Berlin March 30/62

 

            Dear Sister Fannie

                                                This is a good day to write letters I believe and I think I will improve it. the wind is blowing quite boisterously and cold so that it is much more pleasant in doors than out, and I have no desire to be out walking as is generally the case when I have nothing to do.

 

            I have been to Church once today and heard a funeral sermon, which made me feel quite solemn I tell you. it was of a young lady, cut down in the bloom of youth. disease laid his hand upon her and she was numbered with those that were but are not. I thought Fannie how thankfull we ought to be that we / possess and enjoy so many blessings while others are called to pass through so many trials. when I think of these things it makes me see and feel my unworthiness in the sight of a just God and often leads me to resolve on following more closely his will, but poor human nature is so weak that I as often find my good resolutions broken and myself back again to my old starting point. then there is nothing left to do but to try it over again. but I see that I am following a rather gloomy train of thought.

 

            Your letter did not proove as dry as you anticipated. I judge from the fact that I read it two or three times over. I should like to be at Almond when you visit there I think we could manage to enjoy ourselves first rate. we could take / moonlight rides on the lake and rambles through the groves and have a good time generally I think we could manage to keep out of those old tree tops that we once drove into. perhaps you remember that ride do you not.

 

            Where does your sister H_ live that you spoke of in your last letter. I should think it would be pleasant for you to go east and visit your old native place. I know it is so for me at any rate. I think one cannot appreciate home or the old familiar haunts of childhood until he has gone forth a stranger in the world. then it is that every little kind word and deed come thronging back upon the memory and we live them over again in the mind. I should be / very happy indeed to accept of your invitation and spend a few days with you this summer but it will depend a great deal upon circumstances. I expect that I shall have a very busy time of it this summer. I am now intending to apply for admision to the Bar at the fall term of Court which will be held the first of September and I have got a great deal of reading to do before then. the practice is to require two years of constant reading but the Judge thinks I shall know enough next fall and wants me to be admitted so I am going to try just to please him if nothing more. I expect after that you will see my shingle stuck out some where. I have been promised one case, a young lady says she will get married and then employ me to get a bill of divorce for her is not that encouraging. but Fanny I see that this page is nearley filled and so I shall have to close. please give my regards to your people. write soon and believe me as ever your true friend.

                                                                                                            Frank M. G.

 

P. S. If I can possibly come up there this summer, of course I shall. we will have a ride on my lake and go berrying and have lots of fun wont we

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