Other relatives wrote seeking pictures of our "engagement ceremony".
"This bill is very close to our hearts," the relatives wrote.
Indeed, many of William's relatives wrote copious correspondence, and, as with the Brontës, Barker found there were new things to say.
Mrs. Feldman, who lost 67 relatives, wrote a memoir, "Margit: A Teenager's Journey Through the Holocaust and Beyond," and Mrs. Weiss read it and contacted her.
But when she becomes too old to be useful as a babysitter, her Finnish relatives write to tell her that she can no longer visit them.
Mr. Bedford had no living will or health care proxy, but at Ms. Harlow's suggestion, friends and relatives wrote letters on his behalf.
"We could have been glad to have had their company here," friends and relatives wrote in a letter that survives in a Staffordshire archive.
Some of Brennan's surviving relatives wrote to complain to the Irish Times when she was depicted onstage as "foul-mouthed" (in Emma Donoghue's 2012 play The Talk of the Town).
To my astonishment, I found a jar full of money and a yellowing piece of paper with the names of 10 of my relatives written in my mother's scrawl -- it turns out she had taken bets on my son's birth weight, height and due date.
