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pages 93-94.
Insurance
Company North America Belvidere N.J. May 28th 1898
Henry
J. Aten, Esq. Hiawatha Kansas
My
Dear Cousin:--
Your good letters of April 26th ult., May 5th
and also May 3rd., and May 24th inst., with inclosures
were all duly received. Also the pamphlet sent to you by Rev. Dr. Thompson were
duly received, and all the letters and said pamphlets have been read with great
pleasure and much profit. After I get
to Trenton and see Rev. Dr. Thompson, I will return the three pamphlets to you.
I think I will go down to Trenton on June 7th max., as that is the
opening day of our State Supreme Court.
If I do not have any errand to go on the 7th I will go down
on the 21st of June. When I do go I will look at the two wills you
mentioned, and as I have said I will go and see Rev. Mr. Thompson, as I wish
very much to see him, and have a talk with him. Your letter as published in the
N.Y. Herald certainly had
quite
a travel around. I return herewith the slip to you with thanks for the pleasure
of seeing the slip cut from the paper.
You
are certainly getting together a very valuable lot of the early history of the
Aten family. Some time ago in your
letters you seemed to feel that you could hardly repay me for the few scraps of
history and copies that I sent to you—but it begins to look to me that the
tables must be turned, and that I must now be in debt to you for the many
copies of records etc. etc. that you have furnished to me; I thank you very
much for them all. I send to you a
program of an entertainment to be given on the evening of Memorial day by Miss
Emma F. Albertson your distant kinswoman, who is one degree nearer to you than
I. Emma is a good reader and
reciter. I wish you could hear her.
Mr. Jesse Aten died at his home over in Penna., on last Sunday morning. His funeral was on Wednesday last. I sent to you today a newspaper containing his obituary notice which I wrote for our town papers. Miss Mary A. McMurtrie and her father and mother were out here to the funeral—Mary came to see us yesterday on her way home—Mr. and Mrs. McMurtrie have not returned home yet—also Mr. Henry Aten called to see us on his way home. He lives at Conyngham near the McMurtrie’s. The war is still going on slowly—The new call for 75,000, more men will give several of the young men in and about here who are so anxious to go—a chance to enter the service. If anything new turns up, or if I get any new family history I will communicate the same to you. Mrs. Hay is usually well at this time. Mrs. Susan Burd the oldest living descendant of our ancestor Japie (Aten) Albertson is quite unwell and her friends fear she will not last long. We are all well at my home at this time, and I sincerely hope you are all well at your home, Go on and make your arrangements for the summer and I will as I said I will make mine to conform to yours—anyway so you may see your way clear to come out east and see the many things of interest to you. Let me hear from you at any time you may find time to write—I send love and kind regards to you all.
Yours sincerely Nicholas Harris