My dear Margaret.It is always good for your aunt to read your letters but she knows you are a very busy body and is not sensitive if a message direct is slow in coming. If she knows you are well which she wisely takes for granted unless she learns from some of the family to the contrary she is content in the knowledge that she has a niece who loves her.
Thank you for the neat and useful handkerchief which you so neatly marked with initials. They always speak to me of you and I seem to see your fingers making the stitches and believe some love is in them[.] What fine weather for this season of the year! I am sure the boy will be very glad for the postage stamps which I will soon place in his possession - Aunt Julia and I are having a very quiet week. I am glad for Carrie that she is with her sister in Washington - They always have a good time together there. I believe she thinks she must return on Monday. I hoped for a letter from Roy this week but it has not come - Really I do not know what he is doing.
Walter may have a clearer idea.
What a wonderful time for Mr. & Mrs. Wilson! Do you not think she is very glad she married him? This hurried note which bears love to all the family is to assure you of the gratitude and affection of
Aunt Sarah -
Sat. A.M.
Tuesday A.M.
My dear Margaret.
My thoughts have been turning towards you very many times these past days and I am hoping you are well and happy. How much I wish for you good cheer health and the many things which make life pleasurable and profitable. May the New Year bring you all these.
Just now I am thinking of the delight the inmates of Tetherwold are having together although some of the family are absent. The weather has been so mild I think it possible Allan and his family may be with you. Walter is still busy in France[.] Perhaps he knows more of what Roy is doing there than I do. If not he knows very little about him. His letters speak of going from place to place but the purpose of such travel I have not discovered. He has seen much distress among the returning prisoners from Germany.
My sister has spent long days in letter writing and I should think that with this and the much reading of the dailies her eyes would fail her but she surprises me in her capacity for endurance. Her limbs swell badly and must be painful.
I am glad Carrie is having a vacation and no doubt a good time with her sister in Washington. She finds much to do in connection with the work in the office in Boston. Fortunately she is alert and has friends upon whom she can rely for advice. Rose is much pleased with her first pair of silk stockings. As usual these recent years I am not making gifts excepting to a very few needy ones.
My love for my friends is as sincere as ever - if possible more so and among the number I always count you on the front seat. My greetings for the morrow I hope you will get before the day ends. I hope it will be to each member of the household a day of happiness. To each I send love.
Aunt Sarah.