4 Hope you will soon write again and have more encouragement to give us and accept our best wishes and words from the dear
girls will be a pleasant tonic while we are so far away from friends. Faithfully yours Abbigail Allen San Jose Calif.
1 San Jose October Ninth 1905 Dear Friends It was very good of you to respond to my hastily written letter and pleased
was I to receive the encouraging words of your convalesence and the hopeful lines of the daughters improvement. It seems
a long time to wait for words when one is so anxious for words containing good news, lest they be the reverse. 03649