Dear Cousin,
Please forgive me, for not writing and thanking you before for the box of nice maple sugar that you sent me at Christmas. My hands had been so swollen that I could not write, but now they are much better, and I am feeling pretty well, except that I am quite lame, but get about the house. Mrs. Brown who is with me, fell on ice Monday morning breaking her wrist, and had to be taken to Beverly Hospital to have the X Ray applied. It is a very bad break. The District Nurse took her in her auto, and brought her back, and met the Dr. when she was etherized, and the bone set. The Nurse was here 3 times that day, and the Dr. twice. Mrs. Brown suffered terribly, and had no sleep until last night, the Dr. gave her a tablet to make her sleep. To-day she is a little more comfortable. She has not been undressed. The Nurse will come every day. There is a great deal of sickness about, and she and the Dr. are kept busy. Neighbors are so kind bringing in so much food, and are ready to help about every thing.
Mrs. B. will be laid up for 6 weeks, and it will be so long before things can be settled up. We miss the dear one very much, but I would not want him to live and suffer as he did.
Excuse writing, and all mistakes.
Much love Cousin
Lizzie.
"Idlewood Lake Wenham, Mass."
Untitled view of a church, presumably in Wenham
"Home of B. H. Conant." [Benjamin Howe, Lizzie's brother who passed away on Dec 3, 1921]
Danvers Square looking East, Danvers, Mass.