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Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: March 16, 1873
Text: Vassar. March 16 ,1873, Dearest Cara, Tonight finding no absolute necessity for studying, and feeling too lazy to go down stairs and hunt up the paper containing accounts of inaugural ceremonies, I will employ my time agreeable, if not very profitably (?) writing to you, dear— As usual I am raging at the weather. It always happens that right after I have been unusually wrathy upon the subject, it becomes quite pleasant and I am conscience-smitten. However I shall...
Show moreVassar. March 16 ,1873, Dearest Cara, Tonight finding no absolute necessity for studying, and feeling too lazy to go down stairs and hunt up the paper containing accounts of inaugural ceremonies, I will employ my time agreeable, if not very profitably (?) writing to you, dear— As usual I am raging at the weather. It always happens that right after I have been unusually wrathy upon the subject, it becomes quite pleasant and I am conscience-smitten. However I shall not be so again; I have suffered too much with cold for the last two nights. We pile on all our shawls, in addition to the blankets, have the window down but a trifle, a necessity when six are in one parlor, and yet we lie cramped up all night with aching bones. In the morning, just as we are beginning to grow a little warmer, up we must spring, dress in the cold and go about all day, shivering through the Corridors, shaking at the table, fee. The Chapel seems the only really comfortable place. And yet outdoors today the sun was shining brightly and walking was quite enjoyable. But when a large building once gets cold, there seems no drivingit away again. Sunday. To continue my descourse upon the weather, I can now record a most delightful day. When I awoke this morning I thought I could sunlight not possibly be at Vassar. The bright morning was flooding my room which was fragrant with flowers which had been standing there over night. Andall day I have been reminded of our lovely days In Feb. when the whole grounds are odorous with plum blossoms. The air today does not seem in keeping with the deep cover of snow upon ground. Yesterday Bertha Keffer, a southern girl, and mysef amused ourselves by making a snow man, about a foot high- We labelled him 'Lo! the poor Indian,' I and like little children, enjoyed decking him with green plumes and wands, and sacrilege! we placed a cigar in his mouth. Today I went to enquire after his health, but ah, where he had before smiled upon us, nothing now remains but a heap of soft snow. Can you make a moral for this sad tale? What an amusing time you all must have had when the roof blew off! fit I had beea there I think Papa would not have beea able to say that the gentleman outran all the ladies, for I am not as brave as Texas ought to be. Miss Lough, one of my parlor-mates, and myself are reading aloud "Off the Skelligs," and taking it all in all like it very weU. It has been so harshly criticised that I wan prepared to be disappointed in it, but notagreeably so, as I have been. Really, I have never had such an easy time, in regard to study, as this semester. If It were not for essays, it would all be delightful I was all prepared to give you a good scolding, yesterday when your letter came, and appeased me half as well as a peep at your dear face would have done. Just think, Carrie, I hope to be at home on your next birthday. won't that be fine? Mir lleben sie Drutefi Geben sie meine JLiebe alleren. Lovingly Julie
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Creator: Lawrence, Margaret Stanton
Date: n.d.
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Show more<3 (:._.;t: aw ' ~ -_ c»,~';:v:.e:: ‘ 1. M . .1 " " a. -, \ "‘ ., ‘ ( V ’ — 7 * * — , ’ V _ ~" . V . 3, , y ‘ , P‘ v , - 5 . , 5- ' a v V I I . I ; . \‘ V _ 3 :3 D » ., / » ‘ O 4,. r. . 3 ‘V _ x ~. “ » , ; , ’*‘~ ’ A , , ‘ . .. \ 1 _, 4 _ - .3 "~ , . \ ., . « I 7 K . ‘ 1 . \ L. , V V - . ‘ ' _ [3 J4 .- 1» a ‘ A ‘ A ; ' w G o 1 ~ / , , - 4 / ': ~~,§§- 1» WHO WAS ELIZABETH CADY STANTON? 1815~1902 MY MOTHER By Margaret Stanton Lawrence In 3 Parts. Part 1 Picture of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Mrs Stanton was the first person in the world to ask for votes for women, away back in 1848. And as the ballot has now been given to all the women of the United States, I thought this would be a good time to tell the rising generation of young people something about the home life of the individual who started the whole question of suffrage for her sex. ._‘,.4:- 94. \\‘ ELIZ.&ETH cm STANTQN y Earl Bars iﬁ Jehnstcwn , Y 3 Over one hundred years age, a little girl was born whese meme Wee destined to be keen by the gee ideas ehe set adrift. JAIﬁie ehild was Elizabeth Cedyg TShe first saw the light ef day November 12,Li§15, en the hills of Johnsﬁewng Fulton Cagney, ﬂew York. Her iether, Daniel Cady, was e renowned jurist; he set on the bench of the Supreme Court %and Court of Appeals, of New York State, till he was ever eighty years of age, A.life~eized portrait of him hangs in the Capitol at Albany. Her metherﬁ Margaret Livingston,'Wes a tell, handsome eomanﬁ a daughter ef Gel. James Livingsten, who served on General Weshingten‘s eteff during ﬁhe Revolutionary Ear. Ere. Cady was a daring horse~woman9 she was full of "vim? and “go”, so that Elizabeth inherited beauty, breine ana fight freezbeth eidee of her family. % She eas breught up in the midst of ease ané luxury; ené this makes it the mere remarkable that, even in her youth, she sheule have felt so keenly the injustice of the laws bearing on eemen. ’«3®t'.i=Is&’$-ﬂ95G$¢SG$€&E§Qﬁ$$'$ ¢ 1 I 5 3 G 9 :3 3 Picture 1 3 5 <° 5 3 of : 3 e 3 *3’ » . ° §‘:’§Z‘S 3 Cadgf 3 5.» m ‘ , 5’ w ,,_3:”, .» . , g :4: k 3 Q 4; -_., etcedoeaocca-sweetie-necoetﬂ Childhood I erwaye like te knew haw the people lack that I am.reediﬂg abﬁutv There were no photographs taken in those far-off days so I was glad to come upon this pen picture of my mother: “Elizabeth Cady was a plump little girl with very fair skin, rosy cheeks, good features, dark brown curly hair, laughing blue eyes, and beautiful tooth“. Those merry blue eyes were one of her marked features through life. An event that made a deep impression upon her, as a child, was the birth of a sister. Before she saw the now arrival, she heard several people say, “What a pity that the baby is another girl!" There were already four girls in the family, so when tho nurse took her in to see the little stranger, Elizabeth felt a kind of compassion for the baby. She remarked, in later life, "I didn't understand then that girls were considered an inferior order of beings." In those days there were no law schools in the United States. To the most noted lawyer in any region, the young man went who desired to study law. Judge Cady’s law offices, which adjoined his house, were famous all over the land and students came from the four points of the compass to be under his tutelage. Elizabeth’s Interest in the Law. my mother, from her earliest years, was constantly in her father’s offices, deeply interested in all that was going on there particularly in hearing the students talk about the laws they were studying. There was nothing those boys enjoyed more than roading aloud to Elizabeth all the bad laws they came upon relating to women. They found much more interesting to see her fly into a rage than to pore over musty law books. They always had a new batch ready whenever she appeared. Johnstown was in the midst of a large farming district, and Elizabeth often sat on hot father’s knee as he talked to his clients, especially if they were the wives of farmers who came to tell the tender-hearted judge of how unjustly they were being treated by their husbands. The cases often concerned the farm, on which many of the women had been born, and which frequently had been left them by their fathers before they were married. In 1823, no married woman could own property, If, as a girl, she had inherited a piece of land, the moment she married John Jones it passed into his hands. Everything she possessed his; her clothes, her false teeth even! If he took them away, she couldn't masticate her food! And she had no redress. The money she earned ever the wash~tub was likewise his, and he could collect it at the end of the day from the people for whom she worked! Worse still, he didn’t have to give her any of it. And this right of a husband to collect hie wife‘e wages was the law in California till 1910; when the women won the vote in that state. The Judge was explaining all these laws to old Sarah, whose ne‘er-do-well husband had mortgaged the beautiful farm which she had inherited from her father when she was a girl, till there was very little left. Sarah always supplied the Judge's family with eggs; butter, chickens, cider, and other good things, so that little Elizabeth looked upon her as a kind of lady bountiful, when she appeared at the week~ends. My grandfather got down many books and read the laws to Sarah to show her why he could not help her; however, petting her on the back, he told her he would put her on one of the best farms he owned, stock it for her, and she could have all she made from it, and could stay there as long as she lived. But it was justice not charity that the old woman wanted. Elizabeth had not been idle during this interview; When her father finished with a book, she quietly marked each law that he had read, turned down the leaf, and put the books back on the shelves upside down, so that she would know them. She followed the weeping woman into the street and when out of sight of the office she threw her arms about her, bade her cry no more, and told her that she had marked every one of those wicked laws, and that when the men had left the offices that evening she was going back and would cut them all out of the books. "Then", she said, "your troubles will be over!" As soon as Sarah could get rid of the child, she hurried back to Judge Cady and told him what his little intended doing. So, after supper, he took Elizabeth over to his office, and there, with the child seated on his knee, before the crackling logs of a big fireplace he told my mother how laws were made by the legislators at Albany, that his library was only one of many all over the state, that even if it burned up it would make no difference, that when people wanted to get the laws changed they had to go to Albany, talk to the legislators, and get them to alter the laws, then new books would be printed and the old ones laid aside. Little did that conservative judge dream that what no woman had ever done would, in years to come, be done by that very daughter of his. He unconsciously planted the seeds of rebellion in that fertile brain; and when grown to womanhood, the mother of four sons and a daughter, she took two nurses and two babies with her, and, leaving them at the Delevan house, went up to the Capitol building and made her first speech before a legislature on tﬁa unjust laws pertaining to married women. That was in 1854. 3i=39!?!&$a!Q5§9$'DiD9Q3@'8§§I§i§ -------------------------- : Picture : : of : : Judge Cady : -------------------------- Loss of her only Brother During my mother's childhood Judge and Mrs. Cady lost their only son, a fine, manly fellow, who had just graduated, with high honors, from Union College, JUDGE DANIEL CADY. Schenectady, N. Y. It nearly broke my grandfather's heart. He was always saying to Elizabeth, when she tried to console him, "Oh, my daughter, if you had only been a boy!“ Throwing her arms about him, she said “I will try to be all my brother was." She resolved to study hard and stand at the head of her class, to learn Greek, Latin, the higher mathematics, and to ride horseback--all of which resolves she carried out. Rev. Simon Hosack. Judge Cady‘s next door neighbor was an old Scotch Presbyterian clergyman, the Rev. Simon Hosack. Elizabeth was a great pet of his. Whenever she was in trouble she ran at once to consult him, she was eleven years old at this time. One morning, as he was working in his garden before breakfast, She came running over to ask him which he liked the better, girls or boys. "Why, girls of course," he replied, “I wouldn't give you for all the boys in Christendom." “My father doesn't feel that way," said the child, "he prefers boys, he wishes I had been one, and I intend to be as nearly like one as I possibly can. I am going to learn to ride horseback and swim, and I want to study Latin and Greek. Will you give me a Greek lesson now, Doctor? I want to begin at once”. “Yes, dear child," he said throwing dawn his hoe, come into my library and we will start without delay." He entered fully into the feeling of suffering that possessed the little girl, and putting into her hands the old grammar he had used in the University of Glasgow, Scotland, he taught her the Greek article before breakfast. Elizabeth Cady was educated in the old Academy in Johnstown. The girls and boys were all in the same classes, except in the languages and higher mathematics. In these subjects my mother was the only girl among a number of boys, mast of them older than she, who were preparing for college. She was always running races with John Wells to see who should stand at the head of the class. Some- timas it’W&$ Jﬁhﬂg aamﬁéimaﬁ @lﬁZa%@€h$ She carrieé cff any cf tha prizes, buﬁ, when flushed with iriumphg she ran té her father’s affice and laid thasa traasn uras im his 1ap§ and 1o§kad up inta his face for a word of praise; his mag ram spansa was; “Chi if you had only'been a bag.” Thus it was bcrne in uyan har, at an early age; that boys saemad ta ﬁe mars hivhly valuad than girls. The iran sank deep inio her Saul and aha ﬁeterminsd is see what she c@u1d do to lif% ﬁha terrible edium aﬁtached ta al1‘W@mankinﬁ¢ “Eighty years and I quate the follawing from.my mothergs autabiagraphyg Msre“:!"FroH;the Jchnstown ﬁcadamy many of tha bays 0f my glass wsnﬁ ta Enian H Collegeﬁ S$h@ﬂ@§ﬁ&ﬂy¢ ‘When those‘with‘whom.I had studied and aonﬁaﬁdad far ‘prizes for aver fiva years saws ta bid me goodubya, and I learned 0f the barrier that prevented my follwwing in their footstegs, ‘No girls amiﬁted here?, my vexation and marﬁification knew mg bounds. I remsm$er nsw how'prauﬁ amd%hamdsoma the boys lacked in their naw clothes as they jumpad an the staga~caach and drsve off, and haw lonaly I felt after they were gone, and I had aathing ta do, for the plans far my future were not yet determined. I felt mnrg kaenlf than aver ﬁhe humiliatian of the distinciion made on the grounds cf sex." There was not a oﬁilege for girls in the'world at that time;~1830. (Oberlin Collegeﬁ in Ohie, was nut o§ened till 1833.) The Emma‘Wi11ard Schecl. In family ceumcil it was decided to send Elizabeth is tha Emma ﬁillard ,Sehoa1 aﬁ Tray, N. Y.; the mast calebraiad educaﬁional instiﬁutian far girls to study but French, music and dancing. in ﬁha United States at that data¢ Alasi when Elizabeth reaahadfﬁwxéfﬂshe I’-£3 fauna that her sﬁudias in the excallant Jehnstcwn Acad@m§"had carried her far bavand the mast aﬁvanaeﬁ glasses in.her new schgcl. There as ngthimg fer her . t, . 2.3 W- ,,_. kylk“ She was so disgusted when she learned this and thought of her boy chums at Union College, only a few miles away, going on into the higher realms of study; that she burst into tears at the injustice of it all. But being a good deal of a philosopher, she pitched into French and music with all her might, and wrote home to her father for the extra money needed for the dancing lessons. The judge promptly wrote back that he was perfectly willing to pay out any amount of money to educate her head, but would give nothing to educate her heels! He was toe mush of a Puritan to believe in dancing. Elizabeth Cady, even as a girl, rarely let any men get the better of her in an argument. She sent off an epistle post-haste, “Thank you, dear father, but your letter shows great ignorance, dancing is done on the toes not on the heels! So please send me the money by return mail." And he did, for Daniel Cady was too just a judge not to know When he was worsted in a case! Educating a Young Man for the Ministry. In these early days girls and women were always doing things to educate young men for something that these sons of Adam were not able to accomplish by their own efforts. My mother was the leader of a club of girls in their church which had undertaken to raise funds to educate a young man for the ministry. They sewed, baked, brewed tea and coffee, held fairs and sociables to pay his way through the Auburn Theological Seminary. When he was ready to graduate, they sent him money to buy a new suit of black broadcloth, a high hat, and a cane. Then they invited him to come and preach them a serman in the presbyterian Church, the largest in the town. Everyone turned out to hear him. The front pews were reserved for the girls. When the church was full and the psychological moment had arrived, the club marched in, head by my mother, and took their seats, all dressed in spring attire, each girl on the tiptoe of expectation to hear what their youthful theolagua wnuld say. I shall never forget hearing my mother describe that scene ta an audi~ enea in Chiaagag when she was on one of her lecturing trips. After dilating on haw faithfully that club of girls had worked to aducaie liha young man, in her round, rich voiae, she askaﬁ that vast assembly; “Ana what do ycu think, my friends: he took for his text? That passage of the Scriptures which says, Pausing a momsnﬁ ts let her hearers catch the full significance of ihe ﬁhingg ﬁrs. Stanton remarked in a slow} distincﬁ tone, “we never aducatadanQih~ eri” Hef hearers bursi agﬁ into shcuts of laughter and ayplausaa Some man called ou%5 "I should hope net." when quigg was restored, mother‘went on to relate haw those girls turned and looked at cue ancther for just a momsnt, than all arose, and with heads l ‘they erect, drawing themselves ug to their full height, two by twg/marched dawn that lang aisle and out into the streei. They never stcpped ta hear ona ward ha said. And the huga Chicagc audience, 50 years after the incidenﬁ, shonisd they selves hearse calling, "Bravo! bravoil for those girls, and thraa eheers for Elizabeﬁh Cady' Stantoni" Girlhood. my grandfather had a large stable full of good driving and saddle horses, carriages and slaighs of all descriptiens. He didn’t allow his ﬁaughters to gs anywhere with young E@n.n1ess he prsvided the horses far horsebask riﬂing, ar the vehicles for driving, nor ceuld they go to public anﬁertainmgats unless he provided the tickets. This being'well understeod the Cady gir1s'wera graaé , . many favcrltes, and as grandmmther kept open house, and there wara%alway§[nice yaupg. man studying law in her husband’s offices, they never lacksd for asserts. A.most amusing incident occurred in connectian with a certain yaung man fror* T ’ 0 .* - ~ ﬁ - u . \ u‘Ln1on aullega, wna was spending hlS Chrlsﬁmaﬁ vaoatlgn at the Cady manﬁicn. 10 It was oviéont that he was quito smitton with y mothor; he had boon toooing her for being gush o chattorbox, and said he didn’t boliovo she could keep still too minutoo, she emphatically vowing she oould'olohout diffioulﬂy.% lhoro was o party of these gouﬁg §eOple gothorod about tho piano singing, lough~ ing and talking by turns. It was a glorious moonlight night anﬁ fins sloighingg so or. Blank oroposoo to my mother thotthoy go for a ride, and ooo if sho really ooulo koop still.l She sent oorﬂ to Peter to héoo a sloigh harnessed, and she left the room.togot ready. Her sister ﬁoogo went with hor,ﬁ:§E[$hor£1y appeared in the drowingoroom and told ﬁr. Blank heﬂﬂfbettor got on his coat, as the sleigh: was at tho door and his lady already io. So the young man rushoé out iﬁgw the hall, donned his fur coat, cap and gloves ond popped in booido his companion, ﬁll the young folks troopod out on the piazza to see them otort. The ooaohmon handed him.tho lines and finiohed tucking in tho robes; »’Eid shouts from.tho porch and answering ones from.the sleigh they dashed off, the bolls ringing mor- rily as they disappoorod in the moonlight. 0 "Iso‘t this o glorious night for o sloigh~rido, Eiss Elizabothﬁﬁ romorkod or. B. ﬁe ?oply. ﬁftor making several more attempts and getting Mo"ansWors hel “Uh; oomo now, thoro’ooo’t be any fun riding if you aro not going to talks I didn‘t really moan What I said, I knoo you oon koop still if you oono to, I was only fooling.“ Still his companion modo no roply.l The horse was guito a gag ono/(Juogo Ca&§ liked good horse flesh; his - 7 an I ‘i. __. * Wife and all hio¢ lﬁwooulo ride and drivo'anything)3 and kept tho young man busy trying to control it. But after a whilo he said, “ooll, if you are not going to talk we might as ooll drive home,“ Still the young lady made no answor, so after a little he turned the horse and drove boob lf iiss Cody kept oil hor lovers at onm‘s length, they never droamod of touching her, house o y or. olonk had not loiﬁ his hand on hor arm.ond bogged her 11 to ﬁargive him and speak; when he drové up in frcné cf the hangs all its inhabitants game out on tha giazza, inquiring how he had enjoyed his ridgﬁ anﬁ fcremgst among_ them was my moﬁher, Elizabeth Cayi As acon as Era Blaﬁk saw'har he gasped and turning to the lady besiﬁe him, he axclaimad, “Far haavenis sake; Wiﬁh whom.have I been ridiﬁg: Julia Jones?” a gﬁ%%» girl Wham ha thaﬁaughly daw- ﬁastad. ’ “Bring in the yeung lady; Peter; and shaw Mr. Blank wha it is,“ 1aughn inglycallad Gui Elizabath Sady. It was a feather bolster dressad up in ha? alathesi Ehe yang man wa$ SQ maé,, SQ digusted ﬁhai he mever fully §ogave my moﬁhér the joke she ylayaﬁ on him. E3 soon transfarrad his devetiens to soﬁemoae alas, WhQm.1atar he married. The news spread as far ﬁawn the Mohawk Vallay as Sghanactady and when he gﬁt back he collega, the ﬁoys would say5 “So yam Wenﬁ sleighing with a bolster up in Johnsﬁown, Slamk, dié yea enjoy your ri&e?“ ﬂy Kwﬁher, I have been ﬁeld, was a very beautiful yvung wnmaag Ska wag brilliani in cenveraatien, sang and played wall on the pianc and guiiar, was a graceful danger, one whose society was aiways scughts aha had me and 9f admirw ers,'was a fearless hcrsewwow 1, coulé laap any fence or,jum@ any éitch. Euﬁj she had 3 sericus side to her naﬁuras she was an omniveréus reaé E, af staaéaré Eeaks, ever éelving into social questiéns and trying ta solve knotty prmblemsa Sh8‘W&S particularly fond ofarguing with learnadzmen. In diacuasion she aiways kept her temper, was quick to parceive and.to take aﬁvanﬁage sf 3 1@0p*hQ183 or a flaw in an Qppcnent’s argumant, and she was blessed Wiﬁh a kean sensa of humara 311 my grs¢&mother*s daughters were well trained in hausa§§}é ﬂuties, and; natwithstanding there were many'sarvan%s in the house§ aash§¢¢h%Ww%r“Was obliged Q V~..._ to spend a certain lengﬁh of time every day attending ta her special task. 12 Gorrit Smith . Elizabeth Cady was brought up in tho midst of the most oonoorvativo; sooﬁarian surroundings; How she became so liberal, along so many lines, has always been an interesting study to mo; one of iho poiont influences in the life of this wideuawako young Womn was her oogstant visiting at the home of her cousing Gorrit Smith, the aboliw tionist, at Potefboro, New York. His daughter Elizabeth anﬂ my mother formed a strong friendship that lastoé all thoir 1iVBSa Grandfothor did not altogether approve of these visits; ”5udgo Cody ad» mired his brilliant nophoo'and appreciated his sterling oharaoiorg but ovary fibre of his being rovoltod against the aovanood opinions of Gorrit Smith. However, the two families were so knitted togothor by relationship and sinooro friendship ﬁhat a rupturowas absolutely impossible, so Elizabeth Cady osoapod oonstantly from the religious austerity of her homo into the swootor3 froor at» mospher of the ?etorboro household," wvitoo my sister, Harriot Stanton Blatoh. “Tho Potooboro house was spacious, and always full of choice society", Writes my mother; "hero you met scholars, philosophers, philanthoopigts, judges; bis~ hops, artists, musicians, and statomon. \ ........ There novor'wao such an atmosphoﬁoof peace, freedom ano good cheer, nor were there over two such hosts as Cousin Nancy and Cousin Gorrit.” There were tins when anﬁi-slavery was tho all~absorbing EOpi3a Through the portals of the home at Poterboro stopped Wendell Phillips; ﬁilliam Lloyﬂ Garm rison, Horace Greeley, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown} As it was one of the stations on the “Under Ground Railway", the outnbuildings often harbored runaway slaves, resting for a day or so till Mr. Smith was able to convey thomby oar- riago, or sleigh, safely to Canaéa, Where, the moment they stopped foot on English soil, freodom.awaitod thom. My mother saw and oonvorsed with those runaway slaves and heard from.thoir own lips the tales of their tortures; Thus it was that she early became interested in the sad lot of that much abused race; Every possible phase of political and social life come up for discussion at Peterfboro, and as those who did thetalking,were the leaers of thought of that day you can readily judge of the influence all this had on the open mind of my mother. . . , , Henry Brewster Stanton It was at Peten¥boro that Elizabeth Cady first met Henry Brewster Stentonﬁ _ re a direct descendant of Elder’ﬁi1liam,BreWster, who came over in the Mayflower, Mr. Stanton‘wae then considered the most eloquent aod impassioned orator on the anti-slavery pletforme eHe was a finemlooking man, ten years ow mother‘e senior» Elizabeth Cady had a passion for oratory, who unuotal powers and earnest» mess of Mr. Stanton soon made a deep impression upon her. Carriegewloads of ladies and gentlemen drove off every morning to dttend the anti~s1avery meetings that were being hold all over Eadison Gounty. The enthuoiesm.of the people in these great gatherings, the thrilling oratory, were experiences never to be forgotten. My mother says in her autobiography,- "I became deeply interested in anti~s1avory and temperance questions; saeeoeseee I felt a new inspiration in life, and was enthused with new ideas of individual rights; for the anti-slavery platform was the best sooool the American poopie ever had in which tolemmoteepublioan prinoioles of government." Her‘ﬁedding Journqyg I The result of that meeting in Peterboro in Ootoben,1839,'Wao a wedding in Johnotown, N. Ye; im.May, 1840. Judge and ﬁrs. Cody oppoeed.th9tmarriagé Ld of their :w@5%ﬁ{“ fdaughter to "a radical“; but the young P90P19 were Obduratga 14 and a'wedding trip follcwed ts tha'§br1d’s Antiwslavery Convention heﬁd in Lcnden, England; in June, 1840; My father was Secretary ef the Convantion; as well as one of ths delagates fr¢m;£he United States‘ E333 Amsriéan*wmmen had also been sent as delegates, but on account of English prajudisasg based on asriptural texts; thay-were net permitteﬁ to take ﬁhair seats an tha flocrg so had ta sit in the galleries and look on ignomigfuslyi There were many ringing appeals made in that greai hall $0 seat tha Woman 1 delegatas from.th@ United States; My father; I aﬂzprcué £0 say, made an impassionm ’ ed speech in their favor, William Lloyd Garrison %i11iamKL10yd Garrison, the knowledge of Whose eloquence was wcrldwwideg and whQm.a11 England had be@n.anxieus to hear; was so indignant at the insult to his counirywemen that he refused to take his saai an the flaer, and sat silent in tirza §~‘§a.1.1ef3? ‘z»*«z'i‘t;h. the ”¥HC}31'L*?31T'1a ~ /7/5‘/7 ‘‘‘’7/(/’'‘‘ , M/%% Z“‘“;,‘Z f 3&4 7 / &/Z:-L/-:1 /9/éjisaniel O‘Conne11 Daniel O‘C0nnel1$ the great Irish oratcrg made his first agpearanca aﬁ the world‘s Coneniioné a few days after the women delegates had beeﬁ rejected. He paid a beautiful tribuﬁa to wamam and saiﬂ ﬁhat if he had been presanﬁ an the opening day he wmulé have spaken in her f&VQfa‘ Gssaecuaoosaatasoaesma we can) i‘ I 1: 5 o st :1 2 t 85 m ‘Piciure af 99 Lucreﬁia Mﬁﬁt : «: 9G!'DlQ'U!*ItﬁCQI!I<IOOC~1ﬂ!Q*3 - 4. \ ' '~,'i.’.f~‘: V H ‘\ ﬂ’ ' . ,g,;l,§»s."'” 15 Lueretieemeei These scenes all made e etreng impression on ehe heppy young brideg Eliz- abeth Ceey Stanton; One ether experience meée this cenventicnmemereble ﬁe my meeher. Threughouﬁ its sessions ehe set in the gallery next to Leeretie mﬁﬁt§ the distinguished Quaker yreeeher free ?hiledelphie; she end Ere“ eeee became well eequehted. eﬁother afterward ereee oﬁ her: “She was is me an entirely nee revelem tiem.of Wﬁmﬁﬂhﬁgdascseseasacstcal shell never cease te be grateful fer ﬁhe pet» ieeee eed seeming pleeeure with ehieh she fed my huegering Sﬁﬂlasssseeeseseseaea Eben I first heerd frem.her lips that I had the eeme right he ehine fer myself that Luther} ﬁelvie end Jeen Knox bed; end the eeme right he be guideda by my Gen eenvietione; I felt e eeewbern sense of dignity ewe freedeen“ These ewe ﬂiew cussed the grebleme of life fer the eomen cf thee egg, and decided} en their re~ tureﬂee emerieeg he eell e eonventien with the ebjeet “ef deeiing eéequetely eith the rights cf eomen". This meeting did et take piece, heeeverg till 1848» ey perente trevelled all overﬁngleedg Ire1end5*Sce£1end end§ be eeme ex~ teeiﬁ Freeeeg and feihee spake in all the large citiee ef the British :S1$5e On returning is her native lend; meeher,eee eekeeeeeet ehe had seen eeeeee that ieierested her meet. Her promgt reply eee, “Lucretia eeeeiﬁ While in ﬁublinﬁ Irelend, they were eeeerteineé by Daniel G‘Gonne11§ eke "Qreet $ieeriee“3 as he wee eelled. During dinner, Ere, Steeiee eeked him.if he heped ﬁe geie liberty for Ireland; “Ne”, he eeid; “but ii ie elweye geed eeliey ﬁe claim the ettermoetg and when yen will get eemethingﬁe caashesocosoaocnesavaaseoaoessn Q ‘ '3 Q 55 Q Q ,. > at A //"’""“"‘-. 5 _,;~'' .3 9; an U ‘,~~/ I W ﬁqgﬁurexcf 3 Q, . V 3 ‘1 ‘V ‘_', I... »-~‘“="_’“"' _ Q s . Eeeeegﬁezlree treln ; 1 [4, V ~..,\\‘ Q \( /1;?" ‘ ‘_ §§¥“»-3,_: C If,/"' 5 3‘ G 1* § a ﬁggggibiﬁiiﬁiftﬁﬁ~§9§O&$O!O$Q89‘ Hbmaward Bcunﬁ §hen.mothar wenﬁ in Troy to school she rode on the firsi railreaé built in ﬁhe United Statesg which rau between Schaneciady ané Albany. My parenﬁs WBm$ ﬁg Europe an a sailing vessslg But they camﬁ hemg an ﬁha first steamﬁr ﬁhat ever crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the iggfius” of the Cunard Lineg All threugh her evantful life she di& things ﬁhat ware beiﬁg dame for the first timai On their returnimr. and ﬁrs. Stanton wenﬁ to Jahns%awn$'where thgy ran maimed under ﬁhe parantal reaf fof twp yearsa Faihar studied law in Granéfather§s effice. Esther busiad herself reading law, historyg ad galitieal agansmyg but in 1842 all her thoughts were turned to the ﬁractical one; mf'hat ts ﬁe iﬁﬁ a baby. Sha says; “Though mwtherhsad is the mst important of all tha professions; requiring mre knawledga than any oﬁher departmsnt of human affairs, there is not sufficient attention given to the preparation for this high office.” In September, 1842, she gave birth to a fiﬂe boy, Whm was nameﬁ afiar his graméfathar5 Daniel Caiy 3tant@n. The scientifia manna? iﬂ'Whi$h she raised thaﬁ baby'wsu1d have ﬂame creﬂiﬁ he gif twentieth century mairani She said she had been ﬁhimking$ raading and absarving, ‘ad had as liitla faith in iha pgyular tﬁaarw ies sf tﬁﬁﬁé days as regarés babies as she baa an m&ﬁy othar subjgaﬁsy 03% ry sf ligﬁt illuminated the darkness about her, “It was a hawk by gndraw Qcmbafgn la” 3‘? famayg sha“Wriiaa, She Proved Ber Th0?i%S g ﬁaulﬂ that I had tims and spasa to tell in daiail haw she ﬁraimed her hursag her husbamdg her parenﬁgg evén the d0ct9r§ as $3 haw ha? baby was ta ha iﬁaatadg when mast of them.ha& been tha parents Qf num@?aus ahildramg Sui aha carried the day; and har‘h@a1thy3 bauﬁcing baby convinced tham.£ha$ her thcrigs mmat be right, as he never ariad, slept a gﬁad Shara of the tima, and; baing givw ” an planﬁy af fresh air amd‘water to drink, being wmrsed reguzarky by tha_o1cek3 17 -’ gégi,/é;44Lqnm%%¢2e~ua.Zé%vu¢¢A4ij:Z;;4»» M__ . ¢ M A.‘ a-.« V ‘N 1- wt; aw ’ -3‘ «-1 ‘ _‘}={»‘‘ '-._.'’7 .'.._g‘ "'3: *3 _, 1 _ h@4 wag never 111* E9 ﬁl§§t &1mn@ mg a raam by ﬁ1maa;$:‘ Egbuﬁf sa$u all ac? .% ;% , 8 ,, - _ ¢= mm ..,V;g . ~= *; 2 ~ : , ﬁn I * . ~ $ -+ [ w “’w §ead&n& ﬁi hhls blﬂm G6ﬂmﬁT$d an pay$1a¢0g§; dgat and nyglaneﬁ anﬁ aha“ she cam t tha Qonalusian that babies ; s}% vied uwless somgthing wag ﬁha mattﬁr thaﬁ "7 *3 gauld be remediaﬁ§ Eémaa sha wa child cry withaut faaling haunﬁ ta flﬁﬂ J. R-4 » at “e‘-"* 2 c ‘i , .9» " 1* sub whaﬂ ma; baa cauaﬁg I %e? in life she lecﬁurad far aight mmnéhs af avary‘y@a?3 far twalva X‘ 25* Q'"‘§"‘ "'5"? 5 ’~ —‘ us": ‘ ‘“‘ *"“:§Vé.' .‘ ’ 1" ’ ﬁ ‘ 3‘ -9 . 4, " 1' ‘-3 ygayg§ frgm,m&1m$ as Ca1ifgrnma3 fr$m.k;aaasa%a ta Texas; On thasa axtgnazvg traps h 1Fﬁ A‘ ” av 'ﬁ”“ W%%‘ rv‘n “whims aﬁd i@na?a@t n9%@ﬂ%q Qwd %“?%%v “ai Siaa ‘x.1.£a33E§Z‘1.i:‘J§.1.“J‘e3S E5; 41.. us’-.1 Q {I 1 :3 /L .*...z‘ 5 .-..:. V ‘3 . "' ~ *‘ * «N» J‘ - «-’$« 5 ‘—»~“¥>»3~ «a- G‘? and» *5 in $9 savan sauﬂd shildraﬂ sf her awn she felt she aauld sp@ak‘vi%h authmriiya An Imgragsiva ﬂbjacﬁ Lassen . .... Jae ._ Gm ana aocasian, a'wh01a car full of peo§1s'was pn tenﬁerhmeks fram thg graisngad 3?yiﬂg_Q§ a b&%y, As maths? enﬁarad éha car anﬁ task he? seaﬁg sha hearﬁ its pit@0us'Wai1s, SQ she want fcrward and askea the‘waary5 ysumg mgthar if sha might taka ii; The b&%y raadi1y"wanﬁ ta % marg and wa1king‘With ii ta ihe anﬁ sf tha car she tagk har ymakat drinkiag qlass from.iﬁ3 saga; ringimg 1%, gig ﬁraiaﬁi ii af avery ﬁyay. Sas”ag him 35 ihirsiyg mgthar gag the liﬁiia fgi aw ‘Y s samﬁ mﬁrﬂﬁ iheng smiling mg7%§ he? face, Ea laiﬁ hia ¢@ad 0n.her b?§a$%«an&‘wamt poi’ "‘f” . Q‘ ~ . .7,-4 -“=;"‘:' > 1"‘ "‘,“‘,‘~. g ’s,. pt. -3- ~u-« -v ' .. . faaw as;ae§ lmﬁuﬂﬁuﬁy; ﬂfu§T aghzls gha saturnmd is whara the babylg maramis waragm is th@ chiig gﬁill sleyt an paaaafuilya I!” 3“ 3? , . - .,.,.- '? _, ., ‘H! . ‘~‘~. ,. ‘ ,— A Yam S%a3.mada&ﬁ‘; said %ﬂh%ﬂ?§ all ia@ Erb§‘ﬁ§3d§ﬂ‘W%3 a drink @§‘waie:&“ Y?‘-:'~:1:“ 15 age ~ 1 ‘ “Y _' F .,,‘x, 6. V, g , . , V . at 5. g 3 awﬁggw axclazmad tha woman} why, ha 3 nava? had a drink mf Waiar mm hlﬁ lifai“ it A _ '_ _ W. r V N H .. .w._ h N w_ V, , , Euﬂgi you glVﬁ3ﬁMn¢§h§§l@ﬁ and Eibtmﬁg waﬁar?“ Mmﬁhar znqmgraﬂs fir”. 1 ’ «,3 . ‘E « ;-,~-. #9 r,«;‘ -r 9». Uﬁﬁ gas; cgitaxﬁg, was 0&3 «nswar. “Haw aid ia geurboy?" mcthar askad. 18 "One year last Tuesday". Wﬁhat have yam been giving him to drink when he was thirsty?" ﬂnﬁ t0 he? hG?FGF she received this &ﬂSWG?a "Tea? coffee er milk, and when he crias very har&, we put a few drops cf whiskeygor soothing syrup; in the mil&;§ So methar sat down opposite thése ignorant young paremts and gave them a simple talk em hygiene, disk, dress, digestion, physiolegy, ha impertance above all things of giving children glenty of water ta ﬁring. ézﬂkzihig tims ﬁhg baby lay on.m@ther’s lap sweetly sleeping; she had thrgwn a light shawl over the chilé. Tha §e0ple in the car gathereﬁ araund, samﬁ standing am the seats ta listen. Hang of the man asked questicns, ta carry heme the informaticn to their wives, as they said, they also, haé babies that criaﬁ incessanély. The years after the birih of hér 1fir3t son.Were very full aﬁﬁ busy ones. In lﬁéﬁ my parenﬁs mpved to Boston, Mass., where my father began.thapractiee cf lawg as a parimer of Ruus Chcate. There mother mat Lydia.ﬁaria{Chi1é, Elizabeth Peab¢dy3 Thaodare Parker, Ralph Ealdo Emerson, Charles Sumner; Jehn G."Whittier, Bronsen &lcoit§ ﬁathaniel Hawihorne, and many ether litarary pegple and reformerag She ané father were frequent viaitmfs at the h0mﬂs0f §ande1l Phillips and ﬁilliaz Lleyﬁ Garrisana ﬂhila in BOStGmﬁ mother attended all the lecﬁures, churehas, cencertsg theatrés, temperanceﬁ paace, prisan~ref¢rm.and antinslavery oonvantions that mgt in the city; She says:"I never lived in such an enthusiastiaally litarary and ram fmﬁm latiiuﬂa befare. my mantal powers wera kept at the highast tansimn." Th0se'wMre stirring times in which my paranis lived, BostQm‘Wag the stgym cenire of many of the big movements of that day» The great antiagggvgr mgatingg 19 in Fanuail Hall rmakad Basion to its very founﬁatisn. They were cften dis» turbed by huge mgbs that woulﬂ held the most gifted orator at bay hmur after hear. These an the §latform‘were pelted with rattan eggs: cabbagasg and even brickbatsi During this parioé of her life in Bosﬁon my mother alga visited Brook Farm, gpandigg Emu d&ys thera, and saw that cammunity ﬁxyarimant at its heigﬁll " -_ ‘:9 ~,,.», «7 - A ’ 3 _.‘ .v.s“_z,"-9, , .« Yark Sun§‘Waited an ﬁablg. Thus through her earlv vears’was the bent of this breaﬁminded thmuvhtn 2.3 u 21 3 «.3 ful yaung wnman made firm; the foﬁndation stones were Wall laid amang “*l native hills, and nsw she began ﬁg build tha supafsﬁruature thereon. ﬁrs. Stanton as a Housekeeper- *?‘f"" my grandfather had given maihar a fine, naw heuse, baautifully farm nimhed, on the hills of Shelsea, overlooking Beaten Harbaur. She says; "ﬁhen firsi installed as mistress avg? an gstablishmant, one has the ﬁama faaling of pride and satisfaction thai a young ministar must have in ﬂaking charge ‘-3 5 *.-”:§1I’§3. {:9 w £3 cf ﬁis first eaugregationg s.... It is a praud mmmant in a woman’$ life i suprams wﬁthin four walls. ..... I gtuﬁiad my everything yextaining ta hou$a~ kaapingl ..... I had all ihe mast ap§roved cook~book5, aud spent much sf my , lg . '= M V . ‘l " ' ‘:7 ,M«(. timg picklingfand exyeriménting on.n9w‘&ishes. I felt the same ambiiion ta _% axeell in all ﬁepartments sf ﬁhe culinary art that I did at schcal la iﬁa ﬁifferent .ranehes cf laa?ming. seats I put my whole Saul imts everything and enjoyad it.“ my mnther was a famous housakeeper and cook; though she always kept several household employaes, thera'was nothing she herself could not dc. Her house was always in ﬁerfecﬁ orﬂer frem garret to cellar, her back dear as —.u.vz‘-‘v=—’(¢’ 20 ha? front door. Eu 1845 Judge ani ﬁrs. Gady mmvad to ﬂlbany fer a faw years ta as~ tablish twn of their senswinwlaw in the legal yrsfassian ihare, S0 ﬁhﬁ J Qapiﬁal 9f the Stata gﬁﬁﬁmg the family rallying paint far same time. G@verncr‘¥illiam H, Seward « ﬁrs. ﬁﬁaniam made several visits ta £1bany during thig period, and ﬁhus‘was able ta take anzzative part imthe discuaaien cf t&a Earriad ﬁomangs Pramerty Bi11§ the V;-3 - mending in the Legislatures Ths bill haé bean introﬁugad in 183* it did mat pasﬁg hewaver; Wniil 1848. ﬁi1liam‘H. Sew&rd'was Govarnor - 3 9- _ ’ ’ ’ “ “’ ﬁgriﬂg §art gf this tima; he appravad of the bill; anﬁ hi; Wlfﬁﬁ a wvman of b o A 0 w‘ . if n» V E3 N‘; “ = , rt ‘*1 3 2“- rare lmtalllganae, advacatad 1t warmly. logawhar , ﬁrs. Stanton ﬂT;t$§§ “ﬁrs. Seward and I had the epgartunity of talking abeuﬁ tha bill with many membars3 bath cf the Senate and ﬁssembly, in S0ci@iy§ as wail as in smmittas raams.” Gmvarner amﬁ Mrs. Sewar&‘s friendship far my mather laatad t0 the and 9; uhair £335, and thay'were freguant visitars at aaah 0£har’a hamasg §il1ia3:£. Sewarﬂ was afﬁerward Secretary Sf Staﬁﬁ in ?ra$i&ent Lina01n‘s Gahinaﬁa %Mr3. Stan%on‘$ saemné son Henry was barn im Albany in 1843, during one cf hay visits taera, ﬁunéar mare favarabla auspices than w§'first ﬁarnﬁ she; writes, “as them I ts dc 1:zr:i.i:.E’; sza. bsa.z:y.*‘ imzi. }—mx¥ 33.§.z*d son, C;~erz*i*%; gm-2,33 3ﬁﬂHt0n,“W&S born im 1845 at Che1aea¢ H533. under the ahadaw cf Bunkér Eill mmnumanta Sha:musﬁ have been a very bay wammn wiih thmeé bays iﬁ Pan? years; she nursad all her b&hies3 and; though she always had nurses; ska did man .31‘ ._‘i things hewsalf for her children, She was a meat devotaé mmthar; she sang and plryad for us on bath yiano anﬁ guitar; anﬁ tald uswandarful stories. She 21 cculd racita poeﬁry by the page; often thesa recitations were fram tha Odes of Hsrace, 0? the Eclsguas of Virgil, she nevar forgeﬁ her Latin er Greek. I hava often seen her, at the twilight hour ih her ald age; surraunded by a bevy of children listeninv s§el1b0und't0 her thrilling tales. -; ”‘5?%l£* * il57” 51 ? Lif@ at Seneaa Fallso lflha sevaritv of the Naw‘England climaie provad toe rigcraus for my father’s ~ he&lth; sa this stimulating; intellectual and sccial lifal and his brilliant legal start, all had to he given up; and in the Spring of 1847 my parents mgved to Seneca Falls, ﬁew*?ark. Father’s haalth improved greatly; hey spant sixteen years of their married life in that littla village; and the?e their ' :¢..s;;\,l~—m . qﬁéﬁf four ohilﬂren'war9 born. t A 7 %§%w¢i¢ Grandfaﬁher had given mmther a large, ol§~£ashionadR§ame in Seneca Falls, also a farm near the town. On her way to the new home she stapped in“ Johns» town to visit her parents, and left her nurse and three boys there While she . want on.to Seneca Falls alone to put tha house in hahitablg condition. Father had been called to New'Y0rk ﬂity on important business. Ebther’s eldast sister, ﬁrs. Edward Bayard; had lived in ﬁhat villagé sevaral years before, and as ELih@F had oftéa Viaiteﬂ her, she was already acquainted‘With many of the tawnspeapleg I At parking Grandfather gave his daughﬁer & gooﬁly sized check and said with a kiss anﬂ a smile, “You believe in woman‘s capacity £0 dc and dare; 35W Q? ahead and_show us what you can do'With that hause.“ She started off quite hagpy at thafhcﬁght of the rasbansibility cf repairing a hause and puﬁtimg all things in arder. Tha ylaca had bean clmsad for several yearsﬁ and needed extensive repairs; anﬁ the grounds, compriaing several acres, were overgrawn with weeds, and the trees, hedges and shruba sadly neglected. %y'mpther writes in her autobiography: “tit %mi@ute survay of the _ ‘ ‘Y ‘,.3§ﬂij_,*,, - 3 praises anﬁ due consultatian with sevewal sons 0 '4 v‘: :'~*':'t~~ ’ ’ painters, paperwhangers, and garﬂeners to work; built a fine haw kitahana wpod~hause and several perches and in six'waaks took passassianiﬁ my mather possessed a great ﬁeal cf axacutive atility and astanishad every ate at wtat she aécomglished in S0 shart 3 time; She told me maay amusing taies of sitting on kegs cf nails and disw cussiag the tapics ef the day with samé of the leading Judgas and lawyers of the tswng who draypad in to adviae her, while the workman were pounding and hammering about themJ In Seneca ?a11s my mother found life decidedly sclitarg and even depressing. In Beaten all her immediate friends were thinkers and refarmars, amang tham.the chief figures of that ﬁay. There she had a new hcuse‘ith all tthe mmdern conveniences, well-trained sarvants, near and delightful neighbors. Eéra the home was remote, built at the edge of a cauntry village: The h0usa~ hold employees were inferior. ’She had an increasing number of children, anﬁ 1 fathar was frequantky abliged to be away frat hama on outiness. §hi1e‘we lived in Seneca Fallg he was a member cf the ﬂew York Legislature. Ebthar sums it all uy grayhically in the fol10wing‘wor&s; *Ta kaap a larga hause .and many acres of grauné in orderg purchase evaryzartinla fer daily use? Keep the wardrobea cf half a dozen human beings in proper trimﬁ take children ta dentiﬁts, shoemakers; day and dancing schools, and tc find teachers for home study,- altogether made sufficient work to keep one brain busy, as Well as all the hands I couié press into service. .fhen, tca; the novelty 0f housekeeping had gasseﬂ away, and much that was ance attractive in dgmggﬁig life was now i?ksom.. I had so many cares that the oompant I neaaeé for in~ tellectual stimu1us‘as a trial rather than a pleasure.“ Before this, my mother's life had glided by¥with ccmparative ease, Aﬁith her hameepathie book and bag sf buﬁ new ﬁhe real struggle of existence was ugen her; Her &utias'wer9 two numerousg an&§ “None”, she sayss “sufficiently exhilaraﬁing £0 bring inte play my higher faculties; hamaa 1 auffereé from.m@nﬁm1 hunger. I naw fully underw steed the practiaal difficultias East wcmsn have to eanﬁand‘with in the isolated hemsehsld, ﬂﬁw i%e impossibilitr cf wamangs besi davelopment if in centact, the chief part of her life, with servanﬁs and children“, i§~£4§§ﬁi-¥’O§§94E°I5§4Q$$§O§%$'9G$Oﬂ‘NB " at “’ 1' 3 : C ’ 9 S 9 1., E 0' ‘ ‘ 9 " ~ 3 \E>"§x;> ‘met’ * z \\ u 5 “‘- 5 “ .‘ 9 : 1 A I is . - ..-=-. ~ - -:=.~.‘- new E aad ﬂmf Qgm Olu3Sb ~ 9 3 ‘ 3 Q t 7-‘ ‘re 1* . ' . ‘agﬁv ' 3' 0 S (‘I V * 3 3 5 $ Q I 8 ’ 2 1 I 3 OOG0i§§0®OO!it>Cl=5352?!-ﬁtﬁﬂifi$- Mrse Stanton and twe 3? her bavs ffsm an old dayuerrect G _ ta 3' x,.ZT' Near Our h0me'w&s an Irish setiiament frcxzwﬁish came constant commlaints E‘ "§' 1 . 5*’ «rm $ .~m— A ,, -..v ‘ .y, 4, ‘a F‘ ‘ I ‘ 5 ‘ I‘ . th&u krsﬁ §EdﬁtGn 3 bays were thlawzmg stauag mi their “pigs anﬁ reefs”; 38 successful was my mmﬁher in bar diplemaﬁic adjustnanﬁ of affairs, thaﬁ S18 S90? 1 0',‘ ‘‘t_ ' ‘. 1 - ‘ , N, 2 3‘ mecgms the umpire of the nexghborhood. bhe lent boogs anﬁ payers ta tﬁ@’WG§ﬂ ﬁﬁﬁ mﬂﬁi invited the chiléram inta her beautiful grcunds ta pl“y‘wiﬁh her hg;g ‘ "' ‘L "75" ' ‘”"’ W ‘ 1?‘ tn A ’ 1» u »- n. . » and angog uhﬁ Eﬂlugm, p&Pmll@1 mﬁd hC?l£Qﬁi&1 bags: the trageza aﬁd laﬁﬁergﬁ ymdicines, she tenﬁed thg sick and mgnistgrad is tha wmmen im the nangs of mate?nitv§ ti‘? she Qagﬁﬁw Qn%f§ an exmﬁri if thﬂi J. ~ E . as -. _ .e=‘m.:... -4» J‘- ,,,,., 1- ,~ ~ 1" 4 ‘L d“ C l XX’) #55- branch 9? the mgdical prafessien. She imugzé them.haw to take intelligent cara cf their babias and children. She was lookad ugan by all her naighbars as their beat friend anﬁ adviseﬁ, anﬁ thera'was noﬁhing they wou1& moi ﬁe for ha? in return. Emerson says a hsalthy discontent is the first step in progress; my mgther says, “The general discontent, which I now‘felt,with woman‘s partian aa wife; mother} hou$ekeeper3 sgiritual guide, the weariﬁﬁ, anxious look of tha majayity of wemen, all impressed mg with the feeling that some aotiva maaaureﬁ must %a ‘ﬁaken to ramedy the‘Wrongs of society in general and GE woman in particular, ﬁy experiamme at the'ﬁor1d’s £ﬁti~S1avery Gcnvantian in Lemdanj all I had ra&d of ihe lagal status of women in my faiher‘s law books, ané ﬁhe cpprassian af wnmgn I saw everywhere swept across yg*smul, intensifieﬂ nww by Hg'mﬁny personal exw‘ periencés. it seemgd as if all the eleménts had conspireﬂ to impel me te same ﬂﬂwayﬁ Sggg, 1 ggulﬁ net sge‘wh&t to de or where to begin, ~ my only thought was 3 public meating for protest and discussion.” In this perturbed sﬁate of mind, mother received an inviﬁatimn to yo my ta '%aterlo0, the naxt tawn, and spanﬁ he day at the home cf her friends, the Eunﬁs, ﬁe see Lucﬁetia ﬁatt, wha was there on a visii. Ehey haé invited a party of their z— Quaker acquaintances, all earnest, married women, ta meat 4! - ﬁrs. Matt and ﬁrs‘ Stamioa. §y?hé%her was so full of the spirit wf discmntent, and sﬁa poured it autwith such vahamenca anﬂ eloquanca, that she stirrea herself and all her hearers, as she says, “Te de and dare anythingi" like First ﬁcman’s Rights ﬁenventien 0 They deciéed to holé a ”%bman's Eights Convention”. They wrote the call ﬂ A that afterncon and had it printed in ihe Seneca Gsunév Courier an July 14, l8é8. if . , H‘ 5.. 9 Q rs ,, _* I - ‘,3 Q a w I K The c&11 was 1bgued‘w1th0ut slgnaﬁures, mt was merely an announcement that a r . f 9 ‘ . 5 ‘Hr » _ I ‘. , Jonah s Rzghts Conventlon would be held on July 19, and £0, lﬂ Seneca Falls. The chief mnvers were Elizabeth Cadv Stant on of Seneca Falls, Lucretia Matt of Philadelphia, %ary'enn ﬁcC1intock and Jane Hunt of Waterloo, and Martha C. T E dright of iuburn. The last mentioned ledy*eee the sister of ﬁrs. ﬂott, and the grandmother of Themes ﬁott Osborne, the famous exdwerden of Sing Sing Prison, who thus comes naturally by his reform proclivities. , .. The Convention was held in the~” Church in Seneca Falls. It ees a great success, the place ees crowded at every meeting, both men end women spoke. James Eott, Lucretia's handsome husband, presided. Someone sage of it: “A religious earnestness dignified all the proceedings”. M 4'c«¢,é"4..:;z/a 3 * ~ -in 'L.«.~.- ~ »~~vr~ —+‘:a’"’ " . “ ‘ - ‘ Of that first ConventionZme»eeeeee dig in her eutcbiogzephy, Eighty Years and More“, "These eere the hasty, initiative steps of the moet;momentoue refornz that hee yet been leunchede in this world, the first organized protest against the injustice which has brooded for ages over the oherecter and destiny of one- helf the race.” But mother fails to tell, in her book, one incident that I think most significant, and which I have often heard her relete; "It shows how far ahead she eee of her times and how clearly she see into the future. She asked Frederick Douglass, the great colored orator, who had oome down from.Rooheeter to ettend the Ccnventicn,°what it ees that his people, the slaves on the southern p1ente~ tions§ needeaﬁtp out them.on the right plane. "The ballot”, he promptly replied. “And I see that is exactly ehat we Women need“, said Mrs. Stanton. Then she explained d" T to him.thet she had drawn up a resolution, tetdshe intended to present to the »%“"'5"5;3 ‘ Convention, and he must immediately jump to his feet and make e speech in favor of its passage, and then she would do likewise. The resolution reed: “Resolved, That it is the duty of the eomen of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right of the elective franchise.” “éﬂ-Q i,/¢¢¢,{;§::’,¢¢ ii; ey mother told Er. Douglees that in the conﬁerences they had been holding before the Convention, ehen she had maintained that the ballot in the hands of eomen'ees the keynote to the situation, Lucretia ﬁott had exclaimed: ”Oh3,Lizzie, 26 if thee demands that, thee will make us ridiculousi ﬁe must go slcwly.“ And my father, aha usually stood by my mother in all she did and saiﬁ3 and aha disc spoke and‘ﬁorked for the cause of wnman,'was so amazed at her .9‘ daring,'when she confiéad ta him what she intended doing,and sp distressed that she would not listen to his advice, that he left tqwn and dié not attend any of ths'meetings3 But mother felt she was right, and nething anyoae saié coulﬁ turn.her from.her path. Thenﬁ tee, she remsghered the advice given her by Daniel O3C0nnel1 years bafore in Ireland: “Always ask for the uttermpst; than you may get semethingi” Of course those on the platformywere furious at her for springing her reseluticn on the ﬁonventiont it created hot debate, but the brilliant éefeﬂse, of Bouglass and her own elcquence and logic so roused the audience that many arese and spoke for her side; and after a two hours’ tussle it was carried. v ﬂ’ ' 4 ﬂ 4') /~',’ /' u r éﬂemand fram the first was those three . 40 So that Elizabath Cady Stant0n's 1/’? 05/ little worés ~ "VotesJfor Womami“ Susan B. ﬁnthony was not present at that first ﬁonventiens she did met some inte the mavemant until three years later, in lﬂﬁlu
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1923-04-06]
Text: Am extremely busy, but a 12 hr. sleep last night revived me a lot. Love, Fannie[This side of card is for address] Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Date: 1921
Text: MUSIC LIBRARY VASSAR COLLEGE poucuxzansvc NEW vopm SONGS S}-IA-WON—DA-SEE (The South Wind), Medium, F (No. 5232) SKARL THE DRUMMER, Iwedium, D minor (No. 5253) COWBOY SONG, Medium, E minor (No. 5254) WABUN (The East Wind), Medium, F (No. 5255) HIAWATI-IA'S SONG, Medium, Fiﬁ? minor T ADJIDAUIVIO (The Squirrel) Medium, G 5 W73 : I at. or I (No: 5268) *Except Canada and Foreign J. FISCHER 82 BROTHER - NEW YORK 119 WEST FORTIETI-I STREET 3, NEW STREET, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND Pxnu-an in nu To...
Show moreMUSIC LIBRARY VASSAR COLLEGE poucuxzansvc NEW vopm SONGS S}-IA-WON—DA-SEE (The South Wind), Medium, F (No. 5232) SKARL THE DRUMMER, Iwedium, D minor (No. 5253) COWBOY SONG, Medium, E minor (No. 5254) WABUN (The East Wind), Medium, F (No. 5255) HIAWATI-IA'S SONG, Medium, Fiﬁ? minor T ADJIDAUIVIO (The Squirrel) Medium, G 5 W73 : I at. or I (No: 5268) *Except Canada and Foreign J. FISCHER 82 BROTHER - NEW YORK 119 WEST FORTIETI-I STREET 3, NEW STREET, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND Pxnu-an in nu To Mrs. Mc Elroy -Johnston « Hiawathefs Song H JAMES A. BLISS Op. 10. No.1. Me dim m H.W LONGFELLOW eg-ro con brio (Juos) In the land of the Da - c0— tahs Minn — e —ha — ha, Laugh—ing a - ter, Lives the ar - row mak- er’S daugh-ter, /.‘,\.—. at tempo Hand- som- est of all the mai -ens, I will bring her to your wig—wam, W‘ #13‘/13 #? 3- 3 Esp/res She shall run up -on your er - rands, Be your Star-light, moon-1ight,fire-light, F Copyright, 1921, by J. A. Bliss Assz.'g1zea./ to J.Fa'.s>c-law (Q Bro. J. F.& B. 5268-5 PRINTED IN U. $.A. Be the sun-light of my peo-ple (L team Tem,;0o 1 Thus it was that Hi — a — wa - tha To the lodge of old No - k0 — mis Brought the moon-light, star—1ight_, fire - light, /:57 . ._. — ,-.\ (L tempo Brought the sun-shine of his peo-ple, Minn - e-ha - ha Laugh-ing Wa - ter, , . J. .F'.& B.:'>268~5 Hand - som-est of (Of) all the maid — ens . _ the land of p smccato hand-some maid - ens. ‘fab. J.F.& B. 5268-5. H .W. LONGFELLOW 8 ..... ........ .. eggiero _ J.F.& B.5268-5 ADJIDAUMO The Squ(irre1 J JAMES A. BLISS Slower .' x7[ea’imn ‘ Then said Hi-a-Wa-tha to him, 3'5 l"""""""‘1 I I d the squirrel, Brave - ly have toiled to help me; And the name which now he gives you; For here—aft-er and for-ev-er Copyright, 1921, by J. A.B1iss Assig/zed to .lF¢1s'(.'/car & Bro. l':'—j'll:—'—""| Boys shall call you Ad — ji - dau - mo, Tail in air the boys shall «:31? you!” And /3‘ 8... the squir - rel, r""'"‘l Ad - ji-dau- mo, ' 3 ' ' ' Frisked and chattered ver - y gay - ly, o ...._..4 atempo '“3“‘I ' 3 | J. F.&B.5268—5 Maesta slower In‘ his fur rit. e breeze of morn-ing a, A Group of AMERICAN SONGS LIST No. 1 . REG, U‘ S. PAT. OFF. HOWARD BARLow . . . . . . .Hush of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (5193, 5194)* . . Love issoNew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..2 keys (519I,5192)..... Your Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..2 keys (5195, 5I96)..... GENA BRANSCOMBE . . . . . .In my Heart there Lives a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (5038, 5039) . . . . . ELIZABETH H. DAVID. ...Honeysuck1e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (5151, 5152) InAbsence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..2 keys (5155,5156)..... Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..2 keys (5153, 5154) JAMES P. DUNN . . . . . . . . .The Bitterness of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..3 keys (3976, 3977, 4087) To Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4033, 4077) ..... Under the Greenwood Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4340, 4275) . . . . . A White Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4034, 4076) . . . .. G_ FERRA1-A , , _ _ _ , _ , , , , _ ,Night, and the Curtains Drawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (3845, 3000) . . . . . CECIL Foggy-rg , , , , , , , _ ,A Masque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Medium (4532) . . . . . . . . . Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4546, 4547). . . .. The Watcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .High (4545) . . . . . . . . . . . When the Last Sea is Sailed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bass (4534) . . . . . . . . . . . FAY FosTER , , , , , , _ _ , , _ ,My Menagerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4491, 4460) . . . . . Secret Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .2 keys 4665, 4666) . . . . . Shadow of the Bamboo Fence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4328, 4327) .. . . . When Lovers Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4663, 4664) . . . . . Your Kiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..2 keys (4454, 4455) J. BERTRAM Fox . . . . . . . .A Ballad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High (4737) . . . . . . . . . . . Evening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .High (4596) . . . . . . . . . . . Eventide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (5079, 5083) . . . . . Sadness; Tears . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (5078, 5141) . . . .. FRANK H. GREY - - - - . - . -Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 keys (4860, 4861, 4923) When Blossoms Come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys 5160, 5161) . . . .. VICTOR HARRIS . . . . . . . . . .The Cupboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (5096, 5097) . . . . . A Madrigal . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4982, 4983) Nod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..3 keys (5092, 5093, 5094) Silver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (5098, 5099) . . . . . A. WALTER KRAMER - - - -Eternal May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4244, 4245) . . . . . ForaDream’s Sake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..2 keys (3851, 3852) joy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys 24246, 4247) . . . .. « Song Without Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .High 5020) . . . . . . . . . . . HOWARD D. MCKINNEY. In My Soul's House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4867, 4868) . . . . . Slower, Sweet June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4681, 4688) . . . . . To a Hilltop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 keys 4863, 4864) . . . .. WILLIAM REDDICK . . . . . . .Spanish Serenade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .High or Medium (5077) . Travelin' to de Grave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4955, 4956) . . . . . , GERTRUDE Ross . . . . . . . . .Early Spanish-Californian Folk-Songs (Five).. . . .2 keys (5I20, 5121) . . . . . . Sakura Blossom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (5143, 5144 ‘LILY STRICKLAND . . . . . . . .Bay0u Songs (Four) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4944, 4992) . . . . . A Beggar at Love's Gate; Song Cycle . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4440, 4501) . . . . . Today is Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..‘ . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4338, 4339). . . .. DEEMS TAYLOR . . . . . . . . .Captain Stratton's Fancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bass (5242) . . . . . . . . . . . Banks 0' Doon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Medium (5210) . . . . . . . . . Plantation Love Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4334, 4333) . . . . . The Messenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4732, 4733 The Rivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4728, 4729) .. . .. A Song for Lovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4730, 4731) .. . .. PIETRO A. YON . . . . . . . . .Gesu Bambino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4452, 4453) . . . . . Veneziana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 keys (4463, 4464) . . . . . 0,...- *Fischer Edition Numbers; the first for high key, the second and third for medium and low. J. FISCHER 82 BRO. - NEW YORK 3, NEW STREET, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND
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Date: 1873
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' "3 1910 p000 rall: And the day is (I-ark and } f mime, mnitlne uiml -% er‘ wear r , my ﬂmnghts :-ﬁll cling to ﬂue W} > \} L ; D 5 = I + J I 51 1 / ’ U I l I I E p000 rail: 41 iaampo. I l —. I5 ‘I’ 3" I ' ' '\\__// da_y.s‘ are (I-ark and (Ire-a - vy. I’ I a tempo. 1.1000 rall: 1319 V ‘- sIti]l_®_*_ I sad 11eaPt!%__, and cease the clouds . 3 still 5111' - .\ X ” ‘ poco tillargrznrlo. _ com - 111011 fate of AA‘ AA EXHIBIT FOR N. Y. ROOM OF WOIvIAN’s BUILDING, 1OAL\ED BY [T In - to melt smue must fall, S0111-9. f"r1V>‘a ———-———— 501119 d"‘.Y~"7 501119 Zen - tanJ - (10- (g;,,,.,‘ W‘ must be dark and (lrea }‘ , rum; 1'rlll!?nf: 1917919 c6lla voce. a tempo. , 20 Fifth Avenue, New York, To be returned to Mrs. Theodore Sutro Cheurman on Music and Law. L'.‘!".‘v’ffWD!-"YT EHEE.‘ “led to -------------------------- .. an on Music andMrs. Theodore gut Law ‘CHOICE GEMS SELECTED ERG/"I IGLIVER DITSON COMPANY'S L/;\Ti:‘sT__i.isTs or piiw. MUSIC VOCAL. Wit and Wine. G. 4. 4. to n. 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The odilness of style nianiI'e.~'t in tlllSllL‘\V:~l0l1g,£1.‘! well as the e.\'cellen(tcoi' both poet ‘ ' I.I14l nielo:ly, shouhl place it zit once ainoii;.>; the most ilc rable of recent song pl‘0lli1cll0ll:l. The piano aecompaniineiitis ol'it.sel1‘an attraction. ' ' F. 4. to F. On the Swinging Branches. at E "Won. “On the Swiiigring Branclics,” or the “Soiig oi'th_e ]’»obolink,” i-I one of the latest of Mr. \Vilson’s composi- tions. It is of an unu~iu:illypleasiiigii:itiii'e,tastet‘iiI and grrai-.el*iil, while the nielorlioii~i wziltiz-i'e1 llll makes it specially 2ltl.l':l('lJl\'C as to the popular reqiiircnieiits. Earth’s Fairest Flower. Di». 4. c to F- Orton 127'/uIIe_1/. One of the best mollern songs for mezzo-soprano or baritone. It liasa ;,-'racel'ul nioveniciit in 9-8 tempo, with nielo;ly anil piano acconipanimeiit alike agreeable. Vj]|ane||e_ (Peastiiitfs Song.) El). 5. hi; to g: Dell Arvmrl. “Villanclle,” or the pcasant’s soiig—./’u£ ru. ]m.s'.>‘(‘7' l’lLi'ronrlelle (“I’ve seen the sw;1ilo\\'si»:isshyine”)Ais one of the most acceptable of the modern s<)iig~s. The translation is by lln.l‘I‘_lS()lll\Illl.‘ll'(l. Both Freiirli iiml Englidi version are given. It is recoininenilcd to sopranos. ﬁe Lea!-jeth |V|e_ Duet. Eb. 4. . . . . S. Salter. A hne sacreil duet lor alt’) an l tenor. \’Vc C0llllllCll(l it_ to <:lioii'—sin;,rers. The accompaniment is 1'oreii.her piano or organ. There's a Friend for Little Children, 0. 4- C- to g‘. E. S. Hosnzer. A solo which many who (lC.~'ll'C suitable ])lC('€H to be sung to a Sabbatli g.',‘2tLll0l‘lll}.;‘ will be plciise<l ll’! obtain. The acconipaiiiineiit 1'or either piano or orgaii is inter- esting. The piece can be usccl to £l(l\’.‘l.I’lt£lf_],‘0 by :1 clioir- soloist for special oitcasions. It is a gem for home use as well. ry' . Titania’5 crad|e_ Sopr. or Ten. F. 5. E to/'i..] .eiman.. 'fitania’s crad[e_ Mezzo—Sopr. or Bar. Ebipllgi 7:1 (1 r. The well-known worrls from Sliakespeawii “Mi l.~'uni- mer Night’s I)reain” (“I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows”) are liei'e melodioiisly anil arti~‘tically set liy Liza Lehman. It is agooil song for an e.\'pei'ienced Vocalist. Published in two llll'f(I‘I'Cl’ll? keys, as above. _ Ely. 4. bl; to El}. Pe/ez-son f iretty poein set to equally attractive and very tune- ul music. 'Tis that] Love The9_ Duet. D. 4. (Lohr) Vzme. A most a-rreealile duet for two Voices of Illeilllllll compass. Try it. Love's Signal, Ab. 4. cto F‘. A. F. Burnett. One of the most enjoyable of recent songs. The worrls are by Freil. E. VVe:itlierl_v, the well-known ICng_;li.~il1 writer, anil the music by l’>lll'll(‘l$t will llllll l.io~':t.<i o1'iiil- niirers ainoiig lovers of the best English songs. The sentiment is very prctty:— _ “Only a wee worn kerchief That lay in mv trembling hands, As I sat by the \Vll]ll0\\' (lI'0f1illll]g!,‘ And looked on the moonlit liinds.” Waitin to welcome her Bo . G. 2. «i to F11. g y J. W. Wlzeelm‘. PODUl£tl'.SOIlg and chorus byapopularauthor. The sentiment is §:_'()O(l, and the song is worth a place in your collection of vocal gems of this kind. At the French Ball. So11g.\vithD2mc0.DF- iipcto F. . . ;ru.hain. “I went to the ba1l,_theimiiglity French ball, Anwl I ilrinccil with a little grisette; She was not over stout, aml not very tall, And so pretty I soon called her ‘pet.’ " Darke Musketeers. llI2ll‘(.‘ll~S()1l"'. F. 3. The 3' to F. V.‘ W. I/V/teller. Another new comic song by the aiithor of “The Col- ored Four Hun=lre(l.” Briglit aiiil catchy. He isn't on the job just now. Eb. if Fllibto F. C 1 C’IlH.(}IL. Humorous song. Just the kind to provoke inerrinient Spanish cradle Soy-|g_ F in. 4. E!) to Di). lioott. One of Mr. Boott’s latest contributions to the li-tot‘ excellent modern soiigs. Both Spaiiish and Eiiglisli ver. sions are given. The song is one of the most noticeable of recent coinpositioiis. It is for a voice of inecliuin compass. al is told. Bb. 4. bl; to W2. A5 aT e that 147. F Smlzls. An excellent song for low voice. eitheralto or baritone, and we commemil it to all who admire gooil verse set to equally good music. sooner or |_ater_ El). 4. bl; to E5. W. F. Surlds. In this song Mr. Sl.l(l(lS has ailinirably set the ver.~'es of Stewart Allen to an original melody, whicli expres~ie~i the sentiment of the poem in a musicianly anil agreeable manner. The accompaniment is for citlier organ or piano. A line song for low voice. The Touch oftha Wand. G. 3. Chansonette. Eb. 3. who E5. . ..... c l The above three soiigs by Frederick S. So n'ner~4 a"e the work of 3. mu-Iii-ian whose music will repay the learnerin the most il.f_flU()2Ll)lL) manner. The piano p2l>'t.~l are no less satislactory anil iniisiciaiily t.h:in the inehnly 1L~l(:l1’ and the general treatment of the themes. Suﬁer Little Children. D, 4. <~%t~11 R:"’:'<’*'- _ A new sacreil .~l()I)fJ,‘ by Martin R ie lcr; toaclier ol .~ii.i5- 111),’ at the N. E. Coii-acrvatory of Music. He? Last Good By 2. F- 2. 0- to F. D 7'WW8- A song and chorus in the popular vein. Ne\\‘an.l ‘ pleasing. Take up Thy Grog-,s_ E‘). 4. a‘; to F. C’ E. I} I’:-me. A saci'eilsoi1:,r for inezr.o-~Io;ii':iii ) o - l)‘tl'lt.).1l‘ Ex - lent for a choir soloist. Ace.iiii_i.Liiiiiic-iii; s.i;t:Lblelor either piano or orgaii. Forsakey-|_ B.ill:nl. G. 4. ll to F1 . M'i'lIrir.'I. The gooil t i<tc anvl Oxquisit ‘ t eatinent of tha. t‘.i mi: so beaiitil'ully cxpre~i.<el in the vi-.i'+c.~i by Mary (J. l’reston, are <;li:iractei'istii-, of II I. '.-i=on hlillaril. This is his latest .~l()ll_(; and to all <i.i:.,-‘ei's with mezzo-sop 'aiio or tenor V ' ea we say, try this now ballad, Elllll you will not r ‘r , ' The inelorly and the gi':ic.'.1‘iil. llL‘.ll('.2ll§i£ plan» am-.oinpziniinent captivate the hearer at once. Don’t fail to secure this latest song by Millaril. The Boat with My True Love’s Name. F, ‘-’- 0 to I). (,‘oII1n. (7042. A n:'.w song; by Collin Coo. It haa :1 pretty “'1|.‘It'/4' rel’r2iin, anal will [)i'<il):).l)l_\’ be popular as a li'_>;nt, lllL“<)ill- ous “lmrit-soiig,” or a “cats-liy“ song and rei'rain oi’ t’ic college type. Simple, ll:l.lllt_\', anll meloiliou.-.'». Here is a verse, to show the sentiment :— “My true heart is a brave, brave girl; She lives by the wiile, 'i<le sea, Ami when I sail on the r.c«,~.-iii She watclies anil waits for me. I have a boat so trim and neutr- For siiilin-_; she’s won her fame,- Anll I call my boat the ‘ Ilonnie Bell,‘ For that’s my true lo\'e’.~i naine.” “Over the sen, over the sea, My Bonnie Bell goes sailing with me." There’s a Green Hill far Away. E9. 4 E/')l'1) G. J. (7. lVm'7'mi. A sacrerl song for soprano. One of the Very lieu‘. of rccent solos for i-hoirsingers. The familiar verse in a new musical setting. INSTRUMENTAL. Gov. Russell's Grand March. Eb. 4- _ G'I'II(‘€ ,I.’I7‘I]Ill_f/. A captivntiiig March for the piano. A gooil portrait of Gov. Russell ailorns the title page. Stolen |(is5es_ Walt7.. F. B‘;anil G. 4. _ .Io.s'ephin(- (ii-0. Goorl Waltzes are always in ilemanrl. 'l‘h‘is sci is very pretty, and we :1(lVlS(3 all who desire \valtz-iiiiisic for the piano to obtain a copy of it. Beacon Waltzes, ‘,> 4. _ . . . Lruvrence .’\"eeIm. Good lllCl0lllOl1S Walt’/.-inusic for the piano. Try ll‘. Figaro wa[tzgs_ A. I). G. 4. . , . LomI)rzr«Im'r>. Fine W'alt7.e.~i for the piano; not iliilicult, and well worth leariiing, Violanta Po|ka_ G. 3. . . . . . . . J. l{n.ecIil. Spirited, lirigiit, pretty (lance inusic for the piano. Columbia’ Fantasia-l‘olk:i. l<‘ortlie Cornet. Roi/iizson. An - ilmirable solo in G l'or the Iii; cornet. Fine piano accoiiipaniiiieiit. The piece is do licate l to anil play.-«l by John M. Floekton. It is one of Rollinson’s best cor- nct solos The Young Player. Selected Pianoforte Pieces for the Cultivation of a Reﬁned Taste. The >lel:(;<)ll]]1!‘lBO9 the following :- I)i<:.xic l\ll<1M()R\'. . . , . F 7'/mnze. S\VF.I-IT l\Ii«ii.0oi'. . . . . . . F. ‘I’/mnw. A QUAINT 01.1) Sroin’. ’ AL.S'ATIi\N l).\Nci<:. . . . . SLr.i<;i-Y Err‘. (Crarllc Soiig.) A‘). -2. . SHADY NOOK. A. ‘Z. . . . . . I’. Lr/czi/lie INi)i.\N DANCE. . . . . . . I’. LIl<,'()IIlt3. l\Ii«:imIi1i~;N'i‘. A. -. . . . . . P. Lu miirt. JUMPING JACK. G. ‘2. . . . I9" ('/iu.zw,r]/mt, ON TIP'l‘()E. I.)-niajor. F-iiiiiier. E. (I/Lvriwf/n.r/I. FINGER-TIP STUDY. ‘. . . E. K‘/on-.«i,r/nri/. II.\l’P1' GRElC’l‘ING. l). ". . _ . E. (,7/i.rI,i'II_r/i7(I.f. The above ll2lll1()'l pieces tl‘0 alinirably 2lil.I.lllIl.‘(l to tlie use of young players, especially ])llpIl.~l. Dancing on the Levee Schottisch. Q. -3. _ _ E(l£UL)L ( /n'1.s‘lie. Captivatiiig scliottiscli for the piano. Old Hickory. Scliottiscli. C. 3. Pe1'z:_7/.S’«)_i//ii.nm'. A military srliotti-Icli for the piano. ll: l~l not h.-irvl, even if it is old hickory. It is very pretty, and. “c:itcIi_v.” A brilliant moreeziu for piano, by an exr or-«I y 110])» u'_ coinposcr. ll: is not too «li.ii.-ult 1‘.art.ie a\'cr:i;e proliizieiit pupil. ' The world's Fair. Six Ea-‘y Piano Piece-' by IIENRY .\)IB. 1. ‘~l<‘.un C()LU.\IBI.\.” W'u.lt:. G. 2. "ENoi.Isi{ Bi.oNo1<;.” Po//.-u., C. 3. "l‘[‘Al.I.\N (_:lIRL." Yorlc, G. 4 “SUO‘l‘ClI LASSIE." Galnp. (.2 5. “(JIIINZCSE DIAIDEN." il[Il7'i'/I. C. 6. “SPANI-ll[ l§i«:Li.i<:.” S«-mm,» 1,_ _ The :1!) )VU named si\' piano pix:-,e.~i are easy .’lll'l suit- Illlle for _VUll!i_‘.‘;‘ l)i‘gl|llIOI‘.‘l. lllai.-li p.c(-c ll.‘l> the pi'upi’i' “i'ingeriiig” in licatc-'l. The t tlc-pziqe ofcach i= ranti- fully illustrateil bu (il12l."£l(‘tl.‘I‘l~|l2l(‘. lei.-«N of the «ll e"— iit maivlens wl1o<eii:iti ii litv is }_:ivcn in the lit. S.-.n<l lo: fl the “The \Vorl<l’s l<‘air" set of pieces by llcxiry l.:imu Six Easy Pieces. 1 (.‘li.e.»-tor llmmi. . “l§lI.I<?l<]N l\/IAZURKA.” C. 2 . . . . , 2. “F.\li'Nl‘LEI{()\' l\IA1{(ZI[." Eb. . . 3. “illrsric G.\VOT'I‘l£.” . . 4. “.<i;\i\ii«:i: l)iu«:.uis." F. 5. “i\[iNui«:'i‘.” l). 2, . 6. “Sm: \BA:\'I)l<).” F 2. . _ . , _ . ‘A rei_narkahle ple:i.~iii;_§ aiiil wsll w ‘in -.2i ~'et of piano pieces. l<l\'eryboily who lins l.l'lU(l iiliciii -my - so. Silver Chimes, Morceau for piano. l)_;. 4. _ _ _ ‘ I _ V.’ ’I). ll"i/.wiiI.. u3“"'lll'l.'l.I1El)lIl2l1)l’. li'li tiilt in I‘) wile" -._i I t i "ili3’l. .in_«_; l.ii_i‘.a~'ia” style. The correct Ii.i_;e:iiig 14 ;__:iven for the pupil’s use. Societe de Bons Vivants. Piano Piurc. G. 5 . . z'.i'.‘. (.)i-e_of Mr. Sn lrls’s best piano pieces. “Goo-l Feltlo/iv’. ship" Hthe Eiiglisli name for the piece. Enchanted Valley, I\Iorcc:iiil'oi'piano. A5. 4. p _ (i'(LIl«Ihr>1‘. A brilli~.i_nt inorceaii, such as the :L\'ii:':i,gc pi'oIloic.it ainateur will OllJ0_Y. Playful Ron;lo_ For Piiino. G. 2. C’. U7. Greem’. ‘ An exizellciit piece fora pupil. The correct (Gcrinziii) liii,-reriiig is given. Congaree Dance. F. 5 J. F.Gi'(ilcr. The latest piaiiol'orte composition of John Francis _ (lllllUl'. It is in his usual “<::il.cliy” style. «I eranza_ _ (Hope). Melmlie for piano. Alz. 4. Very pleasing. I(](3in_ -Electric P_olka_ For Piano. F. 3. . . ].’oc.a'/cc. Briglit, Jolly, catcliy piano lllllrslll‘. Electric Polka_ Wit/L Toy lust/'imzants. . lfnes/cc. For schools or l(ll1(lCl‘g1l.l’tC11l-‘l, thi~' piece, ii.i'tir the in:iiii_iei' of IIay<ln’s “Toy Syinplioii_\',” has inusic for the ()i-.ai'iii.-i,_ Tin VVhi+tle, Bells, Ti'iaii;.,-‘le, Violoiiitello, l‘)i‘ll|ll, \'ioliii,_ Autoharp, l’op-g;ull, Quail, and (,‘Iapper~, 'Ill..‘ ineloily is pliiveil on the l’ia.no.aiiwltlicl-lnlrli'eii 1ll‘.('.UlIl]l:l.l'ly with the iiistrnmeiits nieiitionexl. This [|l0i'U wzi~' |lCl‘lUl‘nlGLl in :1 Boston I{iii(li:i;;ai'teii \\'ll,ll gool clfect. Les Fleurs_ Value for Piano. F. . Lzulot-£i:. Easy and Pretty. Toreacloyg Walt/. for I’i:iiio. D. 4. A showy waltz oi‘ ine<liuni llilliculry. Colored Four Hundred_ I\Iai'ch for Piano. _ ll». Km;//ll. T. P. 1201/10. The popular song arrangezl as a “two—step.” Sprlng’s Return_ G. 4. . . I3, (7.I(1ez‘1L. Full of Joy_ Waltz. (J. 4. . M abel Gay, G. anil l’»',. 4. , _ . Sy|phide_ Polkzi-inaziirl-;a. U and E; 4. FOR THE MANDOLIN:— Flight of Birds, Polka. (Walilteiifell. Ilfaxc//. A Iiiie polka for two inani_loiins, \VlLll_g‘llllJi1l' or piano :i.ecoinpaninient. FOR THE MANDOLIN WITH GUITAR ACCOMPANIMENT. Llf/7/I (‘mvillgu M'a.7‘ch. (‘Z l\I:iii«lo‘iiis ) I’7-(Ie](n1Il, ’.1/[Til I§i>/Inn's Fair, lVn./1‘.2:<>s. ('2 l\l:lIi(li)lll1S.) l’/-eclmiil. Ullid liowens‘ Fair. l/Valtzes. (solo). . l’/-eclaml FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO:— R‘ -;"s Prn_1/67'. C. 4. . . F. 5. . . -' ‘ .l{.'l irlmmv. . . (' oncltrl. C. 3. KlIl.I'l(’I‘l[6(] G. ‘J. ./lI'cIo(li'e. . 3 . . . . i, A. ‘2. . . . . V01/JIILIIII. above violin pi zis, with piiiiio xii-comp-.iniinciit, are i'.lassic~' whi-eli C\'Cl'_\ lea "lie ', as well as all violiiiists, shoull have. The <,{r2irliii5.; _:ri\'eii above refer.~x to the violin parts only. The piiinoacconipiiniineiitsvuryas to tlilliculty. U7«r/jiier‘. B®$’]?‘®Rl: I9fE’I”‘S©N Philadelphia J. E. DITSON & CO. New York C. H. DITSON & CO. Chicago Boston LYON & HEALY JOHN C. HAYNES & CO.
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Date: n.d.
Text: Whereas by Mutual agreement between Oliver L. Phelps of Canandaigua County of Ontario & State of New York and Jonathan Barlow of …County of Hampshire once State of Massachusetts it is agreed that a …..given this day by said .. as his & administration of the Estate of Oliver L. Phelps Esq. late of Canandaigua always shall be .. with Capt. Jasper Parrish of said Canandaigua to him held, or delivered as in hereafter stated It is … the understanding that paid change is to be final and...
Show moreWhereas by Mutual agreement between Oliver L. Phelps of Canandaigua County of Ontario & State of New York and Jonathan Barlow of …County of Hampshire once State of Massachusetts it is agreed that a …..given this day by said .. as his & administration of the Estate of Oliver L. Phelps Esq. late of Canandaigua always shall be .. with Capt. Jasper Parrish of said Canandaigua to him held, or delivered as in hereafter stated It is … the understanding that paid change is to be final and conclusion as to any claim of the Estate of Oliver L. Phelps d… against said Jonathan Barlow but as this this an others .. whom it is thought may be able to pay this proportion of said Bond,it is agree that said Jonathan Barlow shall not have the benefits of said … to .. against the Estate of said Phelps or in favor of the other …, but that in .. he should be found on any of the Bond aforesaid and be able to .. and .. then the said Parish on having proper nation of the same shall be authorized to deliver said … to John Barlow- said Barlow further agrees that before he applies for said d.. he will notify said Phelps of the same, and if in any .. then may be instructed, against him in which he may be liable for cost or damages said phelps will give sufficient indemnity for such liability and it may be .. for said Phelps to make up of the name of said Barlow, then in that .. the .. shall not … to relieve the other .. from this … Signed in presents of Jasper Parrish Oliver L. Phelps J[?] Barlow
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Creator: Barnes-Sellers, Lucy
Date: March 17, 1872
Text: Vassar College. March 17. 1872. My dear Parents) Daily hare I look for a letter from you in answer to my inquiries about going home, but have been thus far disappointed, however by this time next week 1 suppose all matters will be settled and X w£U be in great excitement, with the hopes of starting for 3300 the following Wednesday. And when X get there I have some thing to ask you which X could not think of putting on paper for X dont think X can write with nearly so much effect. This last...
Show moreVassar College. March 17. 1872. My dear Parents) Daily hare I look for a letter from you in answer to my inquiries about going home, but have been thus far disappointed, however by this time next week 1 suppose all matters will be settled and X w£U be in great excitement, with the hopes of starting for 3300 the following Wednesday. And when X get there I have some thing to ask you which X could not think of putting on paper for X dont think X can write with nearly so much effect. This last word puts me in mind of an Essay X wrote yesterday and which as been distressing me for the longest while, (vis) What kind of prose composition has the most effect upon man kind fc Why. X took fiction because most read- I dont know how this will coincide with your ideas upon the subject. On Friday evening of this week as we had a lecture from Mr. Parsons - on Michael Angelo, Chapter Beta would not be able to give her long looked for "swell" Opera of "The Doctor of Alcanlaia" (which if youremember we heard at the 7*^ Street Theatre by Mr Ghilehirst and Bishop he) To this Chapter asked the Sophomore if they would be will- ing to have a Candy pull in the Steward's Department the next night instead of their usual sociable so that the wonderful opera might have the Kail This the Sophs- agreed upon and so Zeta flourished never was the Hall so full in fact packed. I sat about in the middle of the room Mar. 17, 1872 - 2 and so tightly packad that I could hardly stir- when Liaxie asked me how X should feel If there should be a fire imagine my comfort. All the Invited guests and not the admitted without theirtickets- All the ; ; J u ; , , i i ' ■ , . , ;'. ' I , ' , 1 ; , profs, every teacher together with the Pres fc lady prin- were present. The principal performers were greatly applauded and were showed with tit } , ',' .' t ' ■ t 1 i flowers from the audience — This Opera- cannot not be compared • ' * i < ; I l ' . ' J " v 1 ■ ' , i I ' with our Drama The Lady of Lyons - being so entirely different Neither could they have been visa versa for Beta has the Singers and Alpha - excels in dramatic tallent.—— Do tell Aunt Pattie for me that X Intended writing to her to day but find it now impossible so that X will have the pleasure of seeing her before my next letter With lov~ to all believe me Aff- Daughter Lucy Lucy (Sellers) Barnes, '75March 17th, 1872 Lucy Sellers Re an Essay on what kind of prose has the greatest effect on mankind
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Creator: Brown, Frances Elizabeth
Descriptor(s): Bielat, Isabel
Date: 1866-1867

