Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-02-14

& much wish you would rink seriously bes
1 1ores you decide. For my part, have al
{ ready decided. What / have said WIN
most positively abide by. provided you
. WISH WISH y. MY opinion is that you had bet
ter not 90 It. You have not been accus-
toned 70 hardship. and it may be more
severe than you now imagine I know
you are capable Of thinking correctly on
any subject. and If you deliberate mature
" upon this before you decide, then am
willing TO abide your decision.
4ou must write me good long letter
after you get this. You have nothing else
70 DO, and, though it might not seem in
terest1ng to you after you have written it,
It would be good deal Of company to me
IN this busy wilderness Tell your sis
ter = don't want to hear any more about
selling out and moving. That gives me
the hypo whenever think Of it. Yours,
etc, IINcOT n b
Springfield, Aug. 16, 1887
Friend Mary-You will no doubt think
It rather strange that should write you
letter on the same day on which we
parted, and can only account for it by
suppos1ng that seeing you lately makes
me think Of you more than usual, while
at our late meeting we had but few ex-
pressions of thoughts. You must know
entire indifference, and yet it may be
That you are mistaken in regard to what
my real feelings toward you are. If /
knew you were not. I should not trouble
you with this letter. Perhaps any other
man would know enough without further
informa ton, but consider it my Pc
culiar right to plead ignorance and your
bounden duty to allow the plea. want
In all cases to do right. and most par
q ca {va IL
want at this particular time more than
anything else to do right with you. and
II knew 1t would be doing right, as
rather suspect 1t would, to let you alone
would do 1t. And, for the purpose OF
making the matter as plain as possible,
now say that you can now drop the sub
Ject. dismiss your thoughts Cf you ever
had any from me forever and leave this
letter unanswered without calling forth
one accusing murmur from me- And
will even go further and say that, If 1t
will add anything to your comfort OF
peace OF mind to do so, 1t Is my sincere
wish that you should. Do not understand
by this that wish to cut your acQuaint.
ance. mean no such thing. What dc
wish is that our further acquaintance
shall depend upon yourself. If such fur.
Their acquaintance would constitute moth
ing to your happiness, am sure it would
AoS ~ AAiiA1S. IL YOU ISel yOuTSe1I IN any
degree bound to me. I am now. willing tc
release you, provided you wish it, while,
on the other hand, am willing and even
anxious to bind you faster if I can be
convinced that 1t will in any considerable
degree add to your happiness. This, in.
deed, is the whole question with me
Nothing would make me more miserable
than to believe you miserable, NOTHING
more happy than to know you were so.
In what have now said I think can.
not be misunderstood, and to make my.
self understood is the only object Of this
letter. -
If it suits you best to not answer this
farewell A long life and merry one at.
tend you. But if you conclude to write
back, speak as plainly as do. There can
be neither harm nor danger in saying tc
me anything you think, just in the man.
ner you think it.
My respects to your sister. Your friend
s.' LINCOLN.
Continued next week.