25 December 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01881)
Mother dear, your several children have united in this love-offering to you, of
a gold box to put your spectacles in; & they accompany it with the
affectionate hope that your youth is now about to be renewed, & that
you will not need your spectacles any more; but will
need, 
a strong, substantial box to keep them
in—permanently. Such is the idea of this spectacle-box, &
such its intent & purpose. So we offer it as a token of a love that
would not only renew your impaired sight,
if it could,
but would rejuvenate you wholly if its power corresponded to its
fervency.
In the name of us all—health & blessings abide with our mother!
MS, CU-MARK.
Langdon 1938, 18–19; MicroML, reel 4; MicroPUL, reel 1.
Donated in 1972 by Mrs. Eugene Lada-Mocarski, Jervis Langdon, Jr., Mrs. Robert S. Pennock, and Mrs. Bayard Schieffelin.
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