"Sister / Our parting was somewhat / interspersed" 

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Notes

H B150 | JL 392

Summer 1873 | Ink | Watermark//Embossment: Y/A Pirie & Sons | 20 X 12.5 cm | LL 63 | FF 234-35.

Four leaves, folded in thirds, "125" pencilled on recto of first leaf. Johnson notes that Susan had taken the children to Swampscott to visit one of her brothers.