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

Original Format

Letter

To

Edward W. Axson

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ISKAtoEA18860809.pdf

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.