R. D 12, Sevierville, Tenn.
June 18, 1936Rev. Harvey M. Lawson
Southbridge, Mass.Dear Mr. Lawson:
We regret that it is only at this late hour that we are able to express our sympathy to you in your loss of your sister. Your loss is ours, too, because we lost a close friend and neighbor[.] We wrote Chan asking for your address[.] He did not send it. Doctor Thomas planned to write something for publication in your paper there and desired material to send to the Christian Advocate. If you can give us some facts we will still be glad to send them in and also to the Sevierville paper for which she very capably wrote the Pittman news items -
I should have stated that we left on our vacation just two days before she was stricken - It was fortunate Chan knew our address as she had long ago entrusted a list of people to be notified in such an emergency to us. We regret that we failed her at such a time -
If there is anything that we can do for you here, we shall be glad to do it.
I expect she wrote you about the work she was doing on her grounds. She watered her lawn and flowers each day and took great pleasure in it.
When she caught the end of her finger in the fireplace damper and cut it off she kept trying to do things all the same. I expect she would have chosen to be busy to the last.
Yours sincerely,
(Mrs. R. F. Thomas) Eva S. Thomas