Notes for MARY
ELLEN
RICHARDSON:
Photocopy sent from
what appears to be from an autograph book:
"Aug. 25, 1893"
Dear
Albert:
"Sculptors
of life are we as we stand,
With
our lives uncarved before us.
Waiting
the hour where at God's command,
Our
life dream passes over us;
If
we carve it yet on the yielding stone,
With
many a sharp incision,
Its
heavenly beauty shall be our own,
Our
lives, that angel vision."
Your affectionate wife
Matie