Creator: Ryerson, Margary A.
Date: 3 Oct 1905
Text: Vassar College April. Dear Papa, I have a few minutes before chapel, so I guess I will start a letter. The minister this morning is to be Dr Vance from the Dutch Reform church in Newark, so not that where Aunt Maggie used to go? [Is not?] it funny they are all coming East, where are they going to live and is Harold going to live with them? I went to dinner with his Bailey girl again the other day. She is queer looking, but lots of fun. Monday night I took dinner with Elizabeth Halden. Every...
Show moreVassar College April. Dear Papa, I have a few minutes before chapel, so I guess I will start a letter. The minister this morning is to be Dr Vance from the Dutch Reform church in Newark, so not that where Aunt Maggie used to go? [Is not?] it funny they are all coming East, where are they going to live and is Harold going to live with them? I went to dinner with his Bailey girl again the other day. She is queer looking, but lots of fun. Monday night I took dinner with Elizabeth Halden. Every night before chapel now the girls get together and sing. That night the juniors first sang on the steps of Strong and then when they began to march to chapel, four or Dear Papa, - It is almost time to go to bed, but I guess I will have to write to you. Our lessons have really begun now, that is we have been to all our classes, but we can’t do much work until our books come. Please don’t think I am crazy if I ask for your old Latin dictionary, but all the girls have big ones and I thought Mama could put it in the hamper when she sends it up. They say the old ones are nicer than the new, because they give more idioms. Please tell Mamma to put my old blue bed spread and my blue curtains in the hamper too. I want to put the curtains over the trunk. Then if either you or Mamma will look in my book-case, in the top left-hand shelf, you will find my “Minna von Barnheim”, I think it is by [Lessing?]. It seems that we have got to read it. I think it is daughter here. She comes from somewhere in Pennsylvania and never speaks that everybody does not laugh. Her name is Beatrice Daw. The other evening Marie Kays, Beatrice and myself were hunting up some rooms in the main building. And whenever we would ask where anyone roomed, they would laugh so hard that they could not tell us. Then a senior has come into the room across the hall from me. She has just graduated from a [train crossing course?] and is awfully cute. She is very nice to all the girls, although they are several years younger than she. Marie Kays is awfully nice and every body likes her. Last night, after dinner most of the College girls sang college songs for about an hour and then we studied. Yesterday morning we all had a hygiene lecture and sometime within the next few days we have all got to be examined. We are on the campus all day and just go back for our meals -- [moved from fourth page] We can study between times in the library and that is where I am now. Mamma will be glad to hear that for our second lesson in English we had to write a composition. Our English instructor is quite pretty and does not look a bit sarcastic. The other evening after chapel, Mrs Kendrick got up to address the girls, and had hardly begun before the electric light wire broke and the whole chapel filled with girls was left in pitch darkness. Some had to hold hands so they would [...] get separated and come out that way. It was quite exciting. I was with one of the girls I met in Physics. I think Physics is going to be quite nice. The professor is terribly stupid & slow but there are some awfully nice girls in there and we have two hours experimental work every two weeks. I have just found a note on my door from a senior who used to be at Dana’s, Miss Newell wrote to her about me and she has invited me to a big entertainment. I am going to get dressed and go out rowing [moved from top of first page] with Marie, Jane (the ranch girl) & another girl. So Good Bye - Give my love to Mamma Margery --- Colonel David [Q?] Ryerson 22 Prospect S[treet?] South Ora[nge?] New Jersey
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Creator: Hansell, W.F.
Date: March 11, 1861
Text: [Guilad a] Mar 1 1861 Mr. M. Vassar My dear freind[sic] I just write to congratulate you upon the near consummation of your long cherished place for a Female College. I believe the enteprize[sic] to be one greatly needed to supply one of the most pressing demands of the times and that it will meet with the cordial sympathy of good and wise men and what is [seen] valuable, the approbation of God You have chosen to do this work yourself, rather than to leave it in the charge of executives and,...
Show more[Guilad a] Mar 1 1861 Mr. M. Vassar My dear freind[sic] I just write to congratulate you upon the near consummation of your long cherished place for a Female College. I believe the enteprize[sic] to be one greatly needed to supply one of the most pressing demands of the times and that it will meet with the cordial sympathy of good and wise men and what is [seen] valuable, the approbation of God You have chosen to do this work yourself, rather than to leave it in the charge of executives and, I am persuaded it will be vastly better done Yourexample too, will not be without its influence upon others who wish to do good but who accordig[according] to common custom propose to do it when are dead. Like David you have chosen … your own life to serve your generation by the will of God. The generation to come after you will be the better served thereby. I trust that God will spare you to witness the practical & successful operation of the plans you have so generously devised I suppose you have received many suggestions as to the kind of training to be given in the Institution, but I cannot refrain from submitting this to your Consideration, that a depart--ment[department] of instruction in household duties should be established. It is lamentable to think that while custom prescribes a cause of instruction adapted to fit young ladies to perform their [act] gracefully in society, it demands almost nothing to qualify them to preside over the domestic arrangements of the family. I believe that grater[sic] discontent in occasioned in households by the wane of practical knowledge in this aspect than in any other Let us have if need be a little less knwledges[sic] of Latin & Music and a little more of the mode of taking care of a household I bid you God speed my friend in this laudable under-[taking]taking[undertaking] It is a high [brow] to have your name associated in future times with such an enterprise With my kindest regards to Mrs Vassar I remain with great esteem Yrs[yours] etc Wm[William] F. Hansell
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Date: 22 Jul [1882]
Text: July 22 Dear Anne When you go from Chicago to see [Harry?] I want you to get him some peaches about as many as you think he can eat before they spoil. Do not get those large nice looking ones that never ripen but I think you can pick out some I should think 1.00 ought to buy enough but you can judge I think. Mr. Pulsifer has annother job for you out to Columbus Ohio to teach English branches in some big school 1000. per annum said they wanted his wifes sister but she cant go because dont want...
Show moreJuly 22 Dear Anne When you go from Chicago to see [Harry?] I want you to get him some peaches about as many as you think he can eat before they spoil. Do not get those large nice looking ones that never ripen but I think you can pick out some I should think 1.00 ought to buy enough but you can judge I think. Mr. Pulsifer has annother job for you out to Columbus Ohio to teach English branches in some big school 1000. per annum said they wanted his wifes sister but she cant go because dont want to go so far west & because she is to open a school in Auburndale etc. but they know you could take the place &c. Your father says once a teacher and always a teacher If you wanted a place you could’nt find one to suit & now you dont want one plenty offer. I looked for a postal from you tonight (Wednesday) but did not get any. Shall have one in the morning I am sure. Sent a letter to Mechanicsville and one to Seneca Falls. Took me plenty of postal cards I wont trouble you to write much for you can tell me all when you get home but [crossed out: two or] three ^or four postals a week wont be much trouble to you & every day seems a month till I hear. I went to Canton today & got your silk. Will send some in the letters I [direct?] to Chicago. I imagine you leave Thursday for Seneca Falls. & on Sat shall look for another postal from there. Sat I must close this letter now or you will hardly get it at Jackson. Got your postal [crossed out: from] ^written at Eva’s on Thursday night. Shall look for plenty of postal cards I wont trouble you to write much for you can tell me all when you get home but [crossed out: two or] three ^or four postals a week wont be much trouble to you & every day seems a month till I hear. I went to Canton today & got your silk. Will send some in the letters I [direct?] to Chicago. I imagine you leave Thursday for Seneca Falls. & on Sat shall look for another postal from there. Sat I must close this letter now or you will hardly get it at Jackson. Got your postal [crossed out: from] ^written at Eva’s on Thursday night. Shall look for --- annother tonight. With love Mother Wrote to you care of Lilly White at Senica Falls. Stoughton Mass. Jul 22 Anne C. Southworth 702 Francis St Jackson Mich Care C. R. RussellIf not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to Mary C Southworth Stoughton MassCarrier Jul 24 [5?]AM
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Creator: Worthing, Margaret (Fletcher)
Date: 17 March 1911
Text: 1911? Friday [...]. Mar. 17th St Patricks Dearest mother; - I just remembered this is St. Patrick’s - The storm Wednesday was not local - we had it too - the cold still asts. The gale of 60 miles an hour ceased with last night’s sundown - Your coat which is very good looking - with underware etc- came yesterday, also Daddy’s apparel which quite pleases him. Grandmother says she hasn’t written you for she expected you home last Sat. night - your [...] alloted time, and has not [known?] since...
Show more1911? Friday [...]. Mar. 17th St Patricks Dearest mother; - I just remembered this is St. Patrick’s - The storm Wednesday was not local - we had it too - the cold still asts. The gale of 60 miles an hour ceased with last night’s sundown - Your coat which is very good looking - with underware etc- came yesterday, also Daddy’s apparel which quite pleases him. Grandmother says she hasn’t written you for she expected you home last Sat. night - your [...] alloted time, and has not [known?] since what your address was. She has been looking daily for your needles for her by express! There is a [...ss?]- supper at the church tonight which as Mrs. Beginty is here, is the most strenuous exercise for me for the day. We had a letter from you yesterday and [m…?] [...e?] this A. M. Grace writes that Isabelle is not any better - I was terribly sorry to hear it - Have just as good a time, just as long [crossed out: a time], as you possibly can! We are getting on famously and hope you will wait till Grace comes. With best love, M’g’t -
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Creator: Pach, G. W.
Date: 1876

Creator: Slee Bros. (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
Date: 1865?

