Letter from Hanna Korany to May Wright Sewall. (May Wright Sewall Papers)

Letter from Hanna Korany to May Wright Sewall.

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KORANY, HANNA K DEC 16, 1893

4545 Ellie Ave Chicago Dec 16.93

Mrs. May Wright Sewall

My beloved ideal

It is one of my greatest pleasures to write you for I do feel when I am writing as if I were sitting before you and speaking to you 'vis-a-vis' and you know that I have a vivid imagination which carries me to all the pleasant places I like to dwell upon.

Chicago which I left so bright with sunshine and the glow of the 'white city' by the lake looked so dull cold and dreary

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upon the morning of my arrival and I felt as if I wanted to sit down and cry but the loviliness and the kindness of the friend with whom I am now stopping transformed my gloom into happiness and a feeling of thankfulness crept into my heart and dispelled all unpleasantness from there.

She is Mrs Frederick Smith and indeed she is a very genuine generous lovely lady. My friends at Chicago seemed as friendly as ever and they all try to do all they can to help me. How very delightful that is! Mrs Judge Waterman has proved so exceeding by

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kind and helpful and is going to give me a parlor lecture at her pretty home on the 28th of December. It is altogether a very busy season for lectures, but I am trying to do the best I can and every day brings with it something new to learn.

Well how are you my dearest of all? I know that your noble fruitful life is full of of everything that makes life happy beneficial and worth living. The happy days I spent under the shelter of

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of your overflowing kindness were an education for life and the example of your career too great to be emphasised shall ever be the staff to guard my steps in the line of work I have chosen.

I did not yet receive any news from my husband concerning the trunk and I am not sure of his address to send it to the most charming man Mr Sewall.

With sincerest regard to Mr. Sewall and Mr Wright and with perpetual love, admiration and respect to you I am ever

Yours adorably Hanna K Korany

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