Thanking a friend for kind words following the accidental death of his daughter Mary, enclosing a copy of his “famous eulogy” (Wikipedia) “Mary White” published in his Kansas newspaper, Emporia Gazette, in an eloquent, typed letter on Gazette letterhead, signed by White June 10, 1921, to Barbara Jarrell in New York.
12mo. 4-pages, approximately 325 words, in part: “[My article on Mary] has been more widely copied than any other article that ever appeared in the Gazette … I have had literally hundreds of letters from men and women who have been touched by it. Surely it has brought her life..... More