"my best hope for you, as you mature

is that you're like your grandmother.

my wife.

who is such a wonderful woman. | who is so sweet and looked after me all these years.

i hope you'll be like her.

i know you will be.

compassionate. | forgiving. and so on. anyways.

take care dear.

i love you. bye bye."

Colophon: "From a message left by Jim Rabdau in the summer of 2013, Hailey Bradley took this text, set it in metal type, and printed it with hand-drawn photopolymer images on Rives BFK at the Book Arts Studio in the J. Willard Marriott LIbrary in the winter of 2014."