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London Ont Ontario Canada, Nov November 28– 83 1883 My Dear Old Friend: I arrived here safely Saturday
I am up in my little room writing this while my patients are sadly pacing up and down the hall.
Have 42 men in my charge. Will have to close for the present so good-bye.
living near a railroad— —I am well as usual— WW London Ont Ontario Canada, Nov November 28– 83 1883 My
I am up in my little room writing this while my patients are sadly pacing up and down the hall.
Have 42 men in my charge. Will have to close for the present so good-bye.
My opinion that the book is a success (in the most important requisites) is to-day more decided than
Did you see my article in Critic of Nov. 24?
America Dec. 8 1883 In compliance with your late request & remittance (safely received—thanks) I forward my
Camden N J Dec 9 '83 A young workingman & engineer, Edward Doyle, (brother of my dear friend Peter D.
London Ont Ontario Canada Dec December 17th 83 1883 My Dear Old Friend: Your postals came "OK" and found
Haven't heard from home directly but once since my arrival.
Camden New Jersey December 18 '83 Yours of 17th with the pay ($10) for my piece has come safely to hand
with the right direction so you can write to Harry London Ont Ontario Canada Dec December 17th 83 1883 My
Haven't heard from home directly but once since my arrival.
Greenport Dec 23 Dear Brother Walter I received a letter from you last night and an order for my annual
thing about it in your letter I am not feeling well at all this winter not sick abed but a pain in my
expect pains and aches as we are growing old but I am thankful I am no worse can get around and do my
Evn'g Evening Dear neices nieces I have received the beautiful book-knife—Just the thing, & will be in my
I spend my evenings altogether at the hospitals— my days often.
He is of my own party; and my politicshave been from my youth essentiallythe same ashis own.
Who 1,arns my Lesson complete.
My hands, my limbs grow nerveless.
The lecture closed with the recitation by the author of his grandly pathetic ' lament, O Captain, my
.— The old house in which my father's grand parents lived, (and their parents probably before them, )
—Some of them are yet represented by descendants in New England My father's grandfather was quite a large
—My father's father I never saw.— Mother's family lived only two or three miles from West Hills—on a
—Her mother 's (my great grandmother's) maiden name was Mary Woolley, and her father Capt: Williams,
the lampblack and oil with which the canvass covering of the stage was painted, would make me.— After my