Unidentified ALS to Unidentified, August 19, 1894

I suppose those two sisters are quite
unconscious of their selfishness and
how they are really spoiling the lives
of both A. F. and S. O. J. In two
years Theodore will go to College and
then Sarah hopes they will all go to
live in Boston or Cambridge. Annie
says they have a most solitary life
all their old friends have left Berwick and
Miss Mary has not the energy or capacity
to make new ones, or to interest herself
in the factory people and others - I
thought she was as severe upon Miss
Mary as she ever allows herself to be!
Did you by the way ever receive S. O. J's
letter which I forwarded? It should
have reached you long-ago, as I sent
it to Wiesbaden. And do you receive the papers I send?
Mr. & Mrs. George Howe departed a
day or two before so I did not see them.
It seems she felt quite dreadfully to
go just at the last, that Annie seemed
to think they would both be happier over there.