Dear Baroness and Friend:
On receipt of your brief note of the 10/12 I addressed to the Baronne
Charles de Suttner the expression of my condolence. Will you be the
intermediary of my lively sympathy for your husband and your
relatives?
I also have sad news to announce. I am just here from Stockholm, where
I have been to conduct to her last home my poor dear mother, who loved
me as people do not love nowadays, when feverish life serves as a
check on sentiment.
I press your two hands—the little hands of a dear, kind sister who
wishes me well just as I wish her and hers well.