Govrs Harbour

April 15^th 1905

My dear Katie,

I was with great mingled feelings of pleasure & supprise that I received a letter two months old for our Mother, who had been dead just 14 months the very day it reached us.

I had written to your father the week after her death telling them of the facts & I have hard from twice in the last year & although they never said word about it yet. [I] thought they had received my letter telling them of it. I guess they got it & forgot to [tell] you of it when they wrote to you & I did not know that you were still from home & if I had known it, I did not have your address so I could not have written to you. We often talked of you & wondered but had never heard from you since the sending of your photo to mother. I then wrote to you for her thanking you for it, we could not invite you to visit us as we did not & have not [the] means to help defray your expenses. We are almost [entirely?] dependent on your Uncle Robert for our living. Hennie has the Public Library but you are getting more than she is & I do a little sewing for Ida & your [cousin] Minna which does not give me an average 25 [can't read the units] a week so you see I got nothing only they have been exceedingly good to me in return for my kindnesses to them whenever they need which is often. Your Aunt Ida's health is nearly bad as when she went to [Balto?] for treatment, she about half the time in bed & the other part … or lying around seldom getting out. Gladys laughed at your message saying she had to work so hard at school & she hated writing so much that although she has [vacation?] now she does not think she can write a letter.

Glad you are well & doing so well. Send my love home when you write & I hope Grace has quite recovered. Gladys's little sister is Grace & not very well.

Your loving Aunt

Mary

with love from all! write again.