Creator: Raymond, Cornelia M.
Descriptor(s): Bielat, Isabel, Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1898
Text: The [Maine] Vandalia [Ill.]85 C.M.Raymond Vol XIV 1728.4 From Bertha and Ruth. Christmas 1897.Brooklyn is now borough of Greater N.Y. Wea. Sat. Jan. 1, 1898 Ther. Mother seems a little better. I wrote to Joe McDonald & to Gertrude Burleigh. I also rec'd and answered Mrs. Backus's note inviting me to lunch next Tuesday. I read the Outlook, the Week & read some in Scottish Chiefs. Agnes Jones has rec'd telegrams & a letter from Merritt urging to come immediately to...
Show moreThe [Maine] Vandalia [Ill.]85 C.M.Raymond Vol XIV 1728.4 From Bertha and Ruth. Christmas 1897.Brooklyn is now borough of Greater N.Y. Wea. Sat. Jan. 1, 1898 Ther. Mother seems a little better. I wrote to Joe McDonald & to Gertrude Burleigh. I also rec'd and answered Mrs. Backus's note inviting me to lunch next Tuesday. I read the Outlook, the Week & read some in Scottish Chiefs. Agnes Jones has rec'd telegrams & a letter from Merritt urging to come immediately to Denver to nurse Sam. She hates to go, and Sadie is hurrying her off. Winifred, Ruth, Dr. John, little John and I took New Year's dinner with Mrs. Richardson. In the evening, I went alone to call at Cousin Hatties, to see Walter home from British Columbia. Found Fred & wife, Arthur & Nellie Tuttle, Mrs. Thurston and Standish. Came home with two last. Lost my silver purse on the way. Child's prayer "Make me absolutely pure-like Royal Baking Powder." Wea. Sun. Jan. 2, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mr. Dixon Juo. 16:33. "Be of Good Cheer." We had communion. Mother did not go, but she is much better. Mr & Mrs. Kinney came to dinner. Harold goes to Camden to report Shay murder trial. He will probably stay through the week. Afternoon & evening I read to Frank, Russell, & Faison, "Bonnie Brier Bush", Abraham Lincoln etc. Agnes is packing to go tomorrow. She has heard that there is no immediate danger, but Sam is very weak. The boys are discussing their Abraham Lincoln club.Wea. Mon. Jan. 3, 1898 Ther. This morning we felt worried because Mary did not come, but she finally appeared. I went over to 34 Union Sq. to call on Jennie Hughes. They feel hopeful about Mrs. Booth. Coming home I stopped at Mrs. Stephens. (78 last). Bought a mackintosh for $3.25. Afternoon I helped girls with sewing. Agnes started for Denver. Win & Ruth left on 7.30 train. Bertha goes tomorrow. We had a flash-light picture, Will, Ralph, Frank, Russell, Faison, Bret. My new dress (green lady's cloth) came home tonight. Played crokinole with Ralph. He & Daisy took the girls to the train. I rec'd three "Black Cats" from Ella Russell. Ralph's photographs have come. Mrs. Stephen's bill is $15.65.Wea. Tues. Jan. 4, 1898 Ther. I spent the A.M. at the Packers. Went with Mip Wyckoff. Met Mip Schenck there & Susie Howard. Visited Lat. classes of Mrs. Collyer, Miss Meade & Prof. Winches & Prof. A. Went with Dr. Backus to his home to lunch. Met Hamilton now a [Tribune] reporter, but expecting to be an Epis Clergyman. Talked with Mrs. B. about Fellowship work & everything else. When I came back Bertha & Will had gone. Also Ralph. Mrs. Palmer was here sewing for me. Lovely card & letter from Emily Carrigan. This evening I played crokinole with Ruth & then read to Frank & Faison. Wrote to Rob Bliss. Wea. Wed. Jan. 5, 1898 Ther. I went shopping this A.M. Bought serge skirt, shoes, etc. At 3, went with Minnie to Missionary. Mr. & Mrs. [Doubis] [Julies] gave very interesting talk. Mrs. D. sang "90 & 9". Also [Julies] sings with the 4 chicks. He told about the witches, medicine men, condition of women, need of Christian homes etc. After coming home I wrote to Esther. Evening Committee of Mission Band met here. Talked of plans for Feb. We had chocolate & cake. Then Berta Neidlinger talked of her Kindergarten in Church of Epiphany, Joe Hutchinsons Church. She has children of the wealthy. Harold & I played crokinole. I told him I prayed every night. He said he knew three people did, his mother & sisters. Wea. Thur. Jan. 6, 1898 Ther. This A.M. Mother felt ill so I went out alone. First I had my picture taken at Gardner's. Then I went to Cousin Ross'. I was kept to lunch with Ros, Susie & little Alfred. He told about "the tar baby". It rained this evening. Ernest Sedman called this afternoon & stayed about 2 hrs. I darned stockings. I wrote for him to Dr. Will Braiden who is to treat his ears. This evening I played crokinole with Ruth and Harold. Harold interviewed me about Joe's Mission. Letter from Joe which I answered. Wea. Fri. Jan. 7, 1898 Ther. This A.M. I went to Mrs. Stevens expecting to meet Fannie there, but didn't. Ernest Sedman came three times today. He stayed to lunch. First he said Dr. Braiden visited to operate on his nose. 2nd he said his mother did not wish it, so he went to consult Dr. Juo. 3rd he said Dr. Juo. didn't approve of the operation. I slept & read Atlantic to Min. Eve. Remained from prayer-meeting. Played crokinole with Ruth, played on piano, & rec'd call from Stony. He came to bring "Uncle the Red Robe". Wea. Sat. Jan. 8, 1898 Ther. A.M. Tried to change serge skirt but did not succeed. Mrs. Palmer was here. Played crokinole. Harold's story about Joe is in the World. He paid me with a box of candy. The proof of my pictures came from Gardners. This evening Minnie went to Miss. meeting. I told stories to Jacobs boys. Sadie took me to [Nilsses]. She is evidently in love with Coxe. Wea. Sun. Jan. 9, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. [Mordence] spoke on Home Missions until 11.30. Then Mr. Dixon preached a short sermon on 1 Cor. 9:22. Mr. Cox (of Englewood) came to diner with Sadie. Prof. Froelich called on me. I took Sadie's S.S. class. Then Mosely walked with me to Aunt Susan's. We did not have prayers as she is sick but we visited with Lucy, Susy, Alfred, Cousin Ros, [Rigie], Kittie, Mrs. Vaill. Saw Dorothy's doll house. While we were at supper, Henry Bliss walked in, queer as ever. After coming home I talked with Frank, Russell & Faison. I told them a story. Frank & Russell want to go to college in 2 yrs. Minnie talked seriously with Sadie about marrying one not a Christian. Wea. Mon. Jan. 10, 1898 Ther. This morning I bought my ticket etc. Then I went to Mr. Stern's Bible class. He has married his 3rd wife. Ruth has trimmed a hat, new with black & wine colored velvet etc. Cost $1.29. Ernest came this afternoon & I darned stockings & mended gloves. He was here about 2 hrs. This evening Ruth beat me in 3 games of crokinole. Then Russell came to see me. About 9.15 Stony and Mosely Faison came & staid till 11. Harold went this A.M. to a murder trial at Chatham. Wea. Tues. Jan. 11, 1898 Ther. A.M. Wrote letters. Ruth made me peanut cookies. P.M. Ruth came over the Bridge with me. Left Mother looking frail. Eliza Buffington & I came together. Found that Agnes was on train. We saw man & two children coming from grandmothers at Camden to New Britain. Mrs. Van Deusen & Clara Russell came tonight. Wea. Wed. Jan. 12, 1898 Ther. Bryan School. Orrman failure not bad. Ethel is to begin Latin over again. Ella Russell was out of her room when I rang the bell & later she talked. Letter from Sadie Jones. Wea. Thur. Jan. 13, 1898 Ther. Letter from Mother enclosed one from Marnie Todd. Went down town for Miss Porter & took bundle to Joe. He is having trouble with Mrs. Reed. Went to Kneisels instead of to Church. Joe suspects that Smith is drinking. Wea. Fri. Jan. 14, 1898 Ther. Mabel's little Virginia was born this morning. Marin is happy. Dr. Grolick began his lessons today. I took some of the lessons & he said I walked admirably. Call from Volunteer Capt's wife. She is discouraged. The officers left debt of about $60 & general mess. Wea. Sat. Jan. 15, 1898 Ther. Read Outlook & periodicals nearly all day. Called on Mrs. Porter. She says that ten yrs. I was young and pretty. Now I just dress more. She went to Hartford. Led Joe's Mission. About 50 present. Smith drank last Saturday night & he confessed it in the meeting. After speaking he went out took another drink & came in and told me. I let him walk up to "The Elms". He seemed ashamed & sorry. He told me about the Volunteer officers. Says Capt. had a terrible temper. [Esan's] [birth] [right] Effort to get out of prison Devil makes us doubt.Wea. Sun. Jan. 16, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. Moxom. Mystery's of Providence. Ps. Aunt [Mary Irene] writes that Susy Bliss has pneumonia. I went to Volunteers. Only about thirteen some people there but I like Capt. & Mrs. Hurl. A man so drunk he rolled on the floor & Jim Fisher whose wife has left him staid & we prayed with them. Smith & Parsons prayed. Smith talked well with Jim & walked nearly home with me. Wea. Mon. Jan. 17, 1898 Ther. Outlook class. Eliz. Clarke has strained her ankle (?). Gen Booth has arrived & he has met his son with Josiah Strong & [Cathbest] Hall. Wrote to Mrs. Paige Southbridge about [Murder] [trial] List. Wea. Tues. jan. 18, 1898 Ther. Outlook class. Letters from Gertrude Burleigh & Winifred. Bertha is nominated for Junior class Pres. Wea. Wed. Jan. 19, 1898 Ther. Annie Bosworth came to talk of her engagement to Hal Appleton. She staid to dinner. Wea. Thur. Jan. 20, 1898 Ther. Miserably rainy day. I went up to see Mrs. Reed about gyms. She was out. Fell down on wet ice. Eve. Went to prayer-meeting. Smith was there & said he told me a lie because he didn't speak. Mr. Barbie died about Christmas time. Joe has a bad cold. Wea. Fri. Jan. 21, 1898 Ther. Dr. [Gulick] (2). I think I will take gyms. He talked with Miss Gruyer & me afterwards about basket-ball etc. Marion has gone home. Wea. Sat. Jan. 22, 1898 Ther. A.M. Read for Outlook class. Clara Russell passed her 1st book in Geometry. P.M. Most of the girls played games as walking was bad. I took Clara Russell & Eliza Buffington down town. I bought gym dress. Then I rode to Mrs. Dana 55 Catherine St. Then I took Mothers meeting questions to Mrs. Briggs & Mrs. Harris. Eve. Miss Gruyer & I went to Joe's. I enjoyed the meeting. "Esan selling birthright". I reproved boys for eating peanuts etc. At close we prayed with man who has one temptation. Smith gave a good testimony. Ella Russell & Ray [Millmann] want me to tutor them this summer!Wea. Rain & slop. Sun. Jan. 23, 1898 Ther. Very bad day. We all went to Dr. Moxom. Reticence of Bible. Luke 13:23, 24. Slept after church. Letter from Will Todd. Discouraging Volunteer meeting. About 15 present. [...] on the platform. 3 young men acted disgracefully. Frances was discouraged about money etc. Called on Joe. Evening. Walked & sang hymns. I have begun a letter to Reeve. Wea. Mon. Jan. 24, 1898 Ther. This afternoon I have begun having a day out. I went up to see Mrs. Dana. Then I called on Mrs. Waite. Mary Whitlock has married Robins. This P.M. rec'd a strange letter from Smith. He was sick & so didn't go to Volunteers but is thinking a good deal! Mother's meeting. Paper by Mrs. Berman on Responsibility. Mrs. Porter said she liked my dress. Wea. Tues. Jan. 25, 1898 Ther. Beautiful letter from Esther. Still puzzled about Smiths note. Read Mrs. Browning all the evning in Miss Gruyer's room. Wea. Wed. Jan. 26, 1898 Ther. This afternoon I went to hear Mary Clarke speak in Church of Unity. Went to library & to try on bloomers at Mrs. Danas. Sadie Jones brother is dead. Wea. Thur. Jan. 27, 1898 Ther. We took a sleigh-ride this afternoon & had gt. fun telling jokes to Eliza. Smith, the other Smith & 2 others from Joe's Mission spoke tonight & I guess Smith's letter didn't mean anything. I found Joe leading a large meeting. Mr. Parsons tells me of a horrid slur on Joe's Mission in the Union. Wea. Fri. Jan. 28, 1898 Ther. Mr. O Laughlin sends me a ticket to Morning Pictures. Ruth Chapin & her mother called & Ruth is to spend the night. Dr. [Gulick] came (3). I began my lesson. Mrs. Dana brought my dress. Girls made candy. Wea. Cold. Sat. Jan. 29, 1898 Ther. Read Outlook nearly all day. Mrs Brownings letters. Sallie Chapin took lunch on Dartmouth St. Clara Russell called on the Deweys. Evening. I went alone to Joe's. He told me first not to bring more food, then said I might. He doesn't wish to be a pauper. I spoke about "Starving". The meeting seemed cold, & my heart sank. Then Smith got up & told us that I had been drinking this evening. I felt sick. Smith, Joe & I had a little meeting afterwards. My photos came. Wea. Sun. Jan. 30, 1898 Ther. Mr. [Yong] a French man preached. Volunteers sweet meeting. Smith was there & I talked sternly. He promises! He walked with to S.A. It was Juniors meeting, but I went in & told about Capt. Carrigan. Wea. Mon. Jan. 31, 1898 Ther. Almost a blizzard. Outlook class. I staid in parlor till 4.45. Miss Gruyer went to Bucks to supper. Wea. Tues. Feb. 1, 1898 Ther. An awful day & night. I have neglected Lat. Prose etc. neglected Ella etc. etc. Cried so I didn't want to attend Outlook class. Wea. Wed. Feb. 2, 1898 Ther. Another hard day. So blue & discouraged. I taught Ella 1 hr & 1/2 this afternoon. Winifred went to Cornell. Wea. Thur. Feb. 3, 1898 Ther. Feel much better today. Girls passed an easy Lat. Prose. At prayer-meeting, Smith, Young Bartell, his aunt, & another man from Joe's Miss. all spoke. Joe said "You look good", "How good" I said. Oh, red & fat. I went in with Dr. & Mrs. Sweet & they came home with me. Miss P. has gone to N.Y. Wea. Fri. Feb. 4, 1898 Ther. Dr. Gulick (4). He told Miss Gruyer & me about his work & his missionary family. Went down town. Girls danced. Ray & Clara dressed up. Sallie Chapin & I began Kinder Symphony. Wea. Sat. Feb. 5, 1898 Ther. Worked on examination etc. The walking tonight was dreadful. Miss Gruyer & I went down to Joe's. She went out to Johnson's, & got so wet she did not come back. Smith is all right. I read about Saul & talked about Obedience. Salvation Capt. came in. Wea. Sun. Feb. 6, 1898 Ther. Dr. Moxom. "The Friend of Sinners". I went to Volunteers. Smith was very nice. He walked with me to Joe's. He thinks I [jained] myself too much last night. Joe says Capt. Carrigan is Irish as a pig. Mip Porter & Ella Russell came back from N.Y. I sang with girls. Wea. Wed. Feb. 9, 1898 Ther. Worked over reports. Retired at about 1. Bertha R. is to be [Vice] Pres. of Christians. Gert. Heywood Pres. & Clara Reed Sec. Wea. Thur. Feb. 10, 1898 Ther. Closing day of term. Mabel Cone the only girl who is 95. I took four girls to Gills. Met Lida Prescott (?). Beautiful prayer-meeting. Smith says he is improving every day. Mip Hastings & I came home together. Wea. Fri. Feb. 11, 1898 Ther. 1st day of term. Miss Gruyer conducted gym. class. Mrs. Jacobs. died this A.M. Eve. Practised Kinder Symp. Wea. Sat. Feb. 12, 1898 Ther. A.M. Took Ella Russell & Sallie Chapin down town. P.M. From 3 to 6.30 Chas. & I drove round delivering invitations. He told me how nice Smith looked. Another man tried to "Jolly" him but I stopped him. Eve. Lovely meeting. Peace. Afterwards a young man S.A. backslider [Wilson] converted. Smith came up to [School] St. Wea. Sun. Feb. 13, 1898 Ther. A.M. Ps. 73 Dr. of Somerville. Slept. Talked with Mip P. about Greek & Miss Gruyer. Read Mrs. Stowe. Mrs. Brooks brought me pussy-willows for Edith. At Volunteers saw the man to whom I gave Smith's whisky bottle. "Lizzie" a backslider converted. Told Smith I was going to see Capt. but I didn't go. Smith (2) told about my talk on Peace. I wonder whether he knew I was there. Wea. Rain. Mon. Feb. 14, 1898 Ther. Paper says that because of S.A. band, Mr. Hahn had to stop preaching. Rec'd notice of Harlan's divorce case. Read periodical in my own room. They are very anxious about Edith Bagg's spine. Wea. Tues. Feb. 15, 1898 Ther. Outlook class. Stormy so we did not go out. Wea. Wed. Feb. 16, 1898 Ther. Very cold again. Rec'd cards from the Holbrooks. Wea. Thur. Feb. 17, 1898 Ther. Rec'd an invitation from Capt. Eva to lead a Volunteer meeting in Holyoke. Miss P. says I [...]. Beautiful meeting. Smith said: This has been such a good week that I want to tell about it. Something has been pushing me on & two words have loomed up: "Do better". Took the girls for the 2nd time to Gills Art Gallery. Wea. Fri. Feb. 18, 1898 Ther. Rec'd note from J.G. Leavens, [Wiltraham] who found my umbrella. Dr. Gulick (6). We talked about Amusements for Christians etc. Frances Willard is dead. Wrote Mr. Leavens, Capt. Eve, Mother, Lottie Overacker. Played Kinder Symph. twice. Wea. Rain. Sat. Feb. 19, 1898 Ther. A.M. Read periodicals. P.M. Went down town. Marin is here. Eve. Prayer-meeting at Joe's. Read 2 Cor. XII. One man came forward afterward. Smith came up to School St. Bad news from Harold. Wea. Sun. Feb. 20, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. Moxom. Shall Dissenters go or stay? Terrible weather. P.M. I went down to lead Volunteers. Only about 13 of us. Smith was there. Glover wanted me to take off shoes & stockings. I read from Father's Life. Wea. Mon. Feb. 21, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Carter & Mrs. Margaret came back from V.C. Beautiful concert. Mip Corser, Mr. Hyland, & Margaret Carter. Mrs. Webb came. Wea. Tues. Feb. 22, 1898 Ther. Letter from Reeve! He has nearly died with diptheria. Feels the same about church. I went over & played duetts with Edward. Mother pleased but wants him to hold his hands better. All but Aunt Carrie, Mip Gruyer & me gone to Meister singers. I wrote to Fred Reeve, Jennie Hughes & mother. Ash Wed. Wea. Wed. Feb. 23, 1898 Ther. Went down town & changed rubbers. Saw Mr. Eva. & arranged for next Sunday. Met Mip Hastings. Wea. Thur. Feb. 24, 1898 Ther. Heard Mr. Varley on Christ. Seemed Coming & did not like him. Miss Porter says I have no common [sense], don't wash hands, am careless about dress, don't finish sentences, ask silly questions, & talk fooleshly. I have no conscience on this things, & little moral influence. Gave Reeve's letter to Mr. Hahn. Wea. Fri. Feb. 25, 1898 Ther. Dr. Gulick (7). I asked him about my French man's smoking. Mrs. Russell came tonight. Wea. Sat. Feb. 26, 1898 Ther. Read Outlook & "Scottish Chiefs". P.M. Took Agnes down town. Eve. At Joe's read Matt 11: 20-30. Beautiful meeting except that Smith was very drunk & kept getting worse. Afterwards it was awful. He cried & cried. He wants to go to Holyoke tomorrow. Young man converted. He thought I was Mrs. Sweet. Joe says not to bring him more food. Save us from "puffed upedness". Wea. Sun. Feb. 27, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. Moxom. Elements of Religion. I went to Holyoke by 2 o'clock car returning by 7 o'clock car. Smith was drunk on car, but got off without seeing me. He came in & acted awful. Threw his whiskey bottle into stove. We went to 2nd Cong. Church & heard Mr. Hammond's choir sing Story of Cross by Dudly Buck. Wea. Mon. Feb. 28, 1898 Ther. Ella Russell, Agnes Munford, & Margaret Carter have had a kind of [rumpies]. I called on Mrs. Brooks but she was sick in bed. I called on Mrs. Chapin's mother, Mrs. [Caroles] & Mrs. Sweet. Went to hear Mr. Varley on Assurances. Mr. Hahn felt sad but not discouraged at seeing Smith. Smith wrote a blue letter to me & I had written to him. Letter from Reeve. No sign of christianity, but proud of his success. Chas. is 40. I deposited $5 for him. Miss Hubbard didn't come. Wea. Tues. March 1, 1898 Ther. Nice grateful letter from Smith. Interesting Outlook class. Talked about Mrs. [Stowe's] Life. Wea. Wed. March 2, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Burleigh came over to read Gertrude's letter about abolishing 10 o'clock rule. Wea. Thur. March 3, 1898 Ther. Mr. Varley on 2nd [A...]. I saw Smith a moment in the hall. Wea. Snow Fri. March 4, 1898 Ther. Dr. Gulick (8). I almost beat Mip Gruyer in running. Mip Gruyer & I went to Smith Church fair and concert. Wea. Sat. March 5, 1898 Ther. Read & studied. "I & Mr. Varley" led at Joe's. Smith was there a little blue I think. Sat up till 12 over an example of Mip P's. Wea. Sun. March 6, 1898 Ther. Communion. Mr. Varley [Gen.] 32:24-32. Smith was at Church & at Volunteers. He has decided to join the church. I fought down a headache & got medicine at a drug store. Wea. Mon. March 7, 1898 Ther. Feel tired today. Mother writes that Harold & Mary are both away. Called on Mrs. King (out) but saw Carrie. Also on the Fisks. Called on Mip Emerson (out). Miss Gruyer & I went to Ian Vereen & sat in the box. Fathers 84th birthday. Wea. Tues. March 8, 1898 Ther. I have felt very tired all day, so Miss P. sent me to bed at 8 o'clock. Wea. Wed. March 9, 1898 Ther. Went down to Mr. [Besse's] building & taught Gertrude Greek & Lat. Still pretty tired. This is Mr. Porter's birthday. Wea. Thur. March 10, 1898 Ther. Had a "scare" this A.M. because the paper said that Edwin M. Smith when drunk had assaulted a man. Sat with Mrs. Webb & Mrs. Packard at Mr. Varley's last meeting. Very long. Smith there but left towards the close. Wea. Fri. March 11, 1898 Ther. Dr. Gulick (9). I have a little cold. Letter from Brett Page. I am made honorary member of the Abr. Lincoln Club. Taught Gertrude Besse (2). Wea. Rain in A.M. Sat. March 12, 1898 Ther. Today I read Scottish Chiefs, Forum & studied. My feelings were hurt at table by what was said of my hats! It cut. Bessie Chapin has come to spend Sunday, as this is sallie's 18th birthday. She rec'd gold watch. At Joe's a young lady from Bible Normal College led & I played. Had a nice little talk with Mr. Francis & I lent him Daily Strength. Smith gave me Robbie's photo. He came to corner & told me Frank Morse has list 2nd baby & got a 3rd one week later. Wea. Sun. March 13, 1898 Ther. Felt blue this A.M. Mip P. told me she thought I was too old to change my habits. Then I asked her if the girls would respect me if she made fun of my hats. She acknowledged that they would not. Grand sermon by Dr. Moxom on Cuba war with Spain etc. I am writing to Reeve. Smith was of course at Volunteers. Mr. [Dwhith] told me about Capt. Eva. Smith came over to share my hymn book & later I went for a few minutes to Joe's [concerts] meeting. I got a young man at Volunteers to promise to settle the question. Called to see Mrs. Dean about singing the Shabat Mater. Wea. Mon. March 14, 1898 Ther. Gertrude Besse (3). Went to library & shopping. Wea. Tues. March 15, 1898 Ther. Clara Russell came to Outlook Class. Wea. Wed. March 16, 1898 Ther. Gertrude Besse (4). I am going to Vassar with Sallie Chapin. Bought gloves. Mip Porter wants me to be dignified at V.C. Wea. Thur. March 17, 1898 Ther. Mip Porter went to N.Y. I went down to get money & see Joe. He says not to worry about Smith. He has discussed Stella & taken a badge off a girl. Prayer-meeting. Wea. Fri. March 18, 1898 Ther. Sallie & I left Springf. at 2.18, Arrived N.Y. 5.40. Left N.Y. 6. P.M. Arrive Pok. at 7.55. Edith Tourtlelotte met us at lodge. Saw lots of girls etc. then went to Mrs. Careys. Wea. Sat. March 19, 1898 Ther. We saw Raymond House & Rockafeller Hall for first time. Mollie Stevens delighted to see me. Called on lots of people. Took lunch at quiet table & dinner at Faculty. Made them laugh at Old Joe. Hull-play. Disagreeable [member] with Mip Bate. Latin. Wea. Sun. March 20, 1898 Ther. Left Pok. 11.20. Arrive N.Y. 1.30. Left N.Y. 4. P.M. Arrive Spring. 7.23. Called on Mip [wood] who said I was needed at Faculty table. Lunch at [Purnells]. Walked up 5th Ave. Mip Porter came home with us. Wea. Mon. March 21, 1898 Ther. Went to library. Called on Joe. Mother's meeting. Papers by Mrs. Brooks & Mip Ayers. Gert. Besse has returned.Wea. Tues. March 22, 1898 Ther. Ella Russell can't recite Lat. on account of Algebra. She wants to confess to Carrie Abbot etc. Wea. Wed. March 23, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Sweet telephoned she would call but did not. Letter from Fred. He desires no religious controversy. Wea. Thur. March 24, 1898 Ther. Lovely letter from Capt. Carrigan, at [Tauntis]. Joe Raymond's wife is dead. I taught Gertrude Besse Greek for 2 3/4 hours & Miss Porter scolded me this evening. I can't stand much more of this scolding. Took Emily's letter to read to Joe. Smith expects to have his name read before church, but Joe's men have not been decided on yet. Wea. Fri. March 25, 1898 Ther. Dr. Gulick did not appear at gyms today. Wea. Sat. March 26, 1898 Ther. I finished Domestic Service. Miss Porter blames me for not inquiring for Ella at Vassar. I have written to Schermeshorn! Call from Gert. Burleigh. I am worried about my Latin teaching. Mip P. says Ella Russell must give up Lat. P. for this yr. Led at Joe's. Building on Christ. Mr. [Wat...] was there. Talked before meeting with a man who knows he should give up smoking. At close one man staid to pray with Mr. W. Smith walked up. [Miss] admires my letting Volunteers alone. Wea. Sun. March 27, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. Moxom. Phil. 4:3. Woman's Place in Life Today. Smith waited for me at Dwight St. & was going to sit with me. The new officers were there & Parsons got them to ask me to speak. So I exhounded Luke 10:38-42 & Juo. 15:1-8. This evening we talked about Europe, then walked.Wea. Rainy. Mon. March 28, 1898 Ther. Called on Mrs. Whipple, Mrs. Coats (found Margery sick), Mrs. [Tillinghad], Mrs. Sweet (out), Mrs. Hahn (out), Miss Emerson (out), Miss Hill & then met a Mr. Richards learning to write with his left hand. Eve. Letter from Mrs. Paige. She will give $25 to Vassar Aid. Wea. Tues. March 29, 1898 Ther. I went over to W. Springfield to see why Isabelle Adams did not come & found she had just gone. Last Outlook class. Mrs. Burleigh & Gertrude came. Wea. Wed. March 30, 1898 Ther. Lovely warmish day. Isabelle Adams went away. Wea. Thur. March 31, 1898 Ther. Went to church this evening. The Joe Mission candidates not yet decided on. We are eating in the Music Room. Wea. Fri. April 1, 1898 Ther. Letter from Will Todd telling of his engagement to Elizabeth Pogue. Another blue letter from Mother. Sensational "Journal" account of Harlan. Last gym. class of Dr. Gulick. (11) I have written to Fred Reeve. Ray Willman & Clara Russell are giving an impromptu Dickens entertainment. Lena has gone to Fitchbury to address the Girls' Friendly. Wea. Rain. Sat. April 2, 1898 Ther. Wrote a great many letters. Wrote 2 Aid Ass. letters. Went down town & stopped to tell Joe I might not come tonight. He has moved up stairs. He tells me he has a son 25 yrs. old in Hartford. Gertrude & Mrs. Burleigh, Edith Brooks & Clara Reed came to dinner so I couldn't go to the Mission. Wea. Sun. April 3, 1898 Ther. Mr. Hahn. Rev. 3:11. Communion. Mrs. Hahn walked home with me and talked about quarrels at the Mission. Afternoon. Played at the Volunteers. A young man with his uncle seemed deeply affected. I hope he will be saved. Smith showed me his proofs. I went into the [converts] class studying [Geo.] with Mrs. Cohn. Eve. Read upstairs & then played hymns. Wea. Mon. April 4, 1898 Ther. Call from Mr. Baldwin & his nephew Dr. B. of Vassar. Didn't get my day out. I took Clara to Dr. Rice's & saw an appendix just removed. Then Eliz. called on Ruth Bean. Wea. Sunny. Tues. April 5, 1898 Ther. Went down town. Got money from Mr. Reed & found he knew Fannie Aldridge. Made a long long call on Miss Barnard. Such a talk as she gave me. Mother expects Harold home tonight. Capt. Eva wants me to come to Holyoke Sunday. Wea. Wed. April 6, 1898 Ther. Jennie Guyer & Bertha Robbins came tonight. We are packing to go home. Wea. Thur. April 7, 1898 Ther. Came on the train with Ella Russell & Ray Willmann (to N. Haven) and Agnes Munford & Eliza Buffington. Amused the girls with puzzles. Met Constance Jones on the L. Road. Found Mother, Minnie, Bertha (who has been kept here with bronchitis), Agnes, Miss Barrons, & Sadie. Ruth Raymond came tonight. Mary & H. are away & Mother has had a hard winter. Letter from Joe & from Reeve. Frank is at Chatham. Footman have legs Idle thoughts Amy Gillette Gow - Sweet manWea. Fri. April 8, 1898 Ther. Good-Friday. I went over to Dr. Rainsford's & walked to St. [Duirs] with Mip Porter & Lena. Came across bridge on the trolley for first time. Went to Water St. & Mr. Prentice sent me to Col. Hadley 288 Lexington Ave. A young man gave me Rescue Soup. Reeve met me at prayer-meeting. I saw him last on Jan. 1. He came home & staid till 11.30. He still [swears] & takes whiskey as a [...]. I [argued] with him that it was swelled head. He is coming again Tuesday. Frank & Russell came from Chatham. Wea. Sat. April 9, 1898 Ther. Harold came home in the night. Bertha returned to Vassar. Mrs. Palmer sewed for me. I spent the day with Lucy Skinner. Ethel & Edith Grubb are going to have babies. Lucy talked about Lou Hamilton. This evening I played crokinole with Ruth & told stories to Frank & Russell. A Mr. Cox (not Sadie's) is to occupy a room here tonight. Wea. Sun. April 10, 1898 Ther. A.M. 11 baptized. Mr. Dixon preached an Easter sermon. Winnie & Ruth had bad time at breakfast. Mr. Dixon called me Aunt Nellie. I went for Mr. Jacobs & taught Mr. Kinney's class. Mother & I went to prayers & to tea at Cousin Sallies. Met Jennie Franklin & her little Dwight. Wea. Mon. April 11, 1898 Ther. Rec'd Smith's picture & a letter with gueer beginning. Mrs. Morse sewed here. I went down town & returned Mrs. Vaill's umbrella & rubbers. Wea. Tues. April 12, 1898 Ther. This A.M. I met Fannie MacFarlane & we went shopping for tailor-made suit, hat, belt, etc. Mrs. Morse is here. I helped my Lilian. Reeve called & staid from 8 to 12. Then Mother got nervous & called me. Wea. Wed. April 13, 1898 Ther. Mother & I visited the Schenks at Englewood. Calls from Nellie [Farrar] & Kate Allen. Wea. Thur. April 14, 1898 Ther. We returned after driving to [Heliene] Hull cemetery, etc. Mother stopped to an old ladies lunch at Cousin Sallies. P.M. Slept. Eve. Rainy. We met Sadie & I with Mr. Jacobs & others to Mariners Harbor to C.E. Mr. J. scared Miss Strickland with a [cut].Wea. Fri. April 15, 1898 Ther. Wrote letters. Read American Notes aloud. Agnes went to Orange. I tried to call on Mrs. Hollis Gibson but they had left 12 Agate Court & I couldn't find them at 90 [M...] St. Eve. Played a long while to Mother & Harold. Read Sherlock Holmes to Frank & Russell. Wea. Sat. April 16, 1898 Ther. Called on Mrs. Backus. Mrs. Palmer sewed. Wrote to Winifred. Got my new hat. Bought shirt waist, shoes, etc. Evening. Cousin Hattie and Fannie called. Wea. Sun. April 17, 1898 Ther. Mr. Dixon on Isaiah. Prof. Froelich came to dinner. After a nap we went to hear Indians Buffalo [...], Lone Wolf & A-Hu [...]. Eve. Stayed home with Mother & boys. Wea. Mon. April 18, 1898 Ther. Returned to Springfield on 4 o'clock train. Agnes Munford did not come but Eliza did. Mr. Russell came as far as N. Haven, then Ella & Ray Millmann got on. Constance Jones was on train. At [Merida] Fred Russell appeared. Mrs. Packards brother Albert is dying in Buffalo of [stone]-cancer. Mother & I came by bridge trolley & 4th on cable. Wea. Rain. Tues. April 19, 1898 Ther. All but me went to Holbrook Musicale. Agnes Munford came. We went to hear Dr. Moxom read [Clem] [Grammariais] Funeral & Rabbi Ben Ezra. Wea. Wed. April 20, 1898 Ther. Clara Russell came from Washington tonight. [War] will prob. begin on Sat. Marg. Carter wrote [notes] in school. Wea. Thur. April 21, 1898 Ther. On way to prayer-meeting I went to Joe's & he gave me a note from Smith. He wrote the most humble apology, & my heart aches for poor fellow. He has decided not to join the church & wants to join a show. I wrote him. Mr. Hahn & W. Springfield pastor exchanged. I went again to Joe's but did not find Smith. Mrs. Packard went to Buffalo. I went down for her ticket etc. today.Wea. Fri. April 22, 1898 Ther. Miss P. & Lena have gone to hear Stanley Hall in "Adolescence". My dress came from [Lisers] & I wore it with Mother's waist. Wea. Sat. April 23, 1898 Ther. A.M. Packed away clothes with camphor. Went down to see Joe. Smith was horribly drunk last night. Wrote him a note. Called on Jeannie Barrow's Cousin Jeannette who came over with Will J. Richardson. Wrote to Lucy Skinner & Mrs. Malcolm Smith. Called on Miss Emerson & she told me about going to her brother in Buffalo. As Lena & Miss P. went to hear about Junior Geo. Rep. I could not go to Mission. Wea. Sun. April 24, 1898 Ther. Note left at door by Reeve saying he was in town. After church I saw him a minute. Dr. Moxoms last sermon before going to Europe. He preached on Faith. Luke 22:23. Reeve took dinner at Mr. Hahn's. At Volunteers, Smith couldn't raise eyes. I played. Talked with man who smokes & has other besetting sins. Reeve came in & walked up with me. Last night Joe had to put Smith out. Wea. Mon. April 25, 1898 Ther. My day out. Called on Hodges whose father has died, but did not stop long as they had callers. Long call on Miss Hastings. Met Miss Barnum in street. Met Mr. Hahn & spoke of Reeve. Eve. We went to Art Museum & heard Dr. Gulick's paper on play instruct. etc. discussed by Dr. Moxom etc. Neely Bradley's mother dead. Wea. Tues. April 26, 1898 Ther. Lena went to Hudson & Mrs. Packard returned from Buffalo. While girls walked I worked in lab. Wea. Wed. April 27, 1898 Ther. Lena returned from Mrs. Bradley's funeral. Went to library tonight. Wea. Rain. Thur. April 28, 1898 Ther. Went to prayer-meeting tonight. Reeve sat with me till I had to play. Dr. Davis was there under influence of liquor. Cameron was there. Smith was not. Reeve went to Brewer's, then took me to get soda water & took me home. Mr. Hahn has talked to him & I think he is coming back to Christ!!Wea. Rain. Fri. April 29, 1898 Ther. Letter from Smith saying his foot kept him from church. Call from Capt. Rick & Lieut. We are to have Commander Booth & Col Davis(?) here Sunday night May 8.Wea. Sat. April 30, 1898 Ther. Studied Henry VIII. Began letter to Edith Grubbs. We went out to Forest Park. Marg. Carter rec'd letter from Dorothy Upham at McDuffie School. Eve. Rather hard meeting. Joe has almost backslidden. Smith looked miserable. Reeve was silent. Man from Bible Normal College helped me. Wea. Sun. May 1, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. Silden. Job 3:1. Very helpful. I couldn't go to communion. Rec'd the lesson at Volunteers. Matt 16:21-8. Smith & Reeve came [too] late to hear. Parsons nomitated. Smith was evidently sober. He had been preaching. Wea. Mon. May 2, 1898 Ther. Called on Joe & Mrs. sweet. Joe told queer story about Mrs. [Mowbray's] past. Mr. Hahn came in & I told him about Reeve. Chas. has joined his regiment. Miss Hubbard out of town, so did not come for drawing. Wea. Tues. May 3, 1898 Ther. Miss P. sent rehearsal tickets to the Hodges. In Eve, Miss Gruyer, Mrs. Packard & I went to rehearsal. Rec'd $25 from Miss Alice Braidin for Prof. B's name. Wea. Wed. May 4, 1898 Ther. Went with girls up to the green house. Fairfield's Ethel Van Deusen brought me a pot of pansies. Ella Russell & Marg. Carter are not to speak to each other. 1st Concert. Miss Cummin's, Mrs. Gillette, Mr. Beresford, [Fre...], Smith. Chadwicks Phoenix [Experians] & Beethovens 9th (choral) Symphony. Wea. Thur. May 5, 1898 Ther. 2 Musical Festivals. P.M. Mme Hopekirk & Orchestra. Eve. Frangcon Davies & Miss Cummings. We came home in rain. Davies disappointed us by his Cantellatines. Wea. Fri. May 6, 1898 Ther. Last day of Festival. Fine. P.M. Schumann 4th Symphony, Schulz ([...]), & Mip [Maconda]. Eve. Mr. Davies, Miles Berchtald (poor) & Mip [Maconda]. Parker led St. Christopher. In afternoon we all weith [Marion] & Edward went to Barrs. Wea. Sat. May 7, 1898 Ther. Began Her Majesties [...]. We had 2 hrs. studyhour. P.M. Girls & Lena went to the woods. I called on Mrs. Rood, Mrs. Whiting, & Mrs. Underhill. Eve. Discouraging meeting at Joe's. Until 8.30 only about 1/2 dozen present. Then Smith came in & went out to drink. I feel worried about Joe. Florence Bradly & Robt. Ingersoll engaged. Wea. Sun. May 8, 1898 Ther. Sadie died 8 yrs ago. A.M. Prof Harris Eph. 4:24. "Put on the new man". Went to Sleep. P.M. I read the lesson at Volunteers, part of 7th & 8th of Romans. Smith was out till 3 this A.M. & was drunk today. I took his whisky bottle. Then Capt. Lieut. & I walked up to meet Commander Booth & Col. Davies on Holyoke car. Good meeting at 1st Cong. Church. Com. spoke on Living Faith. Later Mr. Porter came down & we discussed divine damnation, [Susan] [Swift] etc. till nearly 12. Lovely letter from Reeve in Copperfield. He is breaking off the swearing habit. Had an accident with his [bicycle]. Wea. Mon. May 9, 1898 Ther. Com. Booth & Lieut. Col. Davies staid till after lunch, then I took them to Volunteers. Com. B. wants me in the work. I shopped, & called on Mrs. Hahn & she was at church preparing [ties]. We had a long exciting talk Mrs. H., Mrs. Sweet, Mr. Russell, Mrs. Cone & I on Joe when Mrs. C. calls a Catholic hypocrite. He has been accused of having $450 in the bank. Then I went to see him & soothed him down a little. Finally he prayed saying "If I went [Chartering], give it to me, but if not, don't let me abused". Wea. Tues. May 10, 1898 Ther. Girls went to [waterstop] pond with Lena, Miss Gruyer, Sarah Monell & Marg. Carter took first bicycle ride. I staid in. Lots of letters. Hal Appleton has table board at the Skinners. Wea. Wed. May 11, 1898 Ther. Letter of thanks from Capt. Rick. Rainy so we stayed in.Wea. Thur. May 12, 1898 Ther. Miss Gruyer took children to woods. Emily Carrigan is [Ensign] & sent to Jersey City. Went to get Joe & he went to prayer-meeting. Rainy so very few there. Smith was there after his long absence. He told me he was in a show last summer. He is smoking. Wea. Fri. May 13, 1898 Ther. We went to Forest Park. After coming home first I then Miss P. went to Mrs. Dr. Emerson's tea. Met Miss [Roots] there. Marin is staying to dinner now. Girls made maple sugar cream then we told ghost stories. Mrs. Hahn set me a nice letter from Reeve. Wea. Sat. May 14, 1898 Ther. Eliz. Clark & Marjorie Coats came to make up Geom. & Chem. Letters from Mother, Mrs. Griffin and Edw. Smith. Smith wrote to say he would not come to Joes. However he did come for a while, to let me know he was sober. Daniels told me about wanting a Christian Companion. He prayed with us. About 20 came. Agnes Minford & Clara Russell spent the day at Smith. Miss Gruyer took supper with Eliz. Clark who is 13 today. My mission talk was on Matt. 14:22-33.Wea. Rain. Sun. May 15, 1898 Ther. A.M. Prof. Harris. Phil. 4:7. Slept. At Volunteers girls had on bonnets. I went home with them & tried [them] on. [Parsons] & [Davis] too. He wishes [I] [wore] [rimless] hat. He is called best dressed man in [Cor.]. He thinks I baby Smith. Smith seems sober & blue. [Parsons] says "All die for want of breath". Wea. Rain. Mon. May 16, 1898 Ther. Called on Mrs. Brooks, Cousin Helen, & Miss Emerson & then staid to tea. Letter from Mrs. Malcolm Smith. Wea. Tues. May 17, 1898 Ther. Almost 5 sheets from fred Reeve. Good letter. This evening I went down with various others to see the standing committee about from old Joe and Mrs. [Mowberg]. Wea. Wed. May 18, 1898 Ther. Lena's friend Lucy Smith is here for the night. Mabel Cone not here & I wonder whether her mother is mad. Joe told Mrs. Sweet he was on top. Eve. Went to library. Wea. Thur. May 19, 1898 Ther. Did not walk today as girls played tennis. Eve. Went first to see Joe & he said I was a brave girl. Smith met me to say there was a union meeting in 1st Bapt. Church. Collection for City Mission. Davies was there. Mabel Cone came today. Wea. Fri. May 20, 1898 Ther. Anxious letter from Mrs. Hahn, who I answered. Wrote to Jenalta [Mead]. Read [Lonesome] Charley & Two Old Angels to Eliza & Clara. Wea. Sat. May 21, 1898 Ther. Winnie has been asked to be Marshal at Commencement. She will refuse. Wrote letters. Gave Ella Russell her second hist. exam. Went to library. Packed away clothes, worked in lab. Eve. Called at Mrs. Sweets & learned that Joe had gone to Hartford. Met Smith going down side street. He came in later, & says he drank at 6 o'clock. I told him I was about discouraged. At first I felt discouraged about the meeting, but it was a sweet spirit. I had to play & lead. 15 were there, & I read Heb. 12:1-11. We talked about chartering. Mr. Le Francis is mad about the church not taking him in. Wea. Sun. May 22, 1898 Ther. A.M. Prof. Tyler of Northampton. Matt. 13:31. Edw. Bellamy died this A.M. Wrote Smith a long letter & gave him at Volunteers. Had 2nd talk with young man from barber's shop. Smith had been drinking elderberry wine. Eve. Got nervous for fear I hadn't taken right letter to Republican. Could find no meeting at Joe's. Wea. Rain. Mon. May 23, 1898 Ther. I called on Mrs. Sweet & talked about Joe. Went to Mrs. Hare's & brought pie [tins]. Found Joe had come home & went there with girls $1.00. He has had good time with S.H. Hadley. Say's he'll leave church if they take in the Mowbergs. Left my purse there. Eve. Miss Bostwick & Miss Winters read papers on restlessness of children before Mothers & Teachers Club. Wea. Rain. Tues. May 24, 1898 Ther. Letter from Mabel Nassau. Will rec'd mention not prize in orating. P.M. Miss Gruyer & I read "Roden's Corner". Wea. Rain. Wed. May 25, 1898 Ther. Girls played ball. Mrs. Porter is having a dinner party for Mrs. Dutton. Wea. Rain. Thur. May 26, 1898 Ther. Smith spoke in meeting for first time since Easter. Mrs. Cone has cottage prayer-meetings at the Mowbergs. Smith threw away his pipe tonight. I am to go to Holyoke on Sunday, if it doesn't rain. Wea. Rain. Fri. May 27, 1898 Ther. This evening we had charades & I read Uncle Jack's Execution. Clara Russell went home. Wea. Little Rain. Sat. May 28, 1898 Ther. Worked on lessons form next week. Girls spent hours on algebra. Miss Gruyer & I went to Joe's Mission. Nearly 25 there. Miss Robbins led. Miss Gruyer was delighted with her. Smith was all right. He told Miss G. he was going off driving tomorrow. Miss Robbins gave me two things to think about, "Forgetting self & letting the message be God" & "Let the [unrighteous] [man] forsake his thoughts". Rec'd invitation to V.C. Commencement. May Clarke called. Wea. Sun. May 29, 1898 Ther. A.M. Prof. Stevens of Yale. Eph. 4:13. Jesus a Complete Man. May Clarke came to dinner. I went up to Holyoke & Mr. Parsons was on the car. Found that my audience had gone to the Y.M.C.A. We had a brief meeting. There were present Capt. Eva, the Lieut., Mrs. Jack, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. (?), & two children! Walked to Cresenct Hill. No singing. Wea. Mon. May 30, 1898 Ther. Memorial Day. A great many absent from school & Miss Hubbard did not come. We went to the cemetery. Clara came back from Gt. Barrington tonight. Wea. Tues. May 31, 1898 Ther. Took my day off. Got $45 for Minnie from the bank & sent Mother $200. Called on Miss Barnard & Mr. & Mrs. Hahn. Wea. Wed. June 1, 1898 Ther. Mother is 78. Rec'd Albert Davis's card. Miss Porter talked to me about my want of dignity & talking about my Vanity. She said she should think I would hate myself. Wea. Cloudy. Thur. June 2, 1898 Ther. We expected to go on our picnic, but it looked cloudy. Day scholars came to a play given my Margaret Carter, Eliza Buff., Ray Millmann & Clara Russell (stage-manager). Wea. Rain in eve. Fri. June 3, 1898 Ther. We went on our picnic to Mt. Tom. Miss Gruyer, Clara Russell, Ella Russell & I in one carriage. Agnes Minford came home with us. Rained coming home. Wea. Sat. June 4, 1898 Ther. Very busy day getting papers ready for next week. Ruth Chapin & little Mary called. Miss [Voerner] Smith came to take lunch with Ray Millmann. Joe's. Neither Reeve nor Smith appeared. Mr. Frances walked up & talked about his mother. About 20 in meeting. Wea. Sun. June 5, 1898 Ther. Dr. Moxom. Pan [Aeghiean] Alliance. Ros & Sallie there. I took dinner with them. Saw Reeve on my way at church. He got me to go to S.A. tent but I only stayed a few minutes. Then we came back to the Volunteers. Met Smith on the street. He came in later. Got interested talking to a red bearded man. Reeve spoke. He walked up to Miss Emerson's. She says Mr. Hahn says he is proud to be called my friend & I am one of the noblest women he ever knew. Miss P. says I was being undignified about Cousin Ros.Wea. Mon. June 6, 1898 Ther. Ray & I left for Pok. at 2.20 arriving at 9.06. Adele Merrian is Ray's hostess. I found Mother & Minnie. We got lunch at Albany. Missed debate. Wea. Tues. June 7, 1898 Ther. I took breakfast with Miss Wood. Basket ball. Alumnae luncheon. Class day. Met Mrs. Porter, [Sulpher] & Webb. Class Reunion. President's [reciple's]. Mrs. Booth is worse & she and Jennie want me. Wea. Wed. June 8, 1898 Ther. Commencement. Took 2.45 train. Mrs. Porter, Sadie Wentworth & Mr. Bagg on the train. Bridal party had red lights. [...] & they yelled in where they were. Wea. Thur. June 9, 1898 Ther. Miss Porter started for James' Porter's wedding. I have her 2 Alg. & 1 Arith. class. Prayer-meeting with Mrs. Sweet. Smith not there. Wea. Fri. June 10, 1898 Ther. Mother came tonight. I took girls in cars to India Orchard so Miss Gruyer met her. Bina Seymour came. Wea. Sat. June 11, 1898 Ther. Corrected papers all day. Joe's Mission Gal. 6:1-10. Smith walked to corner. He seemed indif., but says he will try. Prayed with recent convert who has drunk. Talked with Davie's. Wea. Rain. Sun. June 12, 1898 Ther. Very warm day. Children's Sunday. Dr. Moxom preached on "Home Church Country". P.M. I led the Volunteers all myself. Read parable of Sower. Matt 13: About 9 of us. E.M. Smith, Treasurer Smith, Glover, Frances, etc. Very tired. Wea. Mon. June 13, 1898 Ther. Hot & tired. I am working over Miss P's 3 math. classes. Studied till about midnight. Wea. Tues. June 14, 1898 Ther. Rec'd Dudley Lewis's invitation to his Phillips Academy graduation. Wea. Wed. June 15, 1898 Ther. I did not go to Edith Bagg's Song Recital. Mrs. Bugbee died today(?). Wea. Thur. June 16, 1898 Ther. The prayer-meeting was devoted to Mrs. Bugbee. Smith was there but did not speak. Wea. Fri. June 17, 1898 Ther. We went this evening on an electric car ride to Longmeadow. Wea. Sat. June 18, 1898 Ther. Mabel Nassau, Bertha Robins, Edith Tourtlelotte came. Miss Porter returned from James wedding. I about finished my papers. I have just dug this week. Didn't go to Joe's this evening. Wea. Sun. June 19, 1898 Ther. Dr. Moxom A.M. The Need of the Hour. Spoke at Volunteers on 1 Juo. 1st chap. Smith not there. I met him on the street. He had been drinking. We walked back to Joe's & I told him how I felt. Wea. Mon. June 20, 1898 Ther. Rec'd $25 from Mr. [Fros] for Mabel's name. Letter from Smith beginnig "My dear little sister". Rode over towards Chicopee for daises near Cath. cemetery. Eve. Clara Russell gave [co...] party. Wea. Tues. June 21, 1898 Ther. Worked on reports till 4.30 this A.M. Last regular school day. P.M. Vassar tea. Went to the wedding of Henry Bosworth & Grace Wright. Wea. Wed. June 22, 1898 Ther. Closing exercise & class-day. Clara Russell read address on motto, history, prophecy of school, & she cantillated class song. Ella Russell read Clara's prophecy. Afternoon. Went to write the professor. (Guillet) Went down town. Eve. Clara Russell rec'd certificate. Dr. Moxom'x address was "In School & After". Wea. Thur. June 23, 1898 Ther. Bessie Moore writes that she is going to be a Bapt. & expects to be a missionary to South America. Letter from Reeve. He had a cold reception from Dr. Judson. Mother & the Van Deusens & Bina went to Smith. I went three times to the train & to call on Dr. Buckingham but he was ill. Prayer-meeting led by Mr. Barnes. Smith spoke. He ran off because he was afraid I was mad, but came back & was very nice. Wea. Fri. June 24, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Van Deusen & daughter went home. Mother & I went to South Hadley. The [Pu...] kept us to dinner. Wea. Sat. June 25, 1898 Ther. Very hot. I wrote letters, slept, cleaned laboratory, etc. Mother took tea at Cousin Helens. I led at Joe's. Read 1 Juo. 3:1-3, 20-22. Smith all right. He must work at armory tomorrow. About 23 present. On the way I stopped to talk with Mr. Tapley. Wea. Sun. June 26, 1898 Ther. I displeased Miss Porter & Lena by leaving Dr. Moxom. Mr. Frolick Eph. 1:18. Taught S.S. class three little girls. Enjoyed Volunteers. Read 1 Cor. 13. (I needed it). They prayed for me, & sang "God be with us till we meet again." Eve. Stayed home & called on Mrs. Porter & Miss Emerson. Wea. Mon. June 27, 1898 Ther. Spent a long time this A.M. making peace between Mrs. [Moberg] & Joe. Miss P. told me my faults. She may not let me have a table. The Baggs & Sallie Russell & Mrs. Porter came to lunch. [Amazed] letters. Read in E.S. Phelps Chapters from a Life. Eve. Miss Barnum called. Wea. Tues. June 28, 1898 Ther. Called on Mrs. Hahn to talk about the Mobergs. Mother & I left at 1.14 for Gt. Barrington. Reached Gt. B. at 4.14. Found the Russells & Marion Blake here. In the evening Lyman Gibson was here. Began "Carlotta's Intended". Letter from Fred Reeve. He has moved to 347 W. 22nd St. New York. Wea. Wed. June 29, 1898 Ther. Mr. Russell, Mother, Clara, & I in one carriage and Mary & Marion Blake in another drove to [...]. Took dinner at Curtiss Hotel. Eve. Mary & I played from [Pen Gyut Sinth]. Wea. Thur. June 30, 1898 Ther. Wrote to Winifred & to Emma [Mullrums], & Miss Porter. Began and finished Lilian Bell's "The Underside of Things". At noon I went with Mrs. Russell to Mip Humphrey's & Mr. Scott's wedding. Mr. Lyman married her. Bride was 20 minutes late. Called on Mrs. Stanley and Mrs. Palmer. Mrs. Stanley called on us and Mrs. Palmer came to supper. In the evening I went with Mrs. Russell to Thursday [Morning] Club reception. Saw Bays' Golf-players read or played. Introduced to Mr. Lyman & to [Dalgill's] paint of a man in Cornell crew. Wea. Fri. July 1, 1898 Ther. Frank Richardson is 16. This A.M. we drove to Mr. Komers to see his horses exercised. Drove home by the Newells. P.M. Mr. & Mrs. Russell drove to Lee & I slept & read Knickerbocker. Lyman gibson came to supper. Harold Thompson called. I wrote Joe, Mrs. Hahn, Minnie, & Fred Reeve. Lena writes of the engagement of Dr. Balliet & Mip Stearns. Wea. Sat. July 2, 1898 Ther. Read Choir Invisible & liked it. Read aloud to Clara from "Gt. Expectations". Calls from Mrs. Stanley & Clara. Mrs. Geo. Russell came to dinner. Slept. We had tea out doors. Marion Blake left this A.M. A telegram came later telling her to stay. Eve. We went to watch a dance at the Inn. There has been a great battle near Santiago, about 1000 Americans killed & wounded. Wea. Very hot. Sun. July 3, 1898 Ther. Clara & I went to church. No sermon. 2 boys joined. Communion. Used individual cups for 1st time. Came home & slept. Began Patience Strongs' Outings. P.M. Clara & I talked. Mother drove with Mr. Russell. This evening Clara, Mary & I went barefoot & I wore my white underdress. Wea. Mon. July 4, 1898 Ther. Mother & I left Gt. B. at 9.14. Staid in Kent from 10.33 to 3.23. Saw Mrs. Hopson, Amy, Kate, Mary (the cousin) & Juo Hopson's 3 eldest daughters (17, 15, 13). Met Ed & Clara on the train. Cernia's fleet destroyed, & Santiago almost taken. Glad 4th. Found at home Minnie, Bertha, Ruth, Frank & two Jones. Wea. Tues. July 5, 1898 Ther. Will & Win. returned from Pok. They had been at the [trial] today. Slept. Read "Quo Vadis". Later in the afternoon I went down town ordered glasses. Eve. Call from Reeve. He & I walked in Fort Green Park & got Ice-cream. He went home at 10.30. Aunt Mary came & went with Minnie to Newark. Will is divorced from [Marne]. Bertha Backus has a [...]. Mike Ethel [...] D.Wea. Wed. July 6, 1898 Ther. Mother, Minnie, Winifred and I took lunch with Harold and Ruth, & so missed a call from James O. Griffin. Albert Davis is to call tomorrow night. This evening Will, Frank, Agnes, Winifred, & Bertha all helped me ride a wheel. (3rd lesson I think). French Steamer La Bourgogne sunk with over 500 passengers. Wea. Thur. July 7, 1898 Ther. Ruth is teaching me to make a shirt waist, blue striped. Call this evening from Albert Davis. We set on the steps & talked with nieces & nephews. Wea. Warm. Fri. July 8, 1898 Ther. Agnes & Ruth are helping with my shirt waist. I went down town. Eve. At prayer-meegting and American told about the masacres & execution of a friend because of one sentence in an essay against Muhammedanism. Wea. Sat. July 9, 1898 Ther. I am 37. Winnie gave me a mirror. Mother is to give me cologne. Paper from Lena announces the death of Hal Appleton. My heart aches for Annie Bosworth. Nearly finished my shirt waist. Stoney, Louise Cadmus, the Jones, Bertha, Miss Russell & Frank rode to Coney I. on their wheels. Stoney came to supper. Mrs. Morse is making my blue silk waist over. Wea. Sun. July 10, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mr. Dixon. Ezek. 7:4. P.M. Mr. Dixon. Daniel. I taught Dora Wilk's class, six nice young ladies. I expected Reeve at A.M. church but he didn't come. I guess Frank Morse kept him. Afternoon. Told stories to Harold & Ford Jacobs. Slept. Daisy told me that in C.E. meeting Mr. Jacobs spoke of my being nice to his boys. Went to Mr. Jacobs out-door meeting. After the meeting tonight, Mr. Dixon promised to pray for Harold at noon this week. Miss Dizendorf returned & I met her for first time. Wea. Mon. July 11, 1898 Ther. Finished shirt waist. Mrs. Palmer made button holes. Winnee went to help Mrs. Kinney cut out bathing suit. I went to Y.P.S.C.E. Kittie Elliott led. Consecrated Ability. Wea. Tues. July 12, 1898 Ther. Mother & I came to Addison by Erie. Left N.Y. at 9.00. Arrived at A. at 4.57. Belle Hart [Hinman] met us. Frank went with Aunt Mary to Conway. Calls from Mrs. Hinman & Bessie. Weight 126 1.4 lbs. Wea. Wed. July 13, 1898 Ther. Slept twice. Read a great part of Damnation of Their Name. Went to Epis. service. Call from Ada Hinman. Called on Mrs. Hinman. Wea. Thur.July 14, 1898 Ther. Left A. at 7.10. Arrived at Belvedere at 9.47. Ray met us. I have not been here for 19 yrs. Found Julia, Ida, Harrie, Walter, Miss Warren, Mr. Richardson & [Ransom] came tonight. Went to prayer-meeting led by candidate. Called on the Harts. Call from Cousin Hattie & Charlie Arnold. Wea. Hot & Dry. Fri. July 15, 1898 Ther. Began Martin Chuzzlewit. A.M. Wiped dishes, shelled peas, stoned raisins. Lovely letter from Ella Russell. P.M. Slept. Calls from Mrs. Hart, Sade, Mrs. Lightfoot, Mrs. Lizzie Lightfoot, Warren, Mrs. Blair & Mary. Ransom came home. Ray talked about the Social Problem. Eve. Mother, Ransom & I went over to Lily [Abivator] & met May D'Auhemot & Mrs. Reimer. Mrs. D. recited. Mrs. R. acts in The Ray Baby & Stranger from India. She is mother of Marie Reimer. Began "Martin Chuzzlewit". Wea. Sat. July 16, 1898 Ther. A.M. Walter seems blue about his strained leg. Letter from Lena. Miss P. has bilious fever. Mrs. Boothe has whooping cough. Mip Mattice is insane. Dr. Buckingham & Mr. Albert Gregory are dead. Annie Bosworth fainted on leaving the cemetery. P.M. Slept. Called on Libbie Brown & Mrs. Thornton. Eve. Calls from Jennie Gillies & May Gillies Homer. Walked with Ray nearly to the cemetery. Found Mr. Stuart ([immiterial] candidate) here. Julia fell asleep! Mother went to bed. Ransom ate candy & Dr. P. Richardson told yarns. Wea. Sun. July 17, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mr. Stuart Joy of Sacrifice P.M. " " Prov. 22:1. A good name. Pres. Church all day. S.S. & C.E. Ransom took me to church. Harrie & I went home with Mother & returned to S.S. Harrie went in for the first time in 3 yrs. Ransom & I talked all the afternoon about marriah & kindred subjects. He brought me home in the eve. & we called on the Raymonds. Found [Abirator] family on our steps. We sang hymns. Wea. Mon. July 18, 1898 Ther. A.M. Went to see Libbie Brown and we went over to the Blairs. Began reading The Sowers to Ray & he read me "The Social Problem". He had talk with Alice Miner & Nellie last night. Minnie's Mip [Dezenboy] is sick & going away. P.M. Walter took me to Belmont 14 miles ride in dust. Bought chocolate drops. We had a very nice talk on all sorts of subjects. Eve. Walter talked with Mother & me till 9 P.M. Then I walked with Julia. Wea. Tues. July 19, 1898 Ther. A.M. Libbie Brown called to ask us all to ride. P.M. Ray can't decide between Alice Miner & Nettie Walker. Libbie took Mother, Julia & me driving all about Angelica. It rained. Eve. Calls from Mrs. & Jennie Allen, Cousin Hattie, Mrs. Iverson & Mrs. Atwater. Wea. Wed. July 20, 1898 Ther. A.M. We called on the d'Auhemont's & Mrs. Reiner. Harrie drove Mother & Cousin Hattie, Mrs. Iverson & I walked. Harrie & I walked home & the others rode. Then Harrie & I went to see Libbie Brown & then sat in Mrs. Atwater's hammock. P.M. Slept. W.C.T.U. of Allegany Co. Eve. Call from Raymonds. Ray & I went to W.C.T.U. in the Park. Then walked & talked about Alice. Came home & talked with Harrie & others. Wea. Thur. July 21, 1898 Ther. Delos & Sarah came. D. seems very lame. I did not attend W.C.T.U. Harrie & I went to see runaway horse & then took chicken-pie to the church. P.M. Slept. We called on the Hart's & I went down to Libbie's. I am invited to ride tomorrow evening. Eve. Ray has decided to stop talking of girls & go to work. We started for open air meeting but [walked] up to Harry Milagrow 91. I sent Ray for milk & stayed & talked. He showed me pictures, nearly sat on the dog etc. He lives alone. Wea. Fri. July 22, 1898 Ther. A.M. Ray drove me to his farm & we had about two hours to talk about Alice & Nettie. At the farm I saw Roney & Joe. P.M. Slept. Calls from Mrs. Thornton, Rita, Mrs. Pratt, Nellie Thomas, & Mr. & Mrs. Macguire. Called on Mrs. & Jennie Allen. Saw Edith Saunders in the carriage. Eve. Went driving with Libbie Brown, Sate Hart, and Alice Miner. Chas. Hitchcock ordered to Manila. Esther wants to board in Oxford. Wea. Sat. July 23, 1898 Ther. A.M. Walter, Delos, & I talked most of the A.M. Cousin Hattie was here & I went home with her. Letter from Fannie Beaman. Walter took me to hear the rattlesnake rattle. P.M. Slept. Went to library & laundry. Called on Libbie Brown. Eve. Calls from Mrs. Jackson, Minnie & Mrs. Eaton. (Katie) Ray away all day. At Buffalo(?). He has decided today not to marry Alice. Walter asked me to go with him with milk. Wea. Sun. July 24, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mr. Billings Ecc. 10:19. P.M. " " Prov. Sin of Self. Rightiousness. We went to the Baptist Church. Then I went to Pres. S.S. In the afternoon Sarah & I read aloud from "In His Steps". Sang hymns. Eve. Went to C.E. with Ray & Walter. They went off with girls & I went to out door meeting & came home with Mother & Charlie Arnold. Found Ransom home. We all sang hymns, [...], Harrie & D.P. Wea. Mon. July 25, 1898 Ther. Harrie took our pictures & took me to his photo gallery. He & Walter have been very gallant all day. I spoke to H. about being a Christian. I am helping Walter with his play. This eve. he went for his first rehearsal. Harrie bought me candy. Ransom at home all day working in the office. Hard thunderstorm which used Ida up. Sarah took paint off from my waist & I cut her corns. Call from Mrs. Huntley. I called on Harts, twice on Libbie but she was sick. Eve. Went with Ray to see Nettie Walker. Wea. Tues. July 26, 1898 Ther. Went with Ray to laundry, Mrs. Match, Centre St. etc. Made calls in the afternoon. Nellie Raymond wants me to write to her. Eve. Rain prevented Cousin Hattie and me going to the D'Autremonts. We read conundrums. Ransom, Ray & Harrie all here part of the time. Helped Walter with his play. Wea. Wed. July 27, 1898 Ther. A.M. Wiped dishes, shelled peas etc. Stan & [Gaudfred] came. P.M. Tried to ride Nellie Thomas's bicycle. Slept. Took tea with Belle Herman (Mother, Ray & I). Richard Church calle.d "Put my foot in it" by saying it was better to begin poor & end rich than vice versa. Met "Lord" Hastings & Mr. Ian Densen. Came home & called on the Thomases. Harrie came in & I held his hand on my lap & fanned him. He & Walter kissed my good-night. Wea. Thur. July 28, 1898 Ther. A.M. After breakfast Ray, Mother, Delos & Sarah drove to cemetery. Stan staid home & cried. Walter & I took a long walk, were gone about three hours. Sat under a tree most of the time. Talked religion, morality, etc. P.M. Walter slept in the parlor, holding my hand. I called on Libbie, Harts, etc. Eve. Calls from Mrs. Dudly, Atwater, Belle & Sate. Sang hymns. Walter wants to sit up all night & let me put him to sleep. Great time hugging & kissing. Last night Ray became "practically engaged" to Nettie Walker. Mrs. [Tanner] expects a baby Dec. 1st. Wea. Fri. July 29, 1898 Ther. Left Angelica at 7. The 4 boys went to train. Mary Blair & her father took me to Hornettsville. We changed cars at Hornettsville Junction, Maryland & Bath. Reached Binghamton at 2.00. Stella met us. Very hot. After supper we had singing. Calls from Mrs. Smith & Cousin Kate. Wea. Sat. July 30, 1898 Ther. Rode on street car [about] Binghamton & to insane asylum. Talked with one old woman about Lee "babies". Left B. at 3.30. Reached Oxford at 4.32. Found [Prisoners] here. Wrote letters till after eleven. Wea. Sun. July 31, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mr. Parsons (Bapt.) Luke 6:20. P.M. Mr. Sutherland (Cong.) Rom. 8:2. Staid to S.S. Used Blakelies Lessons. P.M. Read Ladies Home J. Eve. Cousin Marihah & I went to Union Church. Called on Ray & got ice-cream. Wea. Mon. Aug. 1, 1898 Ther. Felt a little mean today. Lay in the hammock a long while & read Quo Vadis. Shelled peas. Wiped dishes. Mr. Pierson sick; has piles. P.M. Wrote letters, loafed, read, bathed. Esther is coming Wed. Letters from Gertrude Burleigh & Bertha. Eve. Read the paper aloud. Wrote Dr. AmyWea. Tues. Aug. 2, 1898 Ther. Washed, wiped dishes, made beds. Shelled peas & ironed. Read Quo Vadis. Mother washed my head. Mrs. Warner came. I took her to Mrs. [Wolerters]. Mother, Marihah, Lois & I went driving this eve. with Mrs. Pierson. Went to Half-Way House. [So] a man fall out of carriage - drunk I guess. Came home read papers aloud & wrote to Ray & Stella. I had a letter from Ray today, & wrote Mrs. Porter. Wea. Wed. Aug. 3, 1898 Ther. Esther & Mrs. Merion came at 4.18. Mrs. Warner came to tea. It rained but I went to the Bakery with Mrs. Warner. The others played cards & I wrote letters. This A.M. drove with Alpha & he told me about detective work. Wea. Thur. Aug. 4, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Warner came to dinner & supper. I washed or wiped dishes 3 tmes. Rained this afternoon. I began Macgruder's "Heaven Kissing Hill". Letter from Reeve. He appreciates my interest but can't be religious. Capt. Rick writes that I am placed on the Board of Finance. Wea. Fri. Aug. 5, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mrs. Warner came to breakfast & dinner. Alpha took Esther, Mrs. Warner & me to the Soldier's home. Mr. Redmond took us around. P.M. After washing dishes, I slept and bathed. Mrs. Pierson took Mother, Mrs. Merion & Mareba driving. Mrs. [M...] Saunders Greene called on Esther. Later Esther & I went down to the bakery & then to Mrs. Greene's to say good-bye to Mrs. Warner. Eve. Met Rob Ecclestin. Finished Quo Vadis. Wrote Lafayette Mendel, E.M. Smith, & Mrs. Griffin. Wea. Sat. Aug. 6, 1898 Ther. Washed & wiped dishes three times. Fixed my waist, mended Ray's shirt. Carved roast beef. Rec'd Phyfe's cards. He was married Aug. 3. The Pierson's cousin E. Van Dorn came & we have moved in the big room. Began "The Monastery". Little hay-fever. Hymn 23. Wea. Sun. Aug. 7, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mr. Parsons (Bapt.) Phil. 3:14. P.M. Epis. Eve. Prayer. Mr. Collogne. Almost went to sleep in A.M. Church. Esther came to S.S. Lesson on Joseph taught by an old man. P.M. Laughed & talked poetry loudly for a Christian girl mother thought. Slept. Esther lay on bed & talked with Mother. Esther, Alice, Bertha & I went to Eve. Service. Eve. Young People called on the girls. The old folks sat on front porch & ate ice-cream. Hay-fever in the A.M. Washed dishes three times. Wea. Mon. Aug. 8, 1898 Ther. Letters from Will, Lena, Bina. Wrote Mrs. Gibson & Lena. Washed dishes 3 times. This evening the family played cards. I wrote & talked to Alpha. Wea. Tues. Aug. 9, 1898 Ther. Esther & I called on Mrs. Morton & Mrs. Greene (out). Mended Ed's trousers and Mrs. Woolerton's wrapper. Washed dishes 3 times. Very little hay-fever.Wea. Wed Aug. 10, 1898 Ther. Esther's birthday. We had a tray on the table containing a cookie with a candle, peanuts, mother's embroidery, candy pill (Mrs. Parson), pad (Alice), [...] (Bertha), [sucker] (Frank), whistle (Lois), gum (Ed. [Van Duizer]). Esther & I went down town. 2 young ladies were at dinner, Miss Gadsby from Norwich & Miss Quinby from Morris, N.Y. Mrs. Piersons, Mrs. Merwin, Mrs. Patchen drove to Norwich. I popped corn & wrote to Lena. Wea. Thur. Aug. 11, 1898 Ther. Helped with dishes three times. Hemmed part of dish-towel. Finished "The Monastery". Took a bath. Esther & Mrs. [Merwin] went home. Wea. Fri. Aug. 12, 1898 Ther. Wrote to Ed. woodruff, Belle Hart etc. Did most of the breakfast & dinner dishes. Jennie & Pearl went to the circus. Finished hemming towel. Mrs. Pierson drove Mother, Cousin Mariba & me to train. We left Oxford at 4.12. Reached Eaton at 5.16. Found Cousin Lizzie very well & Mrs. Ford is the servant. Rec'd doylie from Esther, Scarf trimmed with lace from Mrs. Rambant. Letter from Edith Holmes. Wea. Sat. Aug. 13, 1898 Ther. Talked. Mrs. [Ornester] called and we kept her to dinner. A paper from the Gibson's announces the death of Hillis's 3 yr. old boy Jasper. Call from Cousin Cara this evening. Wrote to Harry Richardson & Mrs. Rambant. Wea. Rain. Sun. Aug. 14, 1898 Ther. Father died 20 yrs. ago. A.M. Mr. Thorne Heb. 12:2. P.M. Mr. S.S. Pratt (Meth.) Act. 21:25. C.C. "Exalt Christ" led by Miss Donahue. P.M. I slept & Cousin L. read us her letters. Rained about evening.Wea. Mon. Aug. 15, 1898 Ther. Letter from M.A. Witmer who half [promises] some [recovery] from sheep ranch. Letters from Susan Swift & Fred Reeve. Fred says he is drifting away. I mended some drawers. We did a good deal of talking about the [Audobons] etc. Looked at Venus & Jupiter tonight. Began [P...] of the Peak. Wea. Tues. Aug. 16, 1898 Ther. Began "Kansas". Eve. Played "Artists". Wrote to Bessie Moore. Good letter from Smith. Pay for revenue stamps. Wea. Wed. Aug. 17, 1898 Ther. Began Aspasia with Cousin Celeste. Lovely prayer-meeting. I played. Wea. Thur. Aug. 18, 1898 Ther. Mr. Eaton came over this afternoon with crokinole board. He beat me three games & then taught Jessie & I beat her too. We went, J. & I to Ladies Aid at Country House. Good supper. Sat on steps & talked with Thornes etc. Minnie writes that she prob. will lose her $2000.Wea. Fri. Aug. 19, 1898 Ther. We read a good deal of "Kansas" and Jessie and I played Crokinole. In the evening she, Morsie, & I played "Artists". Mother tried to walk down hill & it seemed to hurt her side.Wea. Sat. Aug. 20, 1898 Ther. Ripped my dress & took it to Della Macomber. Cousin Celeste spent the afternoon reading Aspasia. Call from Mrs. & Anna [Burchard]. Letter from Ray. For several days I have had just a little hay-fever each A.M. Not enough to mention. Wea. Sun. Aug. 21, 1898 Ther. Very very little hay-fever. A.M. Mr. Thorne. Acts 27:25. P.M. Mr. Pratt (Meth.) Luke 11:27. [One] S.S. class went into Mr. Coates "Naaman Healed". I led C.E. Practical Use of the Bible. This afternoon we began "In the Days of Mohammed". Wea. Mon. Aug. 22, 1898 Ther. Lovely letter from Edwin Woodruff. Also from Mr. Buck (about sheep), Capt. Carrigan, Esther, Minnie & Ruth Chapins cards. Mother is to send for Dr. Gifford tomorrow. I have felt headachy & hay fevery. I have taken much Rhinitis. Wea. Rain. Tues. Aug. 23, 1898 Ther. Hay fever not bad but I haven't felt well in other ways. Dr. Gifford came. Mother's hip not hurt. She has had a strain. Her Kidney trouble is [menacing]. We read Tennyson. Wea. Wed. Aug. 24, 1898 Ther. Considerable hay-fever today. Letter from Bank. I have $109.97 more than I thought. I supposed I had [hit] our share in Iowa Build. Ass. Hard thunder & lightning storm. Joe Bayliss lost barn, hay & 140 chickens. We watched it burn after midnight. Another thunder storm this afternoon. Tried to sew velvet on dress but I had hay fever. Played organ in prayer-meeting. Took bath. Wea. Thur. Aug. 25, 1898 Ther. Hay-fever much better. Mother is better also. Cousin L. has read a great deal of "Tennyson". We are reading about "In Memoriam". I mended drawers & cleaned dress. After reading Tennyson, I feel common place. Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Is it wrong to love those who are not Christians & have them as friends. Minnie is to go to Mystic. Gt. suffering at Montauk Pt. Helen Guild has given $25000. Calls from Cousin Jane & Mrs. Franklin. Wea. Cold. Fri. Aug. 26, 1898 Ther. Very little hay fever. Carrie Sutton was married on Monday. Rec'd letter from Mr. Buck telling me had to amend the power of attorney that I gave Mr. [Witmer]. I did so & sent power to Mr. Buck. Cousin Celeste came over to read Aspasia. Mrs. Scram called. Jessie & I went to call at Mrs. [Corman's], Alice was out. Met Mr. & Mrs. Wood on cemetery steps. Harold wrote Ruth from Montauk Pt. I mended Cousin L's stocking & began to mend corsets. We have been reading Tennyson. Mrs. Ford's last day. Wea. Sat. Aug. 27, 1898 Ther. Hay fever very slight. I have been mending corsets & started to set up knitting for wash cloth. Mrs. Nevin's first day. We read Sun & Tennyson. Letter from Mrs. Gibson & Lena. Hollis's 4th boy was born a month after death of the second, Jasper. Almost no hay fever. Wea. Cool. Sun. Aug. 28, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mr. Thorne. Juo. 13:18. P.M. Mr. Strong. Matt. 5:11. "For my sake". In Mr. Caroles S.S. class. Juo. Thorne asked whether Elisha did regret in II Kings 6:18, 19. After S.S. we, Mr. Coles & I discussed "letting down the [barns]" in believing the Bible. Mr. Thorne thought we should seek truth whenever it led. He spoke of "Story of an African Farm". I was introduced to Mr. Bamford in the street. This afternoon Cousin Celeste came over & read "[S...]". Louise Lyndon & Eve Rich led beautiful C.E. Subj. was "With thy Might". [Union] Service. Good [sermon] by Mr. Strong. Mrs. Nevins is sleeping here tonight. Little more hay-fever. Wea. Mon. Aug. 29, 1898 Ther. I had my dress tried on. We read some Tennyson. I learned to set up knitting. Cousin Celeste came over & we read Aspasia. [G.] had headache from reading fine print - 5 minutes. Wea. Tues. Aug. 30, 1898 Ther. This p.m. drove with Cousin Walter, Celeste & Mr. Martin to Hamilton. Called on Mrs. McGregory & then met Mrs. [Stone] of Bklyn. She has [boarded] with the Kelseys & dislikes Mrs. K., Clara Howard & Ruth. We drove on the Hill into new cemetery. Got soda w., candy & crackers. Called to invite the Bosticks to dinner Monday. Saw Kate & her husband Mr. Allen. They think Mrs. Dr. S. dreads the future. Rec'd photos from Angelica. Wrote to thank Harrie & replied to Ruth Chapin's cards & wrote Fannie Swan. Wea. Hot. Wed. Aug. 31, 1898 Ther. Cousin Celeste came over & we read Aspasia. I consider the book immoral. Mrs. Rambant writes that she will come here tomorrow. I took a bath. Find my duck skirt has shrunk. Mrs Tucker is to fix it. Called on the Thomas', Mrs. [Mosher] & Davis, & Mrs. Scram. Mr. Juo. Thorne says he heard I was reading on the train, the World, Puck, Judge, and the "Bible". Well it shows that you may any time be seen. Short prayer-meeting. Afterward I asked Mr. Thorne about Romans VI. He thinks the Christian has 2 natures & the new nature cannot sin. The other cannot be good. The new man may almost stifle the old. Wea. Very hot. Thur. Sept. 1, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Rambant & Relbun came over stayed from 10 to 1.30. Mrs. R. had not bee here for 4 yrs. Mrs. K told me of her S.S. class of boys. I had worst hay fever so far. Carrie & Alice Wood came to tea. Letters from Walter Buck & Capt. Rock. Wea. Very hot & hard rain. Fri. Sept. 2, 1898 Ther. Letter from Reeve. He has been to church. One from Joe written [by] Smith. Della tried on my dress, so did Mrs. Tucker. Almost sick with heat. Hay fever some better. Jessie was headachy. Mr. Eaton returned. May Smith can't come to lunch. I wroter Minnie, Anna Lathrop Case, Adele Buffington & Capt. Carrigan. Very hot. Considerable hay-fever. Wea. Sat. Sept. 3, 1898 Ther. We suffered all day with the heat. Read Tennyson & I knit a good deal on my wash cloth. Eve. Called on Mrs. Richardson & Jennie [White]. Mrs. Tucker brought home my two dress skirts. Hot. Some hay-fever. Wea. Sun. Sept. 4, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mr. Thorne. Juo. 15:5. I expected to take Jessica's class, but no one stayed so we went into Deacon Cole's class. P.M. Reread Tennysons Life, chapter of "In Memoriam". Eve. Mrs. Tupper led C.E. Subj. Repentance & Conversion. Came home & read Tennyson. Rain in late afternoon. Almost no hay-fever. Wea. Mon. Sept. 5, 1898 Ther. Mr. Thorne called with books on Rom. VI. We read about ["Maud"] etc. Mr. & Mrs. Bostick & Lizzie came to dinner. Calls from Mrs. Corman, Alice Wood, & Mrs. Richardson. Carrie Wood called in the A.M. Eve. Called on the Lombard's in the evening. Cousin L. seems very tired. Letter from Fannie Swan, Ralph, Mrs. Jack, Gertrude Burleigh & Minnie. Bad attack of hay f. in night. Well all day. Wea. Tues. Sept. 6, 1898 Ther. Calls from Mrs. Morton & Grace Eaton. Prof. & Mrs. McGregory, Aunt Carrie & Mrs. Stacy drove over. Thunder-storm with strange yellow light all over the sky. Eve. I read aloud Maud. Almost no hay fever. Wea. Rain. Wed. Sept. 7, 1898 Ther. Lela Morse came up & read her poem & essay. Took dress to Mrs. Tucker. Rec'd Hendricks catalog. Call from Cousin Jane & Ellis. Played in prayer-meeting. Wea. Thur. Sept. 8, 1898 Ther. We called on Mrs. Darwin Morse, also on Cousin Hattie (out). In the A.M. we went over the stone house & saw Rob's treasures, old furniture, etc. Cousin Carrie has sold some property for $3000. This evening recited [our] poetry, read old letters, etc. Mr. Blanchard writes that he cannot give $25 to V.C. Aid. Comparatively little hay fever. Wea. Fri. Sept. 9, 1898 Ther. Left Eaton at 9.41 & we reached Wehawkin at 7. On train read [A...], "Tho. Jefferson", puzzles, Cosmopolitan, ate nuts. Visited with Agnes [A...]. She is teaching at Far Rockaway. Is engaged to Fred Ward. Quite a little hay fever. Wea. Sat. Sept. 10, 1898 Ther. A.M. Estelle filled two teeth. P.M. Troop C. passed up Lafayette Ave. about 5 P.M. Very nice call from Fred Reeve from 7.30 to 10.30. He earns $3.75 a day. He is attending 16th St. Baptist Church. Cannot come over to church tomorrow as he must work. Call on Mrs. [Le Row]. Hay f. in the evening. Wea. Cool. Sun. Sept. 11, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mr. Dixon. [A...] 1:1. I taught in S.s. in the A.M. Fason, Geo. [Lain], & Frank, also Mosely. Harold is 41. He is at Montauk. Ruth came to dinner & the Sharps called. Eve. Played then read Noah Brooks "Abraham Lincoln" to Frank & Fason. Wea. Mon. Sept. 12, 1898 Ther. A.M. Went shopping. P.M. Slept, sewed (?), etc. Read to boys. Took dinner at Ruth's & took a bicycle lesson (5). Very little hay fever. Wea. Tues. Sept. 13, 1898 Ther. Tried bicycling with Will & Frank (1). Mrs. Morse here. My blue points came. Eve. Read Lincoln to Frank & Phason. Called on Sharps. Hay fever bad last night. [Very] little since. Wea. Wed. Sept. 14, 1898 Ther. Stiff from bicycle. Slept. Read in Thos. Jefferson. Wrote Lucy Skinner & Mr. Buck. P.M. Mr. Dobson took the 3 girls, Agnes & me to the Navy Yard. We saw the Oregon, Iowa, Texas, Mass, etc. Went all over the New York. Saw Capt. Chadwick, commander of N.Y. The chief quarter-mates showed & told us a gt. deal. Eve. Met Reeve at 23rd St. & we went up to Capt. Carrigan's meeting. I read. He spoke well. [2] [...]. Came back to her flat. Reeve stayed till 12. I stayed all night. Met Mr. [Arial] on the train. He is one of Ensign Carrigan's soldiers. Wea. Thur. Sept. 15, 1898 Ther. We talked & prayed about Joe. Came home in the rain. Found lovely letter from Joe & Mrs. [Mobrey]. Trouble all settled. I wrote Joe, Mrs. Jack & Mrs. Hahn. Sewed a little. Slept. Read to Frank. Played on piano. Eve. Crokinole. Played on piano. Read to Frank. Wea. Fri. Sept. 16, 1898 Ther. In the evening Fred Reeve called, too late for meeting. Mother is worried. I sewed for the girls. Wea. Sat. Sept. 17, 1898 Ther. Lucy Skinner came to lunch. Harold came & asked Mother & me to Sunday dinner. Harold has been very sick. I think Lou [Hornton] is in love with Lucy. I went to the park to hear the music to celebrate the battle of Antietam. Too late for Rough Riders, but I saw War Veterans & some of our present soldiers. Benjamin Smith called on the girls this eve. & Albert Davis on me. Albert & I went to get ice-cream. Wea. Sun. Sept. 18, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mr. Dixon. Amos. 7:7,8. God's Plumb-Line. Mother went. Then she & I took dinner with Harold & Ruth. Came home. Mother seems very feeble. Slept. Read Ghost Story to boys. Eve. Read Lincoln to Frank, Will, & Mother. Wea. Mon. Sept. 19, 1898 Ther. I left for Springfield at 4 P.M. Sewed for the girls. On the way I stopped to see Mrs. Booth & Jennie. They have a place for me. Saw also Capt. Eva & Maj. Gardiner. I came as far as N. Haven with Mr. Russell. Very nice! Asked me to stop off for dinner. When I reached here I found Ella Russell, Bina Seymour, & Abbie [Tillinghart]. Marion Tice is to spend the week here, & Lena to buy her clothes. Bina to sleep with her. I am expecting to take Ella to Vassar. Edith Ball's mother died in August. Hay-fever bad last night. Wea. Tues. Sept. 20, 1898 Ther. Gave Ella Russell an exam. in Cicero & Lat. P. (passed). Gertrude Besse passed in Eng. Hist. Ella did 2 examp. in Book 1 of Geometry. (poetry good not very). I went to bank for $290. Called on Joe. I found Mr. & Mrs. [Mobry] there. He made me sit down & drink a cup of tea. Gertrude White has come. I called on Mrs. Barrons. Met May Hodge in the street. She wants work. Edw. Porter has had bronchitis. Ella, Bina, & I took a long car ride. We had a Vassar-[Elms] tea party. Pauline Day, Clara Reed, Edith Brooks, Gertrude Burleigh, Gerturde Reeve, & Mabel [Cour]. Edith told me about speaking to the coachman & asking him to go to State St. church. Wea. Wed. Sept. 21, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Thomson is going to send her daughter to Mip Lockwood's. Mrs. Barker brought Florence & I took her to the station. Rec'd Will Todd's cards. Bought [cretonne] covered [chest]. Met Mip Gruyer, Agnes Munford & Eliza Buffington. Marg. Carter is here. Also Mary Cutler & Percy [Munch]. Showed girls blue [p...]. Considerable hay-fever. Wea. Thur. Sept. 22, 1898 Ther. 1st day of school. We have the following girls in the house. 1. Marg. Carter \ 2. Agnes Minford \ 3. Ray Willman \ Old. 4. Ethel Van Deusen / 5. Eliza Buffington / 6. Gertrude White 7. Abbie Tillinghart 8. Percy Minich 9. Florence Barker 10. Mary Cutler 11. Martin Mattice I called on Edith Brooks & went to Library. Miss P. started for Vassar to take Ella Russell. Eve. Went to prayer-meeting. Mr. Parsons led. Smith looked very well. He told me without being asked that he drank one day a month ago that was all. Went home with the Sweets. They worry about Joe.Wea. Sultry Fri. Sept. 23, 1898 Ther. Lovely letter from Will Todd asking me to his wedding. A letter from Ray about Nettie Walker. Reeve writes that he earned $62.81 in two weeks. Eve. We had to make hat with two sheets of tissue paper & 20 pins. Wea. Sat. Sept. 24, 1898 Ther. Wrote letters, staightened room & did very little studying. Miss P. came home this eve. I led Joe's Mission. Mrs. Sweet went with me. Horrible smell! Smith quoted a a Bible verse "The Lord help them that helps themselves". About 20 there. I talked on Heb. 12:1,2. Wea. Sun. Sept. 25, 1898 Ther. Dr. Schauffler "Slamin Population". Very unhappy day. I am not to go to Joe's [alone] at night & I must give up either Joe's or the Volunteers. Cried over it. I staid home all the afternoon. Wea. Mon. Sept. 26, 1898 Ther. Call from Mrs. Sweet. She wants me to continue the Sat. evening meetings. Mrs. Packard, Eliz. & I walked down to High School tonight but it was closed. Bina Seymour's engagement is broken off. Wea. Tues. Sept. 27, 1898 Ther. Tuesday is to be my day out. Gave Marion her 1st lesson in music. Called on Mip Hastings. She will go to Joe's Mission with me. Bought chem. things. Went to library. Letter from Stella. Mip Hubbard's 1st lesson. Wea. Wed. Sept. 28, 1898 Ther. Mother writes that Mip P. is right about the mission work. Mr. Strong's 1st lesson. This afternoon I walked up to see Dr. Moxom about Mrs. Booth. He was away & I called on Mip Winter. Mother has malaria. Wea. Thur. Sept. 29, 1898 Ther. Miss King's choral class (1). I had a letter from May Gardner & one from Harlan. Wrote to Will Todd. I went to prayer-meeting. Walked down with Eliz. & Bina. Mr. Hathaway led. Maud [Chauters] was there. Wea. Warm. Fri. Sept. 30, 1898 Ther. Letters from Mother and Anna Case. This afternoon we went to the woods for moss. I almost fell. Salmagundi party. Games were Hearts, Beans, Writing Alphabet backwards, Threading button, Spelling words, Threading needles. Three potato race. Eliz. persuaded me not to write to Fred Reeve. Wea. Sat. Oct 1, 1898 Ther. Plays which we might see for Thanksgiving. Lion among Ladies: Macy Which is Which: S. Theyre Smith An Economical Bommerang - Neall The Cool Collegian - Miles [Medie] They were acted at Vassar by the Chaplin Apr. 23, '98 Studied all the A.M. Elizabeth & I made 9 calls thie P.M. In the eve. Eliz. & I went to Joe's. Smith was there all straight. Heb. 12:5-11. About 12 were present. A young Mr. [Homer] talked to Mr. Daniels. Wea. Sun. Oct. 2, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. Thomas. Luke 21:33. Communion. I told Joe I had decided to change to Sunday afternoon & he said All right for in [daling] with sinners it gets late for you. Stopped at Dr. Moxom's class. He asked [our] early idea of God. Slept & read Tennyson. Went to Jespers. Walked. Sang hymns. Wea. Mon. Oct. 3, 1898 Ther. Walked to Dr. Moxom's with Ethel & Gertrude. He was out. Saw him before a business meeting of his advisory committee. He called afterwards to see about Mrs. Booth. Went to library. Call from Mrs. Tillinghart. Miss Porter & 7 girls have gone to see Crane in a Virginia Courtship. Wea. Tues. Oct. 4, 1898 Ther. No letter from Mother & it worries me. My day out. Went to see Joe & then Mrs. Adams. Joe says he will ask for his letter. Called on Mip Barnard. They are moving. Called on Mrs. Sweet. Miss Hubbard (2). Mr. & Mrs. Porter came in & they, Mip P., Lena, Bina, Elizabeth & I discussed the strict rule of the school. I pitied Mip Porter. Wea. Wed. Oct. 5, 1898 Ther. Mr. Stoney came (2). Very rainy. Letter from Mother. She is very weak. Mary Jones (Jr.) has typhoid fever. Abby Tillinghart's brother called. Wea. Thur. Oct. 6, 1898 Ther. I went to prayer-meeting and played. Mr. led. Subject: Faith. Very good meeting. Smith said he was thankful God had kept him from his great temptation. Joe has destroyed his letter to the church after a talk with Mr. McKinnon. He was there & spoke well. Mr. McK. says he will "go for" Mrs. Cone. Willard Dean is dead. Mip Porter's birthday. Mrs. Packard & I gave her a tea ball. Miss King came (2). Wea. Fri. Oct. 7, 1898 Ther. Today we took a long walk about 5 miles along the watershops pond. Eve. We had a party & each brought a geographical name. I had West Indies. West in D's. Florence Wood & Eleanor Holbrook came. Wea. Sat. Oct. 8, 1898 Ther. Long rainy day. I wrote Edwin Woodruff. Read periodical & studied. We walked over to Pine St. Court. My first Sat. evening at home. I carried my Atlantic up to bed. Call from Capt. Rock. Gave her a dollar. Minnie's silver wedding. Wea. Sun. Oct. 9, 1898 Ther. Dr. Moxom on the S.S. Attended his class. My first afternoon meeting at Joe's. Very lovely. About 21 there. I came forward. Sunshine. Jimmie among them. Daniels must give up his sins. Smith was there. Mr. Rod stayed to run down City Mission. Stopped in at Dr. Buckingham's Memorial. Heard Drs. [Selder] & Moxom. Mrs. Packard threatened with pleuro-pneumonia. Wea. Mon. Oct. 10, 1898 Ther. 1st periodical. About 30 came. Mrs. McGregory (Ham.) has lost use of her other limb. Wea. Tues. Oct. 11, 1898 Ther. Our 1st periodical. Drawing (3). I spent my "afternoon out" reading periodical in my room. Mary Lewis Jones has died, was a drunkard. Wea. Wed. Oct. 12, 1898 Ther. Mr. Strong (3). Letters from Edwin Woodruff & Lillian [Strenger]. Wea. Thur. Oct. 13, 1898 Ther. Mip King (3). Union meeting of Bapt. Churches. Mr. Quick led. I played. Mabel Cone has had bilious fever. Mrs. Hahn wrote about Mrs. [Moberg]. Capt. Eva wants me to come during harvest week. Capt. Carrigan sent me a letter for Joe. Wea. Fri. Oct. 14, 1898 Ther. Rainy evening. Miss Porter, Bina, & I went to hear Prof. Sloane of Columbia on Way of teaching Ethereal in History at new High School. Association of N.Eng. Colleges & Prep. Schools. Mrs. [Undwhite] of Lowell was [with] us. Met Mip Jordan, Mip Pilling, Mrs. [Norton], etc. Mrs. Booth, Jennie, & [...] came tonight, but I haven't seen them. Letter from Capt. Rock. The [old] Volunteers are [pestering] them. Wea. Sat. Oct. 15, 1898 Ther. I went to final meeting of Ass. of Colleges & Prep. Schools. Sec. Hill spoke on Public Tax for High Schools. Dr. Ballist opened discussion. He wants colleges abolished & the high schools to do first two yrs. work. Miss Jordan came home with me to lunch. Afternoon. Beautiful talk by Mrs. Booth. Mip Emerson staid to dinner. We talked through the evening. Wea. Sun. Oct. 16, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. Moxom. Acts 15:38. Essential Conditions for Success, Sincerity, Faith, Persistence. In S.S. Dr. Moxom read from Isaiah in Polychrome Bible. Jennie went to Vol. [nineteen]. 3 in audience & 7 on platform! I had a wonderful meeting, about 30. I talked upon the [...] James 3. Purity & Kind Speaking. Mr. [Dorn] said at Volunteers that he went down the street praying "Lord control my tongue". Mip Booth spoke in Smith Church. I became a Defender. Sat up till 11.30 with a sick headache writing report for Gazette. Wea. Mon. Oct. 17, 1898 Ther. Finished my report from 5.15 to 6.30. The Booths left at 7.55. Mip P. spoke very seriously to me about winking. I feel [bringed] up. Instead of walking I went to sleep. Nice letter from Reeve. Wea. Tues. Oct. 18, 1898 Ther. My day out. I called on Mrs. Sweet then Joe, then Mip Barnard. She upset me by telling me what the Police Capt. says of the Mission. Cute letter from Edwin Woodruff & note from Dr. Moxom enclosing Dr. Bridgeman's letters. Mip Hubbard (4). Mrs. Packard has raised blood. Wea. Wed. Oct. 19, 1898 Ther. Rainy. Give Edward his lesson at his home. Mrs. Webb came as her mother's lump seems affected. Lafayette Day. Mr. Story (4). Played games in gym. Wea. Thur. Oct. 20, 1898 Ther. Miss King (4). Mr. Hahn was back at prayer-meeting & told about [...] & their suffering & sins. Smith was there. Wea. Fri. Oct. 21, 1898 Ther. Margaret Carter & Eliza Buffington gave Mother Goose chase. Wea. Rain. Sat. Oct. 22, 1898 Ther. 2 hrs. call from Edwin Woodruff. Lena had talk with Bina. Miss Gruyer went to spend Sunday at the Reeds. [Y...] [R...] [Q...] [Th...]Wea. Sun. oct. 23, 1898 Ther. Wonderful sermon by Dr. Moxom. Matt. 10:37. Dr. Gulick said in S.S. he feared he didn't love Christ. Mrs. Webb rec'd my report in Volunteers Gazette at the table. At Joe's I talked with young man & his lame wife. Went up stairs & prayed with Joe. Then talked alone with Smith about joining church etc. Eve. Borrowed Dr. Moxom's sermon for Lena. Had a little talk with him about loving Christ. Wea. Mon. Oct. 24, 1898 Ther. Outlook class. So I did not walk. Wea. Tues. Oct. 25, 1898 Ther. Stayed home this afternoon & read periodical. We discussed Helbeck of Bannisdale tonight. Miss Hubbard (5). Wea. Wed. Oct. 26, 1898 Ther. Felt tired & cross. It rained & I have not walked since Sunday. Mr. Story (5). Wea. Thur. Oct. 27, 1898 Ther. Mip King (5). Miss Porter has gone to N.Y. Smith spoke in meeting. Mr. Russell led. He said there were 50 or 60 at Joe's Sunday night. Dr. Sweet brought library books home for me. Bina has gone to Brookline to visit schools, & Eliz. Gruyer to the Ludlin Church with the Reeds to a Chicken pie supper. Wea. Fri. Oct. 28, 1898 Ther. Miss Gruyer & I took the girls to Mt. [Fern]. We left at 2.10 reached home at 6.40 & had only about 20 minutes there. Ride to Holyoke 50 [mi] to Mt. Park about 80 to top 7. In the evening I read Jannis's Passing of Thomas. Harpers Aug. 92.Wea. Sat. Oct. 29, 1898 Ther. Rec'd a 19 page letter (enclosings making about 50 pages) from Edwin Stoddard, Trenton [P...]. He sends letters to his mother (Chicopee Falls). Home of Mr. Pepper to Ed Barr & to Mrs. Booth. He wants ready Stamps & prayers. Worked all day. Mip Gruyer has gone to the Reeds for good time. I sat this evening in her room. My hot water bag emptied itself in my bed last night, so I went in the Bina. Wea. Sun. Oct. 30, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. Moxom. Gospel for the Nation. S.S. class. Good meeting at Joe's. "Idol". Joe sick & unable to come. Mrs. [Grey] came. At close Smith told me he was not coming any more to Sunday P.M. meeting or prayer-meeting. Wouldn't tell the reason. Met Mr. Francis & he took me to Frank Hale's. I find that Edward Stoddard is a scoundrel. Read Ford, Maria, & Me to girls. Mip Porter came home late. Went to Sing Sing today. Wea. Mon. Oct. 31, 1898 Ther. A pathetic letter from Smith. He writes in a very manly way. Went to 1st High School Concert, the Kneisels. Wea. Tues. Nov. 1, 1898 Ther. I went out to Ludlow to spend night with the Reeds. Went on 4 oclock car. We had candy & grapes in car. Evening. Children slept before five. Mr. Reed & I drove. Miss Hubbard (6).Wea. Wed. Nov. 2, 1898 Ther. Came home reaching here at 8.15. Mrs. Packard & Mrs. Webb left for Madison & Hamilton. The girls are reading "Mr. Bob". Mr. Story (6). Wea. Thur. Nov. 3, 1898 Ther. Rec'd a note from Frank Bailey (?) saying my land was to be sold for taxes(?). Expected to go to prayer-meeting at South Church but went instead to my own & heard Mrs. Fowler of Amenia. Played. Smith not there. Saw Mrs. Hahn. Called on Cousin Charlotte Porter. Whole school went down to Mr. Reeds to see 2nd [Vol.] [mustered] out. I stayed to watch men. Miss King (6). Wea. Fri. Nov. 4, 1898 Ther. Halloween this evening. Day scholars came. Mr. Reed has invited the whole school to Ludlow tomorrow. Wea. Sat. Nov. 5, 1898 Ther. We all except Miss Porter & Gertrude White went to Ludlow. Took 11 A.M. car. Mr. Reed met us with his trap, a one-seated wagon, 2-seated wagon & straw wagon. First we played in the hay. Then dinner 2 turkeys, then rich & dance in old hall, with Mr. Hobson to play. Reached home at 7. I washed dishes. Read Forum. Wea. Sun. Nov. 6, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. Moxom Juo 4:10. Did not stay to S.S. but slept. P.M. Joe's. Fruit bearing Juo. 15:1. Talked with Joe. S. was not there. He is saving up money to take care of me when I am old & broken down. Went to South Ch. communion. Ethel was sprinkled. Bina joined by letter. Wea. Mon. Nov. 7, 1898 Ther. Letter from E.M.S. How shal I answer. Went to library this eve & got into paint. Girls & Mip Gruyer played ball in the yard. Wea. Tue. Nov. 8, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Houghton came last night. I took her to the Hahn's & Goodfreeds. Outlook class. Roosevelt elected Gov. of N.Y. Mrs. Hubbard sick. Wea. Wed. Nov. 9, 1898 Ther. Burned hand with sulphuric acid. Mr. Story (7). Wea. Thur. Nov. 10, 1898 Ther. Very rainy. Only about 12 in meeting. Called later at Sweets. Burglars have stolen about $500 worth from the [Merians]. Mip King (7). Wea. Fri. Nov. 11, 1898 Ther. Girls practiced play this evening. I studied & played for Agnes. Miss Hubbard came but gave no lesson. Wea. Sat. Nov. 12, 1898 Ther. Spent day at N. Haven. Started at 9.35 train. Stopped to buy candy at Smith & M's & left a $. Got it in evening. Read Scribners on train. Reached N.H. at 11.50. Went to Will France's restaurant. He walked with me to Mrs. Hadley's, 93 Whitney Ave. Met Prof. H. Saw 2 children & 1/2 (?). Nice lunch. Saw Mrs. Herman etc. Then business meeting. Read report of Mrs. B. Then reception for A.C.A. Then Caroline Ransom & Jessie [Denill] & I called on Martha Sharpe. Talked of Susan. Met Mrs. Fisher & Edith. Came home on 5.52 train. Miss Hill here!!!Wea. Sun. Nov. 13, 1898 Ther. [Forgiving] day. Prof. [Long] of [Andover] (ex. Cuth.) preached on Ps. 46:10. Be still etc. Staid to Bible class. Mr. Day taught. Not interesting. Bina talked with me about Miss Porter's dictating to her. At Mission I talked about Soul-searching. Res. 3:1 & Ps. 139. Aunt Mary & Mary Randall appeared. Joe gave me a letter from Smith telling me not to feel bad. Joe says he is in a bad way. Thinks he is drinking. Jim's wife went to a Reformatory for ladies. He bought top & bottom teeth & cleaned her up. Wrote to Smith & to Dr. Judson. Met Mr. Francis & he walked up with me. Wea. Mon. Nov. 14, 1898 Ther. Richard Driscoll has begun school. I gave Edward his 1st piece & I gave one to Eunice [Strong]. Wea. Tues. Nov. 15, 1898 Ther. Another letter from Smith. Quite cheerful. In another month he will go before the church he says. Miss Hubbard (7). Lena & Miss Porter went to Mrs. Houghtins lecture (1). So I stayed in till 5.15. Then took tea at the Hahns. Met Mr. Pendleton. McKinnons called with baby. The Hahns had to go out early. Wea. Wed. Nov. 16, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Burleigh came this eve. to tell of her visit to Vassar. Eliza is 15. Mr. Story (8). Eliz. Gruyer has gone to a game dinner at the Reeds. Wea. Thur. Nov. 17, 1898 Ther. Rec'd lovely letter from Dr. Judson. Rained. Peculiar experience at prayer-meeting. Short meeting followed by Mutual Insurance meeting. Then Smith came in so drunk. I got him out & we had a talk on several subjects. Mr. Hahn brought out his [hat]. Miss King (8). Wea. Fri. Nov. 18, 1898 Ther. Unpleasant day so we did not go out. Girls rehearsal. They rehearsed this evening. Distracted letter from Mrs. Hahn. Prof. Van Ingen is dead. Wrote 5 letters this eve. while the girls were rehearsing. Wea. Sat. Nov. 19, 1898 Ther. Rainy. Read. Sewed. P.M. Called on Mrs. Hahn & Joe, & did shopping. Eve. Read. Played for Mip Hill (2).Wea. Sun. Nov. 20, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. Long. Mark 5:7. Beautiful sermon. Mission. "The Church". Smith was there so ashamed. We went up to Joe's room & Smith told me what was the matter with him. Wea. Mon. Nov. 21, 1898 Ther. All went to Little Minister but Bina, Marion, Gertrude White and me. I wrote Mother & Mrs. Packard. Outlook class. Wea. Tues. Nov. 22, 1898 Ther. Mip Hubbard (8). Mrs. Houghton's 2nd lecture. I went to Grace Bradford's & Henrie Vining's wedding. Outlook class. Discussed The Gadfly's. Wea. Wed. Nov. 23, 1898 Ther. All but 5 girls went away. I took Marg. Carter & Mary Cutler to train. Eve. Took tea with Mrs. Chamberlain & Miss Porter at the Porters. James & Ruth arrived late. Letter from Mr. Buck. Hope for Meredith Co. Mr. Story (9). Wea. Thur. Nov. 24, 1898 Ther. Thanksgiving day. Went in rain to hear Mr. Brooks. He either does or does not believe in annexation of Phillipines. First snow storm. Mrs. Chamberlain, James & Ruth came to dinner. Eliz. Guyer went to Northampton. 5 girls were here. Wea. Fri. Nov. 25, 1898 Ther. We heard the play "Mr. Bob". I broke my ice-cream sauces afterward. Miss King (9). Mr. [Fannie's] boy born. Wea. Sat. Nov. 26, 1898 Ther. Read Outlook & Forum all day. Girls had Mr. Bob photos. Lena took Ed. Marin & doll to photog. I took Margaret Carter to chiropodist & Eliza to Dr. [Allis] dentist. They talk of Will Taft as Pres. of Yale. Miss Hill (3). Dr. Moxom & May Clark called. Wea. Sun. Nov. 27, 1898 Ther. Such severe storm that there was no church. We had church at home. I borrowed Lena's leggings & went down to Joes. We had a meeting around the stove, 6 of us. Smith has told Joe that he has another girl. We had a long sing this evening. I called on Mip Hastings who has had acute bilious attack. Telegram from Mr. [Fannie] Friday. A fine boy born this morning. All well. Wea. Mon. Nov. 28, 1898 Ther. Dr. Abbott has resigned from Plymouth Church. Girls played in the snow. Agnes Minford returned. Mrs. Houghton came. Dr. Moxom called. Alice Fraser called & I bought a book (.40). Spent evening in library. Wea. Tues. Nov. 29, 1898 Ther. My day out but I staid to keep house. Mrs. Houghton 3rd lecture. Mip Hubbard (9). Eve. Eliz. & I went to call on Mr. & Mrs. Frank Norton & then to drink . Wea. Wed. Nov. 30, 1898 Ther. I sat up till 1 o'clock. Wrote to Mother & Mrs. Packard. Mr. Story (10). Wea. Thur. Dec. 1, 1898 Ther. Frank - Hems of Nations Grant or Lee Mip King (10). I went to prayer-meeting. It was S.S. election so I left early. Wea. Fri. Dec. 2, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Booth & Jennie came to breakfast. Left for Bethel at 2.22. I took them to train. Dr. Gulick (1). I did not take. Eve. Read to girls Deacon [P...] & Marjorie Daw. Wea. Sat. Dec. 3, 1898 Ther. Studied all day. No I worked about 3 hrs. in the A.M. in lab. Mip Hill 4Wea. Sun. Dec. 4, 1898 Ther. Fine sermon by Dr. Moxom on Cheerfulness. Bina returned from Vassar. Joe left me to lead meeting alone. Col. III. Few there but beautiful spirit. Jim, a man who was drunk last night came forward. Wrote to Smith. Wea. Mon. Dec. 5, 1898 Ther. Reeve writes that he is quite sick. Outlook class. Went to library. Bina sick with cold. Wea. Tues. Dec. 6, 1898 Ther. Pathetic letter from Smith. Mrs. Brown & I went to hear Mrs. Houghton lecture on Epis of Bible. I couldn't get my periodical lesson but got along pretty well. Mip Hubbard (10). Wea. Wed. Dec. 7, 1898 Ther. Elizabeth taken sick with sort of grippe. Attended Liberty [...] lecture on [Ambidextrous] drawing. Mr. Story (11). Wea. Thur. Dec. 8, 1898 Ther. Prayer-meeting. Mr. [Fanne] has dictated a nice letter. Miss King (11). Wea. Fri. Dec. 9, 1898 Ther. Florence Barker & I went shopping. I read & played to girls this evening. Dr. Gulick didn't come. Wea. Sat. Dec. 10, 1898 Ther. A.M. Lunch. Call from Addison Foster. Rec'd Leila Dean's cards. Spent long time correcting Abby [Lillingharte's] Greek book. P.M. Studied. Went over to give Edward lesson. Miss P. told me about Frances Phillips. Eve. Studied till nearly midnight. Mip Hill 5Wea. Sun. Dec. 11, 1898 Ther. Awfully tired. Bina read a good paper in S.S. Dr. Gulick says I am unusual to work hard. Smith was at meeting. Full house & so blue. Smith not heard. Slept this eve. Some man led the mission. Wea. Mon. Dec. 12, 1898 Ther. Read Greek plays most all day. Snow prevents us attending Burton Holmes lecture. Eunice Barrows born. Wea. Tues. Dec. 13, 1898 Ther. Bitter cold. I got mad because Mip P. sent Bina out of girls room & would eat scarcely any breakfast. Gertrude White & I went down to buy drawing paper. Called to inquire for Woods girls. Worked on [Scribs] at home & in library. Called on Mrs. Sweet. Smith writes of one friend outside of church. Miss Hubbard (11).Wea. Wed. Dec. 14, 1898 Ther. Mr. Story (12). Read periodical all the afternoon. Miss Porter & Lena went to lecture on [Ouran Kajan]. Letter from Reeve. Wea. Thur. Dec. 15, 1898 Ther. Mr. Brigham died last night. Beautiful prayer-meeting. Capt. Carrigan my work outside army. Took Abbie [Lillingharte] to library. Mip King 12Wea. Fri. Dec. 16, 1898 Ther. Walked to Dr. Gulicks to say no lesson. Mip King (12). I read ten minutes from Pickwick. Did not read Conan Doyle. Wea. Sat. Dec. 17, 1898 Ther. Read most of Cyrano de Bergerac. Helped Marjorie Coats make up Latin. P.M. Took Eliza to Dr. Allis. Shopped & called on Mip Barnard. Mip Hill 6.Wea. Sun. Dec. 18, 1898 Ther. A.M. Dr. Barnes of Longmeadow. Mark 8:36. Fine sermon. Didn't stay to S.S. Slept. [Thin] meeting at Joe's. Mrs. Francis came with blues. Smith was sober as judge told me of Sadie Burton. Joe blue. Mr. Foster showed [mips] picture. Met Mr. Hyde, blue. Miss Porter read Mrs. Houghton address on Song of Solomon. Wea. Mon. Dec. 19, 1898 Ther. Marg. Carter etc. bothered Miss Gruyer on walk. Sent to room. I took Eliza down town & did some shopping. Mrs. Houghton arrived with Grippe. Outlook class. Wea. Tues. Dec. 20, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Joe McDonald arrested for assault by Mrs. Connor (drunk). I hope it is all right. Mrs. Houghton's last lecture. Miss Hubbard (12). Stormed & no one came to periodical class. Rec'd my 6.93 [from] Walter buck. 8.47 goes to Cousin Lizzie. Stella Hitchcock's husband has malarial fever & she is in Honolulu. 2 [S...] " [A...] [E...] [E...] Wea. Wed. Dec. 21, 1898 Ther. I am anxious about Joe. It is after eleven & I have not begun to pack. Worked all day in [lessons] etc. Mr. Story 13Wea. Thur. Dec. 22, 1898 Ther. I began packing last night at 11.35. Retired at 2.35. This A.M. in [bed] had last lessons. Came to N.Y. at 2.22. Supposed to reach N.Y. at 5.40 but train was late. Reached home at about 7.30. Florence Barker, Agnes Minford & Percy Minich came too & Dr. Gulick came with us. Frank has grippe & Min. has come with it. Found Will & Ralph here. Wea. Fri. Dec. 23, 1898 Ther. This A.M. went shopping. Read Bangs "Mr. Bonapart" to boys. Mrs. Palmer here. Prayer-meeting. Wea. Sat. Dec. 24, 1898 Ther. Shopping. Went into Mary Sharpe's. Went to Lucy Skinner's 213 Lafayette to see their baby's 1st tree. Christmas party at Mary's. Bertha & Mother sick & Minnie did not go. Jacob Dixon's, Mr. [Parin], Mr. Williams & Mr. from [...] who sings in Lafayette Ave. church. Harold did not come. Wea. Sun. Dec. 25, 1898 Ther. A.M. Mr. Dixon Luke 2:20. Christmas Praises. I taught Geo. Lane and Frank. I have cold. Prof. Froelich came to supper. We played duetts. Arranged presents. Wea. Mon. Dec. 26, 1898 Ther. Rec'd presents. Mother had $50 from Ros & Sallie. Helped fill candy boxes at church. Harold, Ruth & Ralph came to 3 o'clock dinner. Eve. Sat around & cut up. Will & I called on Grandma Richardson. Marg & Belle Richardson called. Wea. Tues. Dec. 27, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Morse sewed. Went again to fill candy boxes. Wrote Cousin L. Felt [sleepie] & half sick with cold. Went down to [Journeay's]. Win, Ruth, Frank, Sadie, & Russell went to S.S. entertainment. Agnes returned to Orange. Bertha in bed with asthma. Wrote letters. Wea. Wed. Dec. 28, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Morse is here. I went over to see Jennie Hughes & I wrote 11 letters for her. Went to Wanamakers & called on Mrs. Fannee. I saw Perry Edson. Saw his baby basket with gold safety pins from Mrs. Rockafeller. Wea. Thur. Dec. 29, 1898 Ther. Went down town twice to buy dress. Finally I got mixed cheriot 4 yds. for 2.75. Felt tired. Mother miserable. She has bronchitis. I suppose Jessica is now at Flushing. All but Bertha, Mother, Minnie & I went to Church sociable. Mrs. Morse & Mary Palmer here. Alfred Stone is charged with fraudulent enlistment & lying to an officer. May be confined in a military prison. Wea. Fri. Dec. 30, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Morse & Mrs. Palmer here. My blue trimmed with red & my cheriot skirt about finished. I acted cross & tired Mother. Mrs. Morse made my [...] & ripped up another hat. Lucy called & asked me to lunch. I went down town. Came home & scolded & went to Lucy's. Ruth called. Will came home excited by a talk with Mrs. Richardson about expenses. Mrs. M. staid till about 8. I went to meeting. Mother seems miserable. Wea. Sat. Dec. 31, 1898 Ther. Mrs. Palmer here. Reeve came this evening & staid till after 12. He came about 8. The girls & boys carried on, drank lemonade etc. He brought me caramels. He talked about not giving enough time to Bible reading etc. Then he told me that Dr. Shunk thinks he may have tuberculosis & he would have to go to Denver. Poor boy. He acknowledged that he was lonely. He earns about $100 a month. Memoranda Jan. 2 Mother owes me. 7.15 " 3 " " " 3.64 " 5 I owe Mother 13.36 " " " " " 18.21 " " " " " 18.37 18.62 " " " " " 19.12 " 6 " " " 23.08 " 8 " " " 35.33 " 11 " " " 50.00 " 21 " " " 50.35 Feb. 4 " " " 20.35 " " " " " 20.60 " 19 " " " 21.10 Mar. 1 " " " 21.45 Apr. 9 " " " 24.17 " 14 " " " 22.55 " " " " " 25.55 " 15 " " " 25.84 " 16 " " " 28.96 " " " " " 33.96 " " " " " 32.03 " 18 " " " 33.52 " 22 " " " 33.77 " 29 " " " 34.27 May 28 " " " 36.77 June25 " " " 37.18 " 27 " " " 37.77 " 28 " " " 35.60 July 3 " " " 35.70 " 5 " " " 32.36 Memoranda July 8 I owe Mother 34.31 " 9 " " " 38.54 " 10 " " " 38.69 " 11 " " " 33.14 " " " " " 32.54 " 12 " " " 32.42 12 " " " 32.07 14 " " " 30.02 29 " " " 46.02 30 " " " 39.07 31 " " " 39.52 12 " " " 37.52 " " " " 38.52 37.66 13 " " " 36.51 15 " " " 32.95 18 " " " 33.95 34.35 19 " " " 35.10 22 " " " 35.03 23 " " " 33.53 29 " " " 33.28 31 " " " 31.95 Sept.7 " " " 15.98 16.11 " 11 " " " 10.96 12 " " " 10.46 12 " " " 10.95 16 10.07 .06 Addresses Name Residence Sept. 17 I owe Mother 1.17 18 " " " 1.27 19 " " " 7.52 26 " " " 8.46 30 " " " 10.36 Oct. 8 " " " 11.40 " 11 " " " 12.13 14 " " " 13.13 Nov. " " " " 20.26 Dec. 23 Mother owes me 4.11 " " " " " 4.36 " 26 " " " 4.51 " 28 I owe Mother 8.40 " " " 9.19 " " " 11.58 " " " 1.58 I owe Mother 3.50 " " " 3.75 30 " " " 4.00 31 " " " 4.75Charity Memoranda Date Dolls.Cts. Jan. 1 16.28 2 Hauson Pl. .21 16.07 Board 1897-98 $20 5 Zulus .85 15.22 7 Studius Aid 1.00 14.22 9 Hauson Pl. .15 14.07 10 Foreign Miss. .71 13.36 1 Board 1897-98 $20 33.36 Joe's Mission .25 33.11 21 Loan & [B...].80 33.91 22 Joe's .25 33.66 23 Volunteer's .25 33.41 26 S.Army .25 33.16 29 Joe .30 32.86 30 Lunch Soc. .30 32.56 Volunteer's .30 32.26 3 Joe's .25 32.01 Helpful Hand .25 31.76 Joe .55 31.21 5 " .25 30.96 6 South Ch. .05 30.91 Volunteers .25 30.66 Potatoes for Val.30 30.36 5 S.A.Capt. .25 30.11 12 Joe .25 29.86 13 South Ch. .05 28.81 Volunteers .25 28.56 19 Joe .25 28.31 20 Church South .05 28.26 " Volunteers .25 28.01 Memoranda Date Dolls.Cts. Feb. 28.01 27 Holyoke Vol. .25 27.76 State St. Bapt. .25 27.51 Mar.5 Joe's .25 27.26 6 Church seat Jan. & Fe. 2.70 24.56 Church [p...] .30 24.32 Volunteers .25 24.06 10 State St. .05 24.01 12 Joe .25 23.76 13 Cuba .30 23.46 " Volunteers .25 23.21 16 Salary 2.50 25.70 26 Joe & cofee .05 25.20 27 Church Y.W.C.A. .25 24.95 Volunteers .25 24.70 Salary etc. 20.60 45.30 Apr.3 Benev. Oct-Apr. 15.00 30.30 Church seat Mar.Apr. 2.40 27.90 Church State St. .10 27.80 Volunteers .25 27.55 Joe .25 27.30 8 Hauson Pl. .05 27.25 0 " " .15 27.10 17 Church " .05 27.05 Indians .30 26.75 April 30Joes's Miss. .25 26.50 May 1 South Ch. .05 26.45 " " Volunteers .25 26.20 " 7 Joes .25 25.95 " 8 South Ch. .05 25.90Memoranda Date Dolls. Cts. 25.90 May 8 Volunteers 1.25 23.65 " 9 " food .74 22.91 Joe's tea .25 22.66 14 " .25 22.41 19 Bapt. Ch. .25 22.16 21 Joe's .25 21.95 22 Church South .05 21.86 Volunteers .25 21.61 28 Joe's M. .25 21.36 Joe's ham .15 21.21 29 South Ch. .05 21.16 Holyoke Vol. .25 20.91 June 4 Joe .43 20.48 " Salary 2.50 22.98 5 Y.M.C.A. soldiers .30 22.58 " Volunteers .25 22.33 8 Class fine 1.00 21.33 11 Joe's .25 21.08 13 " .18 20.90 Church South .05 20.85 Volunteers .25 20.60 25 Joe .25 20.35 26 Benev. May-Sept 11.00 9.35 " " Bapt. pew May-Sept 6.60 2.75 " " Bapt. City Miss. 2.00 .75 " Christian Com. .75 .00 25 Salary 1.00 1.00 Volunteers .25 .75 27 Salary 20.00 20.75 " Church seat 10.00 10.75NOTES AND BILLS Date Drawers Time July 3 Gt.B. church .10 10.65 " 8 American .25 10.40 " 10 Hauson Pl. .15 10.25 " 11 Miss. " " .25 10.00 " 17 Ang. Pres. Church.& S.S. .15 9.85 " 20 W.C.S.U. .10 9.75 " 31 Oxford Church & S.S. .15 9.60 Aug. 4 Am. S.S. Un. 1.00 8.60 " 7 Oxford Church .22 7.38 14 Eaton " & S.S. .11 7.27 24 Interest 1.00 8.27 25 Needles .20 8.07 28 Eaton Ch. & S.S. .11 7.96 Sept.4 " " " .11 7.85 " 11 Hauson Pl. .15 7.70 14 S.Army .63 7.07 18 Colonel Orph. .10 6.97 Oct. 1 Joe .35 6.62 Bapt. Chur. 1.05 5.57 8 Volunteers 1.00 4.57 9 South Ch. .05 4.52 " Joe's .20 4.32 15 Mrs. Booth .25 4.07 " Joe's .25 3.82 16 Defender's 5.00 -1.18 23 Church .05 -1.23 Joe's .25 -1.48 30 " .25 -1.73 Church .05 -1.78 Nov. 6 " .05 -1.83RECEIVABLE No. Where Payable Due Amount Nov. 6 Joe's -2.08 " 10 Salary 1.00 -1.08 13 South Ch. .10 -1.18 19 Joe's letter .30 -1.48 20 Joes Miss .25 -1.73 South Ch. .05 -1.78 Dec.11 " " S.S. .10 -1.88 " 11 Joe's .25 -2.13 18 " .25 -2.38 5 Pts. .25 -2.63 Benev to Jan 6.50 -9.13 Church to Jan 2.90 -12.03 South Ch to June 1899 10.00 -22.03 Salary 21.50 - .53 25 Mission .25 - .78 Col. Orphan. .25 1.03 S.S.Hausen Pl. .25 1.28CASH ACCOUNT - JANUARY Date Received Paid Leftover 170.86 1 Lost .70 Carfare .05 2 Church .21 Stamps .02 1 Organ guides .04 3 Carfare .25 Knife Sharpened .10 Win [peanut] addict. .26 Water proof. 3.25 Mrs. Stephen's 15.65 4 Mrs. Palmer 1.10 Car fare .10 Materials for dress 17.00 5 Stamps .24 Rubber bag mended .10 Car fare .10 Shoes 1.95 Serge skirt 4.85 Atlantic .35 Hat pins .04 Sleeve protectors .12 Zulu land .85 Stocking supporters .25 Handkerchief .50 6 Photos 2.50 Carfare .10 7 Hairpins 2 doz. .24 Tooth powder .25 170.86 51.17CASH ACCOUNT - JANUARY Date Received Paid 7 Bro't over 170.86 51.17 Student Aid 1.00 Board 5.00 8 Night gown .89 Library book .02 Mrs. Palmer 1.10 9 Church & S.S. .15 Car fare .05 10 Mission Foreign .71 Ticket to Spr. & trunk 3.25 Gloves 1.00 Car fare .05 Stamps .20 Ice cream .30 Library book .04 Peanuts .05 11 Envelopes .10 Board 5.00 Eggs .25 Stamps .16 Block .06 Car fare & carriage .50 13 Kneisels 1.00 15 Outlook 2.50 Joe's .25 13 Stamps .50 20 Candy .10 Pins .35 21 Iowa Building 8.00 178.86 75.75Jan. CASH ACCOUNT - FEBRUARY Date Received Paid 178.86 75.75 22 Car fare .05 Gym dress & board 4.24 23 Volunteers .25 22 Joe's Mission .25 24 Car fare .05 26 " " .10 S.A. .25 27 Paper .02 28 Gym. dress made 3.50 29 Nail brush .20 30 Church .30 Volunteers .30 Joe's .30 1 Experss .40 3 Helping Hand .25 Joe's .25 4 Joe sugar & cof. .55 Tennis shoes .90 Rubbers .50 Envelopes .20 Candy .10 Corset cone .25 5 Joe .25 6 Smith Ch. .05 Volunteers .25 7 " potatoes .30 10 [Gills.] .50 5 S.A. capt. .25 90.56CASH ACCOUNT - FEBRUARY Date Received Paid 178.86 90.56 12 Flowers - Mrs. Jacobs .75 Soap .10 Joe .25 13 Newspaper wrap .22 Church - South .05 Volunteers .25 14 Chur. .06 Stamps .15 Corset cover .50 Art gallery .25 19 Coat .15 Candy .10 Joe .25 Car fare .05 Ruth's book .95 20 Church .05 " Volunteers .25 23 Rubbers .10 26 Lincoln 1.15 Testament .53 27 St. Cars .20 Holyoke Vol. .25 28 State St. Bapt. .25 " Stamps .36 Express .35 4 Fair & frappe .20 5 Joe's .25 Church & Vol. 3.25 178.86 100.83CASH ACCOUNT - MARCH Date Received Paid 178.86 100.83 6 Medicine .05 7 Car fare .15 9 " .05 10 State St. .05 11 Car fare .10 12 " " .05 Joe's .25 13 Cuba .30 Volunteers .25 14 Car fare .05 Gloves .50 Hairpins .10 3 books .75 Ruching .10 16 Gloves 1.50 " Mip Porter 25.00 17 Candy .43 18 Stockings .37 N.A. [Review] .50 19 Delivery Stamp .10 20 Panel .20 21 Stamps etc. .50 26 Library .14 Curlers .08 3 prs. stockings 1.00 Coffee .25 Joe .25 27 Church .25 203.86 109.15 CASH ACCOUNT - MARCH & APR. Date Received Paid 203.86 109.15 28 Car fare .05 Knife .75 29 Car fare .10 Salary 205.00 Interest .82 Soap .10 Library .10 Knife .10 3 Church (through Apr.) 17.40 Volunteer .25 Joe .25 4 Stamps .50 Church .10 5 Car fare .10 Fillers (2) .10 Glasses .50 Buttons .05 Potassium .50 Mip Barnard .10 6 Spr. N.Y. 2.75 7 Carriage .50 Car fare & paper .18 Trunk .75 8 Car fare .30 Hausen Pl. .05 Reeve .10 9 Car fare .10 Mrs. Palmer 1.10 409.68 136.03CASH ACCOUNT - APRIL Date Received Paid 409.68 136.03 9 Building etc. .62 10 Church etc. .15 Car fare .10 11 " " .10 12 " " .05 Tailor-made dress 31.00 Hat 6.00 Tie 1.89 Steel belt 2.32 13,14 [Crip] to Englewood .82 Mrs. Morse 3.00 15 Mariners Harbor .29 " Car fare .20 Shirt waist 1.45 Belt .25 Candy .03 Hooks & eyes .10 2 skirts 1.29 Drawers 2.00 Magazine .05 Hairpins .05 16 Shirt waist 2.50 Board 9.00 Hat 2.50 Shoes 3.00 Paper .23 Tooth powder .13 Car fare .05 409.68 205.20 CASH ACCOUNT - APRIL Date Received Paid 409.68 205.20 16 Hat trimmed .75 [Springf.] & trunk 3.25 Mrs. Palmer 2.20 Unacct. 4.83 Mrs. Palmer .35 17 Church .05 Indians .30 18 Paid Agnes .05 Stamps .64 Hat [add...] 1.50 Candy .20 Belt .19 " fastenings .05 S.S. book .20 Car fare .10 Carriage .40 20 Dr. Moxom reading .50 Colleg. Alum. 1.00 Vass. 1.00 Camphor .30 21 Candy .10 Dress hangers .10 Car fare .05 22 Gloves cleaned .20 Stamps .05 Collars 4 .50 Hat pins .10 409.68 224.16CASH ACCOUNT - APRIL MAY Date Received Paid 409.68 224.16 24 Church .05 Volunteers .25 26 Maple S. .08 Stamps .50 28 Calcic chloride .05 29 Lime .05 Cards engraved .50 30 Joe's Mission .25 1 South Ch. .05 Volunteers .25 2 Gloves 1.25 " .50 Festival prog. .25 4 Festival 7.00 5 Cookies .15 6 Ice cream etc. .21 5 Waterproof check .05 7 Papers .07 Tie .20 Joe's Mission .25 8 Church etc. 1.30 St. car .05 9 Notions .42 Food for Volunteers .74 Tea for Joe .25 10 Car fare .10 Peanuts .05 Stamps etc. .30 239.33 CASH ACCOUNT - MAY & JUNE Date Received Paid 409.68 239.33 14 Stamp etc. .50 Joes .25 Car fare .10 16 " " .05 19 City Mission .25 20 Hairpins .15 21 Car fare .05 Joe's Mission .25 22 Church .05 Volunteers .25 23 Joe's picture .10 25 Stamps etc. .55 28 Coconut & sug. .15 Joe's Miss. .25 Ham. .15 [Minnie's] gift 2.50 29 Church .05 Volunteers .25 Car fare .20 June 1 Mothers gift 2.00 Candy & peanuts .20 3 Salary 25.00 4 Joe .43 Collars .50 Watch Chain .15 5 Church etc. .55 6 Spr - Pok 3.82 Gave Miss. 45.00 434.68 298.08CASH ACCOUNT - JUNE Date Received Paid 434.68 298.08 6 Paper .03 7 Alumnae lunch 1.00 Reunion 1.60 8 Class scholarling (?) 1.00 Pok to Spr. 3.82 9 [Ha.] .05 Soda .20 10 Carriage .75 11 Joe's .25 13 Clock .50 Facing .15 Car fare 1.15 Soda .10 Shoes 4.00 Collar .15 Carmalen .13 Cambric etc. .16 S.A. etc. .48 Buttons .05 Candy etc. .15 25 Salary 10.00 " Joe's .25 Bapt. Church 20.35 Volunteers .25 27 Church seat 10.00 Stationery 5.87 Salary 200.00 28 Stamps .20 644.68 350.72CASH ACCOUNT - JUNE & JULY Date Received Paid 28 644.68 350.32 Bank (from Iowa) 100.00 Hair pins .20 Collars 2 .25 Laundry .21 Coffee for Joe .25 Fee servants 1.00 Crackers .09 Carriage .40 Sp.- Gt. Barr. 1.86 [Munsey] .10 3 Gt. Barr. church .10 4 Paper .03 Mileage Gt. B.- N.Y. 2.62 N.Y. to Bklyn .10 5 Car fare .05 Glasses 1.00 Registry & stamps .11 4 McClure .10 Candy & Soda .25 5 Trunks .63 6 Car fare .25 Neck ties .25 [Cloth] for shirt waist .30 Stocking supporters .05 8 Soda .05 Car fare .05 [Duet] Skirt 2.50 744.68 363.32 CASH ACCOUNT - JULY Date Received Paid 744.68 363.32 8 American. .25 9 Mrs. Morse 2.50 Ribbon 1.12 Hooks & eyes .10 Tooth brush .15 Papers etc. .06 Gloves .50 Board 5.00 Unacct .35 10 Church .15 11 Mrs. Palmer 1.10 Trunk .50 Bertha present 1.00 Stick pin .07 Missionary .25 Library .04 Board 1.50 N.Y. to Addison 6.45 Thimble .20 Apron .25 Curlers .10 Belt .25 12 Car fare .08 Banana & candy .20 Paper etc. .04 Lunch .35 14 Addis. - Belv. 2.05 387.93 CASH ACCOUNT - JULY Date Received Paid 744.68 387.93 15 Pad .05 17 Pres. church .15 20 W.C.T.U. .10 23 Laundry .36 29 [Ary.] to Oxford 5.65 Bananas .05 [P...] [...] .05 30 Car fare .05 Carriage .50 Trunk .20 Paper .05 31 Church & S.S. .15 2 Powder puff .25 Soda .05 4 Am. S.S. Union 1.00 5 Washing .70 7 Church .22 8 Check made .25 9 Peanuts .05 10 Embroidery Candy .15 Envelope .10 Laundry .08 12 Stamp 1.00 Oxford - Eaton .66 Gum etc. .03 Bus .20 13 Stamps .50 744.68 400.53 CASH ACCOUNT - AUGUST Date Received Paid 744.68 400.53 14 Church & S.S. .11 15 Revenue stamp .10 Envelopes .16 Fresh Air 1.00 Embroidering .40 Unacct. .61 19 Washing .50 22 Stamp .50 Springfield Bank [Tower] & [...] 109.97 25 Needles .25 Express .10 26 Revenue stamp .10 Cotton .08 28 Eaton Ch & S.S. .11 29 Envelopes .08 Washing .25 Knitting needles .02 30 Envelopes .13 Washing .50 31 Thread & cloth .09 Ralph's gift 1.00 1 Sewing silk .10 Stamps .21 3 Mrs. Tucker .75 4 Church & S.S. .11 Washing .50 Mr. Burchard .50 Postals .10 854.65 408.89CASH ACCOUNT - AUGUST Date Received Paid 854.65 408.89 7 Della 4.25 Board 15.00 Velvet .66 Photo .12 Blue prints 1.00 8 Mrs. Tucker .25 9 [Stamps] .20 Eaton to N.Y. 5.00 Papers & Soda .20 N.Y. to B. .10 11 Church .15 10 Trunk .75 Still Moments 2.00 10 Blank book .10 12 Soda .05 Car fare .05 Hose supporters .10 Tape .04 Hair pins .19 Silicca .30 Satin lining 1.56 Soap .08 Paper .36 Pins .03 Egg .03 Ghost stories .08 13 Dentist 1 gold, teeth cleaned 3.00 Mrs. Morse 1.50 854.65 446.04 CASH ACCOUNT - SEPTEMBER Date Received Paid 854.65 446.04 13 Cambric .36 14 Mrs. Morse 1.50 " Car fare .10 " S.Army .63 15 Car fare .10 " Ribbon etc. .36 " Mrs. Palmer 1.10 16 Watch spring 1.50 " cord .25 Belt steel .05 Game .20 Twist .03 Unaccted 1.44 17 Car fare & paper .12 Stamps .04 Tape .05 Tooth powder .35 Stockings 3 .75 Ticket to Sp. & [...] 3.25 Game for Frank .25 18 Church .10 Car fare .10 19 Board 8.00 Gloves 1.25 Mother's board 15.00 Car fare .10 Carriage .40 Minnie's lock .25 854.65 483.67 CASH ACCOUNT - SEPTEMBER & OCT. Date Received Paid 20 854.65 483.67 " Car fare .15 " Minnie/college 290.00 Stamps .50 21 " .25 Chest 2.25 22 Car fare .05 26 [Wedding] .35 Will's gift .59 Car fare .15 29 Postals .10 30 Embroidery 1.90 Oct.1 Car fare .05 Ice cream .20 Joe .35 2 Bapt. church 1.05 3 Colleg. Alum. 1.00 4 Soda .05 7 Stamps .30 Miscellany .80 Mrs. P's teaball 1/2 .62 Lena's fudge .20 Stamps .14 2 under vests .90 Volunteers 1.00 Pin mended .25 9 Church etc. .25 11 Candy .10 Linings .73 854.65 787.95 CASH ACCOUNT - OCTOBER & NOV. Date Received Paid 14 854.65 787.95 Neck tie .25 Minnie's gift 1.00 15 Mrs. Booth .25 16 Joe's .25 " Defender's League 5.00 18 Hairpins .10 21 Stamps .50 23 Church .05 Joe's .25 28 Int. [Loan] .55 5 Car fare .05 6 Church etc. .30 30 Church etc. .30 10 Miss P. 10.00 12 Candy .15 Sp. to N.Haven 1.25 NH. to Spr. 1.30 Cuffs .30 Curlers etc. .05 Outlook .10 13 South Ch .10 Stamps .50 6 yds cloth 85 5.00 [...] etc. 103 1.03 Tray .00 15 Candy .10 19 Tar soap .23 864.65 807.01CASH ACCOUNT - NOV. & DEC. Date Received Paid 864.65 807.01 19 Mittens 1.00 Mabie's book .95 Water bag .65 Shoes 4.00 Needles .05 Hooks & eyes .10 Car fare .05 Joe's letter .30 21 Stamps .80 20 Joe's Mission .25 Church .05 23 Bible Study .20 Candy .13 Ink .05 Paper .05 Car fare .05 26 Lime water .05 28 Book "Don't Worry" .40 1 Glycerine .15 2 Car fare .20 Hair pins .25 Marion gift .10 Leggins 1.00 Rubbers .50 12 Sunday Sch .10 Joe's .25 13 Candy .13 16 S.S. [...] .60 864.65 819.42CASH ACCOUNT - DEC. Date Received Paid 864.65 819.42 17 Glasses .50 Ed's game .23 3 handkerch. .75 Apron .25 Joe's shirt .50 Baby ribbon 20 yds .36 Frank's Grant 1.15 Writing paper .25 Tissue Paper .10 Republicans .09 Car fare .05 18 Benevolence to Jan 6.50 Church seat " " 2.90 Joe's .25 5 Pts .25 19 Shoe strings .10 Rev. of Rev. 2.25 Car fare .05 Stocking (vol) .50 Stocking (clear) .25 20 Spr. - N.Y. 3.75 South Ch seat 10.00 Aid Society 1.00 Salary 215.00 Sheep 21 The Workers 2 vol. 2.00 Carriage .40 Paper .05 1079.65 853.80CASH ACCOUNT - DEC. Date Received Paid 1079.65 853.80 22 BK from N.Y. .10 23 Candy .30 Workers .88 Alpaca .50 Stamps & exp. .73 " " .20 Handk. .25 Paper dolls .10 25 Cough drops .10 Church etc. .55 26 Oranges .20 27 Satin .78 Bandings .05 20 Sheep. 8.46 " 10.00 Towels .80 Cambric .32 Sofa pillow 2.75 Miss Patchen .75 Mrs. Porter .80 Bertha's pencil .49 Ruth's present .45 Winifred " .79 Mrs. Morse 3.00 Mrs. Palmer 2.20 Celery tray .98 Silk & thread .25 Spoon .79 1088.11 882.91CASH ACCOUNT - DECEMBER Date Received Paid 1088.11 882.91 Shoulder cape .50 Handkerchief .25 2 Aprons .50 Umbrella .69 Book .25 [Salve] box .20 28 Car fare .25 Volunteers pict .25 Mrs. Morse 2 days 3.00 Hat material .90 Stamps 1.00 Satin .40 Buttons & cord .10 Car fare .20 Hair cloth 1.17 Dress [goods] 4 yds 2.75 Thread .13 Mrs. Morse 1.50 Mrs. Palmer 1.10 30 " " 1.10 6 yds cambric .24 Velveteen [binding] .35 Hooks & eyes .06 [Billing] 3/4 yd .06 Mrs. Morse 2.25 Mrs. Palmer 1.10 Velveteen .75 Car fare .05 1088.11 904.01 CASH ACCOUNT - DECEMBER Date Received Paid 1088.11 904.01 Board 1 wk. 5.00 Wash .50 Mrs. Morse 1.00 1088.11 910.51 Unacct. 3.05 1088.11 913.56 174.55 1088.11 Presents rec'd. Miss Porter 4 grs. paper Mrs. Porter Edward Watch case. Esther Patchen Agnes Mnford The Workers - East Ray Wellman Pen wiper Ethel Van Deusen Photo Marion PhotoSUMMARY Received Paid Cash on hand Jan. 1 170.86 JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER Total Balance to new accountPhotos 1. Mother 2. Sadie Jones 3. Ruth Raymond 4. Lena Boslinet 5. Ralph Raymond 6. Bertha Richardson 7. Will Todd 8. Ellie Russell 9. Brett Page 10. Mrs. Griffin 11. Esther Patchen 12.In bank. 195.40 21.62 217.02 21.62 21.62 225.00 334.97 246.62 356.59 Expenses at Eaton for Mother & me for 4 wks. Provisions $20.00 Wages 10.00 Washing 2.75 4/32.75 8.19 25.00 17.52 17.52 7.48 7.00 24.52 20.26 4.26Juo. 3/21 Juo. 16:9. Ps. 139.18. Ps. 45:11. Gal. 6:7. Don't expect to change on death bed Cousin G. Littleness of time; greatness of eternity. Ps. 139:23. Don't be afraid of a bank examiner. Ps. 66:18. Phil. 1:27. Ps. 37:10. 2 Cor 6:14-18(?) 182 35 217 2 [Ch...] 26:15,16. X [...] [A...] 92Mother Minnie Umbrella Bertha & Ruth Silver knife Will. Writing paper Winifred Chamois for glasses Frank Carved watch case. Nellie Review of Rev. 1/2 dozen oranges. Margurite Handkerchief case 5.00 Cousin Ros & Sallie 50.00 Fannie Swan Calendar [Sou...] of Pok. Susie Basket for [caps.] Miss Goodwin Phillip Brooks Sermon Mrs. Orlin Ask for Scissor (protector) Mamie Todd Calendar Agnes Salt cellar Sadie Dance Stocking [Da...] Harold Hand glass Ruth Knit socks Mrs. Packard Sachet Mothers giftsSwyman .05Ps. 65:11. Double gems= (1) prosperite & adversity. [p...] [...] is sometimes [c...]. Valleys [...]. Springs filled. [Monthly] [...]. To not [un...] by courage. (2) [app...] & disrup. Juo. [...] & hot water. (3) failure & success. High standard.[Dairyman] [D...] (4) pleasure & pain. Drowned in honey of pleasure (5) holiness & sin. (6) [...] & [d...] (7) gain & loss (8) [crown] & [cross]. 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Creator: Mansfield, Adelaide (Claflin)
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: c. September 1893 - November 27, 1901

