Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-03-06 | Page 8 | The Gangle

I j I I i i I j l I LETTER FROM KARL WHITNEY TO MRS JOSEPH OSEPH GRAVES HAMIL HAMILTON TON Dear Mother Iother For a long long- longtime time I have been waiting to write you this letter I r could not write It while Leslie's LesUe's health was precarious It would seem too selfish Now that the new boy has made mad his appearance in the household and she is regaining her health I want to ask you mother mine faire if I you will wm not come over here and j I travel with me for Cor a while You i iI know dear that you O are the only I I mother I have ever known You know that ever sInce I r was a little I boy I r have come come to you for sympathy sympathy sym sym- sym sym-j pathy and comfort and I r have ai 1 I ways wars gotten it I Ii i Now that I r am completely alone I 1 and Leslie LesIle has her husband and i two children to fill cm her life dont don't I you ou think that you youcan can devote a a. little time to me I need you pe need d you perhaps more than you ou rea realize mother dear Boar You know I. I am a queer solitary y sort of a man I dont don't make friends easily easily and and ana yet rot no one would like friends more mor than I. I I confess I 1 Iam Iam am selfish enough to hope that you with your sweetness and understanding understandIng understanding under under- standing will make friends for ni nip As It It Is is I wander about these thesa old World cities and I wonder what I am living for anyway I only BOO ace BOOthe the sadness and trio the futility that Is le always present In the tho ga gayest est crowds which I sometimes frequent In the hotels and amI restaurants Tho The lori glen ous our paintings and and the are of yesterday yes yea make me feel that those artists artists artists art art- who lived and loved and wrote out their lives In n great music groat great paintings gs or gr great at poetry were after af after after af- af ter all al only shadows of their dreams I think If you would come over J i would bo bb happier I If I am not I Iam I I am afraid dear mother that unless you are as much Interested In me mee i I as I think you are 1 I cannot make makO I you happy t You should get set away from all your old life Ufe and We have been through most of them together er er end ond I think we wo should have each Iother i iother other to forget j Come on on n over mother mether dear You f may make all the plans and it will willbe will I be my v very ry great joy to carry them lout out I John cabled me of the birth of the thee l boy and I sent him hint a little present present as you probably know I I sometimes wonder what would have have been my life life if I I I. had had had-had had a aI boy bov to work for fora or-a or a boy who I I carry on m my name John wanted to o cat caU that baby S-d S Sydney ey Liar Karl ar but but 1 1 Kroto I him I J Lt 7