Transcribe Arink, Ellen M. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1855-12-01)

Charley Chapin & wife were also with us - and all the Smiths & Stevens's. so that you may imagine a goodly num- ber mustered. Dear old Grandma! we all missed her, and Grandpa was al- most sad during the evening. She died on the 1st of Aug. but Dr Ward feels as sadly now as at first I think - she was very much interested in you Henry, you Know she thought everything of her grandchildren, and she was very fond of conversing with me about you - but she is gone home to even better com- panionship, than that of her loved ones here - she was a beautiful christian -hum ble, trusting, loving, - Charley Clark had a fine offer, as you doubtless know, to leave Geneseo, and engage as a sort of tutor in the Belles Letters department </s set the > in Princeton College, with free privilege to all the instruction & aid necessary for him to pursue uninter- ruptedly his ministerial studies.