William M. Pettis, Washington, D.C., to Miss Lottie Garrett, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1908
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- Box 1, Folder 13
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Apologizes for not responding to her Christmas card earlier; describes in great detail what a wonderful, noble, and great gentleman her father was; is thankful for the friendship that her father showed him; looks forward to being with him again after this life; reminisces about Williamsburg and the happy times he spent there in youth; believes that education involves more than book-learning, and declares that "what you get out of people, places, situations, environment means more to the mind than in the formative period"; contemplates moving to St. Louis to be with his son, whose wife died 12-15 years ago and who is lonely now; regrets deepely that he was not able to be there for Cousin Letty's death, and that he was not able "to put her sacred dust away as I had promised her."
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