Huntsville. Utah,
Dec. 27. 1902.
MRS. ELLEN MARION.
Grant Works, Ill.
My Dear Lady:
I wish to beg your pardon if I appear rude in trying to
personally introduce myself, but allow me to assure you
that I am sincere in my quest for a kind friend, and it is
nothing but the purest and holiest motives of the human
heart that prompts the intrusion.
I saw your advertisement in the Valley Farmer, and in it
I seem to behold the image of an ideal lady, who is well
worthy of the highest esteem and admiration from a true
gentleman, and how happy and thankful should the man be
who is so fortunate as to captivate the love and heart of
so noble a prize. Among many others your advertisement to
me seemed to be the most suitable and impressive. While it
would not be within good taste to express a great love for
you at present, yet I believe that I could come as near
living and dying on love as the next one. My object in
writing you is to find if there should be a chord within
our natures that could be touched mutually to harmonize
with the word love.
I have been married and know of the joy and happiness of a
kind and loving companion. Two years ago death robbed me of
my greatest prize in life. Since then I have been baching
it. I am tired of roughing it alone, and if there were only
some one to meet me with a kind smile of approval I could
work much harder and be a better man for it, and I do most
earnestly and sincerely solicit your correspondence with a
view to closer ties should our natures prove congenial.
Should you feel inclined to favor me I would certainly feel
highly flattered.