ENPages
p.2
following questions?
I - How long will they remain in this country?
II. Will they come to New York? How many of them are there, and what are their names?
If you will answer these questions I will be much obliged to you with kind regards
Elizabeth Cady Stanton per sec
p.1
Basingstoke,
June 24.
Dear Mother;
Just two week ago today was Helen's last day with us here. We knew she was ill, but all thought there were weeks if not months before her, and I felt she would recover. It was not till Thursday morning about 6.30 that we saw a change in her. In an hour the little spirit had slipped away. I had never seen any on [one] die before, and in her case there was nothing but a sweet sliding away. There
p.2
[Left Page]
was not a struggle, she breathed more & more slowly and gently, and had a sweet smile on her face. She said about seven "I feel so comfortable."
The doctor here said the trouble was probably consumption of the bowels, but for Nora's sake I could not let such a question rest on probabilities. A leading doctor from the Royal College of Physicians came down & made a careful examination. There was no consumption, no suggestion of tubercle anywhere. Every organ was sound. There was slight, very slight chronic
[Right Page]
inflammation of the bowels, the remnant of the cold she caught in the bowels where I left her with the first trained nurse at Ilkley to come home & get Nora ready for school.
On Saturday June 13, we had the last sweet service for Helen. Theodore came. The little white coffin was lined with blue, one of her favourite colours. It stood in her big white perambulator which she gone out in all this winter. The green-house was thrown open to the drawing-room. In the middle of the greenhouse, which had been bright all the spring with flowers stood the carriage with its precious burden. The wreaths
