4 July
Mr. Ross,
You will pardon me, I hope, if you find this letter surprising or inconvenient; I know you are an exceptionally busy man and must be only moreso during the current crisis, and it is my very least intention to needlessly distract you with trivial matters, particularly given that we are not so very well acquainted as, perhaps, our close relation might allow us to be.
The cause of my writing today is the cause also of that relation. When I last saw Clara a few weeks ago, she seemed a bit out of sorts, and though I am sure it was only a passing mood and no very serious ailment I have worried about her since. I might have written to her, but on the chance that there is something the matter I should not wish to heighten her distress with my own concerns, which has lead me to turn instead to you. Has my sister seemed, to your experienced eye, quite herself of late? The fog is, of course, necessarily distressing to us all, but is she otherwise sound and well?
Mrs. E. Browne
You will pardon me, I hope, if you find this letter surprising or inconvenient; I know you are an exceptionally busy man and must be only moreso during the current crisis, and it is my very least intention to needlessly distract you with trivial matters, particularly given that we are not so very well acquainted as, perhaps, our close relation might allow us to be.
The cause of my writing today is the cause also of that relation. When I last saw Clara a few weeks ago, she seemed a bit out of sorts, and though I am sure it was only a passing mood and no very serious ailment I have worried about her since. I might have written to her, but on the chance that there is something the matter I should not wish to heighten her distress with my own concerns, which has lead me to turn instead to you. Has my sister seemed, to your experienced eye, quite herself of late? The fog is, of course, necessarily distressing to us all, but is she otherwise sound and well?
