Stockton Axson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Here is just a short note to tell you how glad I am to learn that you are getting so much better and will be coming home soon. Nellie showed me the letter which you wrote to her and Margaret—and it was good to have such a full and direct account of you. By the way you need not be ashamed that I saw the letter, for, notwithstanding your apologies, it was a fine letter—The wedding was very pretty. The bride looked very sweet in her white dress and veil, and both she and Ed were very happy. There were about fifty people present—all of them friends of the bride except Aunt Madge, Mrs. Tedcastle, Mr Alexander and I (that sentence doesn't mean what it seems to mean—we were all of us friends of the bride—but those I have named were friends of Ed first.) The rooms were decorated with palms and evergreens, roses, daffodils &c. When the bride and groom drove away a number of the guests showered them with rice, lots of colored paper and old shoes, while others tied white ribbons to bits of tissue paper on the carriage—I tore off the ribbons & streamers (and consequently made myself very unpopular with the people who had put them on). You know of course that all that is an old custom at marriages—and I must think a foolish one, for it only embarrasses the people who have been getting married—Everybody who knew about you inquired affectionately after your health—Uncle Ed was particularly anxious to know all about you—and so was Mrs Tedcastle who wants you together with all the family to pay her a visit this summer in her cottage by the sea—a cottage by the way which I saw last summer (though they were not living in it then), and which is one of the most beautifully situated places which I saw at the sea-side. I hope you will all be able to be there—And now goodbye for a little while. I shall see you in a few days—Give my love to Mamma. And with lots of love for yourself I am