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- GLC#
- GLC03523.05.25-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 19 June 1888
- Author/Creator
- Summers, Etta, fl. 1888
- Title
- to Albert Gillett
- Place Written
- Scottsburgh, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Writes "is it true you can call me dear Etta & say from your inmost heart that you love me without ever beholding my face." Expresses that she would never marry him if his children were opposed to it. She continues on by stating though that children do leave their parents and that "if we can be a comfort to one another & cheer each other along lifes pathway it would be pleasant. I hope I shall yet have that priceless blessing, a husbands faithfull love." Reports that another man would like to marry her, but that she doesn't think she could love him. Expresses her desire to meet him and gives him directions to her home. Signs off the letter with, "yours in hope."
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