Charles H. Calcraft.
Another, from a mother introducing her daughter to an old friend, would read:
Waterbury, Conn., March 10, 189-.
Dear Frances:
My daughter Madge will present this letter in person, as she is about to enter school in your town for a several years' course of study. Under these circumstances, and in memory of our own lifelong friendship, may I not ask that you will help her to forget some of the sorrow of this, the first parting her happy, young life has known? Trusting that you will do this for the sake of auld lang syne,
I am, as ever, your friend,
Margaret M. Blatchford.
Mrs. Frances H. Page,
Portland, Me.
A still briefer form would be: