Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-04-18

Z Am almost out Of patience with Mr..
Everett's endless importantly. 1t seems
like he not only writes all the letters he
can himself, but gets everybody else in
Louisville and vicinity to be constantly
writing to us about his claim. I have
always said that Mr.. Everett is; very
clever fellow. and I am very sorry he
cannot be obliged, but it does seem to me
he ought to know we are interested to
collect his claim and therefore would do
1t if we could. .
I am neither joking nor in a pet when
| say we would thank him to transfer his
business to some other. without any COM
pensatfon for what we have DONE pro-
vided he will see the court cost paid. for
which we are security.
The sweet violet you inclosed came
safely to hand. but it was so dry and
mashed SO fiat that it crumbled to dust
at the first attempt to handle it. The
juice that mashed out of it stained a
place in the letter, which mean to pre-
serve and cherish for the sake of her
who procured it to be sent My renewed
good wishes to her in particular and gen.
orally to all such of your relations who
know me. AS ever, LINCOLN
Springfield. ILL.,, July 4, 1912.
Dear Speed-Yours of the 18th June was
received only day or two since. It was
not mailed at Louisville till the 18th. You
speak Of the great time that has elapsed
since I wrote you. Let me explain that.
Your letter reached here a day or two
after had started on the circuit. was
gone five or six weeks, so that got the
letters only a few weeks before Butler
started to your country. I thought it
scarcely worth while to write you the
news which he could and would tell you
more in detail. On his return he told me
would 7 al for
your letter. AS to my having been dis
pleased with your advice, surely you
know better than that. I know you do
and therefore will not labor to convince
you. True, that subject is painful to me,
but it is not your silence or the silence
Of all the world that can make me forget
it. acknowledge the correctness Of your
advice, too, but before I resolve to do
the one thing or the other I must gain
my confidence in my own ability to keep
my resolves when they are made. In that
ability you know I once prided myself
as the only or chief gem Of my character.
That gem I lost; how and where you
know too well. I have not yet regained
it, and until do cannot trust myself in
any matter of much Importance. I be-
lieve now that had you understood my
case at the time as we'll as I understood
yours afterward by the aid you would
have given me I should have sailed
through clear, but that does not now az
ford me sufficient confidence to begin that
or the like Of that again.
You make a kind acknowledgment Of
your obligations to me for your present
happiness. 1 am much pleased with that
acknowledgment, but a thousand times
more am I pleased to know that you en-
joy degree Of happiness worthy Of an
acknowledgment. The truth is I am not
sure that there was any went with me
in the part I took in your difficulty; I
was drawn to it as by fate. If I would,
I could not have done less than I did, I
always was superstitious; I believe God
made me one Of the instruments Of bring
ing your Fanny and you together, which
union I have no doubt he had foreordain-
ed. Whatever he designs he will do for
me yet. "Stand still and see the salvation
Of the Lord'' is my text just now. If. as
you say, you have told Fanny all, I
should have no objection to her seeing
this letter but for it's reference to our
friend here. Let her seeing it depend
upon whether she has ever known any
thing of my affairs, and if she has not
do not let her.
I do not think I can come to Kentucky
| this season. I am so poor and make SO
| little Roadway in the world that I drop