Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-01-29
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Randolph Churchill

(Friday) my feelings OF sorrow az
parting from her were more than L
could restrain, and | told her all.
did not say anything to her mother.
but | believe that she did after | was
gone; for she wrote to me just as 1
was starting Il did not, after all, leave
Cowes till the Monday, and she said
in her letter that her mother could not
hear of it. That | am at a loss to I'M
derstand
Il now write to tell you of it all, ano
to ask you whether you will be able to,
increase my allowance to some extenr
to put me in the position to ask Mrs
Jerome to let me become her laugh
ter's future husband | inclose you
her photograph, and will only say
about her that she is as nice, as low
able, and amiable and charming in
every way as she is beautiful, and THAI
by her education and bringing up she
is IN every way qualified to fill any
position. She has an elder sister. ana
one younger, who is not yet ont Mr..
| Jerome is a gentleman who is obliged
] to live in New York to look after his
| business. | do not know what it is.
| He is reputed to be very well off. and
his daughters, | believe, have very
good fortunes, but do not know, any
! thing for certain. He generally comes
| over for three or four months every
year. Mrs Jerome has lived in Paris
for seveal years and has educated her
daughters there. They go out in So
ciety there and are very we'll known.
Il have told you all l know about
them at present. You have always
| been very good to me and done as
much and more for me always than Z
had any right to expect; and with any
arrangements that you may at any.
| time make for me | shall be perfectly
contented and happy. l see before
me now very happy future, almost in
Cn'es grasp. In the last year or 50 Z
| feel have lost a great deal of what
energy and ambition | possessed, ano.
an idle and comparatively useless life
has at times appeared to me to be the
pleasantest; but if l were married to-,
her whom have told you about, il 2
had companion such as she wouln
| be, | feel sure, to take an interest
! in ones prospects and career, and to,
! encourage me to eXertiOns and to do,
! ing something towards making a name,
i for myself, | think that | might be
come, with the help of Providence, all
and perhaps more than you had ever
! wished and hoped for me. On the
other hand, if anything should occur to-
prevent my fondest hopes and wishes,
being realized Ca possibility which l.
dare not and cannot bring myself tor
J think of, how dreary and uninterest-
ing would life become to me! | wiik
not allude to her. I believe ana am
convinced that she loves me as fully
and as strongly if possible as | do her.
and when two people feel towards
each other what We do it becomes, /
know, a great responsibility for any
one to assist in either bringing about
Or thWarting a union SO closely de
sired by each. Goodby l have witt
ten to you all | have done, all | feet,
and all I know. Anxiously wishing
for an answer from you, remain ever
your most affectionate s0n
"-RandoIph.
With this chapter ends the more do
nestle records of Lord Randolph's
life. From here on it is politics. He
died a young man, at an age when
most men in public life are just begin
ming to live.