CLARA BARTON     FAMILY PAPERS     Robbins, Delia R.     Oct. 1902-Aug. 1905[*240 relatives*]
To Mrs. Daniel Miller Robinson,
243 Summit Ave.,
St. Paul Minn.

Glen Echo, Md., October 15th, 1902.
Dear Cousin Delia: -
     I reach out to clasp your hand, both
in congratulation and sympathy for the morrow. - Congratulations
for the happiness clustering around our dear Bertha and sympathy
for the tender pang that will come in spite of all, to the loving
mother's heart.
     I pray you, give a loving kiss to the dear young Bride
from the cousin who rejoices in her happiness.
     I hope this finds you all well as it leaves us.
     With dear, cousinly love for the good husband, I am
as always, yours affectionately,
C.B

Ansd Aug. 23, 1905,
243 Summit Ave
St. Paul Aug 20, 1905

My dear cousin Clara,
     How good it was 
to get your dear letter
with its sympathetic
and comforting
words. I was filled 
with a longing to see
you as I always am
when I receive a letter
from you. It seems 
to me now that ifto have you do that, it being
altogether unnecessary for
us to have the note at this
time. I now enclose a
draft for $3676.30 the amt.
due at the present time
with interest reckoned at 1
per ct which if I remember
rightly is the rate specific
in the note. If you do not 
find this correct please let 
me know. Will you kindly 
sign the enclosed receipt
and the note can be returned
at any time convenient 
to you
With much love to you
my dear Cousin I am
as always
Delia R. Robbins


[*Ansd August 17, 1905*]
243 Summit Ave
St Paul Aug 12, 1905
Miss Clara Barton
Glen Echo Md.
My dear Cousin
So many many 
times during the last 
two years I have said 
to myself, "I am 
going to write to 
Cousin Clara," but one
demand after anotherI go on to see Grace 
this fall as I plan
to do. I shall certainly
run down to Glen Echo
and look in on you.
I trust that you
received my telegram
promptly and gave
no more thought
to returning home for
the note. I should
have been sorry indeed

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recover. he was suddenly taken
from us. about noon on the 
eighteenth day of last month.
The shock to us was indeed
terrible, but we are growing to
feel that it was the  best way -
the day he would have chosen to
go, and are trying to realize
that he is not far away. that
the spirit still abides with us.
The children though widely
scattered were all able to
come home except Grace
the youngest daughter who
lives in New Haven Conn. and
was daily expecting the arrival
of a little one. She has borne
her sorrow with the additional
one of enforced absence from
me. smoothly and bravely I think.
And we feel that we have much
to be thankful for in many
ways. just now Bertha and her
little boy almost a year old in2
would be made upon my time and strength till even years have gone by and the letter has not been written.  And now I must write you that my dear husband has left us.  After an illness of over two years when we felt that he was improving all the time.  And our hopes were strengthened that he might ultimately


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with us for awhile and a little later on and to have Alice fora week or two.  I hope to be able to go on to New Haven sometime this Fall.

In adjusting affairs relating to the estate, it has seemed advisable that all notes which Mr. Robbins had given should be paid as soon as possible.  And I won'tin your reply state whether or not you had received it.  If you have it now in your posession, will you kindly forward it to the First National Bank, St. Paul Minn. for collection, and a draft for the amount due will be sent you.  If, however, you failed to receive the note, or in the multitude of business which demanded your attention at that time it was misplaced so that you cannot produce it now, we will send you together with the amount due you at the present time a receipt for you to sign, which will satisfy any demand which might be made, should the note ever come to light in later years when you and I shall have passed away.

Will you, my dear Cousin, please write me a line regarding this matter at your earliest convenience--if possible, so that I may send you the money by twenty first of this month, and I shall be greatlyto write a word regarding 
the one which he made 
and sent you shortly 
before you left for your 
work in Armenia. I think 
when I sent you two 
or three years ago - or 
was it longer? - a 
statement of the amount 
due you at that time 
of the funds you had 
placed in his hands, 
I wrote of this note - 
which he had sent you, 
but believe you did not 


obliged
I should so love to 
see you and talk 
with you about many 
things. I still cherish 
the hope that I may 
sometime go again to 
Washington and see 
you in your Glen Echo home.
Always with love, 
Delia R. Robbins