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Record Group Number: 900000
Collection Number: M92- 1
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Collection/Series Title: Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
Container: 00001
File Unit: 00001.00005
Item: 00012
Title: Letter, August 31, 1853, H. Douglas, Jacksonville, to Ellen Call Long, Tallahassee, 3 pp., regarding Ellen's grief at the death of her daughter Ellen Douglas: "There is a consoling thought connected with the departure of such little innocents which is that these angels do always behold the face of our Father which is in Heaven . . . and that although they cannot return to us we may go to them. You seem at a loss to understand why God in order to punish you would smite such an innocent. My Dear Mrs. Long is this the proper view of the matter, may not you and your dear Husband have set your hearts too much upon her, may she not have become your idol. And may not the High and Lofty one. . . thought proper, in order to effect your own salvation, to removethat idol out of the way; viewed in this light, his mercy exceeds his severity. . . Pardon this advise, I write to you as I think a mother under similar circumstances should write to a daughter. . ."
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