This letter is address to Mr. John D. Swain, Gloucester, Massachusetts, postmarked Norfolk, Conn., Jul 30, 3PM, 1927, from Mrs. Carl Stoeckel (Ellen B. Stoeckel).

Mr. John D. Swain
Worcester, Massachusetts

My dear Mr. Swain

Your letter just received has touched me deeply.

How kind of you to follow the impulse of tender sympathy and write to me as you have done!

Thank you most earnestly for your memories of my son and for everything that you say in praise of his literary talent. I wish that you might have come closer together.

I regret that you did not speak to my husband and me when we were at Worcester. I should have been glad to renew our acquaintance. I hope when I may be stronger and better able to meet my friends to see you in this old home containing many things which might interest you.

Please give my cordial regard to your Mother, and tell her how glad I am that she still has you, her son to love her and of whose successful career she must be proud.

I read everything that has your name with greatest interest, and with pleasure to remember that you are a Norfolk boy.

The postal card which you kindly enclosed is a charming picture. ? remembers the statue of Jeanne ? in Paris and one also at Rheim, if either may be the one to which you refer.

Wishing you every happiness,

? me to ?

Yours most gratefully and sincerely

Ellen B? Stoeckel

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