As I sat in the evening reading your poems I felt a strong desire
to tell you how much you are to me and how much more you will be in the future.
It seems that I find
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new and grander meanings in your words each time I read them. They open up vistas.
I know that things that troubled me formerly will have power to vex me no longer, I will be at ease, with you for my friend, I will commune with you more frequently.
If I could I would clasp your hand and tell
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you that I felt your physical weakness and suffering.
I send this line straight from me to you to tell you that I love you.
Correspondent:
Isabel Yeomans Brown
(1867–1910) was a central figure in numerous women's organizations in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She was President of the Ottawa Equal Suffrage
Association and instrumental in the formation of the organization. She was also
a prominent figure in the Unitarian Women's Alliance. She was married to John
Henry Brown, a civil service worker, and the couple had five sons. For more
information, see her obituary: "Mrs. J. H. Brown Died Yesterday," The Ottawa Journal (September 22, 1910), 1.