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Correspondence between Ellen Mowrer Miller and Albert, 1875-1875 and 1903

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trust and confidence, which is the true foundation of that friendship that time cannot dim--nor naught change. Tuesday the twenty-six is my birthday. In the dreamy, hazy days of September. You might turn such a cold shoulder on a girl out of her teens it isn't always safe to trust a bachelor on that vital secret. is it? they take sweet sisters and those who may willingly have given those early years of their life as a dutiful daughter and [rough?] them in a balance which oftenest win think you. Men are not always the most consistent creatures that they were intended for. You know we "can't almost sometimes tell." Yet your friendship has been like the friendship that I prize "For friendship to be real must show itself by deeds I mean not gifts. Not favors. Not sacrifices rare
 
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries