Letter from Jeremiah Donovan to Elsie Coleman 1948
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[NB Letters are transcribed verbatim]
50 Elphin Grove Hawthorn
10 May 1948
Well My Dearest Daughter
Just a few lines to thank you for the Birthday card and other present you have sent to me from time to time I think you are most generous to me in every way needless to mention How deeply I appreciate your most generous attention. But all the same if I could write with my pen How fond I am to know what a lovely Daughter I possess and I am the Father of. But I cannot find words to express my Sentiments of Love and deep [feeling?] which I can truthfully State are above my writing on paper what I would like to convey to you. But my prayers will be to Almighty God asking Him to spare you for the manner & Generosity which you have treated me. If I only had your Mother Alive no doubt what so ever She would have no hesitating in joining me in Stating althoug [sic] She left us But never the less the whole family I am certain has the same dear feeling for you & all here are proud that you are progressing so well in your business & my parting prayer for Yourself & Your Husband is that the Almighty God will reward you in the end.
From your Loving Father
J. Donovan
