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Georgetown&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;April 23d. 1865<br /><br /><br />My Dear Lizzie,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I rec'd your letter<br />from Father Gasche and went to<br />see him at the college.&nbsp;&nbsp;He spoke of<br />you and your Father with great inter=<br />est, and I am glad you have so<br />truly desirable a friend.&nbsp;&nbsp;He told me he<br />felt the greatest interest especially in<br />you, and requested me to say that you<br />promised to write to him and he hoped<br />you would fulfill it.&nbsp;&nbsp;(your promise.)&nbsp;&nbsp;I<br />wish you would visit the Sisters of<br />Charity.&nbsp;&nbsp;I think Sister Blanche is<br />the one he mentioned, as his friend<br />who would receive you kindly, and<br />whom he wished you to know.<br />Tell your Father that I have been<br />very anxious about him.&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact,<br /><br /><br />the anxieties of the last ^4 years are<br />enough to destroy any one nearly<br />who reflected much and who did<br />not vigorously resist depression.<br />I fear he is straitened as well<br />as yourself.&nbsp;&nbsp;Your circulating medium<br />was not quite so valuable as Green=<br />backs.&nbsp;&nbsp;While I think of it let me men=<br />tion Sister Stany's&nbsp;&nbsp;request.&nbsp;&nbsp;She has a friend<br />or protegè, Mary Hunt, daughter of<br />Mr. Charles Hunt, and one of whose sisters<br />is ^a Mrs. Lewis, for whom she has a boy<br />and from whom she wishes to hear.<br />Could you, she asks, inquire about her<br />from Bishop McGill and let her<br />(Sister Stany) know.&nbsp;&nbsp;She has never heard<br />since the war and has used all the<br />exertion in her power to communicate<br />with her.&nbsp;&nbsp;She says, will you call to see<br />the Bishop and ask him of her.<br />Sister Stany always asks with great interest<br />for your Father and Uncle to.<br />Her health is bad, I fear she is in<br /><br /><br />danger of, or in a dropsy.&nbsp;&nbsp;She talks<br />of your Father as a near relation.<br />How kind Dr Hoge must be and his<br />family.&nbsp;&nbsp;Cousin Francis is well as<br />could be expected, better even, but<br />with a cold now.&nbsp;&nbsp;Anne is about to move<br />to Brooklyn.&nbsp;&nbsp;Your Aunt Becca is<br />in Washington.&nbsp;&nbsp;She had letters from Fort<br />Warren.&nbsp;&nbsp;Your Uncle and Campbell<br />are in separate rooms to the discomfort<br />of your Uncle, but steps are being taken<br />by your Aunt B. to change ^this if possible.<br />She has great energy.<br />Father Aschwanden gave me the only letter<br />I have had from you.&nbsp;&nbsp;I suppose you know<br />of his death, last February twelve month.&nbsp;&nbsp;Tell<br />your Father he can not imagine the<br />loss to me, which rather increases with<br />the lapse of time.&nbsp;&nbsp;The life of martyrdom<br />and sacrifice led by a Jesuit Priest, especially<br />such a one as himself, makes it selfish to wish<br />to prolong it, however cheerfully, it ^the life may be borne.<br />Tell your Father, that there is a refinement<br /><br /><br />as well as goodness about Father Gasche<br />which makes him a most valuable<br />friend to you.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have a gold thimble<br />given to me by Father Aschwanden, which I<br />intended for you; I never use it, but<br />since his death you will to wait, I think<br />for mine till you have it.&nbsp;&nbsp;If I were<br />in my own house, I would, of course, have<br />you here.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have felt anxious about you<br />and have taken pleasure and pride in<br />hearing from various sources of and about you.<br />I have now set you a bad example by my<br />manner of writing, but you will not follow<br />it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Father Gasche says you are steady &c.<br />I hope you will write again and do not<br />forget to write to Father Gasche.<br />With my love to your Father&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I remain<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Your affectionate aunt<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Elizabeth S. Ewell<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cousin Francis kindly spoke of you<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;just now, and asked me to give<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;his love.