Dear Cousin Will:

My first thought upon receipt of the binder containing the Campbell Cousins Correspondence was, how could any busy man give so much time and effort to compiling a work of this sort and do it so thoroughly and completely? My second thought was that this is something I have always wished to have, not only because of its genealogical importance, but also the bringing up to date of the whereabouts of my Campbell Cousins.

To make my own contribution interesting, I suppose a few words of personal history would suit best, since that was what interested me most in the letters from the other Cousins. My father has already stated that my mother died on August 24, 1918, at a time when my brother Clifford was in service overseas. To most of the Campbell Cousins she was known as "Cousin Lou" and I know that they felt some of our bereavement in her death. Our interest in the Campbell family of course traces directly to my mother, and it is because of her that I am glad to further any enterprise in which she would have been interested. The loss of a mother to any of you would be an occasion of deep grief, but to us, her four children, it was the biggest wrench that had come in our lives. We lost a mother whose devotion to her children was so great as to be known among all her friends. Her whole life was devoted to their rearing and there is nothing that they can ever do that would compensate them or their father for what she gave