Isaac S.K. Axson to Edward W. Axson
Title
Isaac S.K. Axson to Edward W. Axson
Creator
Isaac S.K. Axson
Identifier
WWP17268
Date
1886 August 9
Description
Isaac S.K. Axson encourages his grandson, Edward W. Axson, in his efforts to stop stammering.
Source
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
Language
English
Text
My dear Eddie,
Grandfather was much gratified with the Letter brought by your Aunt Sara: I was glad to hear of your good standing in your Several Classes, and hope you will continue to improve every day. Right glad also to learn that you were getting the better of your Stammering. Keep trying, my boy, speak slow & deliberately, and you will by & by get over it altogether. Some of your good friends you see are going to give you a dollar, when you can stop stammering: and some will give you seventy-five cents: and some fifty cents and you intend to keep it, until you get enough to purchase a Bycicle. Grandfather too, sends you a dollar to put with the same: and by & by when you get your Bycicle if you will learn to ride on it, so smartly as to make a visit on it to your Aunt Sara in Gainesville, I will send you a Gold Twenty Dollar Piece if I live. I hope you will not only read carefully the little Book I gave you, but that God will help you, and make earnest & happy young Christian of you. May God bless & keep you my dear boy and when you have served him faithfully here, give you a Home in Heaven.
Yr affectionate
Grand Father S.K.A
Grandfather was much gratified with the Letter brought by your Aunt Sara: I was glad to hear of your good standing in your Several Classes, and hope you will continue to improve every day. Right glad also to learn that you were getting the better of your Stammering. Keep trying, my boy, speak slow & deliberately, and you will by & by get over it altogether. Some of your good friends you see are going to give you a dollar, when you can stop stammering: and some will give you seventy-five cents: and some fifty cents and you intend to keep it, until you get enough to purchase a Bycicle. Grandfather too, sends you a dollar to put with the same: and by & by when you get your Bycicle if you will learn to ride on it, so smartly as to make a visit on it to your Aunt Sara in Gainesville, I will send you a Gold Twenty Dollar Piece if I live. I hope you will not only read carefully the little Book I gave you, but that God will help you, and make earnest & happy young Christian of you. May God bless & keep you my dear boy and when you have served him faithfully here, give you a Home in Heaven.
Yr affectionate
Grand Father S.K.A
Original Format
Letter
To
Edward W. Axson
Collection
Citation
Isaac S.K. Axson, “Isaac S.K. Axson to Edward W. Axson,” 1886 August 9, WWP17268, Jessie Wilson Sayre Correspondence, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.