I was delighted with your interesting letter but so tired everyday with care and labor that I could not avoid I putting off answering it too long. I find it always best to answer if one can promptly those in [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by the author or another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought.Ex 2 E. S. C. J. P.[*]Archival Note: End floating text. whom we are naturally interested.

I was amused at your proverbial success in law-suits Corrected: lawsuits I should think you would be the terror of the West in such matters. But dear child, when will you have a house for your family in a pleasant location and such an one as young ladies would feel pleasantly over inviting into it the highest toned society?

I want to have my granddaughtersEditorial Note: Evelyn Glover Schell and Mary B. G. (Baker Glover) Billings come East and share the culture of society, and a high School. Their education aught Corrected: ought at this age to be quite sufficient for them to enter athe hHigh School and take up instructions on the pi [?] Unclear or illegible ano Thank darling Evelyn for her letter.

Are they ready for this Their spelling and composition does not indicate this and I know they are good scholars and quick to learn I shall not think of going to Chicago to the World's Fair I much prefer staying at home and getting ready for all the throng of Heaven's Fair With love to all my dear GrandchildrenEditorial Note: Edward G. Glover, Mary B. G (Baker Glover) Billings, Andrew Jackson Glover, Evelyn Glover Schell, and George W. Glover III and your wife