To Sig.ra Allaird

[Ofelia Roselli]

Gentile Sig.ra Allaird,

My family and I are recently arrived in this fair town from Italy, and in perusing the local paper to catch up on events I saw reference to your marriage. I would like to congratulate you on your recent nuptials, and enquire about something which I noticed. Your maiden name was Roselli, and I found myself wondering if we are perhaps cousins. My father, Sig. Lorenzo Roselli, passed away twenty years ago and my mother has not been able to introduce me to much of his family.



I would love to visit you, should you have the time, and speak on such matters. I eagerly await your response.

Distinti Saluti,

Sig.na Ofelia Roselli

Gentile Sig.ra Allaird = Dear Mrs. Allaird

Distinti Saluti, Sig.na Ofelia Roselli = Yours Truly, Miss Ofelia Roselli

  

[Delphinia Allaird]

Dear Miss Roselli,

Thank you for your congratulasio congratulations, I grately apreciate it.

As for your inquirey, I can't say if we have any relation. How pequeliar! My father has the same name but he was very alive until a year and a half ago. He did not tell me of any siblings or family members though and so I dout it is anything but coinsidence.

However, I should like it if you visited and I certanly have the time as my afternoons are normaly quite free.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Allaird

**Typos intentional because she's not miraculously a perfect speller. And because I wanted to show her up.**

  

[Ofelia Roselli]

Gentile Sig.ra Allaird,

How coincidental, that both our fathers should have the same name! I am sure your father must have been a fine gentleman, and I am quite sorry for your loss. I do wish I had been able to know my father, and perhaps it is of some consolidation that you were able to know yours.



If it is of no inconvenience to you, then I shall visit tomorrow at two o'clock of the afternoon. I look forward to meeting you face to face.

Distinti Saluti,

Sig.na Ofelia Roselli

  

[Delphinia Allaird]

Dear Miss Roselli,

I did not have much time with him, not as much as I mite have liked. He was a very good man. May I offer my own condolences that you didn't have the chanse to know your father.

It's not an inconvenience at all. I too look forward to meeting you.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Allaird