2020-04-132020-04-131/20/1882https://dspace.montaguearchive.org/handle/MHS-01376/1150Greenfield, Jan. [20] 82 [1882] -- My dear Mrs Elwell -- Your kind letter of 10th came duly to hand. I have been trying to get a chance to visit Springfield and see you for a long time but I have been more of a slave than ever the last year. I visited you the last time I was in Springfield to stop and saw cousin William then for the last time. -- I expected then to see him again a good many times. Although his death was not entirely unexpected the news of it came upon us suddenly at last when we returned from Newport where we have been for a few days visiting “Nelly” We of course did not get the Springfield papers until we returned --  ; *** View the next page of this letter***