieces

  It is with deep sympathy that I pen these lines to you knowing well what a state you will be in after losing your dear mother. You may well say with the Psalmest "All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me" losing your dear father mother and two sisters, in so short a time, were very trying circumstances, In the same psalm it says 'Why art thou cast down O my soul, hope thou in God" From there our strength and unclear forthcomes, and He will never die appoint us, under our trials, It must