Creator: Shipp, Margaret M.
Date: 24 November 1904

Date: July 9, 2015

Creator: Eldridge, Muriel (Tilden)
Date: circa 9 October 1913

Creator: Griffen, Clyde, Glasse, John, Marshall, Natalie
Date: May 8, 1984
Text: / ,’i y / epRfOgQVg t 5'-0,‘, 9 X‘ \i_ . v48 At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held May ninth, nineteen hundred and eighty—four, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted; Edna Cers Macmahon, Professor Emeritus of Economics was born 9 February 27, 1901 in Riga, Latvia, the daughter of John William and V Alvia Julia Lischmann Cers. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was a child and she grew up on a farm in Massachusetts. Edna began her long career of...
Show more/ ,’i y / epRfOgQVg t 5'-0,‘, 9 X‘ \i_ . v48 At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held May ninth, nineteen hundred and eighty—four, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted; Edna Cers Macmahon, Professor Emeritus of Economics was born 9 February 27, 1901 in Riga, Latvia, the daughter of John William and V Alvia Julia Lischmann Cers. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was a child and she grew up on a farm in Massachusetts. Edna began her long career of community service by sharing with neighboring farmers helpful information from her careful reading of agricultural bulletins. A favorite teacher persuaded her to change her original plan of going to a normal school; instead, she entered Radcliffe at age l6, working her way through college. A seminar with Frederick Jackson Turner inspired her life-long fascination with the influence of the frontier and of geographic mobility upon American history. At age 20 Edna began graduate work at Bryn Mawr On the Susan B. Anthony scholarship. The next summer, in 1922, she met her d d. . future Vassar colleague, Margaret MYBPS» when they b°th le 1S°“SSl°n ' d t Br Mawr. groups at the School for Women Workers in Industry hel a yn ' Ph'l d l hia when they learned that Y°u"8 "°men °n Strlke at a 1 a e P _ - ' 11 they decided Clothing factcry were being arrested illega Y» . - - ‘ themselves arrested at to provide publicity bY getting -2- the strike site. With support from a young male friend from an Old Philadelphia family, they began interviewing the strikers On the picket line. The police hustled them off to the city jail where they briefly sharéd a Qell next ta a young woman who called out cheerfully: "What are you in for? shoplifting?" The venture ended with a double standard in sentencing which left them furious; their male friend was fined, but the future Vassar economists were let off with nothing but an admonition. In 1923 Columbia University appointed Edna as the first woman to hold its Gilder Research Fellowship. At Columbia she studied under Wesley Clark Mitchell, pioneer institutional economist, whose course on economic theory provided the framework for her thinking about economics. From her studies with Mitchell and with two other famous institutionalists, Thorstein Veblen and John R. Commons, she drew the lesson that economists should be critics and shapers of the societies they study. In 1924 she accepted a fellowship from the newly-founded Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, an experiment in studying at the intersection of theory and public policy. She received her Ph.D. in 1930 with a doctoral thesis on labor injunctions. While working toward her doctorate, she investigated child labor in Maryland and Delaware canneries for the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor. She also worked for the District of Columbia Consumers‘ League in 1926 as it brought pressure for the enforcement of District laws on maximum hours for women. In 1927, while employed by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, she began a study of immigrae tion which continued subsequently for the Council on Foreign Relations. But with teaching her long—term goal, she was glad in 1929 to become an _3_ inst - G ructor of economics at Hunter College. In that Year Edna married Arth P ' ' ur Ihlttler Ma°mah°n» then associate professor and subsequently Eaton pr°feSS°r °f Publi¢ administration a t Columbia University They had two chil ' dreni Gail» now livin ' g in Austria wh h ' ~ ere er husband is a diplomat, and Alan, now a physigigt at the University of Texas. During their childhood, the family lived in Croton where Edna helped run a cooperative school inspired by what remains durable in John Dewey's theories of education. She also ran an annual plant sale for the school notable for the stream of varied advice that accompanied her sales as she visualized each purchaser's plot, its probable disadvantages of soil or shade, and the owner's probable lack of time or knowledge. In later years members of the Vassar community would benefit from Edna's advice on gardening and from the well—developed aesthetic imagination which informed it. That imagination could be seen in the gardens and houses she arranged, and especially in the beloved cottage at Lake Awosting with its wonderful relating of domestic comforts, works of craftsmanship, and the natural beauty of the setting. While still at Croton in the late l93Os, Edna began to travel for research and for consulting assignments. In 1941-42 she served as Director of Research for the Division of Minimum Wage and Women ln h d d Industry of the New York State Department of Labor and also ea 8 . . . O . . . Off‘ f Price the EcQnQmlCS unit in the Consumer Division of the lce 0 Administration. Ed . . d the Vassar fagulty in 19142. At that time the Vassar na ]Oln8 . . - d . t Qf a joint department, economics an economics department was par -u_ sociology, which would shortly become the economics, sociology, and anthropology department-—B.S.A. Edna found the philosophy of the department to her liking. Abstract theory was not for her——she always regarded economic problems in the context of the overall problems facing a society. She described the introductory course in an article for the Alumnae magazine in l9H9: The teaching of economics at Vassar has always been directed, rather deliberately, toward a broad understanding of the economy as a whole, and to analysis and discussion of the major economic issues which confront our society. The introductory course, in particular, frankly aims to equip students to exercise their responsibility as citizens intelligently rather than to provide a mastery of economic principles. This does not mean that theory is neglected, but that it is constantly taught in relation to concrete problems to which it is applicable. The emphasis necessi- tates a continuous search for ways of making theory a more practicable tool in the analysis of current problems. Under Edna's influence the department introduced an introductory interdisciplinary course for the joint department, a course which flouished for a number of years. Economists, sociologists, and anthropologists together prepared the year—long introductory course and a required senior seminar. Students majored in one discipline. _5_ Edna's Special fields -'th' - wi in economics reflected her philosophy- consumer economics ' Amerwo ' ' 0 _ an economic histor ' Y» economic development. Her students were ' - - » ln the Vassar tradition, encoura ged to go to the original sources and th 9 ese sources were often Opepatin ' - - 8 lnstitutions in the community Field tri ‘ - ps to farms and factories were a re gular Part of Economics lO5 and Poughkeepsie residents were surveyed on a variety of topics. In the mid l96Os Edna worked with other faculty in the development of an interdisciplinary course on the river and its impact on those living around it. Her participation in the course was inspired by her long observation of the Hudson and her concern for it before "ecology" became a popular term. A late colleague said he always wanted to follow Edna around with a tape recorder for she was a veritable fountain of ideas. But she was interested primarily in people and in doing. Although she published several journal articles, she never found enough time for her own research, especially for her study of Poughkeepsie shoemakers which was in advance of its time in methodology. Her tracing of craftsmen over time through census and city directories anticipated by more than a decade the historical social mobility studies which became important in the 1960s and 70s. Edna retired from Vassar in 1966, but continued her teaching in the . . . H l d extensive State University of New York for three years er a rea y V _ . . ' sed. She had been activity in the community beyond the College lncrea t t f Dutohess Community College from its founding in 1957, a rus ee o _ _ . - ' d in its formative period. playing 3 ma]OP role in setting policy ur 8 ard for seventeen YEBPS, until 197a‘ She served on the BO ’”!‘\$4'- ~ 161 In government, she served on the Advisory Committee to the Consumer Counsel to the Governor of New York and, in Dutchess County, on its comittees on tax policy and on economic opportunity. Politically, she was an active member of the League of Women Voters and of both the Vassar Democratic Club and the Dutchess County Women's Democratic Club. She delivered countless addresses to community groups, ranging from the Dutchess County Council on World Affairs to the Newcomers’ Home Bueau Club, from the Anti-Defamation League to the YWCA, and from the Poughkeepsie Business and Professional Women's Club to the Dutchess County Grange Tax Comittee. The topics of these talks expressed the range of her concerns: consumer economics, anti-poverty programs, county planning for water and land development, integration and quality in education, and travels with her husband in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Also expressive of her concerns was her membership in the Poughkeepsie Friends Meeting. Bowdoin Park, on Poughkeepsie's bank of the Hudson, is an abiding embodiment of Edna Macmahon's care for the land and for the people of the place where she lived for nearly three decades. There, the Edna Maemahon Trail for the study of nature commemorates her leadership in reclaiming an abandoned waterfront for the use of the community. In 1978 Edna moved to Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, where she died on July 2%, 1983. \hntHal\h¢dlhnl\Qnin,\inIIl1l|\0@ll0II ‘A hnnbllho. muuuuuwuaumn-nmqgquq. luv-¢a\hnrabltl\y\olnbl1lanIpIo¢u\|uqq_|.@§ wwvh. tiwwbvlcw. mvvollwhaumualnauducn Ilnhattawoodtdltlno. !alt\lnba&—0Q\Qqﬂﬂ|p Dhﬂonlqnn QlI.1t1tohlothoIQ0lIUOl|ﬂOIlOd_l»ﬂﬁ onnnltyocvtoonlactlnnltajohugottnruﬂqnnlcilq honnnounoa Inopocthlly Ulﬂtﬂ, cub tum. Quinn <¥~i':- 3%” *5,
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Creator: Shipp, Margaret M.
Date: 22 March 1905

Creator: Olsen, Donald, Campbell, Mildred, Clark, Evalyn, Havelock, Christine, Marquez, Antonio
Date: [After 1976]
Text: dl l Jl»).L»7' ,.Ll' f , 5 '4‘; ’-'Yé§ _‘ V 1.; 7 ' ‘ . ,1,-" 1"‘ fl V .;!r;_?=¢\- v R ,§§, At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held November seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventy-six, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted: Charles Carroll Griffin was born on May 24, 1902, in Tokyo, where his father was Professor of Economics at the Imperial University. His family returned to the United States in 1913, settling in...
Show moredl l Jl»).L»7' ,.Ll' f , 5 '4‘; ’-'Yé§ _‘ V 1.; 7 ' ‘ . ,1,-" 1"‘ fl V .;!r;_?=¢\- v R ,§§, At a Meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College held November seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventy-six, the following Memorial was unanimously adopted: Charles Carroll Griffin was born on May 24, 1902, in Tokyo, where his father was Professor of Economics at the Imperial University. His family returned to the United States in 1913, settling in Westboro, Massachusetts. Charles attended Harvard, receiving his B.A. in 1922. Then, seeking horizons beyond the academic, he was off to South America for seven years, two in Argentina and five in Uruguay,'in the employ of the National Cement Company. He returned home with an interest in Hispanic American culture and a knowledge of the Spanish language that were to last him the rest of his life. Beginning graduate work at Columbia, he also served as an instructor in Spanish there in 1930. His next venture the following year was as a Research Associate of the Library of Congress, to go to Madrid, where, enrolling at the Centro de Es- tudios Hist6ricos~~at that time perhaps the most significant concentration of liberal intellectuals in the Republic—-he supervised the transcription of historical documents in the Archives of Seville and Valladolid. The next year he was again at Columbia where in 1933 he was awarded the M.A. Nineteen thirty- four brought two important personal events: marriage to Jessica Frances Jones, a graduate of Reed College, and the acceptance of an instructorship in history at Vassar. The early forties brought a period of great concern in the United States for closer relations with Latin America. Men who knew the field were in demand, and Charles Griffin was ready to supply the need. In 1940 he went as exchange professor to the Universidad Central in Caracas, Venezuela, the first United States citizen to serve under the program set up by the Buenos Aires Convention for International Cultural Relations. A letter written later by the Director of the university to our ambassador pointed out that "Dr. Griffin's lectures W€re the first ever given in a school of higher learning in Venezuela . . . regarding the discovery, the conquest and the colonization of North America.” An article in a Venezuelan magazine in 1941 characterized him not as the typical "fat, red—faced North American", but as an aristocratic Castilian: until one heard his "slight Anglo—Saxon accent", one might have mistaken the tall, slender professor for a resident of Burgos or Segovia in a play by Lope de Vega or Calderbn. It might have added, "or a portrait by El Greco." Charles came back to Vassar in 1941, as associate professor; but was off again in February 1943 to the State Department in Washington, where he served as Assistant Chief of the Division of Liaison and Research in the Office of American Republics Affairs. He returned to Vassar in 1944, this time to a full- professorship. Charles served as visiting professor at many places including Columbia, Oé» _, r. I. C, -2- Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Wisconsin, and at the Universidad de Chile. But happily for Vassar he always returned here where his own course in South American history had entered the curriculum, a break—through in the tradition that most history offerings should deal with our European background and the United States. For years it was traditional that every member of the department should teach the one introductory course offered, a survey of European civilization. Charles later regaled his younger colleagues with accountsci'his struggles to cope with "all those popes and emperors." Although most of his teaching at Vassar was in United States political and diplomatic history, his scholarly work lay entirely in Latin America. At in- tervals he represented the United States as forwarder of pan-American affairs, in Chile in 1950 and in Ecuador in 1959, in l962 at the Salzburg Seminar on American Civilization, and as delegate to the Conference on Contemporary Latin American History at Bordeaux. He published four books on Latin American history (one with a Spanish translation, one written in Spanish and published in Ca- racas), and was contributing author to five others. (A selective bibliography is appended to this Minute.) In addition he contributed articles to practical- ly all the scholarly periodicals in his field, and also to the more general historical journals. His last major scholarly achievement was as editor-in- chief of Latin America: A Guide to Historical Literature (1971), the first inclusive bibliography in that field. His place as leader among Latin American historians was recognized first by appointment to the Board of Editors of the Hispanig American Historical Review, and as Managing Editor from 1950 to 1954. In 1970 the Conference on Latin American History gave Charles its "Distinguished Service Award", in the form of a handsome plaque which, characteristically, he kept trying to hide from view. Few of his colleagues or students at Vassar were aware of the extent of his scholarly activities or of his international reputation. "Charles is such a modest chap," wrote his chairman on one occasion, "that it is only when one digs it out of him that it becomes evident" how extensive his achievements and honors were. Self—doubt, humility, and an awareness of his own frailties made him wonderfully understanding of the anxieties of others, and made him the best of all people to turn to for sympathetic advice. Countless colleagues, friends, and students could say, with Sarah Gibson Blanding, ". . . when things got really tough I could always talk with Charles and knew without any doubt I was getting the best and most unbiased opinion possible. Of all my colleagues I counted on him the most." At Vassar Charles served four terms as chairman of the history department. For the last two years before his retirement in 1967 he was first Acting Dean of Faculty and then Dean of Faculty. He felt a deep commitment to the local community outside the college, and took an active part in politics. Among other activities he served on the Dutchess County Committee of the Democratic Party and as Director of the Dutchess County Council on world Affairs. In 1968 he became the first Executive Director of the Associated Colleges of the Mid-Hudson Area, and from 1968 to 1970 served on the Board of Trustees of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Marist College, and in 1969 became secretary of the Board. But it was as a member of this faculty that we knew Charles best. For him, loyalty to Vassar was no mere catch—phrase, but involved him in genuine financial, ///“ / /:>8 I3? and perhaps even professional sacrifice. He turned a deaf ear to offers to return to the State Department at a salary far above anything Vassar could give him. He did the same to other attractive offers from the Rockefeller Foundation, Stanford, U.C.L.A., and Cornell because, to quote a letter from his chairman to President Blanding, "of his interest in working at an institu- tion in which he believed as heartily as he does believe in what we try to do at Vassar." In February 1950 Miss Blanding wrote him while he was Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin, enclosing a new contract, saying, "I hope like fury you are going to feel like signing. We have missed you and . . . have kept our fingers crossed wondering if Wisconsin was going to wean you away from us. As you can see, we have jumped your salary . . . which I am sure is not as much as Wisconsin could pay you [in fact, Vassar's new offer was only two-thirds what Wisconsin was paying him], but is all we can stretch at the moment." Charles happily accepted the economic sacrifice and returned to Vassar. He, of course, would not have called it a sacrifice. He had abundant ex- perience of great universities, and none of them gave him the intense intellectual and emotional satisfactions that Vassar did: students who delighted in and responded to his broad-ranging intellect and provocative, questioning teaching; colleagues who could be waylaid for speculative discussion or riotous argument; department, comittee, and faculty meetings in which he could observe the wit and cantankerousness, wisdom and perversity, mental agility and abnormal psy- chology of his colleagues. He took affectionate delight in displays of insti- tutional absurdity and human folly, which Vassar offered in prodigal abundance. Charles never forgot what it had been like to be a young, inexperienced instructor, ”. . . Newer and younger [faculty] members . . . instinctively feel him to be their friend,” his chairman once wrote. One of them later recalled: "I first knew Charles at a crucial time in my life—-at the beginning of my career. He quickly became for me a kind of mentor, such as I had never in graduate school . . . By watching him in action in faculty meetings . . . talking to him at faculty tea, or simply chatting with him on an evening . . . I got some idea of what it meant to be a scholar, a teacher, and a man of integrity. Charles and I had our differences--we really were not very much alike——but his example for me was central to my life." Charles came to Vassar at a time when, as he recalled three decades later, "the college . . . was more self—contained than it is today." The Vassar comunity dominated the social as well as the professional lives of a large proportion of the faculty. Depending on their tastes, they used it as a vast salon in which to hammer out their ideas in friendly yet critical company, as a stage on which to develop and display their eccentricities, or a kind of en- counter group in which to express their inner hostilities and aggressions. Charles did his best to maintain the notion of the faculty as an intellectual community even into the fifties and sixties, when outside at“factions, whether professional or personal, were drawing the attention of both zaculty and student body away from the college. It was a mystery how Charles managed to produce the extraordinary bulk of his publications and pursue his professional activities on top of a heavy teach- ing load. For he always seemed to be found in the back parlor of Swift, in the Retreat, or at faculty tea, engaging in anecdote or argument, covering every -4- subject under the sun. ". . . His intellectual curiosity was insatiable, as his fund of knowledge was almost fathomless," one colleague recalls. ". . . What I think of most in connection with him was not just his helpfulness and companionability," writes another, "but those glorious, continuous, shimmering days and nights we all had at Raymond Avenue. That for me was the Golden Age . . . we all belonged to Charles's extensive, amusing, and beautifully domestic- ated world." Charles played an active role in Vassar politics, serving on most major committees, and as president of the local chapter of the A.A.U.P.; in the 1930's he was much involved with the Teachers‘ Union. He firmly believed in maintain- ing the authority of the faculty as a corporate body, and in seeing that the body exercised its powers wisely and responsibly. when Alan Simpson was inau- gurated as President, Charles spoke in the name of the faculty. "The Faculty of Vassar College has never been a placid, harmonious body," he warned the new president. "Because of our nature as questioners, our training as critics, and our diverse associations and interests we are likely to provide opposition as well as support to your endeavours." Charles spoke often in faculty meetings, and one never could be sure in advance what stand he was going to take on an issue. while his commitment to basic principles—-academic freedom, faculty power, individual liberties--never faltered, he embodied the definition of an intellectual as one who is continual- ly and systematically questioning his own opinions. He belonged to no camp, and voted and acted as his conscience and intellect directed. Impressive as he was in faculty meeting, Charles was at his best in a small group, late at night. He delighted in the varieties of human nature, the in- tricacies of thought, and the techniques of politics. But above all he loved conversation. For him, as for Dr. Johnson, conversation offered the best alle- viation for the pain of existence. It was his chief joy, a means of adding to his stock of knowledge, of encountering new ideas--the more subversive and he- terodox the better--and of savouring the pleasures of articulate sociability. Of colleagues in other disciplines he could ask a simple, sincere, and yet so basic a question that one found oneself rethinking ideas long taken for granted. Charles was a moderate historical relativist, for whom the conviction that absolute certainty was an imposible ideal was.not a depressing, but an ex- hilarating belief. For he enjoyed the process of debate more than he cared about the outcome. But while pragmatic and flexible in his approach both to questions of historical truth and educational policy, he never abandoned his moral convictions for the sake of expediency. Intensely sensitive to personal attaﬁksv he 8¢ted a¢¢0rdin9 to his conscience as chairman, as dean, and as individual, never swerving from what he was convinced was his duty for the sake of popularity or a quiet life. President Simpson has summed up the qualities for which we loved Charles: "A dearer man we never knew--gentleman, scholar, wit. I never saw him without thinking of the motto of New College, Oxford——‘Manners makyth man‘. He was . . . a model of good sense, good-heartedness, and fidelity. when I asked him for help he always replied that he would do anything for Vassar—-and did so." -5- Respectfully submitted, ,\ ..1 . _ Donald Olsen, Chairman Q ’ ), ~c , / _.' / ¢ , ‘ _,, 1',‘ /{/,» . .' / \ , , / I '/’-»»1,‘(-"// ~ ,.“/ ~" rt 4, , j M " .>~'L, ( J‘.-1, Mildred Cani'pbe 11 .'/ I 22,,/;j£, J Evalyn Clark ..-/c’. " - - ‘" ,-‘W. V \ A/~" ' - ~ / Christine Havelock A 1./1. ‘:1/1 4 Antonio Marquez / /0 /// _6_ ¢v'¢~€¥¢z»/>1 C-_C, > Bibliographical Note His publications include The United States and the Disruption of the §panish Empire, 1810-1822 (1937), Latin America T1944); The National Period in the History of the New World (1961, with Spanish translation in 1962), and Los Temaspsociales y Economicos de la Epoca de la Independencia (published in Caracas in 1961). He edited and contributed to Concerning Latin American Cu1tur§_(l940), and contributed chapters to Ensayos sobre la Historia del Nuevo Mundo (Mexico, 1951), a commemorative volume in honor of Emeterio Santovenia (Habana, 1958), Conocimento z_desconocimento en las Americas (1958), to vol. XI of the new edition of the Cambridge Modern History on Latin America, 1870-1900 (1961), and to A.P. Whitaker, ed., Latin America and the Enlightenment (1961). In addition he contri- buted articles to the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Haryland Historical Magazine, the IntereAmerican Quarterly, Revista de Historia de America, Boletin de la Academia de Historia (Caracas), Cahiers d'Histoire Mondiale, and the Vene- zuelan RevistafNaciona1 de Cultura. His last major scholarly achievement was to edit the bibliographical volume, commissioned by the Library of Congress, Latin ‘ America: A Guide to Historical Literature (1971). 17 I W ' 7 " 'J—.
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Creator: Vance, Gertrude (Pratt)
Date: n.d.
Text: G. Pratt 22-1 The ^Freshman Serenade Group of girls come walking across the campus and gather in a “hushed” mass in front of Josselyn. The bell rings, the song-leader springs for the steps, and a cheer bursts forth. Then lights go out and heads appear ^with suspicious alacrity at darkened windows The light in the hand of the leader flashes and the eagerly expectant listeners hear the new song [crossed out: which has been written] to them. An organized [cheer?] comes from the serenades ...
Show moreG. Pratt 22-1 The ^Freshman Serenade Group of girls come walking across the campus and gather in a “hushed” mass in front of Josselyn. The bell rings, the song-leader springs for the steps, and a cheer bursts forth. Then lights go out and heads appear ^with suspicious alacrity at darkened windows The light in the hand of the leader flashes and the eagerly expectant listeners hear the new song [crossed out: which has been written] to them. An organized [cheer?] comes from the serenades [crossed out: and] scattered applause and laughter [crossed out] from the windows [crossed out: while several] mingle with conflicting cheers. The crowd below breaks up [crossed out: and the girls] with a rush of scampering footsteps. [crossed out: and dissappears around the corner of the building and H… to ….] .049285 This is .49285 where I helped 49.285 [M?] S. with her math. Gertrude Pratt Vance all 1913-1914
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Creator: Skot, John
Date: 1530

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1920-12-15]
Text: Love, Fannie. All well. Won't write today

