McFarland-Russell Letter, May 27, 1880 - Page 2

was here thought he got
a little better and I am left
with the promises he and
Ed would come the next
night and stay with him
but he died at five minutes
after five monday morning
Ed set up with him part
of two nights and come
to see him one day [illegible] bag
never come at all but it is
all over now it has all passed
Oh Kate althought I know ten
months before he died there
was no chance for him it
seemed as though I could not give
him up how I wished you
could have been here to have
seen how calm and peaceful
he looked so happy and willing
to go. I hope the sunshine
that he was wraped about may