LOVE-LETTER ROMANCE.
Half a century ago a young Whilst travelling, met a fteantifnl. P, and promptly fell in lore with her. a ■. days later be returned home, and Hi* niact «.» to write her. a lore letter. he to!d her could not be happy WlU * . her. and that if she regarded his pr°P°£ favourably, he would expect a reply • the next mail. To this letter he receff no answer, and so disappointed was M_u» from that time until his death, whicn OC currod recently, he slmt himself np in home and lived like a hermit. Most « time was spent in reading, ana tne . after his funeral the heirs began to searw the books in his library, for they ti""j*" qnite possible that the eccentric old might have hidden some bank not * s them. They found none, but in a ta ed old pamphlet they found another w" of note-the love letter which was «ti fifty years ago, and which the writtr forgotten to mail, A
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1904, Page 4 (Supplement)
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164LOVE-LETTER ROMANCE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1904, Page 4 (Supplement)
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