Creator: Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
Date: January 17, 1894 - July 24, 1894
Text: 17 Read of Frank Bolle's death this morning. Was much shocked. Saw him once, Dec. 1892 and liked him Something clean-cut and pleasing about him -- red hair and sandy complexion Some of his out-door sketches interest me, and some do not. He was hardly a poet, or thinker. -- Write what you feel, not merely what you think. One may think anything and everything; he can only feel certain things. What he feels is vital to him. When I think I grope, and do not always know where I stand. What I...
Show more17 Read of Frank Bolle's death this morning. Was much shocked. Saw him once, Dec. 1892 and liked him Something clean-cut and pleasing about him -- red hair and sandy complexion Some of his out-door sketches interest me, and some do not. He was hardly a poet, or thinker. -- Write what you feel, not merely what you think. One may think anything and everything; he can only feel certain things. What he feels is vital to him. When I think I grope, and do not always know where I stand. What I feel I see, and what I see I feel.Clear and sharp this morning, like Nov. Ground bare; grass yet quite green. Mercury down to 24 degrees this morning. 18 Mild with SW wind. Julian and I have our first skate on the river; ice less than 2 inches. 19 Like an April morning, clear, still, mild; raindrops hanging to the limbs and grapevines. Objects steam in the sun like a morning in summer. Sounds very noticeable. Rumbling of wagons, barking of dogs heard from over the river. Very few birds this winter, except crows. Now and then a large flock of goldfinches. Few English sparrows. On anopen winter like this the birds disperse over the open country. A deep snow would drive them about our habitations. 20 A bright and beautiful day. How naked the world seems, no snow, no verdure, no clouds. A fine skate on the river; condition all perfect, a glare of ice, a medium temperature, and a still air. Not a breath of wind. I fly up and down like a bird. At night, Julian and I skate an hour by moonlight, a rare treat. How we dash off into the dimness over the black smooth surface. -- These days I am hacking away at my Whitman matter, cutting, burning, rewriting. My matter mproves under my heroic treatment, but I doubt if I can make it worthy the subject. Health not very good past two weeks. 21 Mild, overcast, with sprinkle of rain in P.M. Signs of fog. The steam from the passing train swells and increases and stretches far behind in a long, tapering window. 22 Cleared off in the night as silently as usual. The weather is in a most gentle and placid frame of mind this winter. The storms sprinkle a little, or spit a little snow and then fold their tents like the Arabs and steal away. Fog this morning. P.M. Clear, warm, still likeIndian summer -- insects dancing in the air -- a day to walk through the fields and stand long by the bars, or lean upon the wall and look long and long over the brown, weedy lifeless fields. Almost brings the bees out of the hive. 24 Another attempt at a rain from the South, with only a slight sprinkle. Mercury up to near 50 degrees. 25 Cold wave last night, clear and lovely today, but sharp. Julian and I go to Black Pond skating; fly like birds over the glassy surface -- a fine time. Not a speck of snow to be seen. 26 Mercury down to 12 degrees this morning. 27 Winter again. The snow came like thief in the night, about 5 or 6 inches, and is still at it, from the North, which means that the storm clouds really came up the coast. 28 Bright and lcear adn sharp. Mercury down to 10 degrees this morning. The large opening on the river in front closed up this morning. -- That Death awaits you and me and all men is of little account. But that the race is to become extinct, that the earth is to grow old and die, and the sun itself wither like a leaf and be blown about the barrens of infinite space -- this strikes one dumb, and paralyzes the soul -- this is the abyss of science into whic e cannot gaze. What bow of promise spans it? That the very soil which hold out dead must become lifeless meteoric dust! Human monuments must perish, but the solar system is to be disrupted. How many times may this have happened in the past eternities! I see no reason to doubt that this game of the gods may not have been played over and over, and that even you and I may, in effect, have lived many times on other worlds, and may live again. The same results, culminations, must go on forever and ever. When great clock runs down, it will wind itself up again and strike the same hours as before.-- Forty years ago was my last winter at the old school-house in West Settlement. Of my schoolmates at that time I recall eleven who are dead, Walter Elliott of Bovina was teacher. In the spring of 1854 I left home to teach school in Olive; taught there fro mApril to middle of Sept. at 10 or 12 dollars a month and boarded around. Went to Ashland to school in Nov.; lefft there in Sprinng and went to Jersey in April in search of school; failed; came home and stayed all summer, working and studying. After haying started for Jersey again; stopped in Olive to visit; was again hired to teach same school at 20 dollars a month; taught till spring. In spring (April 20) went to Cooperstown seminary. Left therein July; worked in haying and went West in Sept. Tom Kniffin with me. Stopped at Dr. Allaben's in Polo. Engaged the school there and taught till spring of 1957. Came back home in April; stayed home till June or July when I engaged to teach at High Falls in Ulster County. Was married that fall September 13. Taught till spring. In July went to Rosendale to teach. Got interested in a patent buckle; threw up the school and went to Newark, N.J. Buckle failed and engaged school in Jan. 1859 at East Orange. Taught there about 2 years. In fall of '60 took the school at Marlboro on Hudson; taught there till spring of '62. Went home in April. Stayed all summer. In fall went to Olive to study medicine with Dr. Hull; heard of a school atButtermilk Falls, secured it, and went there to teach probably in Jan. 1863. Taught there, and began there the study of birds and flowers, stimulated to the latter by Prof. Eddy. Taught there till fall of '63 (made the Adirondack trip in August of that year) when I threw up the school and went to Washington (in October). On Jan. 4, 1864 I was appointed to a clerkship in the office of Comptroller of Currency. Continued a cleark till Jan 1, 1873 when I left W. and came to Middleton, N.Y. as Receiver of the Wallkill Nat. Bank. Wound up the affairs of the bank in 3 or 4 years. In Aug. '73to about '85. Built my house in '73 and '74, moved into it late in Nov. '74. -- Capt. Steven Burroughs was born in Bridgeport, Conn. in 1729. Died in 1817. A man of unusual mental endowments, ship-builer and astronomer: said to have invented the system of Federal Money. He had 4 brothers, Eden, John, Edward, and Ephraim. The latter was my great-grandfather, his son Eden was my grandfather. Ephraim died in Stamford, in April 1818, and nwas buried there in a field which is now under cultivation. He was born near Bridgeport (Conn.) about 1735. He hadsix sons and several daughters. His sons were Eden, Curtis, William, David, Daniel, and Ephraim. Eden, father's great uncle, was the father of Stephen, the notorious. Eden was a Presbyterian minister. 30 More snow, pretty heavy, about 10 inches now on the ground. Weather mild. 31 Bright, mercury 40 degrees. Feb. 1 Showing again this morning. Storm center seems south of us. Ver deliberate, evidently means business. -- Snow turned out only about an inch of hyperborean chaff. 3 Mild, overcast, mercury 42-- How common in literature is the sin of over-writing. It strikes one as vulgar, like over-dressing. The piece has a studied, formal, artificial air. Simple things must be simply said -- all things must be as simply said as possible. A man must work a long time to get out of the ambition of writing of inflating and bedecking what he has to say. I think this was at times or of the sins of Franis Parkman. I judge so from extracts I have seen of a sealed paper, giving an account of his life, which he left with a friend, and which was opened after his death. It is full of the balancing of period and is more like an amateur than like a master. 5 Cold wave; down to 2 degrees above this morning, clear and still. 6 Down to zero this morning. Bright and still all day. Had a skate on the river. -- In saying that Homer and the Bible are not literary, I mean they do not savor of literary or artificial culture, or of conscious literary art. They savor more of the larger culture of life and nature. From this point of view Tennyson is more literary that Wordsworth, Longfellow that Bryant. Milton than Shakespeare, the later novelists than Scott and Fielding. There is a deeper seriousness in Wordsworth than in Tennyson, in Whittier than in Lowell, a More profound humility and religiousness. It is not mrerely the seriousness of the scholar, the poet, it is the seriousness and humility of the man. I would have the unadulterated man, or human, flavor always predominate, as it does in the greates works. The Bible was not written with a view to literary edification as The Princess was, or Maud, or the Fable for Critics were; but for moral and spiritual edification. The literary spirit must always walk behind the spirit of universal love and sympathy, the spirit of man as man and not as a literary expert.8 Milder, a thaw at hand. -- Just finished A Window in Thrums, a delicious piece of work -- would rather have written it than all Mr. Howell's or James have written. How one loves these characters! because the author himself loved them. If Mr. Mowells only had this girft of love! P.M. Thermometer up to near 59 degrees. Bees out of the hive. 9 Snowing, moist and heavy. Mercury up to 36 degrees. 10 Deeply saddened by the death of Archdeacon Ziegenfusz, a man I had come to love. Only a few weeks ago he was here and passed the day in this room with the rest of the "Gang" as he called them -- the picture of health and good nature. His chances of long life seemed vastly better than m own. His wife died only a few weeks ago, and this calamity seemed to have broken him up and killed him. He was a man to love for his genial good-fellowship, as well as for his fine mind and character. I feel a keen sense of personal loss. Going over to the station last night I said to myself, Here have I lived in this place 20 years, and am not yet wonted to it. Twenty years of youth here, and these hills and valleys and river would seem like a part of myself; now I look upon them with alien, reluctant eyes. I seem only a camper for a day and a night. So much more plastic and impressionable are we in youth! As manhood is reached we begin to harden, and by and by our affections will not take on new shapes at all. 13 The boss snow storm of the winter so far, nearly a foot of snow, much drifted. Mercury down to 18 degrees, began yesterday afternoon. -- Attended the funeral of Ziegenfuss yesterday. A great crowd. Saw the body in the morning, looked like life -- never saw Death counterfeit Sleep more perfectly. No emaciation, no pain. His old mother came while I was standing near. Dear old woman! how her heart was wrung! how I wanted to comfort her! How the past must have come like a flood upon her! She remembered him as a babe in her arms, as a child by her side, as a ladwith his books and playthings, as a youth going out into the world, as a young man entering upon his career. How pathetic, how overwhelming! Oh, the inrrevocable past! Bishop Potter spoke well -- a metropolitan man, stamped with the air of a great city. Conventional, precise, dignified, clean-cut. Not a large, homely, original nature, but a fine-trained talent -- an epitome of better New York. Ziegenfusz himself was a true democrat. I loved him much and shall always carry a sweet remembrance of him. How mysterious, I heard several say, that such a man should be taken; the bishop said so, too. It is mysterious when weLucky if here and there on a writer's page we catch the scent of fresh new soil. Once in a while Carlyle, Goethe, Arnold, go in to the and we are exilarated, dilated; and then, again it is scratch, scratch. Rocks and stones with Carlyle and hard-pan with Goethe, or roots and weeds with Arnold. 15 More snow, 5 or 6 inches, this morning; half leg deep now. The cloud cows have had good grazing lately; they pour down their milk like cows in June. Well, they went dry early in the fall, and it is time. As the sun comes North he drives the hot moist air of the tropics before him, and we get the benefit. -- I never read a newspaper but I way, What a poor editor I shold make, according topresent standards. Nine-tenths of this stuff I should leave out. It is useless for a newspaper to try to be a private correspondent of every man woman and child trying to tell them the news about the people they know, and the matters they are concerned in. It should aim only at real news, important news for all, and when there is no news, it shold print a smaller sheet, just as it prints a larger sheet when there is extra news. Printing the same number of columns daily shows the absurdity of the whole business. If there is real news one day, and noe the next, then chaf must take its place, and readersbe robbed of their time. Does any same man more than glance at the editorial page? He knows before hand that he will find no honest, disinterested discussion there, but only lis and make-believe. 17 Cold, cold 8 degrees or 10 degrees below this morning, yet the air looks as innocent and genial as in summer; a soft, bluish haze veils everyting. Sun bright, sky blue, the steam whistles have that split shrill minor character of every cold weather. 18 Rain this morning from the south, mercury 40 degrees. Truly a weather spasm. The grip of Winter is not sure when these happn. P.M. cleared off; mercury 5024 Very cold. 10 degrees below this morning. Bright sunshine all day. Mercury only 2 degrees above at noon. Ice-men on the river suffer much. 25 Still colder, 14 degrees below this morning. But now at 10 A.M. temperature recovering rapidly. A storm evidently approaching. The past week has been free from storm. Cold wave began on Wednesday, the 21st. 26 A driving snow storm from the North -- that is from the South -- mercury about 15 degrees. Winter grown robust and desperate in his last days. -- Took down Carlye's Past and Present last night and leafed it over for half an tasting it here and there. I was glad I did not feel abliged to read it again. It is hard reading. I confess I did not want to be bruised and bumped about by a ride over this rough road. Run the eye over the page and bumped about by a ride over this rought road. Run the eye over the page and see how rought and thorn it looks, and it feels no less so to the mind. The great classical turnpikes, how different! In Carlyle's prose, at its worst, as in Browning's poetry, the difficulties are mechanical; it is not in the thought; it is in the expression. There is fire and intensity about it, but a blow with a club will make you see stars, or a sudden jolt give you a vivid sense of real things. Oh, do level and roll your road a little, Mr. Cor I fear travellers upon it in the future will be few. we do not want it made easier, but simply do not want to be bruised. Carlyle will never be forgotten; he is one of the few monumental writers but probably he will be named and referred to oftener than he is read. A book that one cannot read a second or third time -- A man's private storms and whirlpools and despairs and indigestino ought to appear in his work only as power, or light, or richness of tone. It is near 50 years since Past and Present was written, and none of its dire prophecies have yet come true. Yet I love this Scotch Jeremiah as I love few men. 29 Four or five inches of snow yesterday. Mercury down to 8 degrees this morning. -- Milton's poetry, for the most part, is to me a kind of London Tower filled with old armor, stuffed knights, wooden chargers, and the emblems and bedizzlements of the past. Interesting for a moment, but dead, hollow, moth-eaten. Not a live thing in one of his poems that I can find. Yes, there is a nightingale and a few flowers, and a human touch, here and there. But half a dozen pages would hold all that any man need read. The "Sampson" is said to be in the Greek spirit, but what business find he, a Puritan of Cromwell's time, writing in the Greek spirit?Why did he not write in his own spirit, or in the Puritan spirit? the 17th Century spirit? What business had he masquerading in this old armor? He put no real life under these ribs of death. His "Paradise Lost" is a huge puppet show, so grotesque and preposterous that it is quite insufferable. Milton seems to have been a real man, but he stands there in English literature like a great museum of literary archeology. He seems to have had no experiences of his own, and rarely to have seen the earth and sky, or men and women with his own natural eyes. He saw everything through the classic eyes of the dead past. Who reads him? Professors of literature, I suppose. He was a great craftsman no doubt, but he has been of no service to mankind, except a literary service; he has helped us to realize the classic spirit of letters, and the absurdity of the old theological dramaturgy. He spoke no word to any man's real moral or spiritual wants. March 1 Welcome, thrice welcome the first day of the almanac's spring! Bright and warm, a sap-day. May tempt the bees out by and by. Mercury down to 25 degrees last night. Snow a foot or more on the ground. Ice-men at work on the river, with 10 or 11 inch ice, half of it snow-ice. 2 Warm with signs of rain. Light shower in P.M. Wind shifting to N.W. and cooler. 3 Warm and clear, a day without a cloud, a real blue day. Stiffened up a little last night. but hardly touched freezing-point. Gentle breeze from the North. No spring birds yet. River opened last ight. 4 Sunday, Still bright and sprin-like. The spring birds this morning; bluebirds before sunrise, and robins and purple finches a little later the latter singing in chorus. The perfection of sap-weather. Snow running very fast. 5 Clear and warm, snow runs rapidly. 6 The bright spring days continue. Mud and slush very bad. But little frost at night. 9 Fine spring days, without a break till today. Snow nearly all gone. Excellent sap-weather. Sparrows in song. Turtle-dove on the 6th. Clouds today and sprinkles of rain in P.M. Gilchrist came last night on his way to Vassar. Rather too good an opinion of himself and work. 10 Still warm with sunshine. never remember ten days of March in succession so spring-like. Down to freezing only two or three nights. Near 60 degres some days. G's lecture at Vassar not a success, and I told him so. 11 Sunday. Cloud and fog this morning, but no frost. Sunshine in P.M. River opened night of the second.12 A little frost last night, calm and cool this morning. No wind yet this spring. Only a little floating ice on the river. Can the spark be said to sleep in the flint or the steel? No, only the condition of the spark sleeps there. The spark, the fire, sleeps in the arm, or inthe power that brings the flint and steel in collision. The motion, the force is converted into heat. 18 Sunday. The end of another week of remarkable March weather, April weather, in fact. In the past twenty years I remember nothing equal to it. Sunshine most of the time, and only a little frost. Showed on Thursday about 1 1/2 inch; all gone by 3 on Friday and mercury up to 55. On Friday my four friends from Poughkeepsie came up and spent the day. A pleasant time again. Yesterday Julian and I spent the day over by Black Creek after ducks. Killed no ducks but had a delightful day. Many signs of life in the air and water -- two or three kinds of butterflies, weveral moths, and occasional piping frog, insects in the air, newts and water bugs in and on the water, nuthatches calling, sparrows and robins and bluebirds everywhere. Not a breee stirring. Black Creek like glass as we floated or paddled up and down its length. Only a few ducks here and there. Only a few patches of old snow in the woods. Roads getting dry and vineyard calls us to work.My new man, Auchmoody, moved in yesterday. Buds of the soft maples swelling perceptibly. Saw my first snake and did not harm him. P.M Mercury up to 64 degrees, too warm. Hazel in bloom. Bees carry in pollen. Crocuses piercing the turf. Julian and I walk along the creek and back on RR. Arbutus buds swelling. Phoebe bird today. Standing after night fall now anywhere on the lawn one hears a slow stirring or rustling in the leaves and dry grass. It is made by large earth worms coming up out of their burrows and ruching out over the ground, whetlere for feeding or breedingI know not. My boy calls them "night walkers". In summer he hunts them at night to make bobs of. They are very sly and jerk swiftly back in their holes on the slightest sound. I suppose they feed your footsteps on the ground. 19 Warmer and warmer, up to 69 degrees. A sprinkle of rain in P.M; the fairest April weather. The little piping frongs in full chorus tonight; the whole tribe in full cry, also clucking frogs and the long-drawn Tr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r of the toad. 20 Cooler this morning, north wind. 22 Another big storm flashed in the pan. The fourth or fifith storm that had started from the West failed to reachus. Only a little dash of rain and mist and fog. Warm this morning, like lat April; grass greening and the plow at work. A cold wave said to be coming. No rain to speak of in over a month. -- A passage omiited on second thought from my essay in last Critic on the Sapphic Secret. "Discursive and experimental writers like Mr. Thompson and myself - the mere nibbling mice of Criticism, shoud temper their wrath when they sit in judgement upon the great ones -- the lions who make the paths through the jungles of the world. It is no fault of theirs that they are not micebut is it not a fault of ours that we do not see them to be lions?" 23 Rain set in P.M. and continued all night. Julian and I spend the day at Black Pond and Creek after ducks. See a few but no shot. Cook and eat our dinner on the miniature island, 8 x 10, near outlet of lake. Very pleasant time. The first warbler singing in the trees near us. J. has his new canvas canoe. 25 Overcast, storm threatened. 26 A white-was of snow this morning. All gone at night but getting colder. 27 A cold wave, down to 20 degrees this morning. Begin foundation of fruit house. A typical March day fo the chilly sort. 28 Like yesterday, with wind shifting to southerly in P.M. A storm approaching. How true it is that we want something untamed and untamable in a poet -- a strain of the original savage man. It is this salt that gives the tang to his poetry and that keeps it. No matter how great his culture and refinement if he only strikes back through it to his original uneducated nature and draws from that. He must be a poet before he has ever seen or heard of poetry. No doubt we strike here on one source of weakness of much modern poetry -- it does not smack at all of the soil, or simple, unlettered, human nature. The singers are poets mainly after what books and art ahve done for them. Their works are an intellectual and not an emotional product. Even in such a poet at Lowell, the original man is deeply overlaid iwth the scholar, and with literature. Which shall lead -- the emotional and intuitive nature, or the reasoning, intellectual nature? 31 Wonderful Aurora last night, beyond any I have ever before seen. Once while a boy I saw someting approaching it. The wonder of this display was that it made a complete circle all around the horizon. We stood in the midst of a greattent of streaming aurora. The ghostly flame shot up from north, east, south, west, and came to a focus just a few degrees south of our meridiam never before have I seen it rise up from the south. The apex of this tent was the scene of constantly shifting and vanishing forms of light. It was fairly apochryphal. At times it seemed as if the heavens opened at this point and troops of angels and winged horses came straight toward us. A pencil like Dore's would have caught many suggestions. Sometimes the electric clouds would gather at this point liek foam over the point of escaping fluid and whirl about. Sometimesthere would be curious openings through it where the black sky and the stars would appear. A deep crimson flush would appear here and there near the horizon and spread upward to the zenith. at 8:30 the motion of the streamers was hardly perceptible, but at 8:45 they were leaping up and very rapidly, the sublty impulses traveling up precisely like flame; and such ghostly flame! Never was anything more spectral and unearthly then the whole display. It was a wild dance of many-colored sheeted ghostly forms! What an impression such a phenomenon must have made upon rude primitive man. I myself could hardly keep down an emotion of superstitous fear.A warm fine day with summer clouds and wind. Work all day on the new foundation walls of barn. April 1 Warm and breezy; mercury about 50 degrees in morning. Grass quite green and all buds swelling. The spring three weeks ahead of time. Hepatica today out probably a day or two. 2 Bright, dry, cold. A day to burn brush and rubbish. 3 My 57th birthday. Clear, sharp, dry; mercury down to 20 degrees this morning. The sky so clear and dry that the cold air falls down upon us. House painters here this morning. Julian resumes scool. Settle up P.O matters with S. Health good, spirits ditto.8 Sunday. Ground white with snow this morning. We had an April March now we are having a March April. The week has been rather cold, quite a freeze two or three nights. -- What a difference between the artist's interest in a picture, and the public's interest! The people are interested in the picture, in what it tells them, in the subject, in what they see in it that agrees with their experience, or their ideals. The artist is interested in the art of the picture, the drawing, the coloring, the handling -- in the form and not in the substance. Which is right? The artists do not much respect the popular verdict. An artist will greatly admire a portrait that is not a good likeness, while the first thing that the layman demands is that it be like the original. If it is not like, he has no further interest in it. It is the old story of art for art's sake, and not for what it tells. The professional view of a doctor whom he met rubbing his hands with delight because he had just been called to a chase of some kind or other that was "beautiful" -- just according to the books, every feature was perfect. The book or the picture that has not something besides its art to recommend it, will not carry very far. -- Prof. Huxley says the ethical process and the cosmic process are at war -- the former combats the latter. And yet if your ethical process is not in keeping with the laws of nature, if it be not really founded upon the cosmic order, will it last? will it carry? Can the settled order of the Whole be combatted? Do we combat it in setting up the moral order? Certainly not. The conflict is not fully cleared up by Husley. Our benevolence, our humanity prompts us to interfere with the law of natural selection, the survival of the fittest in seeking to prolong the lives of the unfit. We do prolong them, but evidently to the detriment of the stock. Moral value, moral goodness -- what are they? Are they founded in the constitution of things? Self-denial, self-sacrifice, heroism, mercy, forgiveness, etc. are these things contrary to the eternal verities? Man confronts Nature and puts her under his feet, but only within certain narrow limits. He does not make the tide rollback, but he utilizes it, rides it. He cannot change the nature of lightning, but he can use it, control it, (not tame it.) We say Man tames the lightning, or tames the elements, but that is only a figure of speech. They are untabalbe. He measured them and adjusts his wants to them. He tames the animals; he subdues them. He tames them his own animal nature; he lets the ape and tiger ide. The cosmic process of course includes man and lass his doings, since he is part of the cosmos, and the ethical process is at war with the cosmic process only as the lever is at war with gravitation. A new element is introduced, the will of man, which sorks upon and uses the old order. Man uses Nature and is part ofher unconsciously, while the animals do not. He is an animal plus a developed (more or less) moral consciousness. By reason he uses Nature. (The lamper-eels use Nature also when they go up stream for the stones which the current helps them float down to their nest.) The moral order is opposed to the animal order -- is not that about all? Must think further on this matter. Is the ethical process analogous to the cultivating and improving of the surface of the earth -- draining, clearing, shaping, fertilizing? Is the farmer at war with Nature? In one sense; but unless Nature favors him, where is he? 9 Windy, chilly. Froze some last night. Sheets of snow all day yesterday and a very chilly air. -- Dick Martin just dropped in to show me a handful of young 'possums, very young -- 16 of them -- likely newly-born mice. The mother was picked up dead on the RR, head and one leg cut off and these young were in her pouch each clinging to its teat dead. The connection seems almost as vital as when they-- When I am flollowing my plow over a refractory piece of ground, and see it dip in here and come to the surface there, now and then the turning of the soil fairly, but as often only making a mark, I say that while that is not good plowing it is about as good as the best writing, so rarely do even the best authors more than turn up fresh soil here and there -- a steady uniform furrow, opening up virgin soil -- who turns it? We arewere in the mother's womb. They are born in about two weeks after gestation begins, and placed by the mother in her pouchm where they fasten upon the teats. The teats, Dick says, are long and slender like a little skunks, 'possums, muskrats, woodchucks, and foxes. The red foxes seem to be run down by the fast night trains. 11 Forty years ago to-day -- how appalling that sounds! -- I began my first school, Tongore, Ulster County. A driving snow storm from the North. Winter again in earnest. Moved the wagon-house today, and now call it the fruit house.12 Five or six inches of wet snow yesterday. Flurries of snow in the air this morning, with north wind still blowing very chilly. Mercyry a little above freezing. -- Some natures are essentially moral, the categories to which they refer all things are those of good and evil; others are intellectual; their categories of reference are those of the true and the false; still others are esthetic; they see only the beautiful and ugly, only poetry or prose. 15 Lovely day, the world flooded with light; warm, dry, north wind. A luxury to be out doors. Fine yesterday also, with some cloud. drive to Sherwood's in PM.-- How curious, almost startling, the thought or discovery that there is such a thing as light or sound -- these two universal phenomena that play such a part in our lives. That they are sensations -- merely, physiological effects of vibrations in the ether. But what causes the vibratons in the ether that causes our sensations of light? some material force certainly. The same with sound; the waves are there, if the ear is not. Light effects even the rocks. So there is an influence, an emanation from the sun or the lamp which is real, and which makes the conditions for the sensation we call light. There is such thing as sweet or sour, hot or cold; these are sensations. The universe is an illusion, a creation of our own after all. 17 The fourth of the charmed days. Bright, dry and warm. The yellow redpoll warbler today. Walk up to the creek for suckeys but get none, but how beautiful the full, clear, cold stream rushing along in the sunlight! Began plowing vineyard to-day. 20 Two days of cloud and blue vapor -- veiled, soft, quiet, moist orodous April days. 21 Shower with thunder last night, and light rains during forenoon. Bright and warm in PM, and rain again at sundown. 22 Rain with thunder in morning and cooler. Misty all forenoon. The April drought fairly broken.Notes for an April poem: The soft maples are crimson and the buds of the elm swarm like bees in the branches, The bee comes home with golden thighs from the willows, and honey in her bag from the arbutus. School children pass with their hand full of hepaticas and arbutus. The newly-lpoughed fields glow like the breasts of robins. I walk in the new furrow in the stron sunlight till it is photographed upon my spirit. The farmer strides across the brown field scattering the seed oats at steps alternate. The sparrow, the robin, the jay, have nest-material in their beaks. The kinglet pipes his fine lyrical strain in the evergreens -- he flashes his ruby crown to his mate. The white-throat sings on his way northward. Long and long the highhole calls fro mthe distand field. The first swallow laughs down to me from the sky. From the marshes rise the shill, infantile chorus of the little piping frogs. From the trees above them comse the o-ka-lee of the red-wing. The song of the toad tr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r is heard in the land. The first dandelion lies like a gold coin upon the greening turf.Something delicate, prophetic, spiritual is in the air. The bud-scales are falling from the buds -- some are fragrant and gummy. The light shower fills the air with wild perfume, The bluebird lifts and flickers to his mate his cerulean wing, In the twilight the robin-racket is prolonged and intense, The cow bird sits beside his dusky mate on the top of the tree and pumps up his liquid, glassy notes. In the leafless woods the pedestrian partridge beats his drum -- his own inflated breast. Amid the alders in the moist bottoms, the marsh marigold have the effect of coined sunshine. Here and there is the moist bottoms, the marsh marigolds have the effect of coined sunshine. Here and there is the tree-dotted landscape, the greening rye fields delight the eye. Ere the month is ended the shad-blow makes a white mist, here and there along the forest borders.27 A week of fine April weather, slowly warming up till to-day it is nearly summer heat. Again the maples have shaken out their fringelike blossoms, again the cherry trees are white. Season much earlier than last. A few days ago the air was filled with a dleicious wild perfume, a pungent, stimulating, bitter-sweet odor. I could not trace it to its source. It seemed to be general and to fill all the air. Was it from the just-bursting buds of the sugar maples? I know of no toher likely source. Tops of the trees over in Langdon's woods just faintly etched in opening leaf-buds. Currants blooming. On the night of the 24th went to Kingston to hear and see Ingersoll Much stouter and redder than when I saw him last May; much too much belly. Can drink whiskey, he says, but not wine. Wine makes him throb and throb. He ate his supper in his room after the lecture; drank iced-milk and iced-water freely. Lecture full of telling points, much sound argument, and many eloquent passages. He said, in talking with me in his room, that he was by no means sure that immortality was desirable; he would name conditions before accepting it -- unconditional immortality he would refuse.28 A lovely day, feminine day, veiled, tranquil, almost voluptuous. Mercury at 78. A little rain in afternoon. -- Had a glimpse of father the other night in my dream; we were at the table and a plate of trout was passed around, and I was father pick out the big one, as I have so often seen him do. I smiled in my sleep. 29 Clear and cooler, with North wind. 30 The last of the April days, clear, warm, still, with just a tinge of vapor in the air -- the beginning of brided veil ofSummer. Cherry and plum trees in bloom; pear trees spring and apple trees showing the pink. Carpenders began the new barn t0-day. May 1st May day shads in warm soft, wind southerly, wide hazy clouds in the sky. Wood thrush to-day in my grounds. The first big run of shad yesterday. 2. Hot and dry -- 88 degrees in shade to-day. Apple trees leaping into bloom. 3d Cooler this morning; North wind. Leaves half out; a tender mist of green over Langdens woods. Grass and grain need rain.-- In P. library I glance over Mr Grosses "Note on Walt Whitman" in the New Review for April. Must read it at my leisure some time. Gross is a very clever, but a very small critic and man -- has spent his days in overlading and sorting and inspecting the small potatoes of Enlish literature (and no literature has more small potatoes) How much he knows about [crossed out: English lit] said literature that is not worth knowing that it would be a mere weariness to know. He is a man of details and of deft careful workmanship, but entirely superficial. You never strike a great thought or a fresh thought in his workand his criticisms compare with Arnold's, or Scherer's as a vine compares with a tree. The professional critic, if he be not a large nature, can make nothing of Whitman. A man like Gosse, trained in the schools and overtrained is in literature, much like the orthodox theologian in religion. How the latter snorts at the idea that there can be any religion outside the church, the dogmas, the forms, the Bible etc. The former in the same way snorts at the idea that there can be any poetry outside of or in opposition to the rules and models and schools. He sees nothing but a barbarous, unregenerated poetic nature in W.W. Mr G. thinks the secret of W's attraction for certain minds is that they see themselves in him etc. Well, a poet in which such men as Stevenson Symonds, Emerson, Thoreau and others see themselves, must be something and somebody to be sure. In Mr Gosse's poems we see only little Mr Gosse. When we can all see ourselves in him [crossed out: we] he will have increased immeasurably in size and importance. 10 Lovely May days without a break, nearly summer tem-perature. A brief shower on Sunday the 6th getting pretty dry. Showy orchis in bloom and fringed polygala. Leaves all out. Trees clad in their under garments, tho' some of the maples look fully clad. Go to N.Y. to-day to attend Authors Club dinner at night. 12. Back home to-day from N.Y. Still dry and warm. Apple bloom all gone. The last run of shad (apparently) in the river. Was greatly shocked on my arrival home to learn of the sudden death of my neighbor Mr Hathaway yesterday morning. While I was at the authors club, speaking or eating and making merry, he was struggling with death. He has been my neighbor there under the hill for 10 years and I shall miss him much. I could almost look down into his chimney and I shall greatly miss the smoke from his fire going up into the air on winter mornings, and his friendly voice and manner. A blameless, good natured, rather intelligent man, without childrenwith a wife fearfully neat. A deacon in the church, a cooper by trade, and in all ways a kind and brotherly man. My last word with him or vision of him was last Friday the 4th of May. He had lived many years in Brooklyn working at his trade. Came here 10 years ago to look after the big ice house. Age, 67. To-day is his funeral day (Sunday 13th) -- The [crossed out: onl] main difference between a precious stone and a common stone is not in the substance, but in the arrangement -- the crystalization. In substance the charcoal and the diamond are one, but in form how widely they differ. This crystalization is not an easy thing. It requires almost an eternity of time. 19 Weather the last week warm and dry till last night, when a fine shower fell, nearly one inch of water. 19 Go home on morning train take up some shad; reach home at noon. How green and fresh the old spot looks, how the bobolinks sing. all are well. Stay home till Wednesday, the 23d Wind and light rain till last day, the bright and warm. I go fishing over in Meeker's Hollow; take 33 trout to the song of bobolinks. A hot pull home at 12. Take a few trout from West Settlement stream on Monday. Return home in afternoon. 24. Began raining last night from a depression in Va, yesterday, and has rained steadily all day. No let-up for a moment. Easily an inch of water has fallen. Grape arms 2 feet long and begin-ning to break some. 25 Rain continued all day and all last night, and is still at it; threatening to be a regular debauch of the rain godsStill my drains are not running. The earth was very thirsty. Grape arms dropping off this morning. -- Slow rain nearly all day. -- I do not seem to have made any proper record of my visit home from the 19th to the 23rd. Heavy East wind with light rain most of the time. I strolled about in the usual way, listening, looking for something I could not find. I sat for an hour or more on two occasions on the top of the hill above the house looking over in West Settlement and listening to the shore larks singing far above me. Twice after supper I walked out on the hill and looked long and long off east into Montgomery Hollow and trying to conjure up the old days I poked about the grave yard on the hill and found the grave of Obadiah Scudder, 1804, the oldest date I could find. I watched the boys draw dung and tried to get up courage to takea hand in, but could not. One afternoon I went down into the hemlocks and wandered along the little stream, all much changed since my boy hood. How green and fresh the country looked, with a sort of pathos over all, the pathos of my vanished youth. 29. The big rain of the season thus far yesterday; began about 2 P.M. and rained nearly all night, nearly 2 inches of water in 10 hours, drains all running this morning; broke the grape arms badly. I find they break less in stony, gravelly soil; the worst breakage is in the soft sandy soil. Bright and cool to-day. 31. Another rain set in last night from the N.E. a hell of rain seems imminent. The locusts have dropped their bloom. Daisy has come again and clover. June 1st June comes in like a huzzy, cold and sour-- clouds with spurts of rain. 3d A fine day at last but very cool. Dr Bucke and wife here. The 17 year locusts are coming out think in places. 4 Rain again last night and this morning. Clearing off is no good any more. Before you can turn around the rain is upon us again. It is "water affirmative" as Goethe says. No matter where the wind is it rains. Where two or three clouds are gathered together it rains. This is the third week of rain every day but one. 5th Threatens rain again. Coldand sour. We go to West Point. Actually clears off in P.M. and we have a fine day. 6 Cold and sour again threatening rain. Hellish weather, worse than in England. Barn not yet finished. Straw-berries just ripening a little. A cold wave coming from the N.W. with frosts in its course. In P.M. walk over to the weasel swamp. Find three interesting things -- The 17 year locusts coming out all along the borders of the woods; some little bushes loaded with them. Under certain trees find their little earth mounds [crossed out: thick] many of them yet sealed up, or with only a peep hole in them. Saw a little moth that evidently imitates bird droppings on the leaves. When disturbed it would fly a few rods and alight on [crossed out: the]a broad green leaf, spreading itself out perfectly flat, simulating the droppings of a bird. It was yellowish with a faint dark brown etched upon its wings. It would not move till touched. I have read of a moth or butterfly found on some island of Oceanica that exactly mimmicks the excrement of a bird upon a leaf -- this of course for protection. Found the nest of the worm-eating warbler beside the path in the edge of the woods. As I came along down the path on my return a small brown bird started up from the ground a few feet from me. From the glimpse of it I had, I took it to be the oven bird. Looking to the spot [crossed out: from] whence it started I saw another bird with a striped head standing on the edge of a nest in the side of the bank with the droppings of one of the young birds, whose heads I saw beneath her, in her beak. My appearance upon the scene was sudden and the mother bird was surprised while waiting upon her young. She stood motion-less, half turned toward me and kept the white mass in her beak, neither of us stirred for a minute or two, when I withdrew and sat down a few paces away. The male bird now became quite uneasy and flitted from bush to bush and uttered his alarm chip. The mother bird never stirred. I could see her loaded beak from where I sat. In two or three minutes she dropped or otherwise disposed of her unsavory morsel, but kept her place above her young. Then the male bird, seeing that was the game, quieted down also and dis-appeared from view. After long waiting I approached the nest and pausing 10 feet away, regarded it some moments. The bird never stirred. Then came nearer, and when I sat down within 4 or 5 feet of the nest the parent bird flew out upon the ground 3 or 4 paces from me and began trying that old confidence game of the birds upon me. She was seized with incipient paralysis, she dragged herself about in the ground, she grieved and tottered and seemed about ready to go all to pieces. [crossed out: The male now sudden] seeing this game did not work she began to use her wings and to scold sharply. The male now suddenly appeared upon the scene, and, ture to his name had a worm in his beak. Their scolding brought avireo upon the scene, which they seemed to regard as an intrusion. The nest was composed mainly of dry leaves. The young were probably a week old. I shall visit them again. 7. Cold and sour; almost a frost last night. No heat since April. We greatly overdrew our a/c in that long succession of bright mild days in March and April. 9 Weather still fair and beginning to warm up. Nearly 80 to-day. Grape arms have broken very badly this year. Met poor old Mrs Green last night trudging down from Esopus to take train here to go to Newburgh to see her son fatally hurt on the R.R. Poor old mother, I could have wept with her. Son a worth-less fellow, hard drinker, better dead than alive, but his mothersheart could not give him up easily. There were tears on her brown wrinkled face as we talked. It was very hard for her she said, so old, so much trouble, so much hard work as she had seen. [???] children, a drinking husband and sons, poverty and yet the old woman tries to keep up a cheerful front, and has preserved a certain innocence and sweetness. The methodist dominie went down and prayed beside her son; went on purpose, she said. "It was showing him a good deal of respect" said she, and she was touched by it. Probably the first mark of respect the poor devil had ever seen. I have known her for 20 years and yet she cant get my name right; calls me Mr Burrell generally. As she stepped along alertly to get on the train I saw how pinched and crooked her old back looked, bet. 70 and 80 10 No clouds to-day. Summer heat over 80. A lovely June day. Walked to the woods. Found nest of water thrush, and came near another, the brood had flown. Locusts in full chorus to-day. How warm and fragrant the breath of the meadow I passed through. A very little grape bloom to-day under the hill. 11. A still dim day of great heat, 90 in shade. 12 Still very hot; sky veiled with vapor or smoke till noon. Go to Vassar. A heavy shower at 6 1/2 P.M. 13. Hot, with streaks of sunshine cooler in evening. 14. Bright, cooler; grapes blooming. 21. Very warm the past ten days, from 80 to 90. Light thunder showers. Grapes done blooming yesterday, except a few stragglers, about the same as last year. Currants earlier. The 17-year cicadas humming and flying everywhere. Buildings at last finished and painted. 23. Heat continues, 92 to-day on north end of house. Began the currants. I do not remember such a hot June. July 1st No let-up in the heat, from 86 degrees to 91 degrees every day. Only light dashes of rain; getting dry. Finished currants yesterday, about 4 tons. Prices low.2d Mercury 90 degrees to-day. Start for Snyder Hollow, Julian and I. Reach Larkins about 10 A.M. Stay there in the camp till Friday the 6th A delicious time -- never had better, Julian a good camper out. Great pleasure in being with him in the woods and teaching him wood craft. Took [crossed out: ???] and ate about 90 trout from 5 to 10 inches. Began to get cooler on the 4th. Stopped at Phoececia and caught 2 fine rainbow trout. In the ice-cream saloon the boy asked us, "Will you have it in brick or in bulk?" "If the bricks are bulky," I said "We will have it in 'brick'"? "But what is the difference?" "In the brick it is all in a cake, and in bulk it is shovelled out.""'Shovelled out sounds good", we replied, "we are very hungry for cream;" we will try it both ways" which we did, and liked the shovelled out plates the best. Reached home Friday night. 10. Very cool for past few days and very dry; things begin to suffer much for want of water. 12 Start for Adirondacks to-day on invitation of Mr Chubb. Very hot. Stay at White Hall over night. Reach the Willey House in Keene Friday P.M. Stay one week. Very cool and delightful. The grandest mountain view I ever saw.Like the Chubbs much. Give a talk on Nature in Parlors on Saturday night, and one on Whitman on Sunday night. On Monday we climb Hurricane Mt. The view amazing for extent and sublimity. Meet Prof Davison and some of his philosophers; the Prof. an old time student and thinker -- lives on the past. Nothing new or vital in him. (The new is always vital, and the vital is always new). Return home Friday the 20th; heat terrible -- 94 in the cars all day, 96 in Albany and Troy stations. Very dry, -- a light rain last Sunday the 15th. 22d Cool and cloudy, about 1/2 ich of rain last night.Strays the drouth, but does not cure it. Grapes and all things suffering. A summer of great heat and dryness so far. -- I can well understand the feelings of the old Romans that prompted them to thrash and flog their gods when things went wrong with them. I never knew of a god that did not deserve flogging every day in the year. Take the god of rain, for instance. What a mess he makes of it, always drowning some part of the country and burning up some other part. 24. Cloudy, misty, getting hot. A hot wave near by no rain to speak of. Getting ready to go out to old home, Julian and I.
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Creator: Huntley, Olive L.
Date: December 5, 1862
Text: New Woodstock Dec. 15th Mr Matthew Vassar Dear Sir It is not often that I venture unintroduced, into the presence of an entire stranger; but in consideration of the magnificent gift you have recently bestowed upon the women of our land, I am encouraged to address you upon a subject which, for years, has been to me, one of absorbing interest. I am the third of four sisters, between the ages of twenty two and thirty, in a family of twelve children- ten of whom are still living- who from our...
Show moreNew Woodstock Dec. 15th Mr Matthew Vassar Dear Sir It is not often that I venture unintroduced, into the presence of an entire stranger; but in consideration of the magnificent gift you have recently bestowed upon the women of our land, I am encouraged to address you upon a subject which, for years, has been to me, one of absorbing interest. I am the third of four sisters, between the ages of twenty two and thirty, in a family of twelve children- ten of whom are still living- who from our childhood have for (…)writing to you is to ascertain upon what terms we may become members of this Institution. It has ever been our intention to devote ourselves to teaching, if we can secure a thorough education to prepare us for that important work, and we feel that no place could be found more desirable for obtaining that preparation, than the Vassar Collegiate Institute. Pardon me for taking so much of your time; my earnest desire to secure this object is my apology. Will it be too much to ask you to answer the question I have proposed? Whether we can enjoy the advantages of this noble Institution or not, permit me with all fine women of our land, to thank you warmly for the kindly interest you have manifested in the intellectual and (…) training of our sex; assuring you that thousands of the sons and daughter of our land will yet bless the memory of him whose Christian kindness has prompted this noble enterprise. On behalf of my sister and myself Yours very respectfully Olive L. Humtleyhoped at some future day to enjoy the educational advantages, we so highly prized: but although poverty has never been our portion, yet our parents have never felt able to incur the necessary expense. The advertisements of the different institutions of learning, which have roughly met our eye, have been perused with a longing to share their benefits, which only those, similarly situated can fully understand. Some time since, a matter of the Vassar Collegiate Institute, when in process of erection, attracted our attention, and (…) new hopes; but, ignorant of the plans upon which it was founded, we supposed its advantages were far beyond our reach, and relinquished it with a sigh: hoping a way might yet be opened for the accomplishment of our long-cherished desire. Last evening an Article in the Female Advocate and Guardian caught our eye, which led us to hope that here might be found that which we had so long sought in vain. My object in1862 Olive L Humtley New Woodstock Madison Co. NY Decb 5th Answered 21 Decb wishes to enter as pupil
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 5/10/20
Text: May 10. Dear Father + Mother, I moved home today. I'll try it and see how it works. I found a note on my door from Eleanor Wolfe - sorry to have missed me. It took a while for it to down who she was - but the address Park Ave., helped. Nothing new in classes, except that I got a C+ on that math makeup quiz. It's time for me to wake up. Mlle. C. says she will certify that I don't need [a2nd] year foreign language. Hurrah! I don't think those were the glasses, Mother. There...
Show moreMay 10. Dear Father + Mother, I moved home today. I'll try it and see how it works. I found a note on my door from Eleanor Wolfe - sorry to have missed me. It took a while for it to down who she was - but the address Park Ave., helped. Nothing new in classes, except that I got a C+ on that math makeup quiz. It's time for me to wake up. Mlle. C. says she will certify that I don't need [a2nd] year foreign language. Hurrah! I don't think those were the glasses, Mother. There should be 2 pairs specs. at home. Medicine + laundry O.K. Love; FannieMr. + Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 S. Winebiddle Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Date: December 10, 2014

Creator: Vance, Gertrude (Pratt)
Date: n.d.
Text: 3. Dear Mama I got your dear letter this A.M. Who is the Mr. Gregory who was killed by auto. You are a perfect dear to send the cake I told Margie about it & she said it would be fine. In thought of the [nabisco’s?] myself we could mix them with the cake. I have one package that I [bought?] from home & we might get another. We are going to have a punch bowl & cups from the place we [got?] the ice cream when you were here & then we will make the punch with lemons ourselves &...
Show more3. Dear Mama I got your dear letter this A.M. Who is the Mr. Gregory who was killed by auto. You are a perfect dear to send the cake I told Margie about it & she said it would be fine. In thought of the [nabisco’s?] myself we could mix them with the cake. I have one package that I [bought?] from home & we might get another. We are going to have a punch bowl & cups from the place we [got?] the ice cream when you were here & then we will make the punch with lemons ourselves & get a bottle of marachino[sp:maraschino] cherries to put in it. then we will have a supper dance & serve & after that just let people help themselves to punch like a reg. dance. We had snow up here yesterday & today is very cold & snow still on the ground. Do tell me what you want for Xmas. I dont want you to get any big things for my room like a lamp as we must have one at home before I have one & my light here is excellent. We might [buy?] ^ some of yours & my Xmas present s together & then we would get what we wanted although the things you get for me are always perfect. One thing I would like is a watch ribbon with a little silver “slide” & clasp. I have just thought you may be in N.Y. if I should phone so I guess I wont any way dont stay home for it as I can decide about the pictures & I will get them as cheap as I can but if you think they are really good we might as well get at least 3 expensive ones as it would be a shame to loose them. Love from your little Goo.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1920-04-16]
Text: Dear Mother, You told me sure I could call up whenever I want to, so I shall do so next Sunday before temple, between 9 + 10. Do not be worried. I feel so perfectly rotten, and goodness knows, I am obeying the doctor's instructions. I want to speak to you to get some advice, so that you can ask the doctor if he has any suggestions about what I should do. I thought it was the railroad trip, but it is already Friday morning + there is no improvement. Per-haps I ought to get treatment from...
Show moreDear Mother, You told me sure I could call up whenever I want to, so I shall do so next Sunday before temple, between 9 + 10. Do not be worried. I feel so perfectly rotten, and goodness knows, I am obeying the doctor's instructions. I want to speak to you to get some advice, so that you can ask the doctor if he has any suggestions about what I should do. I thought it was the railroad trip, but it is already Friday morning + there is no improvement. Per-haps I ought to get treatment from that Poughkeepsie doctor. I ought not to go on like this, I am afraid the whole darn thing is coming back again. Don't be angry - I want to know what you have to say about it. If I had gone to the [Herfelz consent], I would have spent the $2.88. Fannie
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Creator: Shipp, Margaret M.
Date: 18 March 1902

Creator: Pease, Julia M
Date: December 2, 1874
Text: Vassar. Dec. 2. 1874 - Dearest Dear, Having no new lesson to learn in Churc- this morning, and not feeling like studying review, I take this period which is usually devoted to perusing stupid notes for scribbling off a letter to you Carrie - Yours of the 26th was just this moment handed me, and gave me great joy, although it was such a bit of a letter - I can rejoice with you all at the return of the treasure Julia, for you know my antipathy to housework at any time, and my longsiege of bed...
Show moreVassar. Dec. 2. 1874 - Dearest Dear, Having no new lesson to learn in Churc- this morning, and not feeling like studying review, I take this period which is usually devoted to perusing stupid notes for scribbling off a letter to you Carrie - Yours of the 26th was just this moment handed me, and gave me great joy, although it was such a bit of a letter - I can rejoice with you all at the return of the treasure Julia, for you know my antipathy to housework at any time, and my longsiege of bed-making and other work makes me long, when through here, to have nothing to do but sit with folded hands - Of course you had a pleasant Thanksgiving, and so did I - But yet I could but think of my place at the home table, vacant for the last year I hope - Two or three eights ago the Prez, announced in Chapel that the Christmas vacation Instead of beginning as the Catalogue states en the Tuesday preceding Christmas will begin on the Friday! For a few momentsafter the announcement joy reigned supreme, then we could not help a tremeadous hand-clapping. I think we never were before quite so anxious for vacation- Every body seems tired but and needing rest - I am one of the "pine-knots," and never sick, but yet as Miss Terry said to me the other day, "Miss Pease, you can feel tired", and I rejoice with all my heart that we have five more days of rest - Clifford Loverin, and I walked from the Chapel with the avowed intention of going home So unless strict orders to the contrarycome, you need not be surprised some bright day to see us briskly walking into our respective houses - Indeed I don't know what I shall do this vacation - Aunt M. has sent a most cordial Invitation for me to visit her, and if I go away at all, shall probably go to Binghamton. Then Lillle Lewis has no invitation for me in Burlington, but of course Aunt's has the prior right - Our vacation is three weeks long -Did I ever write you that some time ago came a letter of introduction from Miss Moffett, who is at school at Cook's in Po'keepsie - Of course I immediately answered saying I would call soon, but my soon did not come until last Monday - I find her very pleasant, though younger than I had anticipated. She tried for Vassar but did not enters now expects to come next year as Freshman; also expects Minnie D. will enter with her as Preparatory - It made me right homesick, talking aboutAustin people with her - Philathean Day comes on Friday, when I suppose we will have another festive time - Think I shall send complimentary Invitations to "your beau" Lewis and charming Charlie Wheeleck - Wasn't it a joke for Judge H. to think me "sweet sixteen". No one else in Austin does, though - Our class pins have come and are quite pretty - It really made me feel old and sad to see them, for It shows how must "shakeoff this mortal coat" and allow others to walk Into our shoes - It is not a pleasant thought that others will step into our places so soon, without one regret for our departure - You will think this an awfully doleful letter, so rather than inflict any more of such nonsense upon you, I will close - with the hope that with you "all goes merry as a wedding bell," but that those bells are yet afar from you, dear -
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Creator: [unknown]
Date: [After 1878]
Text: JOHN H . rmvmowo 181a - 1878 At the first meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College after the death of our late honored President, John H. Raymond, we record a brief statement of his work in this College, and an expression, altogether inadequate, of the love we have for his memorye We appreciate, as others cannot, the unceasing toil, the perplexity, the solicitude, the many discouragements which attended his heroic and successful endeavor to secure for this College its present eminence among...
Show moreJOHN H . rmvmowo 181a - 1878 At the first meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College after the death of our late honored President, John H. Raymond, we record a brief statement of his work in this College, and an expression, altogether inadequate, of the love we have for his memorye We appreciate, as others cannot, the unceasing toil, the perplexity, the solicitude, the many discouragements which attended his heroic and successful endeavor to secure for this College its present eminence among educational institu- tions. We appreciate, as others cannot, the complica- tions of the problem given to him for solution at the time of his election to his office. At the outset, there was a Board of Trustees having the heartiest interest in this work, but pre- senting many shades of opinion on educational questions. And the Faculty, organized under peculiar limitations needed time and trial to give it experience and strength. And the demand made by the public upon this College in its earlier years, insisting that students sent hither should be trained to the accomplishments of the fashionable world rather than to the earnestness of the scholar, was a demand that he resisted with an unfaltering, a religious con- stancy, and defeated utterly, so that under his leadership a victory, complete, enduring, has been gained for the higher education of women. Beset by the ill-advised and persistent appeal of the parents of our students, with no pioneers to guide him, President Raymond cautiously and safely led this College through the wilderness of its first years. We know what his thoughtfulness has accomplished in the improvement of all the appointments and properties of the College, in securing for it the respect of educated people, in winning for it the loyalty of students, and in organizing a happy domestic regime. But these achievements made by devotion to the duties of his office, though they have commanded expressions of public JOHN H. RAYMOND (Continued) admiration, still seem to us to fade in comparison with the result he attained in promoting the steady growth of our educational work. Comparing the Scheme of Instruction" published in our first catalogue, with the clear and well adjusted cur- riculum now followed by our students we see the traces of his most difficult work, and his brightest success. While others point to his temperament, or to his scholarship, or to his literary and oratorical skill as the secret of his power in this College, we, recognizing all these qualities in him, point to his rare gift for organization as his prime endowment - a gift blending with comprehensiveness of plan a conscientious zeal for the performance of smallest details. This endowment made it possible for him to watch every interest related to his office, and insured the uninterrupted progress of Vassar College under his administration. We remind ourselves that our late President himself grew to loftier ideas under the discipline of his work. Each new success inspired him with grander hopes, to more intense endeavor. He led the way to broader freedom in the discipline of the College; and in presiding over our legislative deliberations, he had come to be the most advanced among us in demanding an unfaltering respect for the womanliness of our students. Always considerate of the weariness of his fellow- workers, he gave himself no rest. In recalling what he has done for Vassar College, we pay our reverent re- spect to his industry, to his fidelity, to his sacrifice of self, to his wisdom, which have laid our foundations so secure that no adversity, not even his death, can overturn them. He was modest, he was honest, he was cautious, he was patient, he was just, he was devout, he was faithful in all things. He was eminent, and he was eminently good, He is dead, but his work survives, I - 391-393
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Creator: MacCoy, Marjorie Newell
Date: 3 October 1909

