Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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despond, but love hope for the best and that hope will yet be realized. I wish that there were a 5 the way to New York so that I could post a bulletin every night stating what progress we were making [and] informing you of our safety. Or if there 10 was a vocal tube between New York [and] Glasgow with little openings of a mile, I w[oul]d tell you all the news. You could call at 15 the vocal tube company's office and as they do at Electric Telegraph Company's place in Exchange Square50 and, pay the cash and get the news. Oh 20 Eliza “Wouldn't it be prime” to “hold sweet converse” thus at the distance of many miles. Cold, solitary writing can never [End of Page 23]
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