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stiff to have dignity - can't be flowery, or very wordy. I suppose the first part of this letter, the first lines, will be a statement of gift, and the name of the hospital, will they not? I mean something like: The Brodstone Memorial Hospital, Given to the City of Superior by Evelyn, Lady Vesty, in loving memory of her mother, --- -- Brodstone, who was born in (Bergen, wasn't it?) 18-- and stricken word died in Superior, Nebraska 19--

Annotation in pencil on left and right - enclosing 2 lines below

What I mean, Mary, is that this funeral part would be arranged by Evelyn, or her secretary, or the Board, wouldn't it? And you want me to come in with a funeral note, just after, am I right?

Well, the lines that flow into my mind as being really like Mrs. Brodstone, as I knew her, are something like this that follows: