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This letter in an envelope marked as follows:
Return Address:
Dept. of Justice
District of Minnesota
U.S.Marshals office
St. Paul, Minn.
Written by hand: For Will Grimshaw, Jr. After my death. WHG
This envelope contains two letters from Ginnie written while enroute from Philadelphia to St. Paul.Also letter of father and Ginnie and a letter of Uncle James in regard to my mothers death. WHG (his mother was Mary Page Nicholson Grimshaw.)
Philadelphia Oct. 9/57
Robert E. Grimshaw, Esq.
Dear Brother
The intelligence of Marys’ death reached me on the 21st ult. I have been expecting to hear more fully from you and have therefore delayed acknowledging the receipt of your letter. The news of Mary’s death was so totally unexpected that it fell upon me like a thunderbolt. It seems too hard that she should be taken away so early. Leaving her little children without a mother’s watchful love and that the western prairie should only have furnished her with a sod for her grave instead of a home and happiness with you. For yourself I can but reach across forest and prairie and give you the hand of sympathy in this the great grief of your life.
Your own heart will be your best councilor, but consolation comes from God. I shall not attempt therefore to proffer advise or to open your wounds afresh by recapitulating my sorrow but merely assure you that I feel deeply for you and your children in your bereavement and though separated by distance I am united with you in the fellowship of tears.
Truly yours,
James B. Nicholson
Handwritten at bottom:
Son Will,
My mothers name was Mary Page Nicholson
" Uncles " James B. Nicholson