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date in brackets 27 July 1885 4 enough to be willing to see her go out of this world of sorrow into the illegible sunshine
of God's presence where there are no tears but when the time came all my loneliness, all my self- ishness cried out and it
seemed that I could not let her got but I almsot knew illegible the ? that she must for I illegible a hundred times to ask
for her life but always came away with the same 5 weight in my heart and the words 'thy will be done on my lips. How
can I ever learn to do without her, how can I ever learn to do without her? illegible for the time to come when we shall
all meet in that happy land. During nearly all of her sickness she seemed to realize everything and with her illegible eyes
looked appealingly at her papa and at me, we would have given