Quote#Friendship
I presume your Grand Children are with you, and doubt not that they…
Quote byElizabeth Willing Powel · 1743–1830
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: To Martha Washington upon the death of George Washington, as quoted in.
English (original)
I presume your Grand Children are with you, and doubt not that they will afford you every consolation that existing Circumstances will admit. Present me affectionately and sympathetically to them they also have lost a protecting affectionate Connection, and I have lost a much valued Friend.
— Elizabeth Willing Powel
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