312. Answer to the Above.
O——, May 10, 19—.
Dear Mr. Saunderson:—
Please accept my most earnest thanks for your kind letter of condolence. My poor brother's unexpected death was indeed a great shock to us. All that we have as yet heard is that he was ill only three days, and that enteric fever was the cause of death; his wife was too overwhelmed with grief to write more fully, but we trust we shall hear from her by next mail. Her father is very anxious that she should come back to us at once with her children. John and I were such great friends up to the time of his marriage, it seems too sad to think that I shall never see him again; we were fond and proud of him too, and his sudden death is inexpressibly terrible to us all.
With kind love believe me, dear Mr. Saunderson,
Yours affectionately,
Mary Lawson Heywood.
313. Condoling with a Young Lady on the Death of Her Mother.
P——, October 3, 19—.