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James Henry

On Receiving a Favorable Reply to a Proposal.

GERMANTOWN, PA., July 2, 1892. .-Words cannot express my rapture on finding your note on my table last night. How delightful was it to find a letter and such a letter! from one whom I may now hope to hail as the companion of my whole future life ! DARLING t The weight taken off my mind by the candid and gentle confession of one whose love seemed too great a happiness to hope for is beyond description. To-morrow I shall hasten to the presence of her from whom I hope I may never henceforth be parted; but I could not retire to rest without making one feeble attempt to express my ecstasy that hopes so flattering have not been in vain. Believe me, darling, Your devoted and happy Complaining of not Receiving a Letter.

JACK.

LIVINGSTON, November 20th, 1892.

DEAR BESSIE-Four days have passed without my receiving a letter from you, and I am in painful anxiety lest illness should be the cause. Pray write quickly, or I shall really feel inclined to quarrel with you as an idle girl; nay, I shall absolutely grow jealous, and fancy that some more favored suitor is undermining the affections of my dear girl.

But I have no fears. I too well know that your innate goodness of heart would prevent your trifling with the feelings of any one; so, hoping you will take this little scolding in good part, and relieve the offense by a very long letter as speedily as your dainty fingers can write, believe me, Dear Bessie, On a Birthday.

Your affectionate, JAMES.

NEW YORK, April 12th, 1892.

MY DEAREST AGNES-How sad it is that I am hindered from being with you on this dearest of all days of the year.

Accept, dearest, the enclosed portrait. I feel its original is too deeply stamped on your heart to require any effigy to remind you of him. It is, however, the most appropriate present I could offer to the cause of my happiness on this brightest of all days God grant that every succeeding year may see you increase in all that is charming in body and mind, and believe me,