Arvine C. Wales to Eliza Weimer Wales

              Source: Wales, Arvine, C. D-613-2 Outgoing correspondence-Personal
              Eliza A. (Weimer) Wales   Transcript

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                            Springhill Thursday Evening

	Dearest Lida

	                    Are you out of patience with

	me for not having written sooner?  Your

	kind dear letter of Saturday Evening was recd

	Tuesday.  You want to know what I have

	written to Ire.  What else could I write but

	that we would be at Chicago during the

	first weeks of the year?  Is that right?

                   I was reading in the Spectator

	the other day of an antediluvian courtship

	conducted upon a plan that would suit

	you exactly.  The groom was Ninety and

	the bride Eighty when the affair commenced.

	      The courtship lasted some Thirty years