[FI001ACE], Letter from Mary Valinda (Mrs Lewis) Miller to Mina Miller (Mrs Thomas A.) Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, March 4th, 1888

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[FI001ACE], Letter from Mary Valinda (Mrs Lewis) Miller to Mina Miller (Mrs Thomas A.) Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, March 4th, 1888

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15-8065. My dear Mina and Mr. Edison, ##dear Mina Grace [recd?] you very kind and welcome letter telling me how much pleased you were to receivea [boy? Toy?], you said it maid you feel that you had a place in the family now. My dear I am glad if that little act maid any differences in your feelinges in that way and if I can do one little thing that will make you and Mr Edison with the dear children feel that you are ours and this is your home I will be glad to do it though it be ever so small a thing ## I want my darlings always to feel and know this is there home and they are welcome to everything in it and all of us will be glad to see you hear and will try to do all we can to please you, I expect you and dear Grace have had a grand good time this last week, your being all alone you could say and do just as you please and when you please. How nice it is to be free and easy. I hope when dear Marion gettes home she can join you early and all enjoy being together, Mother and daughter and sister and family all feeling as one and wishing each other happiness and joys through life, helping each other to improve every moment to the best advantage as it swiftly passed by. Just think how fast times flyes, soone we can hear the beautiful brides sing while we are walking on the beautiful green grass. How good the maker of all things is or was to make every thing so plesent and [prosperous? Purposeful? Just, he has?] for us in the winter we can have more time and quietness for study and thoguht, we can learn so much every day but when we are alone and quiet it is then that they do us the most good. Well dear Mina it may be you would be glad be glad to hear how we are all at home, well we are all well and were all at Sunday school and church as usual and if it had not ben for such a sad afair that has just happened we would all enjoyed the day very much as we had the Elder with us and it was communion day, but it seemes we have to have bitter with the sweet all through. This life joy and sorry go together. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Sinder telephoned over to us telling us that alfred Underwood tried to fo go through with. I trust our dear children may grow to man and womanhood and be a blessing to the world they may always choose the right and be happy in doing good to all around them. Well dear Mina I donot know whether I had better tell you or not as pa [disafasmuted? Disaffected?] you so before but I will just say it may be pa will be with you sometime this week. When will dear Grace come home. I want to see her [also Willey jr?] had shot himself, he is only 15 years old. He was up and Hudson school and shot himself Friday night but his families did not hear of it untill afternoon. O how sad they do feel and it casts a shadow all over the town. No one can tell why he did so, only he was to speak a piece that Saturday afternoon and he did not want to. We all feel sorry for the parents and his brother, I expect it is a lesson for us to study and understand how to do for the dear ones we have to take care off. O may we never have such. ## There are quite a number asking when Gracey is coming home. Please give her my love and best wishes if she is there when you get this and I want you and dear Mr. Edison with you and the little boys to please except my love and best wishes. I will write soone again to you my dear Mina. O, you asked me how I liked little Margret's char. Well I can truly say I do like it and all the rest to. It is a little beauty, and little Margret is proud of it to. Well goodby, please except love from Mother

Date

1888-03-04

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FI001-F

Microfilm ID

161:633

Document ID

FI001ACE

Publisher

Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
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