Letter from Ella Frederick (Kline)

June 17, 1921
Glenshaw R D 1
Dear Children, I am still among the living. We got out here about 6 o'clock by fast time last eve. Well I don't know that I am lotzs worse than before. Dr. Lamb told me I was on the table for near an hour and they are sending.....trouble away to some laboratory to have it anilized so I wont know before next Tuesday what they will do with me whether it will be treatment or an operation. Will and wife Aunt Mary and Aunt Loue were all in to meet us. I don't know what they were expecting but there faces denoted everything but courage and cheer. Well we are to go over to Aunt Lues for dinner today. We are helping cut sweet williams. We had 54 bunches cut when I came in to write and there are that many more still __ me. You can tell Fred you heard from me. I will write to them when I find out anything more definite. Dont say anything over the telephone that will create curiosity. Well I guess this is all. Remember me to the kiddies, with love from Mother.
When you write send it in care of Wm Dietrich.

(Ella Frederick Kline died 24 days after writing this letter, presumably addressed to one of her daughters, either Winnie Kline Beals or Annie Kline Sheffer.)