Edwin Booth to Jervis McEntee

Edwin Booth to Jervis McEntee

Edwin Booth again consoles Jervis McEntee over the death of his wife. Booth recognizes that McEntee seems to be doing better and encourages his friend to find a new studio and change his surroundings.

Booth, Edwin

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

1878-10-30

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T1878.10.30-MISC

(Top left corner notation) 5

Phila: Octr: 30th 1878

My dear Jervy -

You letter was very gratifying -- I did not expect to hear so soon from you, therefore it was all the more agreeable. In it I beheld all I wanted to see -- your strength, your faith, yourself.

I am so glad that you are to be away from the lonely studio bed; wish you could quit that locality altogether -- so crowded, as it is, with afsociations that must forever be deprefsing to you. What you require now is a total change of surroundings -- I mean in your art-life. Can't you take a studio elsewhere? It would surely

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be better for you.

I scratch this under great difficulty -- with an aggravating pain that has seriously interfered with me the past two weeks, but I did not wish another day to pafs without acknowledging your letter, and saying "God blefs you, Jervy".

I know you will excuse the brevity and feeblenefs of this -- consider all the blank filled with loving mefsages from both of us.

God blefs you.

Ever Yours

Edwin

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