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visit this summer at Amherst. I suppose no one was sur-
prised when her engagement to Prof. Smith was announced,
and really it was very natural and congenial all around.
  Remember me very affectionately to Emily and Vinnie. I
wish they could prevail on themselves to visit me sometime,
and I shall hope when we meet, that this fresh bleeding [?]
to all your hearts may be quietly healed through
the mercy of your heavenly Father
and the mystery of pain made clearer to your souls than it
possibly can be in these first hours of suffering -

Your attached friend,
Emily E. Ford.

Tuesday Nov 20, 1883.
97 Clark St. Brooklyn.