My daughter Madge will present this letter in person, as she
is about to enter school in your town for a several years'
course of study. Under these circumstances, and in memory of
our own lifelong friendship, may I not ask that you will
help her to forget some of the sorrow of this, the first
parting her happy, young life has known? Trusting that you
will do this for the sake of auld lang syne,