I liked this very much. But does anybody know what invenessence mean? Is it a typo? Is it an old tyme word? Melinda -----Original Message----- From: Freida Wells [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JOB] OLD LETTERS OLD LETTERS Never burn kindly written letters; it is so pleasant to read them over when the ink is born and paper yellow with age, and the hands that traced the friendly words are folded over the hearts that prompted them, under the green sod. Above all, never burn love letters. To read then in after years is like a resurrection to one's youth. the elder spinster finds, in the impassioned offer she foolishly rejected twenty years ago, a fountain of invenessence. Glancing over it, she realizes that she was once a belle and a beauty, and beholds her former self in a mirror much congenial to her tastes then the one that confronts her dressing-room. The "Widow indeed" derives a sweet and solemn consolation from the letters of the beloved on who had journeyed before her to the far-off land, from which there comes no message, and where she hopes one day to join him. No photographs can so vividly recall to the memory of the mother the tenderness and devotion of the children who have left at the call of Heaven, as the epistolary outpouring of their love. The letter of a true son or daughter to a true mother is something better than an image of the features-it is a reflex of the writers soul. Keep all loving letter; burn only the harsh ones and in burning them, forgive and forget. (Taken from the Elk Falls Journal, Howard Co., Ks. January 17, 1874) ==== JOB Mailing List ==== Andrew Job Jr (1650-1722) Tribute Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajobebrown/jobe/andrew.html ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

I really don't know, but think it could be mispelled in the story. When I typed it, my spell check underlined it as being spelling wrong, and when I checked it, is gave me this spelling evanescence This is what www.dictionary.com has to say about the word: eva�nescence n. the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight; "the evanescence of the morning mist" I would say that the word was spelled wrong as this sounds like it would fit in the story. Freida Melinda Van Bossuyt <[email protected]> wrote: I liked this very much. But does anybody know what invenessence mean? Is it a typo? Is it an old tyme word? Melinda -----Original Message----- From: Freida Wells [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JOB] OLD LETTERS OLD LETTERS Never burn kindly written letters; it is so pleasant to read them over when the ink is born and paper yellow with age, and the hands that traced the friendly words are folded over the hearts that prompted them, under the green sod. Above all, never burn love letters. To read then in after years is like a resurrection to one's youth. the elder spinster finds, in the impassioned offer she foolishly rejected twenty years ago, a fountain of invenessence. Glancing over it, she realizes that she was once a belle and a beauty, and beholds her former self in a mirror much congenial to her tastes then the one that confronts her dressing-room. The "Widow indeed" derives a sweet and solemn consolation from the letters of the beloved on who had journeyed before her to the far-off land, from which there comes no message, and where she hopes one day to join him. No photographs can so vividly recall to the memory of the mother the tenderness and devotion of the children who have left at the call of Heaven, as the epistolary outpouring of their love. The letter of a true son or daughter to a true mother is something better than an image of the features-it is a reflex of the writers soul. Keep all loving letter; burn only the harsh ones and in burning them, forgive and forget. (Taken from the Elk Falls Journal, Howard Co., Ks. January 17, 1874) ==== JOB Mailing List ==== Andrew Job Jr (1650-1722) Tribute Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajobebrown/jobe/andrew.html ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx ==== JOB Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, put unsubscribe in message: List mode: [email protected] Digest mode: [email protected] ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx