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A Step-Grandmother's Sorrow

Letter from Harriet Gilbert Averell to Emily Sibley Watson, November 21, 1904

1904-11-21

Writing the day after J.G.'s death, his paternal grandmother writes to Emily Sibley Watson: "The Averells are growing so very few that when one drops by the way [illegible] and with so much to live for the shock is greater and the loss irreparable. My heart aches for you and for myself too."