Blackwell Family
Lucy Stone
Bowles, Ada C.Ada C. Bowles

307 Main St Gloucester
Oct, 2nd 1893
Dear Mrs Stone
The papers tell me
you very ill and
while I must accept
the report and know 
that you are not to waste
the little strength you
have reading letters,
I cannot forbear sending
a word of sympathy 
from the chamber Reportthe past month by my
unfortunate accident
which upset all my 
plans about helping to
keep your seventy fifth
birthday;
To look back nearly
three quarters of a century
upon so goodly a record
must be the comfort
for being compelled to
give up the active work.

I can never forget how
much we owe to your brave
pioneer will.  The children 
of yet another generation

will "rise up and call you
blessed."

You never antagonized the
hearer who came to scoff.
And you often brought him
to his knees.

Your friends are round
the wide world, won by
your life-long fidelity
to one of the worlds greatest
needs -- equal justice.
As you have measured
unto others so may it be
now measured to you again.

I shall hope to see you yet
again in your old
seat in the Journal Office.but if not then, somewhere
sometime

Till then a cheery
goodbye from

Your sincere friend

Ada W. Ziroles