H'ry to Wm, March 8, 1892. Age: 48

"Katherine is the unbroken reed, in all this, that you can imagine, & I rejoice, unspeakably in the rest & liberation that have come to her."

Katherine Loring and Alice James were a prototypical "Boston Marriage."  Loring is not yet done with the James family....

The only image I know of Katherine Loring -- standing, of course,
beside Alice in bed.