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Lewiston, Maine

March 19th 1878 

Dear Aunties

  We have just heard of your loss and want to offer you our sympathy. We know how deep your grief must be and how impossible it is to comfort you. We need not remind you of the one Friend whom death cannot take from us. I have thought how happy the meeting must have been between dear Grandma and my own dear mother and how pleasant the time they are spending together now. We have many friends now to draw us toward Heaven and I sometimes think it is selfish to mourn