In my case it has been out of the mouths of
babes I have heard wisdom. My second reason for gratitude to you is
the noble and humane manner in which you have taken the loss and
privations this war entailed. The name of Hatton has been thrice
honored by your bearing of it and I count my niece the most
fortunate of women to be your wife. She and Martha have in a large
measure helped to console me for the loss of my dear son. The third
call for recognition is, that I owe you some tangible proof of my
gratitude. Now I have a little money lying idle or nearly so, and
if you can spend it in buying cotton, I do not know of any better
use it can be put to. I am sending in this a check on Coutts' Bank
for ten thousand pounds. If it will help you a little, you will do
me a great favor by setting poor men and women to work with it. I
heard dear little Martha reading her Bible lesson to her mother
this morning. It was about the man who folded his talent in a
napkin and did nothing with it.
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