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UNFOLDING YEARS, 63

letters were full of the many interesting sights which she saw in our Nation's Capital ! She soon received another promotion to what was then thought to be a very good salary, and that definitely decided the matter. 
In June of that year, Eva and I attended the Convention of the American Association of Workers for the Blind held in Jacksonville, Ill. . There I met old friends and formed some new acquaintances. I returned home to prepare for the great move. It was a busy summer for there was much to be done. Old friends came to make us farewell visits -- and all the while I was planning and packing. Finally, we rented our house for we still expected this move was only a temporary one and that eventually we would return to Des Moines. Emma rented a small house in Washington and came home in August to help in the final breaking up of the home. We sold some of our furniture, gave away many pieces and left others in the house. 
At last it was all over! Our good-bys were said; we paid our last visit to our dear mother's grave; and last of all Eva and I said a tearful but hopeful farewell. It must have been terribly hard for her -- for she was so alone-- but she faced it courageously and we hoped to be reunited soon. It was not so to be -- I never saw her again. We corresponded faithfully. When we parted she went to live with a friend.Within the next year or two the Home for Sightless Women as opened and Eva became its first matron. Her health has not been good for some time; she  developed tuberculosis and after a lingering illness she passed away. Thus death took from me another of my school friends. Their places would never be filled and their memories are still sweet after all these years. 
It was a hot morning in the latter part of August that we left Des Moines, where we had lived for more than twenty years --- and where I had known much of joy and sorrow. After spending a few days in Chicago with Mary and Nettie ( the latter now had two children -- Hoyt and Mary) , we arrived in Washington D.C.

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UNFOLDING YEARS, 63 letters were full of the many interesting sights which she saw in our Nation's Capital ! She soon received another promotion to what was then thought to be a very good salary, and that definitely decided the matter. In June of that year, Eva and I attended the Convention of the American Association of Workers for the Blind held in Jacksonville, Ill. . There I met old friends and formed some new acquaintances. I returned home to prepare for the great move. It was a busy summer for there was much to be done. Old friends came to make us farewell visits -- and all the while I was planning and packing. Finally, we rented our house for we still expected this move was only a temporary one and that eventually we would return to Des Moines. Emma rented a small house in Washington and came home in August to help in the final breaking up of the home. We sold some of our furniture, gave away many pieces and left others in the house. At last it was all over! Our good-bys were said; we paid our last visit to our dear mother's grave; and last of all Eva and I said a tearful but hopeful farewell. It must have been terribly hard for her -- for she was so alone-- but she faced it courageously and we hoped to be reunited soon. It was not so to be -- I never saw her again. We corresponded faithfully. When we parted she went to live with a friend.Within the next year or two the Home for Sightless Women as opened and Eva became its first matron. Her health has not been good for some time; she developed tuberculosis and after a lingering illness she passed away. Thus death took from me another of my school friends. Their places would never be filled and their memories are still sweet after all these years. It was a hot morning in the latter part of August that we left Des Moines, where we had lived for more than twenty years --- and where I had known much of joy and sorrow. After spending a few days in Chicago with Mary and Nettie ( the latter now had two children -- Hoyt and Mary) , we arrived in Washington D.C.