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-12-14
Text: December 14. Dear Father, I [had] a letter from Aunt Bessie saying that Uncle Ike would meet me, if possible. If not, I was to take a taxi to the Pa. Station. etc. + [some] directly out to [Woodmere]. She sent a time-table ([Long] Island) She also said Uncle [Ike] had theater tickets - she did not say for what - and that they would see me to the train. You might [communicate] with them inasmuch as I would like the pleasure of your company. I had no idea you could stay over. I plan to take the...
Show moreDecember 14. Dear Father, I [had] a letter from Aunt Bessie saying that Uncle Ike would meet me, if possible. If not, I was to take a taxi to the Pa. Station. etc. + [some] directly out to [Woodmere]. She sent a time-table ([Long] Island) She also said Uncle [Ike] had theater tickets - she did not say for what - and that they would see me to the train. You might [communicate] with them inasmuch as I would like the pleasure of your company. I had no idea you could stay over. I plan to take the 12 M. special Friday. Possibly the 11:38, but I think the special will get in sooner + it won't be such a rush. The debate [was oreal]. We lost 2-1. I am dead. FannieMr. Marcus Aaron, C/O Hotel Astor, New York, N.Y.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-01-14
Text: Jan. 14, 1920. Dear Mother + Father: I am extremely busy today. I am going to lab for an extra two hours, as I don't want to have so much the last minute before exams. I still have a good deal to do on this week's history topic. Had a Spanish confer-ence this morning. Am sending my laundry today. Had a letter from Aunt Hattie today, in which she [adoised] me to take all the [snap] courses + no hard ones henceforth! I wonder what she thinks you come to college for. Your new picture...
Show moreJan. 14, 1920. Dear Mother + Father: I am extremely busy today. I am going to lab for an extra two hours, as I don't want to have so much the last minute before exams. I still have a good deal to do on this week's history topic. Had a Spanish confer-ence this morning. Am sending my laundry today. Had a letter from Aunt Hattie today, in which she [adoised] me to take all the [snap] courses + no hard ones henceforth! I wonder what she thinks you come to college for. Your new picture reposes on my desk, Father. It is growing on me - in fact I think it is quite good, now that I have gotten used to the fact that my Paps isn't as beautiful as I once imagined. Love. FannieMr. + Mrs. Marcus Aaron 402 S. Winebiddle St., Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Creator: Bromley, Frances M.
Transcriber(s): Hausam, Josephine
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1870-1877
Text: PLEASE NOTE: Blank pages are omitted, and pages with text are presented in the order in which they were Written (in the original, the diarist left every other page blank from the beginning, and upon reaching the end of the book, began working her way back, Writing upside down on pages that had been left blank). From "The Checkered Scene"-- Dansville, N.Y. 1878 "Mr. Little has been telling me how he went home last night, after our little talk up in Paradise Gate, and had a dream...
Show morePLEASE NOTE: Blank pages are omitted, and pages with text are presented in the order in which they were Written (in the original, the diarist left every other page blank from the beginning, and upon reaching the end of the book, began working her way back, Writing upside down on pages that had been left blank). From "The Checkered Scene"-- Dansville, N.Y. 1878 "Mr. Little has been telling me how he went home last night, after our little talk up in Paradise Gate, and had a dream about me. He did not dream that I got well, he said, but that I became helpless. That I was placed where scarcely anything about me was as I would like it to be - in a hard place - where nothing fitted - and the people about me were uncomfortable people - and little to my taste - but that amidst it all I was sucha happiness to others; which was so much better than getting well." "A little talk with Mrs. Evans tonight. I leave her feeling that there is a blessedness greater than any sadness in knowing that the Master is even now at the gate." "Dr. McLean said to me: 'My wife and I have remarked ever so many times that we would give anything if we could always look as bright as you do.' Blessed be the help that comes to do it! The Master remembers.""Pet's letter came today; and her "why nots" are so full of the unselfishness and heroism that I love so in her that I feel an uplifting. But, O, how it makes my heart ache!" "In due order breakfast. We might pass this over were it not that it gains in importance unspeakably the nearer one comes to not having any!"Sabbath evening- Oct. 9" 1870- A log-book! and mine! I said I'd have a log-book - said it long ago - said it every time I had a peep into Sue's upper, unstratified, bureau drawer, where hers lay nestled - comfortable and un-searchable. I'd like to be born such a night as this if I could be born to live and not grope. day times these mountains make us toil - climb - drag on! "To the heights" is what they say. Tonight they let us look at them and rest. "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people." Does that mean Hewouldn't miss us if we died? Not even a sparrow falleth to the ground without your Father__Christ said that. He came down from the singing and the glory to tell us that. He cried for us, too. Oct. 16"- Blue and black_all wool! Pretty thing to run in one's head when the minister's text is "consider the lilies". I know the prayers and the metre_Long and common! Doctor told the Lord that "yesterday the icy streams dissolved." I did not know it. Then came the intense heat of summer, and the growing crops, and now the fading leaf reminds us of ourfrailty. It doesn't me! When I see the royalty of everything I remember that I'm born a queen, and longing for my kingdom possesses me, and never a thought that 'tis frail to be royal, or sorrowful for " the king to come to his own." Oct. 23" 1870 "And while he was yet a great way off the Father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him." As long as those words read just so i shall never be afraid to die. i shall dream of the Father's house, .. as I dare dream of nothing else. I get so tired of myself. I want to run away from myself and be pleased andhappy just a little while. Nov. 4" 1870 - God can make a beautiful life even out of mine. I pray for it as I pray for nothing else. Twenty two years blossoming in frost flowers - only frost flowers - no pansies, no myrtle, no goldenrod. Nov.13" -- I want to see Paul - I want to know him. It is one of the dear dreams that are to be worked out in Heaven-and Heaven is a great many years long. I could sing tonight. I could talk to Christ. I can't always. Will there be any great blanks up there-can there be? Will I ever say when I have gone to Him and seen Him, "My vacant days go on-go on"?Dec.11"_ My thoughts tonight are organic & inorganic! The way of life is plain.._but tell me-Is there anything else that is plain? When do I pray & not feel the first heart throb those old words-"Friend of sinners! we are in the dark, and bewildered and sick at heart"? I've done a heap of thinking since Wednesday, or dreaming which is only prismatic thinking... A great deal of it is Castleton, but the space between and the way thither is full of shrinking and dread. It seems so hard to stop here - break off the little plans and comforts, and live through shrinking and desolation again! How I amlearning to love "being led" thoughts. Rain day-Jan. 15"_ Doleful! I kept away from myself all day. Blank verse - blank verse - will it ever be anything but blank verse? Aug 8- There's good natured little breeze frisking around here like curly-headed children in a hay mow._________ We touch lives at all angles that seem so satisfied, and I renounce such as I do the world, the flesh, and the devil. I grasp eagerly at any thought that makes the infinite distance between my life here and my life after some great change, called death, grow less and not so terrible. My child! my chicken! More help! more love! more light! .... Senior Editor has fled. The editorials, compositions, printing presses, type, ink, proof sheets, galvanic batteries, reviews, exchances, masculine tone, spurts, printing office, Willow St. & all the chicanery is left on my hands - two poor, bony hands! Life is span- I'm in a stew- Now will you help? Write an editorial-..I'll thank you someday. Prayer meetings may make some people think of tabernacles & Mt. Tabors and whatever's the pural of "good to be here" - but from some of them I couldrun and not be weary. That's the most orthodox way I can find to tell it. Blessed are they that ask for bread and do not receive a stone. The feeling of a great need is grateful to me for it is the precursor of a great pity and great fullness not far away. Castleton -- I feel to strange and lost for anything - I'm afraid to look in the glass for fear it isn't me.... I'm pretty well but tired. It doesn't pay to be tired but what's a man to do? Normal School - Mar-ch-ch-ch-sh-sh! +++ We have more prayers than provender. We have solemn roasts, solemn potatoes, serious pie, & a realizing sense of concocted rice. What will becomeof me in such a frame as this? Laughs are my vital breath.... Soon the bell will ring for supper - not to be eaten but served. Our conversatoin will be heaven, our bread emblematical, our digestion ritualistic. .... My doctor tell me..I must rest or die. Which is the biggest? I don't know which to take. .... These are days of heaven upon Earth, and I rejoice through & through. I'd blossom in purple & red if I knew how. Do you? - Mar. 14" 1871 - Patmos without the vision! Sunday, Mar. 19" 1871 - Mr. ___ is an exminister. I'vespanned him with Montgomery's measuring line wherewith he sounded the ocean's depths and pierced to either pole & his height is seventy six inches. His brain is the seat of sensation. ++++ He prays in minor scale-very minor-and is a very Jeremiah.++++ Mrs.___ you've read about. don't say you haven't for I know better. She abounds in S.S. books and religious memoirs. I never saw a live one before. ++++ I haven't made up my mind whether to be very much afraid of her or make a gasp or two toward "appreciating her worth"! The "Normals" here are awfully old. One of them has taught 37terms! but I find her docile+++ Imagine me before the old, the married, the big - to teach without a book! To be infallible, judicial, celestial, didactic four times a day! Sunday, April 16, 1871 -- I've written the date - anybody could do that. I wonder why we have to live such days. There is discipline in "so as by fire"- discipline even in vacancy - but to have no heart in anything and be simply stupid - where is the help in this? I don't believe I ever felt so utterly cut off from human help beforeAnything that makes me talk to Mr.___ is a terror to me - all his way are. But I believe God is going to help me through. +++ If I never why I was sent to Castleton God has known it all the time. If I could be necessary! - to you - to just a few as i would love to be - as I long to be just once and for always - it would not seem so often, "My vacant days go on - go on". +++I cannot be just a little to any one. I must be a great deal or nothing. "The heart to be all to" will not come to my life. It is one of thebeautiful things that is left out. Love calls to most. It called to me years ago and I Passed it by. It will not call again. ++++ Goodbye. I am very, very tired and only Fanny at that. "half of heaven is the not parting". Why the thought is half heaven! What won't it be to be there and say to each other "Always-always!" And Susie will let you come into her garden and mine where the glorified sumachs [sumacs] and firs are to be. There have been reasons for things, hours for things, andthings and things without hours for them. I used to wonder nights when I went for the milk, and used to [do] up much of my thinking, how it would seem to be twenty three. Now I wonder how it would seems to be a little girl and go for the milk. +++++++++ More than anything I am longing for the woods and hills. Does anyone love a wide stretch of sky and meadow more than I? +++ I thank God for anything that roots and grounds my faith in others. Living & working in thisworld is such a tearing down, pulling away process. My window opens on the grass-plot, which to be truthful must be further limited by the statement that some of it is brick plot! I am thankful for the little bit of green & the little bit of sky bending over it. All around is a high board fence +++ how much of my life lies before me in the pent up struggling grass. How it does fight! "Walled in", I say to myself, remembering how much of me is walled in. "All about ++ everything"! How very modest! Where shall Ibegin? When shall I stop? Would you have any objection to my taking a little bit of the time up in Heaven to finish? I'm afraid I shall hardly be able to get it all in this side. My experience has been that I never seem to get any father than Mr. W. in this world. Castleton--Jan. 18-1872. Something sent Miss H.__ up after school to kiss me & say somehow they all liked me very much. After she had gone one tho't was in my heart. It came rolling up from where the tears are, & the springs of life: "I don't believe I shall every be cross to my girls again."Sunday-Jan. 21--- Something must be done. I am all adrift. For days & days & days I have just gone on; and I must stop a little while & rest & think Tues. 23"- Spoiled another day for my girls, & wish-O yes-yes-yes- that there was help for it! Monday-29".--One thing I lay down for Frances-she must listen to me. "Don't let me hear one cross word this week! Love your girls too well-please do! My life opens into such large wide ways-&&the work makes me so happy && it is like giving the little ones the kingdom. Feb. 24"-- Our friend, philosopher & guide R.G.W. surprised everybody by rising to remark that he had nothing to say on the subject of grammar, butwould introduce to the association Miss Bromley. Nothing less than me - I might say "me less than nothing"! I remember one distinct thrill - from the rest I shall never rally. Monday, Feb. 26"-- What is macaroni? Who first harrowed mankind with it? Why must it be set before me & not desert [dessert] but gingersnaps? A gingersnap is a desert [dessert] but macaroni is dead men's bones. Tues. 27"-- The best thing we have set before our hungriness is rice pudding. How it came to be so good doth not appear but it possesses many saintly qualities. We always have it with beefsteak. Those days do not smile on butter. Thurs. 29-- Again the big noise in our house was me. 'Twasn't bringinga trunk down nor taking a trunk up, but talking Mr. Williams down & bringing life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness up. ++ You mustn't scold a man unless you want to ease your mind, or see what you can do, or show him you are not afraid, or give him an idea of his meanness - but to carry a point-never! Take a silken shuttle & silken thread & spin a man into anything you want - but don't scold him. Tues. March 5"-- Mr. Williams is on a perfect rampage. Stands primed & ready to go off any minute, usually: lately, he runs round to find things to go off about. hawk-like in his nature he looks for achicken & finds one. ++ I've heard of four-footed beasts, & creeping things, & fowls of the air: don't remember to have seen them combined before. +++ Do I get cross any? Not much. There is untold sunshine at the heart of things & it touches me. Thurs. 7"-- Annie A. looks like an untimely frost--bluely dreadful! Sat.9"-- The right proportion, said Miss G., is an ounce of serpent to a pound of love. She was in my room writing a cross letter - both of us cross everywhere but inside. Miss ___ wants to know. Do I tabulate food & clothing? Do I diagram what I don't tabulate? ++++ Mr. Williams prays with his eyes open & [L.] wonders if it isn'ttime his ... was multiplied! March 12"-- Another something that stopped: & I only stop once in a long times to think about it. "Time driveth onward fast, & in a little while our lips are dumb". +++ O for the quiet-calmed-down-toned-down, if need be! only let it reach me. "Friend of sinners! I am in the dark & bewildered & sick at heart!" March 15". O, if the breaths of spring would come faster, would do anything to make the leaves come out. We are cheered by prospects of snow! +++ All the poly things possible to e condensed within four walls take this howling wilderness as their business center. Sat. Mar.15"-- I have learned to fill my soul with a horror of Saturdays. I am in terror over the long dark hall, the sweeping around, above, below me, the orders from below, the inspection of drawers, the bells, the dinners, the harryings by R.G.W. But then I am not a ghoul. If I only had a nice sense of propriety all this would be vital breath - native air. March 27"-- In which I find time to pity myself.== The pivot on which the state turns appeared to us at the first class. We all came in in the afternoon without feathers - we had been picked clean!== The rest of it ishard++but I can bear it. "To distil the one elixir patience" - Must there be another crucible- & another- & another? Will I learn? March 30"-- spring is waiting be wooed-& so is somebody else. Well! March. 31"-- March dies in just such a storm as father died in. Such storms bring it back even over ten years. April 8"-- I am going to adopt Milton's style of address next time I talk to Mr. Williams, Like this: "Sole partner & sole part of all these joys, Earth's hallowed mould, O prince of men, off-spring of Heaven & Earth & all Earth's Lord, O sacred, wise & wisdom-giving Plant, my author & Disposer, what thou bidst unargued I obey"-- And he will answer (probably) "Fair Consort, my latest friend, associate sole"! April 13--Memorable for the contemplated talk with Mr. Williams. Are you sorry to hear that Milton's style was not ours? I know now - how things look different to us as we learn - I can that it is better for me to keep the assistant's place; even tho' conscious that upon me falls the principal's work & more than the principal's care. April 16"-- Winter has very fairly set in! "Come gentle spring! Etherial [Ethereal] mildness come." April 18-- I wish etherial [ethereal] mildness would come to me! I don't possess much. +++ Tt is such a relief to me to be busy setting myself right instead of other people. I know better where to begin! April 27"-- Mr. Williams asks t dinner would we have hot scotch or solid meat? We live to regret the hot scotch & long for solid meat. May2-- It is a sad & sorry thing when one is made to stand before one's self as I have today. +++ I have seen the good, the glory of living, & have fallen in the very presence of it. ++ I stand such a sorry wreck before myself. I have made shipwreck of a whole year. O how the words hurt! May 6"-- We ride down to see them go, & come back to put something in the vacant places so they won't look at us so. We can't see "flame & azure [b]indingeach other - we only see the moving & the places left. May 26" One of the kind of Sundays that I dread when I lie still all day. Thinking is so close to doing that it is hard to have to think when one cannot do. May 29"-- Annie is all in a maelstrom. She makes it a duty to be happy as little as possible, & stay so short a time as possible. +++++++ I will not worry. A pain to bear now that came near enough to be a pain would make me so miserable. I can lay "no plan for next year - not one. I can't see the way. May 30 Would I decorate? I saidnot. She was mistaken. Miss G. & I went ahead with a flag & an umbrella & a flower or two. +++ We came home for the loaves & fishes & found loaves but no fishes. may 31-- A. comes up & I do not spit out much of the hardness that is in my heart lately - the bitterness that comes over one when they have wrought much, loved much, & lost much. June 3-- And the mill goes round & round - & I - if not a hopper what am I? On to the day - the good time out doors - the gala time up in the trees - the rest up in the blue - the whirl in the mill - & the heartsick of it! And what did I do to drive awaythe heartsick for somebody else? Anything? How can I tell? ++ I come up stairs so whizzy & perplexed! June 4--Miss G. asks for tea at dinner. Mrs. Williams arises in presence of us all, unlocks emerald treasuries, wafting odors of Yaddo & Changcha fu chun passes to mysterious precincts eastward. Is gone a long time. We eat on. Reappears - gets a cup. Disappears. Is gone a long time. The door opens. Mrs. W. & the Tea! Someway I'll not ask for tea at dinner. June 6-- "the Lord knoweth them that are his"-- I'm glad for we have a hard time finding it out! The butter is abominable. Never mind - its intentions are all right -it meantto be good. June 7"-- I wish we could browse indiscriminately. We don't. We take "meals regularly". June 22-- My trials consist in getting hammer & nails. Mr. Williams deals out nails as he deals our matches - companionless. +++ We behold with our own eyes a bouncing shortcake in the kitchen window, but not for us. We go down to bread & butter & platitudes.. June 25-- I have had my talk with Dr. F. He made me see things & feel good & now I am coming back next year. June 26-- Pretty hard day, Frances - pretty hard day! June 29-- I do love a wide stretch of sky & meadow: it gives me sucha feeling of perfect freedom - especially when days stretch before me as wide & free as sky & meadow, as full of places for the sunshine to fall & soil for daisies to blossom. +++ How jolly it seems to be company-warranted to rest. July 19" Albany. Today has touched me where I ache & long-on my book side. It was gala-time to me up there in the State Library. I come back elevated seven pegs & a pole! Aug. 10"-- ++ O how glad I am that no one but me knows how I am longing for Broadfields! If only a little piece of it could come into this vacation! At home things are real & hard. We know not anything save "getting a school" & "earning money" & "paying it back".Aug. 17"-- The nicest thing in all day was sitting down by the window with Grandma to knit after the tea-dishes were washed & put away. i wish my life - the whole of it - could be washed & put away for a long time. Aug. 20"-- I cook a great while but not much! Aug. 22"-- It's "no not yet" day! Sept. 5--Castleton-- Things look better. Mother brings deliverance in her very eyes & we set to work cheerily. I never went to my first day with such a heartache & with so little to expect. ++ But I can challenge the promise of this word. I met Miss Bissell first & she throws her arms around my neck & bursts out crying.Sept. 15"-- The silent side - mine - is growing more & more silent as there is daily less to tell & more to bear. Sept. 21-- I wish these days would stay. Why need I when it isn't weather that keeps me fit to live but grace? Sometimes grace takes the form of weather! +++ Folks come & I see them: & they go & I'm properly thankful.... Sept. 29 - Sunday - ++ If religion consists in being pleasant to have about I might as well ask the dear Lord please can't I begin again! Oct. 7"-- When the base & rate are given how do find the percentage? that's what we talk about up at school. Can we afford a new oil-cloth for the dining-room? that's what we talk about at home. How can I come close 7 know - that's what I talk about all to myself. Oct. 18"-- Folks can live & still not have things as they want them. They can still live & not do as they have a mind to. These significant facts are chapter from my personal experience! Oct. 19-- The weather is like last hours with friends before they go. Oct. 28"--What makes me get so tired - so right down tired? I almost wish what I never wished before - that there not five days in a week - that there not forty weeks in a school year.Oct. 29"-- ++ I get up cross - so cross - so cross as never was. Nov. 1"-- ++ I go to school. Sometimes I teach school - other times I only go! Nov. 21"-- ++ I go upstairs to the hall to be alone. Things go so wretchedly I cannot teach. ++ A. comes up softly & puts her arms around me & says, "What do you want me to do about that?" I look about about as pleasant as the piano box & don't want anything. Poor A. goes down. I call myself a narrow neck of land, chiefly stone! Jan. 1" 1873-- Into Isaiah! What does that make you think of Fannie? Play that I asked the question a good ways from todaywhen I have grown up & out of & beyond! Today I only remember the words that have comforted me so & given me out of my storm a great calm - "For the mountains shall depart & the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from there, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed." O years! still let the promise hold me. Jan.6"/73 - Into a prayer meeting. +++I never did want God so much before. ++ The coming home part of the meeting was nice to me: it was like coming up thro' the pines into the world again.Jan 8"/73 - Into red bows & vanities. Did I wear a red bow? When my existence for a long time has been a protest against them. ++ Yes. I deliberately marched to the store, picked out a red bow, came home & tied it & donned the same. If I were the only one who advances on the lifeless bodies of her convictions! By & by I'll begin to resurrect! Jan. 11" - Into grinding processes. Jan. 13" - Into a Cumulo-stratus. I don't seek such places: but sometimes I wake & find myself there; sometimes I'm pushed thro' like a pneumatic railway! sometimes Mr. Williams holds one up for me to jump thro'.Jan. 29"/73 - Into the Promised Land. For what is it but a land of promise to me? ++ I've held it to my soul thro' thankless tasks and heavy happenings++ in days when he was more than usual Williams & I less than ever Frances. That she was there was all & everything to me. In that real land of promise when I glide thro' the open door into the first glow of the warmth & light will my first feeling be one of pain as I feel. My whole life for this? Feb. 3" - Into her eyes - & down deep. " 15" - Into the Spanish Inquisition. ++ One chairman to face & four gold-headed canes - I had never sighed for such bliss! Mr. Williams lookedlike the strongest fortress the Moors ever held in Spain. I only it is ended & Mother's room is the refuge whereunto I flee. Feb. 21"/73-- Into seas of it! Floods of it! ++++ But oh, how cosy [cozy] it looked at home when I came into a nice tea, & a big fire, & a Friday night spasm of content! Feb. 24"-- Into bliss for which I did not sigh. Mother say, "Never mind, it's your last term." The bliss is object lessons & Mr. Williams' face as he looks on "to see if I have the idea"! Feb. 26"-- Into a blue that is the most blue! and I got into it. No alternative is left me, not even that of the man who found hiseyes were out. +++ Poor Mother! how pale & sick she has looked all day. Mar. 2",/73 - Into losing the name of disciple. +++ Could I not have borne for Jesus' sake? I must impose on me sterner discipline, & heart pleadings for strength. Mar. 19" - Into a little more powder now, my boys! Mar. 28" - Into a long pull & a pull a good while. A day of gaspings in Arithmetic, of giant strides in grammar, of much ado about nothing in Eng. Lit., of clutching at & panting in Botany, of crawling Orthography, of leaping for joy in Natural history, of feeling along in other history& going at Algebra in gunboats! What does anything mean for me but school? Mar. 29"-'73-- Into Terra catena - in libera poena-desidero te - English cannot express it. I go reverently to Latin! How much drudgery can be squeezed into one day, & that a leaky, Scrooge-like A.M. - M. P.M. in March I shall know hereafter more definitely than hitherto. April 25"-- Into bein' & doin' & sufferin'. " 17"-- Into matronly perplexities. I do not entertain guests after the primitive style! To turn a cake or bake a kid is very different from nineteenth century breakfast getting. I am sadly inexpert in slicingham, or cutting cold pudding, or finding where Mother keeps things, & I forget to salt! But I do at last muddle a breakfast together. ++++ April 28"/73-- Into knowing how sublime it is to suffer 7 be snapped! I do not bear snaps with dignity. Gentleness & forbearance seems to have been left out of Mr. W.'s religion this morning. My religion was not expecting to be snapped-And so-! April 29"-- ++++ Then I went over to help Ella with her Latin saying sadly to myself, "O Fanny, you have a queer way of laying your life down". April 30"-- Into being a benefactor to Miss Bissell by giving advice which she does not follow!May 1"/73-- Into a night more dreaded than the day. There's no telling what a Board will do. I've always said that. So I was not surprised today when lofty honors were confered [conferred] upon me in the form of a call from Dr. Webber & Gen. G. to learn that it was the wish of everybody & everybody's friend that I should remain here another year & teach with Mr. Williams. I've just sat & held the dreaded thing in my heart until it seems too hard for me - & then the night came for me to toss in & wake every few minutes to think how near heaven was - & now how far. May 2"-- +++ I've worked two ways today. Outwardly - mechanically atthis & that: inwardly at the question "Shall I lay down myself next year that mother & Danny may still enjoy our home here, & the girls come back? or shall I go away?" There is no answer & the rain falls heavily - drearily. May 4"-'73-- Into holding out. ++++ I finish "Middlemarch" & lay it down saying over & over to myself its closing words: "That things are not so ill with you & me is half owing to those who lived faithfully a hidden life & sleep in unvisited graves".keep on asking in my blind discontented way, "What shall be done with me next year? Where can I go?" There's not an answer anywhere. May 9"/73 - Into a next- ++++++ "The one elixir, patience!" How often do I think of that when it seems as if all of me was being thus distilled. There will come a day when there will be a next - so I work hard & find a "forgetting" even in the life of a first assistant. +++ And grandma knits & knits-- May 11"-- Into wishing to be less miserable! May 13"-- Into the more I think I will the more I won't. +++ I know all the words in the Englishlanguage but rest. I rejoice to see the last skeleton of an examination paper dissected, compiled, & filed away. No wonder I never see sunsets any more! May 16"-73-- Into finding people to please & nothing to please them with - such experiences fall abundantly to my lot - they prove disciplinary. May 19"+++ I fish away with imaginary lines in imaginary water & fish up what might have been. ++++ May 22"-- Into feeling heart-bare, heart-hungry, very poor. I am glad to come & find rest in Jesus. Glad of anything that takes me near to Him. May 28"-- +++ Today in my half-decided, sadly tortured state comes a letter from Edward Conant. "Will I go to Randolph next year? "O, yest," I say in my gladness at the thought that anybody want me - that's there's any place for me but this. "O no," I say by & by as I think of Mother & the pretty new house. +++++ June 4"/73.-- Into the new home. We enter it joyfully. Who can know how very good it seems to us? not in ++ its comforts alone but in the happier thought that, if God will, it shall be ours some day. We want mother to have a home all her own again; & we have brave hearts to work for it for her. ++++++++++O Father, reveal to me my duty! direct my feet for I do acknowledge thee! +++ June 5"/73-- Into a deep hard question that I cannot answer. And it grows deeper & harder & makes a burden of my thought to weary me. I am helpless before my life-problem. An answer now & here - its result for all time. I can't stay here next year - how can I! It seems almost wicked when I feel as I do. I can't go away next year - it seems too selfish in me to think of it. O is the right choice always the one that involves the greater self-denial? ++++++ June 7"-- Into taking comfort in the new house with Mother. ++++++++June 9"/73. +++ A new plan possesses me, thought up in a twinkle, but taking may twinkles to work it out. That's one reason why I don't like this world! ++++ June 24"-- +++ All feeling has left me but passivity to accept the best that comes - to let Dr. F. decide. He say stay. +++ July 6 - Albany... There is an ache - a dread in my heart - I have no strength to face next year with Mr. Williams. July 10"-- That Mr. & Mrs. W. will not go to Troy is evident. Won't I live to see the earth open somewhere & gulp him down? Why doesn't somebody want him?July 23/73-- My Latin moves slowly. It is hard for me but I creep on. My hopes rise & fall as a distant college looms before me-- And what will Mother do? is the only pause. Aug. 12"-- ++ I have not knowingly touched terra firma today. I have moved in one most joyous dream of Michigan University, until the year I have so much dreaded seems only as door. Aug. 30"-- I feel restless & stirred up. Nothing rests me or brings free visions of that all enfolding peace; & so I chafe on. +++ It seems so easy to let the Normal School & its troubles swallow me up body & soul: & I lend myself so ready to be swallowed.Castleton Aug. 31"/73-- Into standing before myself. +++ I need greatly these days the strength that comes from the Cross - the look from the Master that humbles. ++ Night comes - & I walk the streets & toss & toss! O Jesus! other refuge have I none! sept. 8"-- Into finding the stuff that R.G.W. is made of! Sept 10"-- A man has been raised up to teach me Greek! Like everyone else raised up for me he wasn't made to order - but I'll make him do. Oct. 12"-- Into the return of blessing. The day had so many things that were restful Oct. 19"-- Into beds of dying leaves.How lovely the trees begin to look. ++ And I, in among the rustling leaves & the lovely places can only think how near I am to being 25. The desolate places would not look to bare to me if Mother, too, was not growing old. Oct. 20"/73-- A letter- +for me. It treats of a fall of 45 ft & no bones broken; of a boy who will study good next term; of money to pay for a slate; of a lamp chimney & four window-lights broken! Oct. 21"-- What I feel like tonight is better conceived by the members of my profession than developed & recorded. Oct 23"-- Dreams of Michiganare like cold water to parched lips, like rest to heavy lids. Oct. 24"-- Into "This is the way the mill goes round"! Oct. 30"--Into patching up today to make it do! Oct. 31"-- Into the Greek Testament. Nov. 1"-- At home this evening is long & cheery: but I want Mother. That isn't all i want. i chafe so under this year's cross - it grows hard to carry & spring looks like a far-off speck. Nov. 4"-- It is what goes out from us from a gathered richness within, more than what comes to us from without that makes us know we live. A bright day - Nov. 5"/73-- Into a little more Greek, at once, my boys! That's all there seems to be of anything except school. A little Greek to read - a little Greek to study - a little rule or two - jump up in my faced every tired minute. But I don't die. I am quite alive. I shall sit up there & feel my way thro' 150 more days, just as tired as this, & then come home to 150 more Greek lessons increasingly hard. Where shall I find something good? In my new garters? Possibly! In Mr. ___? Who can tell? In the original Greek of St John? Always! Nov. 15"-- I've set everythingto rights but me, & I'm all to wrongs! Nov. 20"/73-- Our boy at home. We think he has improved. If God would only give some of us wisdom, strength, influence to hold him back from the pit that is digged - from the snares that lie in wait! Nov. 23"-- Into feeling unfeignedly comfortable.! Nov. 27"-- Home is so full of cheer today - there is so much in it that I want to keep. Nov. 28"-- A boy set down in our family seems to have been an unprepared for event. It is almost sufficient to furnish matter for the Tragic Muse. My hopes lookforward - But, oh "Thou Friend of Sinners! I am bewildered, & in the dark, & sick at heart." Nov. 29"-- Into a cheery Saturday night. I revel in the cosy [cozy] evenings by the fire with Mother. Nov. 30"-- I felt so good this morning so well, so strong. +++ Mother & I walk & talk, & plan for our boy - & next year looks at us wistfully. Dec. 3"-- Mother sat up till three o'clock sewing for Dan. That worried me wide awake: & i thought, & thought & thought if I could give up Michigan next year & let Danny stay in school. Dec. 6"-- Into "[Bils] of Work" by F. B.! Don't look at me, or talk to me. I don't dare look at myself.Dec. 7"-73-- Into a rest spot. Days at home, lately, are so nice all of them! Dec. 11"-- Into whatever is the opposite of "outing": I suppose Patience Strong would call it inting! +++ I go into winter quarters in Greek! Sunday, Dec. 14"-- A day that came like a hope of heaven in a field of graves. Dec. 20"-- Into little done or thought, or dreamed. That last is much missed out of a day of mine. +++ I keep thinking of that pitiful little note from my boy - the sick. Dec. 22"-- I was mercifully spared from a dragging-on existence.Dec. 17"-- Mother has been gone three days. The fires have gone out only three times around. We have eaten starch for soda in our cakes only twice! Dec. 29"-- Into finding things to be glad about. Jan. 10 1874-- I live too fast - so much is certain. +++ i write Greek exercises, & get girls ready for examination & answer the door bell - & after my hands at last drop, & the light is out I want to think of our absent boy & pray & pray & pray for him - but I am too tired to lift my heart. This not the way I was made to live, & my release seems far-off.Jan. 11"-"74-- ++ I am glad of the Sunday - glad to be more & more ashamed "to speak of burdens to a Man on a Cross". O god! give me the life Thou didst give Thy Son! And home - all of it -makes me sorry. Jan. 15-- ++ A vacant day: not music, no dreams - no incense - only vague reality - a living on. +++ Jan. 19". +++ Dr French appears, armed & invincible. he says, "Don't stay here." My heart say "No - I won't." But I must wait. He only, of all others, says "Go to college." Every one else says no. Feb. 3"-- We have ups & downs since Dan's letter came. What he means isincomprehensible. We are left to worry about it - which we do in a manner never before attained. It was a mistake sending a boy down in our family. But we are learning so fast that the next generation may all be boys & we'll be ready for 'em. One can live & worry, too. the latter doesn't kill one - at least not me - any more than teaching with R,G.W.! Feb. 7"-'74-- A good word comes from the boy & our hearts take rest. It is a blessed giving from the King in answer to my feeble asking. He cannot fall away & be our disappointment - not as long as I bear him up to the everlasting Arms. Work makesme feel good today. It is so nice to work at home. Feb. 12" '74-- The bell rang a year ago this morning &, Fanny, do you remember that I promised never to make you walk up to answer its call another first day Feb. morning? This seems like one of the problems where the slate & pencil were taken away from me. The girls bring good cheer. There's a spirit of good times in Normal Hall. ++ I go home from it into a cloud that settles black & grim & sends tears to my eyes. Feb. 13"-- What can she do! I suppose this is one phase of the woman question! +++ The answer seems tobe to start a school, to be its first, its motive power, & its waste material. Feb. 19-'74 ++ I feel so unsatisfied & forlorn today. I can't find higher level & no pastures are green. +++ Feb. 20"-- What the final decision is. I don't know what the [number] of this final decison is. There have been so many since the first one I've lost track. Today proclaims we move. It makes me tired & sorry. +++ There have been cheery things today, & I have been in smoothe waters without much of any head wind. March 1"-- I take long looks at mother & the cosy [cozy] sitting room & envy & enjoy till I am dizzy withthe blessedness. Home never seemed as nice as it does this winter. Mar. 3"-'74-- +++ How proud I should be to have my boy turn out well! Now my heart calls for this as from the Father who had a son in this world & gave him power to overcome mar. 11"-- There are some of my girls that will never let life look very dark to me - some that are as priceless as these priceless days that are taking them from me. Mar. 12"-- I know one thing thro' the day-school. I know one thing thro' the night - Greek. +++ i can't erase mistakes & i am longing to right all things - to make myselffelt forever. ++ if I only could! I love my girls so! March 17"-'74-- I am in my martyr mood today: that is I go about kind o' pitiful & work with my teeth set & my hands holding on hard; but not a word do I utter! This well for those who learn of me. Mar. 19"-- I feel a good deal forlorn. I drag Fanny around. I make her teach & write & translate - & the child doesn't want to. Even Michigan is a terror to her. Mar. 20"-- I change my habits & become a guest. ++ E. has a pretty home. I envy girls with a father. ++ There is a plant here they call heartsease & I love it. Mar. 23"-'74-- ++ I'm tired of buying coats for a contrary naughty boy who will do what we don't want him to. Don't let me worry about it. ++ Let me grow patient & keep busy with living. Let me lay day - & lay down -& lay down - that I may take again. Deny - deny -deny- thyself. Mar. 24"-- In which I cannot face a frowning world. +++ Danny is head-strong & unreasonable, school stormy & discouraging, & my head fairly swims for want of rest - & all of these things move me. "Jesus - A Saviour" - I need nothing tonight so much as to be saved. Mar. 25"- There is a happiness in the bright morning when soul & body wake together strong for whatever comes.++ O if I can only keep tender, loving feelings & be patient nothing else shall worry me! Mar. 26"'74-- In which I am "pleasant to have about". The rarity of this accounts for its being recorded! The whole day has been like a hope of heaven. I love these new fresh days! Mar. 28"-- it seems so strange to feel the shackles of my work so unceasingly. I reproach myself for taking one moment to play. But rest is coming. April 1"-- In which i lift up mine eyes unto the hills & help cometh. There's spring enough to smell the sweet breath of pines, & see the water running, & watch the sunset glory on bare hill-tops. ++ I thought of Sue. She must bethe poetry of my life for there is no beautiful thing that does not bring me thoughts of her. All before this lay a day of hard work with a headache & thoughts roll & roll. April 7"-'74-- ++ School is such a treat to me when I feel like work - & I do today every inch of me. April 9"-- I go to prayermeeting & hear about living above the world. I know less about that than I once did. The work of this world - the hope of success draw me & chain me. ++ "Bringing every tho't into captivity to the obedience of Christ!" Ah, I have work to do-- There's mud & sow & spring is an ancient myth. April 10"-- ++ It's so nice with Mother today. What I shall do when I can'twork by her & talk to her next year I can't bring myself to think. April 14"-'74-- In which a wave of trouble rolls across my peaceful breast. It takes the form of a coal bill. I have been so in hopes those old bills could wait a little. I feel bound hand & foot this spring with Michigan before me. School partakes of the coal bill - so does the sitting-room & the coal stove! Not much "Broadfields" about me today! April 18"-- +++ Well - there's one thing - my salary is a comfort to other people! April 19"-- Heaven has sent us a reminder of itself in the day: a suggestion of what may be somewhere. I felt like resting my heart in thetenderness that is in the Almightiness. I asked for bread & he gave me a creed! never mind. The beauty of God & the glory are all about me. ++++ Mother & i have a nice visit. We talk of the time when Danny will be thro' school, & be a joy & comfort to us - when the old debts shall all be paid, & our new house shall be builded! April 23", '74-- +++ These are pleasant days to me after all; full of the work I live & the light of young faces & loving hearts. April 25"-- We are in another [woful] snow storm ++++ I suppose all we can do is to shovel paths & hope. +++ A letter from Cousin Mary lays hold of me: "You cannot do too much for your mother. If you could see things as Isee them now would love, trust & indulge her more than all the world." April 26"-'74-- The ninth regular snow-storm in the series was delivered today! ++ but there's cheer inside. I am very tender to Mother all day. Can anything ever take her from me? How weak I feel to keeps her! - & yet how strong! April 28"-- In which I don't know what to do with Fanny ++ If she had said anything today it would have been cross. ++ How thankful I am for the little sources of discipline. I wish I had enough more to make me behave. ++ O for power - for power to become a son of God! April 29"-- ++ I'm so cross I can'tstand it! +++ The mignonette, in the dear little bouquet that came yesterday, has helped. It holds me fast like soft hands touching mine in the dark. May3"-'74-- In which I consent to live. It begins to smile out of doors, & the desert places are going to blossom. +++ Mother & I chatter, chatter thro' the day. ++ I write to the boy, too: & I lie awake & think & pray that God will give his angels charge concerning him. He must ot break my Mother's heart. I think over & over what Mary wrote - "Trust her, love her, indulge her more than all the world." May 4"-- In which "heavy, heavy hangs over me." I go up the Monday steps slowly & not steadily. I ponder overin my heart the things R.G. said to me & I take fire. ++ I guess I shall stand it! I've had an extended course of standing it. +++ Comfort comes in the girls' prayermeeting. May 8"-'74-- ++ I think & think what we will all do & how we can get along: but nothing comes of it. In the meantime I write to Michigan & ask big questions. And so the days go. May 15"-- In which there is something new to be glad about - my copy of De Quincey. +++ There's an end to every trouble under the sun. Even examination papers will fade away. But there's no end to a joy. My books are durable riches. May 17"-- In which serene is thelight in the soft May weather." My heart rests & sings. ++ "O moment gone too soon & morning left behind!" The pale gray night comes down, & in the stillness I am left with God +++ He is nigh even at my doors. May 18"-'74-- In which one girl gets tired - too tired to think or be good. But as old Mr. ___ says: "It's a good deal to ask any body to be good all the time"! May 19"-- In which the things that make me tired are not less. "A lodge in some vast wilderness" has had a pleasant sound of late. +++ I am a living martyr to the present ideas of education: & I scold to myself about it which martyrs never do. May 24"-'74-- In which rest remaineth. ++ It has been a hard week. +++ My thoughts of heaven are alloyed with thoughts of work, & dreams that do not centre near the Throne. I never needed more a tidal wave to sweep over in my life & carry me out of myself. Will not God send it? Or must I always live this way? May 26"-- In which I am again in the crucible. === I go to bed but cannot sleep. Life touches me at so many points: & who is sufficient for these things? May 27"-- +++ My head fails me. Every little nerve sends up its feeble protest. But there is no help. I must workFanny still: & if she runs over & lets out cross things how shall we punish her? Ah, the punishment is swift & sure! There are nights of pain - unknown. June 2"-'74-- In which I find plenty to do. You may have heard something of this kind before! ++ This is Sir Launfal weather; & the nights are those in which Maud came into the garden. ++ Life is full of grammar & arithmetic & essays: but the blue is somewhere! June 6"-- In which my desires lie in the direction of a ride & not in the direction of Botany questions. But I do not take the ride & I do take the Botany. I can't set myself to work. I have to drag the child to it & pin her witha star. She has things on her mind & she is restless. June 9"-'74-- ++ School is pleasant. It's one of the days when I resolve to teach always. June 12"-- ++ I'm glad I'm just as I am - mostly. I'm so up when I am up & so down when I am down. But it's good to enjoy with all your might even tho' you suffer in the same way. June 29"-- In which our mode of life is primitive. ++ I wash windows & sweep, & contemplate my work as the gods eat ambrosia - in a fit of divine abstraction. ++ My greatest housewifely accomplishment consists in being able to be here washing windows, & being off somewhere else at the same time - in fingering & thinking at opposite ends. July 1"-'74-- In which chaos is no more. One only needs to move to be reminded of the creation. Cohoes-July 13"-- I am full of the summer pleasantness, & a quiet, restful content. I have a feeling as if I had just been converted: & what is that like but opening tired eyes & seeing the "place prepared" for the first time. July 17"-- In which I am in the middle of the pasture, & do not even put my head over the fence. July 21"-- In which courage predominates. She kind that works & will not stop - that dodges pain - &will not worry. Aug. 1"-'74-- In which August drips in. Greek & I are getting on very good terms now. +++ I don't jump around at my work & sing: I creep when I'm up & sit down pretty often. +++ The moment D. leaves me nights I worry & I worry until he comes in. It makes me feel better, little book, to tell you about it. If I could only look on & see him safe-! Aug. 5"-- In which my boy is good to me & shows me his best in our quiet talk. Almost every summer has had in it some intense longing which has been put into words only for God's ear. This time it is all for my boy - the pain & longing. God is God -"To doubt is still disloyalty". My neuralgia is assuming painful proportions. I am found pitying myself. Aug. 9"-'74-- In which it might have been glad & heartsome. That is hasn't been makes me toss & toss. buy why do I chronicle my tossings as if they were good things to keep? As if in God's world the aches & sorries did not perish & the bright things only live on? God tells us so much about blotting out. I sat up stairs a good while & the quiet made me over. Aug. 10"-- Everything at home has taken on the most uncomforting aspect. I do so want Mother to be at least a little happy: & I think &think & plan & plan - but the night takes it all up away from me. Aug. 15"-'74-- In which its time Sunday came. I love the Sundays - look, long, wait for them - most of all when I am with Mother. I keep in my heart most lovingly the memory of our Castleton Sundays. They'll be dearer than ever when the little mother is gone. What made me think of this? It must be because she is so pale & tired today. Aug. 17"-- In which I make great efforts to be a hero. My most desperate attempts have been in two directions - to study some, & to sit up straight & still & bear the toothache. I've a great desire to see someone who achieved heroism by this method. I'd like also to knowif two of their teeth ached. +++ The little Mother is better. Her face brightens & she is her own dear little self again - our everyday hero. Aug. 19"-'74-- After a wilderness I come upon a goodly heritage. I am requested to be in Castleton at one & "take charge of the Normal School". +++ I hasten to order me a hat, & walk as the head of a Normal School would be expected to walk: & I dream as girls dream. Forgive my weakness! Mother comes home springing. Castleton - Aug. 22"-- In which I am fully instructed as to the kind of charge I am to take of the Normal School. My reception at Castleton partakes of warmth: I am waited uponby the dignitaries of the town, & compose myself to a placid benignity in the hotel parlor. Developments are not slow: i soon see that taking charge does not mean taking charge at all. What I think of it will not now be recorded. In the meantime observe my benign placidity. Aug. 23"'74-- In which He strengthens my heart. I have so dreaded this Sunday without the little Mother. God has not let me miss Him, too. +++ I am ready to take the place I did not choose - to be subordinated & humiliated if it be His appointing. Aug. 24"-- I go to the task of filling up the Normal School with a vanishingcourage. Lilly C. comes & takes me to ride - carries me off to reverie & dreams. I do not come back as I went. I am so like a child about going into the deeps of a joy; & so not like a child in my efforts to rise above the heights a a sorrow. Aug. 25"-'74-- In which they sent Mr. Sherman to talk to me. It is the old story that is told to girls & women as they learn with every struggle that they contend with men. A college boy, because he is a boy, is preferred, without experience or years: & the woman is passed by. Ah! don't I know how it feels. A man, they tell me, "will give the school more of a name." Andso the letter is already on its way that recommends Mr. Hyde to the principalship of the Normal School; & I, who have loved it so, & worked for it so long am out of sight. The whole of me says, as I toss 7 toss, "I will not stay." Aug. 26"-74-- In which I look for God's answer in a calm that is strange & welcome. The drawing away of the profs in Castleton means, does it not? that I shall realized my dearly-loved purpose & see Michigan. Aug. 28"-- In which there is a high tide & low tide. ++ I find myself the joyful recipient of a letter or two stating the certain coming of a student or two;& in the same mail I find myself the woe-begone recipient of other letters stating the certain staying away of a student or two.! ++++ R.G. Williams is vanished from my horizon! I have lived to see this day! Aug. 30"-'74-- A day of peace in country places. +++ Tonight I could pray for my boy & it has seemed sure, so sure, that he should be preserved from evil, for my faith grows stronger & stronger. Sept. 1"-- In which the tendencies are domestic. I sit on the upper piazza & aspire to make good sheets! +++ The day is full of the thoughts that almost always come with stitches. Someof them are restless; but those that stay are calm & full of courage. I feel so sure that the best shall be for me & mine. Sept. 4"-74-- In which I am at the height of all dreariness. ++ Which means that the Normal School is not filling by tens & dozens. ++ How am I to get up any spirit? I must find a way out of this. Come-arouse! The generations are calling & you are not a hero! sept. 6"-- In which there comes a growing comfort & a Sabbath peace. I wish I could make myself feel something away down deep - as deep as I ever feel. What is going to come upon me to bring me out of this valley?Sept. 10"-'74-- +++ The Board has met & it is done. E.J. Hyde is principal. God is plainly calling me to do a hard thing - To stay here & take the lower place - to stand here in the dark & suffer! Sept. 13"-- In which I am quiet a few minutes. How well for me it is! Anybody like me ought to be quiet a great many minutes: but my life spins on ++ while all the time I am wishing so still to myself that I had a little home & my work could lie inside of it. +++ I take all my steps in a maze - for where do they lead? Sept. 21"-- +++ I come back from the dear little home-visit with the firm purpose of making all the peoplepossible glad that I am to live among them! Sept. 24"-'74-- In which my hands are unequal to their burdens. Oct. 3"-- In which the King comes to his own. ++ It seemed God's message when the doctor came & took us up to the lake & among the woods & hills. ++ Was I ever known to forget my rides -- they form epochs! Oct. 5"-- ++ This girl is a mystery unto herself. She might be always kind, tender-hearted, forgiving - but she is far from it. O-God help her! Oct. 7" +++ Work is a delightful solace tho' I can't talk & explain. I sit in a grim silence which means only sorrow.Oct. 9"-74-- In which the evening is long & quiet to myself alone - one of my lovely times when I can bear to look out upon things as they are & not lose heart Oct 11"-- In which the day is delighted in ++++ It is easy to be homesick but I won't let me. ++ Everything cosy [cozy], even a cosy [cozy] thought, is a comfort - & I find a few. Oct. 12"-- ++ My courage is slowly coming back, as the old work is taken up & the put-away things are taken out. How funny all my dreams see - I who was to have been at Michigan! Oct. 13"-- ++ A metamorphosis going on. A cross girl is to be fixed over into a sunny girl. Come & see!Oct. 14"-74 ++++ The girl wakes & clings - oh, how she clings! - to the hand held out to her - lest a cross word come - a heartless word - God help her! I think the struggle going on down here in the dark is part of the battle for Christ. I can feel Him so much nearer since the conflict began. Nov. 2"-- In which the leaves go & the comforts begin to take their place. Nov. 3"-- In which the girl wonders how so many happy things could come at once. Nov. 4"-- In which mine is the deep joy, the unspoken fervor the sacred fury of the fight! This is one of the days when the girl likes to talk to herself - & to God. What she says in those still moments,let us hope will make her what she finds it so hard to be. Nov. 11"-'74 +++ I am clasped in the cold arms of Duty! This is why I am not at Michigan. You find me a favorite phantom chased & not graceful Sophomore. I am learning - how slowly! - not to expect all things to move for one girl. Nov. 17" ++++ I've not watched this girl today & I feel - as if it would never be helped. Do I not know the sunless depths that come after such a day? Am I never to be helped? Or must I be shown & shown & shown that without Him I can do nothing? Nov. 24"-74-- +++ There's a girl here that's wanting to go home. Some days she never hears the cars : today every car-ring goes thro' her. +++ I don't believe she is sorry down in her heart for this hard day. The pain is so sweet - the help so precious. +++ The home letter teases the child to come. Danny, bless the loving boy-heart! - sends dear words to me. Nov. 25"-- In which this looks pretty hard. ++ The joy that I can do it makes my face bright as I kiss the girls off & watch the trains go. How good life is even such times! Dec. 2"-- In which I make the world a little brighter for some people. +++ I take some time tobewail that I have downs as well as ups. This is also a source of regret to those who have to do with me! I stand the girl up straight & say, "Are you comfortable to have about? Then I'll know how much of a Christian you are." +++ I tell you what you may believe it or not but I'm good today. I've embraced Miss W. 1 I try to radiate geography & make the highways of grammar & arithmetic glorious. Hard job! Dec. 5"-74-- in which it's about so! Dec. 16"-- in which I come to a standstill. Dec. 19"-- in which I embrace my Mother & enter into rest. +Dec. 27"-- In which I come to a great calm.Jan. 8-/75-- Gives me the idea! I comprehend at once about what I've got to come to. I can get a good deal in a taste! All the joy there is in holding a girl down tight & making her stay is mine to the full. How thankful I ought to be for blessings like these! Jan 26"-- Shows me prospects of continued discipline. I fight at the very thought. I raise up an armed insurrection in my heart : but there's nothing to do but quell it & meet my fate. Jan. 29"-- Has to go chasing about for endurance. It is a pitiable sight. One can't gaze upon martyrs every day. Jan. 30"-/75-- Gets where the Dark is. These are cheering pages. What an addition they would be to the literature of the desponding! Such chroniclings of love rising triumphant over frowning worlds - of a brave will conquering & defying fate - of a patience that is not afraid to walk alone! Let the heroic record stand for "some forlorn & shipwrecked brother," +++ I go sorrowing these days for appreciation. Isn't this high moral courage? Feb. 2"-- Brights & darks alternate. Anything like a bright even with a dark tied to it comes as hopeful as the sounding tread of a victorious army to the waiting prisoners in the city!Feb. 3"-75-- Floats me about - My catch words do not of late convey any idea of fixedness. I am a spar floating, or a spindle whirling, or a speck wherving, or a piece of endurance chasing about. Feb. 12"-- Pushes into worries. The way there is so plain that I never lose the path. Feb. 16-- The girl thinks that she will do a great deal but she doesn't - she worries. She sees herself in the midst of things she ought to help: & some of them she does help - & the rest torture her. Feb. 19-- Do take a chair! That's the way people talk to you when your back aches. People whose backs never ache lay out the straight & narrow path.Mar. 4-/75-- I was glad to creep under the shadow of a trouble greater than mine. Glad to think of the eternal peace into which another soul has drifted. Mar. 21"-- Sunday - strengthens my heart. I am always so glad to see the Sundays come: & the Sundays here this year have been particularly dear & holy to me. Mar. 28-- Sunday - makes me fitter to live. ++ At church the flowers told us of resurrection & the sunshine made us glad. Mr. __ had caught none of the Easter joy. He threw his sermon at us, fiercely. April 2"-- All the melancholy verses of the forlorn poetswould apply. Minor strains wail through the rain. I grow & increase in ability to worry. What becomes of my religion such days as these? Cohoes - April 3"-75-- Is ready for a hallelujah or two! Delectable mountains have risen between yesterday's rain & today's clear blue, as I rush towards home & the little mother waiting on the hill. April 4"-- Being allowed to wake up in a christian manner is an ecstasy I had almost forgotten. I have been rung up so long! I never felt so tired before.Castleton - April 26"-/75 It looks as if there were a demand just now for a heart for any fate! I'm not on a quest for the immortal glory part of anything. To see me mount heights (stairs especially) would give you the most painful sensations. +++ I crawl on - & doze & doze when I can - & call it getting along. "Lift up your eyes & see!" April 30" - So glad not to have a headache. So glad to go into the schoolroom & find so much work waiting for me. I had thought for a little while that I could never go into the schoolroom again.May 13"-75. Something lovely & new is being done out of doors every day. It rests me so - I can teach 7 teach & not get tired a bit. It makes me just as happy in my work as I can be. The poetry of the May weather steals in & makes rhyme even out being rung up, rung down, rung out, rung in. June 21"-- Dreams of a better world. Anybody could with a lap full of essays. I know of nothing more likely to awaken thought of a heaven for you & a heaven for me! "How do you do it?" says Ignorance. "Why, re-write them, stupid!"June 24"-/75-- You'd better be careful, Fannie. There's always somebody near enough to get a part of your shadows. June 29" - Cohoes - The home door swings wide for me. God keeps me still a mother to be glad I came! July 1"-- Many of the interesting details which have hitherto been all-absorbing to this journalist will appear no more. There will be no more mention of bells or of anything that may, can, must, might, could, would or should be done. There will be only resting & dreaming with no money in it anywhere! I want it under-stood that I want my dreams aerial, etherial [sic] - that kind. July 3-/75-- I delight to record a visit with my mother & her mother in the open door. This is a good world as long as the mothers stay in it. July 5"-- Mother's short cake roused all our slumbering patriotism. We sat & loved the country where such berries could grow. July 17"- Crawford - ++ I've left the hard part for this last little corner. A little place is big enough to fret in. I've come to a standstill. But the Lord knows what to do with me. I am trusting a little.July 18"-/75--Knows how His love went before me each day. It came with all its beauty giving no sign. Night ended in day while yet tired eyelids lay upon tired eyes. July 23"-- My early ride was perfection itself. Such an air as I have not breathed since I left heaven, long ago. July 25"--Sunday - Lives in sunlight. Aug. 3"-- Lives in a What shall I do? +++ Everyday it seems harder to go anywhere & leave Mother. Weak-hearted girl! But she does love Mother so! [O years]! speak tonight. Open just a little way & tell me things.Aug. 4"/75-- Things look better to me today - brighter. As if I could do things - sometime. As if mother should have a quiet, happy old age. Aug. 9"-- Brings so much. ++ I was so happy I woke up in the night to think about it. I felt so good all day. Nothing could mar it. Aug. 19"-- Cohoes - Horrifies me! This page is for the desponding. It starts out as if it might be so bracing. +++ Yes, it comes over me - the darkness & hopelessness of things. Looking forward makes my heart sink, & I seem not to touch the solid earth. Why I never can go & feel like this. I never felt so before.Aug. 22"-/75-- Has a hope in it - that the head will be better tomorrow. +++ Talks at home have been more cheerful. It looks a little as if it would not seem quite so dreadful to go away. Taking up a new life in a new place, among indifferent faces sets me to hunting up all my courage, just to think of it. Aug. 29"-- [Woos] me away from life's tangles & perversities. It seems easy for such things to heap up, & where the biggest heap is you'll see me standing round most generally!Aug. 30"-/75-- I got up with the spirit of the morning in me, & everything that came near me touched some happy spring. Sept. 7"--the part of me that tosses & dreads things finds this a shut-up summer. Sometimes it will not rest on the promises that lie like solid rock under my life. It wonders if the time for sacrifice is come - if the taking what I so wish & yet dread to take is God's will for me - It wonders if anybody at home must give up one little hope or joy to give me this. Sept. 8"-- Keeps me pondering. These are bright days. Whowould think that in such days anyone would flounder in the dark asking questions. But I know who does. Sept. 11"-- Waxes not valiant. ++ It took me way out of myself to watch the hills tonight. I realized then that there was a shadow to lift. Such a dreary miserable sickness these days. Next week I must be better. It can't last always. There's been good cheer at home today. Sept. 16"-- Looks forward too much - & back plenty enough. What I fail in is "lending a hand". I look enough to supply all the demands. +++ Why-how can I make you know how dreadful going away looks to me! Sept. 23"-- Fixes clouds in the sky. It seems as if they were fixed to stay - as if it would never be bright & glad in my world again. ++ I can't say, "Not as I will." I hold up defiant hands at fate. I can be a weak little girl & cry & cry & cry. I keep thinking "I will be well - I must go." Have I not asked God all summer to tell me what is best?Sept. 24"-75--Lets the sun shine in. I kept looking to the hills all day & thinking how lovely it was. ++ Today my heart doesn't say "I will go" - it just waits. sept. 25"-- Stands in the dark & suffers. +++ The doctor has been seen - we know now. The day was so bright it almost seemed as if I couldn't ask anything but what I should have. Not so. It gives not & it takes. It falls upon me. Be He knows - that God for that. Sept. 26" - Sunday - All alone with the day & the pain. Sept. 29"-- Has a little help in it. In any trouble howI dread the first waking thoughts - those that come before we are wholly ourselves to face things & get courage together. Oct. 3"-/75. I noticed how bright everything was this morning because I wanted it so. +++ A long ride up the hill & drearier thoughts than I shall ever tell you or any one. I go off to bed alone with them. Oct. 4"-- Anybody would think I might revolve a little even on a creaking axis : but there wasn't any such thing done. I decide to think today & achieve tomorrow. Oct. 9"-- Has a ring of triumph in it. ++ God's great sunrisehasn't found me out but one of the best little earthly ones has. Oct. 13"-/75-- I pray so to get better - to be well. I will be so careful of the child if she will only get so she can walk once more. It is so hard to sit still these days & wait. But His grace is near. Oct. 14"-- Looks out for courage. Do you think it failed to come. It did not - it is there - ready - sure. +++ I am really getting better - O am I not? Isn't something the least little bit better? I get so sure of it - I feel way up. Oct. 17"-/75. +++ It makes me wish for the work - some work - any work. O God! anything but this! Nov. 14"-- Tosses - as it did one day before. +++ There's nothing down-hearted in the talk & I keep where Mother & the children are a great deal. When I do go off by myself the white chrysanthemums make me cry. The little thoughts that come of mother are so dear & close. In my thought of what I am to do or be I find myself in a perfect struggle. I can feel my heart beat as I try to decide which way is best - as I try to know just what God means for me. I try to see His way -but, oh, I so want His way & mine to be the same. Mother doesn't say much - O if I only knew what to do! Oct. 15"-/74-- ++ I go down to River St for Agnes - my one sister. I feel kind of sorry for this child as she trudges along, choking back the tears, as she thinks how hard it is to plan to go to Smith College - & how much she wants to do for Mother & the children. Well - well - we won't feel sorry. We'll just work all we can & trust God for the rest. Nov. 16"-- It's a pull & haul day. +++ I hate to have Mother get tired. I would so love to have a home for herfree from all this - just as some mothers have it. Nov. 22"-/75-- I go down to the doctor's & come back on wings. He says I am better - that I may get well. What could I hear that would be like this to me? Nov. 25"-- Thanksgiving - "Rejoice in hope." The girl that was down yesterday, down at the bottom of the hill where it is lonely, lonely, is way up today. I was so glad all day just be at home. Nov. 27"-- Mr. Johnson's words to Gertie about Vassar for me seem like an answer straight from God. I have so prayed that if there was any other way He wouldmake it known. Nov. 28"-/75-- ++ I think of Vassar & think, & think, & wonder if it is for me. Wonder what God's answer will be. Dec. 2"-- Brings the answer! I believe it is from God -- I believe I shall go. I get all my Latin books out & begin to climb the mountain is before me. Dec. 3-- Associates itself with dark closets. This is where I get some days & peep out on life thro' chinks. Dec. 10"-- A little better - a little brighter - but so tired! How could she study with the pain & the restlessness? +++ I can't bear lately to think how much I love mymother. Oh how close they lie - the tenderness & the pain! Dec. 11"-75-- "Let me hide myself in Thee!" Dec. 12"-- Gives me rest - not because I am worthy, but because He is good. Dec. 18"-- Insists on being an anniversary! +++ I feel stronger today & very hopeful. 1876 Jan. 6"-- A day when the steps turn away from home & toward a new unknown. One of the solemn days when we touch reverently all the little things that we must leave. +++ The last rolling away - the space between & the beginning of the great loneliness that already threatens to swallow meup. The ride up the hill to Vassar - the first look at its walls in the moonlight! Jan. 8-'76-- Will I go & be Lady Principal of Waynesburg College? says my letter. We will see. Jan. 10"-- A day when things don't begin. It takes an interminable length of time to get planted here. One has to be laid above ground sever days. +++ Jan. 14"-- ++ When I think of where I am & how I came here & what I have the chance to do my heart grows so warm, so glad that I know I can bear anything. +++Jan. 19"/76-Vassar-- A day when I lived tho' it! ++++ I feel a little fresh & good with the first of things: but on into the day I get to wondering what is to become of me. Jan. 20"-- A day when I stand like one bewildered. As given below: I want that position on Waynesburg. I just do. I want the course here - I just do. I don't know what to do - I just don't. ++ Jane. 22"-- ++ For me, the hermit, there was plough boy's work without the plough-boy's whistle. ++ Five pages of Cicero's first Oration, interrupted with flashes of Waynesburg. A solitary walk with a storm threatening, & my perplexities also threatening. Never mind. When I am oppressed Hewill undertake for me. +++ Jan. 26"-/76-Vassar-- A day when my career continues to be spectre-like. To stop & think about it, which we never get time to do here, it is easy to appreciate the feelings of a phantom, gliding thro' these halls & sailing around these woods! Never to be thought about, or missed, or noticed! ++++ Jan 27"-- A day when I will be glad anyway! +++ Jan. 28"-- To remove my spectre habiliments & find somebody that wants to talk to me because they do & not because I am alone, or a stranger, or woe-begone, is now the desire of my heart! +++Feb. 1"-/76-V/C.-- A day when there's a great flutter of things. Things here means heart. Put in the plural because I have a great many of them & all fluttering. +++ Feb. 22"-- A day when I sould keep his memory green! +++ God help me to fulfill in my life the best, the noblest wishes of the dead father, & care always for the one boy he fain would have taken with him! ++++ Feb. 25"-- +++ Worst siege yet encountered in V.C. Miserable floundering in Greek, & another squelch in Horace. I do get up stairs at last. Cry it out! +++ A day without a smile from any human being: & a long stretch of hard work without a letter. Vassar - Mch 5-76 +++ had my everyday siege of homesickness - the awful sort. No dear little Mother to come in. ++ Why can't I have her a few minutes? +++ Mch 24"-- Not a day to be blue in. Everything above & around laughed & shouted or was just going to. +++ Greek & dinner - neither in any demand by yours truly. A feeble attempt to walk. Abandoned! No more attempts to chronicle except the scramble to live tho' the President's prayer. April 4"-- ++ A great many bodies are packing. Found Laura Skinner at it & ventured to say "What does this mean?" "It means 'Exit Skinner'", quoth she. ++++April 13" '76 - Cohoes-- Here's a girl no good to anybody, wriggling this way 7 that under excess of aches & ills +++ looking forward to day after day just like this, pitiless & grim. What a queer standstill I've come to! Let's talk about the lilies in the window How they grow; & the pin, how fast it is opening to the light-- & the baby at the neighbor's window-- & Grandma so safely past the din & the struggle-- & of a sure safe time past all this weariness. No - it isn't for nothing that we hope & dream. April 17"-- ++ How comfortable that big rocking chair is with the huge pillows. This is the bestlife & the world can do for me now. The best I can do for me now. The best I can do for myself is to wait in patience for the sunshine to come back. April 19",/76 - Cohoes-- A day when the story reads not a bit as I had written the plot! There's just about as much of the awfulness of living on as there was when I came home - & I ought to be in V.C. this very day. +++ The doctor leaves some miserable little concoctions, vile & ineffectual, & says I'm pretty bad off. No, I aint neither! There's fifty years in me yet - good solid ones too! Cohoes - April 20"-76-- A day when I have "hurries to go". There are all beginning down there, & I'm up here fenced in. +++++ Sunday-April 2[5]"-- +++ It seems a myth to me that I ever got up Sunday morning & walked down to church - ever got up at all in fact. Little snatches of minutes between the pain - these take the place of all larger ambitions. ++++ April 24"-- It's surprising how little I can get her to caring. Dying or coming back to life - it seems all one to me +++ April 25"-- ++ The nights are very long. The great thoughts - the thoughts that have carried methro' so many unfilled hours - will not come to help me. But God's promises come & lift my heart up into the blessed places. +++ April 26",/76-- +++ How could I love my home more than I do? If God will only let me be well again - well enough to work! But I lie here waiting. I may be taken & these left. ++ "O God our help in ages past - Our hope for years to come!" April 27"-- +++ I get more & more glad of little things: a little brightness - a little ease from pain - a scrap from out of doors - all these have it in them to bless me. As my horizon narrows - as Isee this denied on one hand, and that taken away on the other, I stop resisting, & cease to demand. ++ Just as if at first we should want all outdoors & should say at last, "If I can only have this one green plant in my window!" Vassar-May 17"-'76-- Given a problem to work upon: To want to do a great deal - wonderful things - to be set in a place where everybody is driving ahead & turning out wonders - & then be forbidden to exert yourself under penalty of forfeiting forever all you want to do & be - & then be patient & unworn & light-hearted! ++++Vassar - June 1"-76-- Light & beauty enough out doors to fill us, satisfy us - if we would be good & rest in it. ++ I feel stronger to do & bear, today. O, if I could only walk! June 5"-- Dug a little at Greek with Laura. The Greek words took it upon themselves to be clothed in unsearchable forms & Laura says, "Lets hang ourselves!" ++++ June 10"-- Sprang to my feet with a delicious sense of joy in the early morning - of being glad I'm here - of an assurrance [sic] in my heart that my steps are ordered by the Lord & a determination that I won't be troubled. ++++Cranford-July 8"'76-- ++ I just love Susie, & it makes me happy as I need to be. Her home is beautiful to me - & someway i seem to breathe only when she is looking at me. ++ Aug. 30" ++ I am in the delicious dream of a may-be college. Dare I try it? I am asking God. His plan for me is larger, nobler than mine. Vassar-Sept. 29'-- +++ I know what one week of Trig. is. Fifteen more come up from the statistical corner of me - don't say grimly! You can't afford to be grim - 15 weeks. It is Friday - a breathing-space let down. It's like prairie-land between Fri. 11:50, & Mon. 8:15 - a smoothgreen stretch all level! Huldah keeps up an intermittent dig - that is her measure of prairie-land & hill-regions. Polly's digs lie in the last five minutes before she goes to something. Sept. 30"-76-- ++ Don't know who is steeped in homesickness! Oct. 10"-- +++ I got up this morning wishing I didn't have to. More cold, more strain, more something to make me an exact misery. ++ Laura lets me lie still & says nonsense rhymes to me whereat I rejoice. Laura's new word is "whaeck"! Oct. 11"-- More to get up for - so it sort of somehow seemed. This suggests Prof. Hinkel's[Greek letters]- & also especially those! We have actually left Chap. I in Herodotus. There is every indication of our making a continuing city of Chap. II. "Come up & gaze upon the felicities of cot-beds". I go. "This was the out-cropping of our brains", explained Laura. Oct. 13"-/76-- I come to it aching - I got tired - the big kind - over my rally in cosines. ++ The little Greek man says, "I will explain & then we will go on". So we sit & are poured into. It's a way he has. Huldah get a letter & goes around saying, "Poor Aunt Mag! poor Aunt Mag isdead." Somebody's always dead in the letters Huldah gets. Polly's letter makes her shout. It comes pealing forth from the bed-room & I take a new lease of life. Blessed Polly! +++ Oct. 16"/76-- A sort of clear grit morning. It is not brilliancy I astonish people with in Trig. - nor brevity. My demonstration only covers one wing of the college! +++++ Oct. 20"-- I am tired out trying to make my girl attend to things today. I had to make her get up in the first place - tendencies all against me. Then she staid up, in a dreadful poking way,keeping me pushing her up to this & steeling her against that: but now I've comforted her with the assurance that today is a kind of exception & tomorrow she won't ache in so many places. ++ O - one of my low-down days! Nov. 3",/76 - Vassar-- A sort of uplifting all thro'. I pray for days like this - ready for anything - glad in what is. Nov. 4"-- My birthday & how bright it was! ++ I had to be glad - there must be no dark guesses, no restlessness. There was help to see "the real whole best." "God is known in her palaces for a refuge."Nov. 5"/76 - Vassar - Sunday & I have lots of time to think how many days it is before I go home. ++ I believe if there was only a day between me & Mother I should think that day would never end. I am sure I never wanted home so - or tossed so to see it. Nov. 9"-- Could I get up? could I stay up? Rather singular questions from a girl who has Senior Greek & Sophomore Latin on her hands! There was a great mustering of forces: every available one was summoned, & I did squeeze through the day some how. +++ I have seen Dr. Webster. She makes no mention of death's door, but speaks of a time when I shall be well - bless her!Nov. 15"/76 - V.C.-- Huldah says that in the Bates Mitchell's class they are all "revolving around the marks." Heaven help them! Dec. 19" - Cohoes-- A good deal to it that wasn't consoling. I come home to add to Mother's troubles &, as far as I can see, to be of not the slightest use to any body. +++ Miss -- comes in like a fresh morning breeze. I'm so devoutly thankful to be relieved of my thoughts for an hour or so. Dec. 23"-- +++ I wish very much for the use of my feet. Have longings for the pretty shop windows, & the people withbundles & pleasant secrets to keep; want to see the cutters skip along; want to get stirred up. Instead of that I am a city set on a hill. But Aggie brings some of the good cheer home : there's almost always a next best. +++ Dec. 27"/76-Cohoes +++ D. brings up two tickets for the concert. "Can Fanny go?" It has not yet got fully settled here that "Fanny" can't "go" - can't ever go. She say "No - ask Emma." +++ Go! isn't it one of the nights when she would scream if she could go!1877. Jan. 1"--- I've found out how the courage of one is the courage of the souls that live near it: that good cheer is nothing short of an atmosphere: and even of a little patience the world has need! ++++ The worries that we began last year with are most of them here to start out with us again. +++ But I am a little surer that the storms are in the lower strata. We shall get above them by and by. I have reason to be more sure of a few things than I was a year ago. "I tell you that One knocked while it was dark."Jan. 2",'77--- The spell of silence is broken at last. Somebody has sent me a written communication. Huldah is noted for breaking silences. It is her voice, grim and inauspicious, that comes summarily into dark mornings : her alarm is that it is six and something, and I am too far gone to contest the point - usually. ++++ Jan. 3" ++ My letter from __ makes me feel rich - well-to=do in the world. I won't say that there were any bluish tendencies for her to counteract, but still I view her eight pages in the light of a "marcy".Jan. 6:, '77--- D. says, he starts to go, "Oh, I forgot!" and hands me - why, it was one of the loveliest things - L.s letter! What a new face everything wears for me. Jan. 10"--- V.C. and no. 11,d once more enfold me. Polly and the girls come at me. And - well, there's an example in Trig. for tomorrow with two solutions and six answers! Ye fates! I spend silent time with L. - bless her! Jan. 14"-- A severe talk on the married state - Parlor 12 all there. L. comes in for the woful [sic] summing up -- "It's a wuzzly world!" L. thinks there area few happy marriages - not many, perhaps, but a few! H. sets her foot down - "None - whatever!" We feel the projection of the great circle of hopelessness crossing our celestial equator. We turn reverently to the Greek of Matthew. There's no hopelessness there - no dragging down sensations. "Come to me" it says. Well - we are tired children, and He knows. Jan. 15",'77-- Head streaks of disaster in it. But then - why should you sing, "Increase my courage, Lord" if there's never anything going to happen to make courage, and lots of it, the thing to have?You were torn up by the roots when you got out of bed this morning, and you lay around on top all day. +++ It's L. who packs up 82 and brings it down stairs for my present comfort. Jan. 16", '77-- We aren't going to have any mournfulness about this business. You've got it on hand and we see you wriggling it through. Trot right along. You stand up before Prof. B. gladiator-fashion, and impress her with the fact that you embraced a hot water bottle last night and not Trig.-aches, and not cosines. She doesn't act as if you were confessing incendiarism to her, and you sit down,meekly, as is your wont. You persevere through half a chapter of "thought-weighted Thucydides" with L. and then her good angel comes down and enlivens the world by Keeping you up from tea, spreading for you a famous little supper in 82, and making you feel the blessedness there is in love. Jan. 24","77-- To be sure you didn't have your Trig. but as L. says, "That's nothing!" "Same problem for tomorrow," says the sharp-eyed Professor in drab. "You may get it." Another little supper with L. in 82. You peep into "Sights & Insights" while she lays the cloth and brings out the cunninglittle cups. She buzzes about & you call it "being out to tea", and almost forget you are a Sophomore with aspirations. Jan. 15, 1877-- For steady help from outside give me a day of sunshine. It is impossible to feel that you are fighting single-handed as long as there is sunlight that will not forsake you. ++++ There are lots of things left over that you wanted to do. Left over for when? We shall see. Meantime we are glad - glad for life just as it is this minute. Jan. 27".-- Undermining forces are at work again. You've heard about such days before.this week, though it ends with full noon, has had its hard places : but which one would I have had left out if I could? "Until He says 'Come up higher', let us be content at the foot of the board." Feb. 2", 1877-- For one day freedom from that pain has not left you for weeks before, and that has made everything you did so hard. You almost know, for a little breath, what the better day will be. Feb. 4"--"It's a lovely day, Fanny. Wish you could go to walk." Have not yet attained to any such paradise. Yet nights I dream of walking. +++ "Edith isgoing to read some of Hale's Christmas stories - don't you want to come up?" Inclination wanted props. Supplied by the maiden who wanted to know - "a maiden who wanted to know - "a very young Freshman". Feb. 5", 1877.-- A review of Herodotus is about to be entered upon. I like this way of taking it - viz. me on the bed, pillowed. L. in a chair, with dic. "Curtins" and most of it in mind, gives me exact meanings and optatives "with and without ar". I, purely receptive. Then we have crackers, and beff-tea, and Jam up in her room, and I am spared the dining-room. ++ Great uncomfort-ableness today. If I only could feel better! "Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me!" Feb. 8",/77-- Trig is over & gone. The examination did not bear as strong a resemblance to "the Assyrian" that "came down" as we had darkly pictured, though there was a slight disproportion between the number of questions and the number of minutes. ++++ How we've laughed today! but tonight we sit very still. To think that this was coming! Sunday, Feb. 11"-- The first thing was the breath of the flowers. Then the dawning sense that this wasthe last day - that the little Greek books lying in the window meant nothing any more. i got up with my trouble and went out where the girls were. Everything has been very sweet all day. My comfort has been thought of and thought of till I am strangely confused at being so cared for. ++ To see the day die over Sunset Hill and know it is the last time for weeks 7 weeks--! Feb. 12"-/77. +++ The sight of the little Greek books in the window, where we left them last Thursday, is more than I can bear. When I am bravest I can't look at that window. +++ It's all over now. I see them waving to mefrom the platform - my train moving slowly away. One of the hard times, Frances - one of the very hard times. "O Lord! only to be made like Thee in Thy great love!" Home - where are those who care also - who care most! Feb. 14", 1877-- Last night I woke in the night and heard Mother praying. It went to my heart and left the sorest kind of an ache there. How can I die when I know she wants me like this! If she were anywhere - anywhere in this wide earth and wanted me I would go. But how can I if it is that River I must cross? Bit it isGod she is talking to. Her cause is safe with Him. Feb. 15", 1877. "Faint yet pursuing" - to have this said of you because you washed a handful of dishes! Think of coming to this! Feb. 16"-- Yes'm. I keep very very still. These are not days for talking. I would not like to write what I am living. It is all too solemn, and I shall remember it all. It is not such days as these that we forget. Feb. 17".-- Saturday night - in the harbor, I. My boat rocks gently as the night comes down. There are cities full of busy people buying & selling; but I seemout of it all - with the feeling of one who is to be forever out of it. "Under His wings thou art come to trust!" Feb. 19", 1877.-- I feel as if I were following somebody over a thorny path between tall hedge-rows - and yet I know that it is not a stranger that I follow. Albany, Feb. 20"-- +++ I watched the little mother's gray shawl and black dress and little bonnet out of sight. I think after that I had the heartache. Tonight it seems as if there could be nothing grander than to have, like the Lord Jesus, power to heal such trouble as mine.
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Creator: Notman, William
Date: 18--

Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: January 14, 1901
Text: Vassar Friday Dear people:- How nice it seems not to have any lesson tomorrow. We are going to bed rather early tonight. This morning in English we had rather a nice time, particularly as it only lasted about had an hour. We were taken over into the studio and had pictures thrown onto a sheet for [?]. We had to take notes on them for writing themes and essays about later. First they showed us Mona Lisa and Beatuce Cruice and are to take eitherone for our next essay. There they gave me a...
Show moreVassar Friday Dear people:- How nice it seems not to have any lesson tomorrow. We are going to bed rather early tonight. This morning in English we had rather a nice time, particularly as it only lasted about had an hour. We were taken over into the studio and had pictures thrown onto a sheet for [?]. We had to take notes on them for writing themes and essays about later. First they showed us Mona Lisa and Beatuce Cruice and are to take eitherone for our next essay. There they gave me a portrait of Van Dyck by himself and a peasant of millet to compare them. Then the Madonna of Botticelli you have over the piano and that Madonna among the Rocks by Leonarda di Vinci. Do you remember where that was and who the other woman besides Mary was. We have had the greatest discussions about it. Then we had math and Miss Richardson gave me a lecture on taking exercise and held the English up as an example to me. I wish youcould have heard her. She told us to take walk before lunch and a nap after lunch and go for a walk for at least 2 hours. She said the English woman accomplished twice as much as we did in the same time because they were about to concentrate their minds. An American's girls conscience is only satisfied when she studies all the time while and English girl tries to get her work done in as short a time as possible. I thought I would walk around before lunch, and while I was out I met Miss Richardson. so I told her to see how she had impressed me that I took her advice immediately. And she patted her on the arm (right on my vaccination spot) and said, that was right and I was a little girl who needed a great deal of fresh air. She had noticed. I am quite a favorite apparently. But it is perfectly true, I feel miserably if I don't get out. Thursday it poured all day and I felt dreadfully and didn't sleep that night as well as usual. So Friday I went out notwithstanding it was stillpouring and had frozen during the night, and the roads were covered with ice and very slippery. Helen Graves and I walked into town and out again. They fixes me all up nicely. I had a pair of leather gaiters, that came up to my knees from Dubir; and Edith gave me her maclinetoch which made short enough by taking a tuck in it, and I had on my shortest skirt and was very fine. People were perfectly astounded when they head we had been way into town on such a day, but it didn't so us any harm and I felt much better. What do you think I am going to do. Cara and I have been asked to bin the next hall play, just as figures you know. There are to be a whole lot of us and it's more fun. Dubie and I are to carry a sedan chair & Cora and all the others are in a ruffian crew. The play is "Les Romantic" by Rostand and is capital. Saturday afternoon we went to a rehearsal and had more fun. It is going to be very good I think. Margaret Jackson is to be the hero and she acts beautifully. Saturday morning it snowedand I went out for a walk and did some studying. I someway can't get up my courage to being reviewing anything, but I suppose I must get down to it. All the teachers advise us to very strongly. My sweater foes beautifully. Saturday evening I went to a German play. it was so funny. The name of it was "Das Schwert des Damarkles" and the girls did finely. Our cheeks fairly ached when we came away we had laughed so. This morning we lay in bed until 10-30 as usual. Lucile & Edith brought us some bread and butter and milk.Then we had morning Chapel which bishop Potter bed. He gave us a fine sermon Poor Prexi had to read the lessons, and he had forgotten his glasses so he had to put his nose right down into the bible on the reading desk. Poor thing. I couldn't sympathize. Then at dinner I asked Elizabeth Allen to come to the table, because you see there is an empty place as Miss Hastings is taking her vacation now. After dinner Cora and I went for a walk up on Sunset hill, and she forgot to put her fibber on and so got her feet soaked, so that she had to spend quite a time drying them. And while she did it she read aloud to me, and I lay on her sofa. We have read the first chapter of "Alice of Old [?] Do you know it? Then we had a spell of writing letters and then the sweetest little black kitten came to call on us. That is I heard her crying outside the door so I went and let her in. She was evidently making the best of her way down to the parlors and I thought she ought to be intercepted. She was a very agreeable cat, as Miss Will and used to say. Then we wrote letters some more while the cat enjoyed herself on my bees. And then Lucile came down to get us to go for a walk and we were in our wrappers and very lazy, and couldn't make up our minds whether we wanted to go or not. So we tossed up for it and found we had to go. Then it took a long tim to get dressed (Lucile was very much disgusted). But finally we got up and went up Sunset again and saw the sunset. Which was glorious and then went down into the glen, which was perilous and the path is very steep and it was all icy. Then we sat on the bridge over the little stream and sang hymns while the dark evening mists rose from the water and the darkness and chill fell around us. Then we continued our way home in the dark and just had time to get ready for supper. I think you would be interested to hear what Cora heard while shewas taking her bath this morning. one girl was telling another what they had had for breakfast. First some hot chocolate, then some sardines and crackers next mince pie and peaches. Wasn't that delightful? Do you want me to send Miss Sawns a Vassar Cataloge, and if so will you send her address. You see my pen has arrived. I never was so lad to get anything. How much did you have to Pay. O, My watch keeps coming open. Do you think it would be safe to trust somebody here to fix it? Ruth Prof. George B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn‘ Vii, _ v(,‘_ 11 _‘_ ‘X4, 3 _ Y‘),-‘lf
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Creator: Slee Bros. (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
Date: 1872 or 1873

Creator: Vassar, Matthew, 1792-1868
Date: August 2, 1867
Text: August 2d 1867 Doct. Nathan Bishop L.L.D My dear Sir Some time ago I called your attention as Chairman of the Ex. Board of Trustees of " Vassar College " to a suggestion made by me of the propriety of the latter furnishing at their own expense thier respective half lenght potraits for to be hung up in the Art-Gal- lery, and more especialy do I desire this in as much as my Likeness in Oil & soon will be added the Marble Bust, and then perhaps a Bronse Statute,—a lavish ex-...
Show moreAugust 2d 1867 Doct. Nathan Bishop L.L.D My dear Sir Some time ago I called your attention as Chairman of the Ex. Board of Trustees of " Vassar College " to a suggestion made by me of the propriety of the latter furnishing at their own expense thier respective half lenght potraits for to be hung up in the Art-Gal- lery, and more especialy do I desire this in as much as my Likeness in Oil & soon will be added the Marble Bust, and then perhaps a Bronse Statute,—a lavish ex- penditure I think of Vanity, & that without a Single member of eithur Board to indorse or sustain me in it! Will you please to lay this matter before your Ex. Committeeat your next Meeting. I intended to have Spoken to you yesterday on this subject, but other mat- ters engrossed my thoughts I forgot it &c—besides I was rather out of tune in point of health &c Yours truly, &c M. Vassar—
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Creator: Warner, Martha S.
Date: November 25, 1866
Text: Vassar College. Nov. 25, 1866 My dearest Mother, Your letter filled me with delight. It always seems as though you had made such an effort to write to me that your letters are doubly precious. I am very sorry that you should have worked so hard getting Auntie and little Mary ready to leave. Are you quite rested now? Have they gone yet? I had a letter from Miss Gilbert yesterday, in which she said that Katie Penfield was in all probability at my Mother's. How glad you must have been to...
Show moreVassar College. Nov. 25, 1866 My dearest Mother, Your letter filled me with delight. It always seems as though you had made such an effort to write to me that your letters are doubly precious. I am very sorry that you should have worked so hard getting Auntie and little Mary ready to leave. Are you quite rested now? Have they gone yet? I had a letter from Miss Gilbert yesterday, in which she said that Katie Penfield was in all probability at my Mother's. How glad you must have been to see her. I hope she will make you a nice visit, and that no other person will dare to show his or her nose inside of the house while she stays. By-the-way don't youthink that Miss Penfield would feel complimented if she should see the manner in which I spoke of her a few lines higher up. Never mind, she'll never know, and I certainly meant no harm when I wrote it - How is George? I feel very anxious to hear from him. How do the family feel about him. Thanksgiving Day is almost here is it not? I hope you will each eat a double portion of dinner to make up for us - As for us, I don't know what we are to have but we have engaged Clara Glover to carve our turkey, the terrible thought has just crossed my mind that perhaps they won't give us a turkey! horrible! What I would have given if Mr. Curtis had only seen Father. Wouldn't he have been wrathy to meet him marching around his College? I wonder if Aunt Martha still considers Galesburg far superior to Vassar College. I wonder ifMr. what's-his-name, that resident clergyman, will go and tell Mr. Curtis what Father said about him - Wasn't Mrs. Ballard's letter good? likewise her husbands. I am more and more surprised and astonished at their kindness in writing to us. I shall certainly write to them as soon as I have an opportunity. I wish I could hear him preach this afternoon - We are going to have the Episcopal service here this afternoon - I know I shall enjoy it very much. Mr. Scarborough is a very earnest christian and a good speaker. I decidedly agree with you in not caring to change places with Dr. Hogarth's people. I am glad that your visit with those children was so successfully completed. Where is Bloomfield? I never heard of it before. It seems to me that my relatives have a peculiar fancy for Illinois - Horace Halleck is married, as ofcourse you know. One of the girls here is acquainted with his wife, or rather her sister is, and she wrote her a long account of the wedding - I pity the poor woman he has married. Don't you? I combed Helen's hair this morning, and you can't imagine what an improvement is is - I should like to do it every day if it didn't take too long - I must stop now, and get ready for church, or chapel rather - O Mother! how I wish you could hear Prof. Knapp in our Testament class - He is one of the best Christian men I ever saw. Prof. Tenney wants to get that Mastodon for the College, but has few hopes of success - I must stop now, for I am in a great hurry - Yours with much love Mattie S. W. I forgot to send my love to all the people but of course they will take it for granted.
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Date: 1905
Text: MUSIC uamnv VASSAR COLLEGE ”°”°“KEEPSIE. NEW voax N?21NE" N‘?2>1NF N‘?41NG % SUNG BY M155 ADA CROSS LEY. WND $504 / ’\$?5'v Q'f, \\!r) -7Jﬂ.\;. The Word s by LONGFEILLOW 1'} 44> The ﬂlusic by ROBERT BATTEN. P/‘ice 6W Ce/2/5' BOOSEY & C9 9,EAsT SEVENTEENTH STREET, NEw YORK, AND 295. REGENT STREET,LoNDoN.ENcs. SOLE AGENTS FOR CHAPPELL& Co. ENocH & SONS & G.R|CORD| &Co. COPYRIGHT I905 BYBOOSEV 8<C‘? LIVING POEMS. COME to me, 0 ye children!...
Show moreMUSIC uamnv VASSAR COLLEGE ”°”°“KEEPSIE. NEW voax N?21NE" N‘?2>1NF N‘?41NG % SUNG BY M155 ADA CROSS LEY. WND $504 / ’\$?5'v Q'f, \\!r) -7Jﬂ.\;. The Word s by LONGFEILLOW 1'} 44> The ﬂlusic by ROBERT BATTEN. P/‘ice 6W Ce/2/5' BOOSEY & C9 9,EAsT SEVENTEENTH STREET, NEw YORK, AND 295. REGENT STREET,LoNDoN.ENcs. SOLE AGENTS FOR CHAPPELL& Co. ENocH & SONS & G.R|CORD| &Co. COPYRIGHT I905 BYBOOSEV 8<C‘? LIVING POEMS. COME to me, 0 ye children! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have Vanished quite away; Ye open the Eastern windows That look towards the sun, Where thoughts are singing swallows, And the brooks of morning run. In your hearts are the birds and sunshine, In your thoughts the brooklet’s ﬂow, But in mine is the Wind of Autumn And the ﬁrst fall of the snow. Come to me, 0 ye children! And whisper in my ear VVhat the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere : For what are all our oontrivings And the Wisdom of our books, VVhen compared with your caresses And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; F or ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. LONGFELLOW. Living Words by Music by LONGFELLQW ROBERT BATTEN. Andante sostenuto. /3 Voice. 1' con %. Moderate. Come to me, 0 ye chil — dren! hear you at your And the ques - tions that per- \——-—'/Le — plexed me Va — nish’d quite a — Cbjiyright, 1905 by Boosey & C9 o - pen the East - ern Where thoughts brooks of morn— ing sun - shine, In your thoughts Living Poems. win - dows are the That... sing — ing In your hearts brook — lets... look to svvards the swal - lows, are the f low, birds...“ and the mine is the wind of Au — tumn And the first fall of the f hB ut in mine is the wind of - tumn And the FT” t calla voce. Living Poems. birds and the Winds are s1'ng—ing In your sun - ny at - mos - - our con - tfi -Vings Living Poems. M0 - dom of our books, When com- pared w1th your car- - calla voce. And the glad. - ness of your looks? >>- bet- ter than all ..... .. the........ ev — er were sung 0r......... Living Poems. with enthusiasm. the rest are Ye are bet -’ ter than all the - lads That } fften_ ~ rall al me. said; ' And >- )- L c [la voce. If 0 rail al fine. Livhig Poems. NW SONGS BY CEDEBRHTED COMPOSERS. PRICE 60 CENTS EACH. THOSE MARKED at: 75 CENTS. Sung by Madame CLARA BUTT. *BAi§?LoN. (zwt/L Organ 0115/igato.) WORDS BY F. E. WEATHERLY. No. 1 in El7. MUSIC BY STEPHEN ADAMS. No 4 in A7. 5- ' : 9’ ___,..._.|__. .%i__1:._._ _._i__[_._ I L. bi‘ *'- ' No. 2 in F. No. 3 in G. 11 ttmfﬁ *\ '4 /'\ ’\ /-x «-\ I'j"_T:,l::Zﬂ4 .1 _ ' 9‘ !:h_i__ 4 j ‘ - _ $7 :.:.g;.gg¢:g: H..;=E§13$1% OJ V “O go ye not to.. .. Bab-y-Ion! it is adream, it is adrezun un-blest! On-ly the road to (mt Verse.) Out in the morning meadows, and down the broad highway, I sa e children dancing and singing at their play ; And they called to one another upon the golden air, “ Oh, where's the road to Babylon,—and who will bring us there?" But, as the night fell round them and eastward rose a star, Methought the voice of angels was calling them from far,- “ 0 go ye not to Babylon ! it is a dream unblest I Only the road to Bethlehem can give you joy and rest ! " Copyright, 1905, by BOOSEY & Co. Sung bv Mr. FRANCIS ROGERS. THE TRUMPETER. . WORDS BY J. FRANCIS BARRON. No Illl F. MUSIC BY J. AIRLIE DIX. No.4in C. 0 No. 2 in G. ___4_sE: '_ .3: F ‘I __i__4.___ '0" l\ I‘ I I Ql J‘ I I I‘ ~ I n .g. 0 9 _ v Trum-pe-tei-, what are you sounding now ‘.7 (Is it the call I'm seeking 7) “ You’ll know tl'iecall,"saicl the (is! Verse.) Trumpeter, what are you sounding now? (Is It the call I’m seeking?) “Vou’lI know the call," said the Trumpeter tall, “ When my trumpet goes :9. speakin‘. I'm rousin' 'em up, I'm vrakin’ ’em up, The tents are astir in the valley, And there’s no more sleep. with the sun’s ﬁrst peep, For I’m soundin' the old ‘ Reveillé.’ Rise up ! ” said the Trumpeter tall. Copyright, 1904, by BOOSEY & C0. Sung by M1’. HERBERT WITHERSPOON. A soLi)ii§it’"s’ TOAST. WORDS BY J. FRANCIS BARRON. _ No. I in C. Music BY J. AIRLIE DIX. \ “ s : * :1s:u'_:p-— --“"4: .3:;i.=i.2-2; 1—bv—-E-:?‘_ “Ta- Red wine, white wine, comrades; let's be drink-ing, A truce to trouble and care, lads;When the (Lt! Verse.) Meeting to-night in the old nie_ss-tent, Each comrade's face so glowing, For smile, and jest, and merriment, _ ould rule when good wine’s ﬂowing. Steady the hand, so ; stand by the glass, You've choice of the wine set before us ; “ Here’s to the soldier, here's to his lass," 'Tis the best of all toasts : Let us ﬁnish the glass, And join in our comrade’s chorus- Copyright, I905, by BOOSEY & Co. Red wine white wine, comrades; let's be drinking, A truce to trouble and care, lads; VVhen the wine goes blinking. To the old mess-tent, and the ﬁght we share: The Flag we serve, and the coat we wear : And a bumper toast to the maidens fair, With glasses clinking I ‘ Sung by Miss EVANGELINE FLORENCE. *APR1i.—1vioRN. ROBERT BATTEN. No. 3 in D. -4: WORDS av JOHN DOWERS No. 1 in Bl). No. 2 in C. b -——l—-—:I—- 3.; _T__‘i_— /‘_\' :i—~—i—‘ 5-@;#s sﬁs Ah! . . . . . . .. the joy . . . . .. to...... the greet the ro - sy morn,... mt Verse.) Ah I the joy to greet the rosy morn, If e sun the verdant ﬁ ds adorn. _ Nature awakes, the birds their melodies trill O'er hill‘ and dale, and by the woodland rill. Ah . Copyright, I901 and I902, by BOOSEY 8!. Go. THE LITTLE WHITE SUN. wonos av ANNIE C. HUESTIS. MUSIC BY CUTI-IBERT WY'N N E. Zzjghtly. ‘ accel. . . . ~ . :1. ' . . . ;g“52— 3*i—a‘——4‘——..w——r.~—§+—r J ——r—«+=e4‘e—5——.. —r /I 11. I IIH V j I . C I‘ K RD 5 . j R I II -I Q I I Q} C I C —l I ‘F ~ 0 a Q But the brown earth laughed, and the sky turned blue, When the lit-tle white sun came (mt Var: '.) The sky had a gray, gray lace ; The touch of the mist was chill ; The earth was an eerie place, For the wind moaned over the hill ; But the brown earth laughed, and the sky turned blue, When the little white sun came peeping through ! Copyright, i905,~by BOOSEY & Co. A CHINA TRAGEDY. MUSIC BY CLAYTON THOMAS. No. 2 in Al). No. 3 in BD. —l7r—- ~-P'—r .4 O wonos BY R. S. HICHENS. & \ I I A I ‘K I I I L l\_ I‘ I‘ T1- -4» _i=__i=_ ‘ d » —:=|—-L _‘:~_~h_i=_ ‘ » . ft. ;c :E:;&t::at§¥?3E A lit - tle chi«na ﬁg-ure On a lit-tle bracket sat, His lit-tle feet werealwayscross'd, He (mt Verse.) A little china ﬁgure On a little bracket sat, His little feet were always crossed, He wore a little hat. And every morning, fair or foul, In shine or shadows dim, A pretty little housemaid came And softly dusted him. Copyright, 1904-. by BOOSEY &. Co. SHEPHERD OF LOVE. wonns av ARTHUR PHILIP COXFORD. MUSIC BY FRANK L. MOIR. mfAnd'nmte maestaso. *-r*— Aw I /—j__j__S , __ ii-—-J—-:3? Shep - herd of ,V . , . fa'ir- est of ten thou - sand‘. (mt Verse.) Oft in the gloom, when nightly shades are falling, omes to the ear a distant Song of Praise ; Faith in those sounds with tender voice is calling, Sweet come those welcome strains to cheer our pilgrim days. Hearts brighter grow, the clouds of doubt dispelling, Love. in those chords, doth heal the soul distress’d ; Hark I 'tis the song in which the Saints are telling Of their great joy in Him the Father biest. Crown Him, ye Saints, the faiitest of ten thousand ! Shepherd of Love, the God whom we adore; \Vith harps of gold attune your faithful voices, Proclaim Him King 2 both now and evermore I Copyright, 1905, by BOOSEY & Co. _ _\./ Crown Him, ye Saints, Sung by Miss ADA CROSSLEY. LIVING—_POEMS. ROBE RT BATTEN. No. 3 in F. No. 4 in G. If 3 'P‘ —_ -—_b_—_ I—— ::—'—: bi - ' wonos BY LONGFELLOW. No. 1 in D. No. 2 in E7. '—171‘p i J K L i I I I‘ I J 4L ._"'s.z__' _|._t\__|3_i_. ‘..,':‘_'|.g_:_g_.',_ i d_-_'-g§; ' ':__i__ roo'.g..fv9:— ' "' Come to me, 0 ye children! For I hear you at your play, And the questionsthnt perplex‘d me Have (15! Verse-) , Come to me, 0 ye children I For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ye open the Eastern windows That look towards the sun, Where thoughts are singing swallows, And the brooks of morning run. _ In your hearts are the birds and sunshine, In your thoughts the brooklet's ﬂow, But in mine is the wind c-fAutunin And the ﬁrst fall of the snow. Copyright, 1905, by BOOSEY & Co. BOOSEY & 00., 9, East Seventeenth Street, New York, and 295, Regent Street, London, W. NEW SONGS BY CEIJEBRHTED COMPOSERS. PRICE so CENTS EACH. Sung by MADAME CLARA BUTT. MY AWFOLK. LAURA G. LEMON. No. 4 in G. _?n_ WORDS Ev WILFRID MILLS. No. I in DlZ. ’_._:i;,,—: 5; izv“ No. 2 in Ell. __——:_-I2: Ii I i 171 iiiﬁ I ii I [III 1 g 1 ‘i1 -:-I J 1: I : nillzli i_L v I .4. .5. _d. 1. ae my hame I wander; But stillmy thoughts re - turn To my ain folk 0 - wer yonder, In the I i .1Qd d ll .4 (mt Verse.) Far frae my hame I wander ; But still my th , ghts return To my ain folk ower yonder, In the sheiling by the burn. I see the easy ingle, And the mist abuiie the brae: And joy and sadness mingle, As I list some auld-warid lay. And it’s oh I but I'm longing for my ain folk Tho’ they be but lowly, puir, and plain folk: I am far beyond e sea, But my heart will ever be At hame in clear auld Scotlan wi’ my ain folkl Copyright, 1904-, by BOOSEY & Co. Sung by Madame CLARA BUTT. MY TIEASURE. MATTHIAS BARR. JOAN TREVALSA. No. x in F. No. 2 in G. No. 3 in A. i I ‘A -\ -1 ii’ l\\\ I J 1 P vs V 0 CA- Ir I j On - ly a baby small,Dropp'd from the skies; Only a baby small, Dropp’d from the skies; Only a laughing face, Two sunny eyes; Copyright, 1903, by BOOSEY & CO. I d On - ly a laughiiigface,'I‘wo sun-ny eyes; Only two cherry lips, One chubby nose ; Only two little hands, Ten little toes. (is! Verse.) Sung by Miss EVANGELINE FLORENCE and Madame BLANCHE MARCHESI. THE SWEETDO7 THE YEAR. wonos BY , Music BY KATHARINE TYNAN HINKSON. ALICIA ADELAIDE NEEIDHAM. No. I in BlZ. No.2 in C. 0 ,- L I i ‘bi. 4- ’ M lsll ﬁn I Ii i Vi ll - i I 5 K I Kit’! i I. ~ i §ia4<£—a—H—«'—,r~—sd+I-4-—.i~a—~+J:w4-+e4——d-l+—L':E:E:zd:h No. 3 in D. ‘P’ I l V a Be-cause it is the sweet 0' the year, the sweet o’ the year, There'swhite andyellowon (ist Verrz.) Because it is the sweet o the year, There's white and yellow on vale and hill, The blackbird sings at his darling’s ear, He has gotten a new gold bill 1 Copyright, 1904-, by BOOSEY 8:. Co. When birds are merry and have good cheer, And roses nod in the garden bow’r, Oh, then it is the sweet 0’ the year, And love and the world in ﬂowerl Sung by Miss LOUISE DALE. IF I BUILT A WORLD FOR YOU. MUSIC BY LIZA LEHMANN. No.3in F. 1 WORDS BY HERBERT FORDWYCH, No. x in C. No. 2 in Ell. -4- i i L .g. 9 7° Iii:\4§4I§J\I_ ‘*.l iv 5 la‘ 1’ i\ Ni ' .' I i l L P_l—l: §}%:‘£-4=—A~r+4 —r—+~——s—1~.+d—~—.—i—a . ———t——r—F If I built a world for you,dear, If I built aworld for you,——- Iwould make the land of (irt Vern.) If I built a world for you, clear, If I built a world for you,- I would make the land of popcorn, And the sea. of morning dew. I would make the breeze of whispers Of lovers as they woo,- And the rose should live for ever In the world I built for you. Copyright, 1904. by BOOSEY & Co. Dedicated, by Sfecialpemtisrian, to H.R.H. PRINCESS HENRY OF BA TTENBERG. Sung by Mr. IVOR FOSTER. THE LIFEBOAT MEN. WORDS BY MUSIC BY F. E. WEATHERLY. STEPHEN ADAMS. No. 1 in 1312. No. 2 in C. No. 3 in D. I’ I’ 1 l ‘I i i J 5: B E‘ x IL M I I . I‘ I I I K I WWI ‘J . — r _ V 0 For it’s Out they go when the sig-nal comes, Out from the thund'ring shores, 'Tisn't the pay that When the wild wind blows by day or night, And you are safe at home, Are you thinking then of the Lifeboat men Watching the hungry foam Quitting the toil that gives them bread, Leaving their babes and wives, Ready to go when the word is said, Ready to give their lives. For its out they go when the signal comes, Out from the thv.ind'ring shores, 'Tisn’t the pay that makes them stay Gripping the straining oars; It's the Spirit of Love from I-Ieav’n above, Working in what they do ; Think of them, then, women and men, And pray for the Lifeboat crew. Copyright, 1904-, by BOOSEY & Co. Sung by Miss ADA CROSSLEY, and Mr. GERVASE ELWES. NOW SLEEPS THE CRIMSON PETAL. MUSIC BY ROGER QUILTER. No. 3 in GE. I’.- f:\ i\ I; i (is! Verse.) wonos BY TEN NYSON. No. x in El). No. 2 in F. L 1- i' E 1 I I I _'.__._. _,K;.i.._._ __'_._:_ \./ _ white ; Nor waves the cypress in the pa.-lace Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white ; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold ﬁn in the poiphyry font: The ﬁre-ﬂy wakens : waken ou with me. Copyright, 1904-, by BOOSEY & Co, (Lt! Verse.) Sung by Miss LOUISE DALE. and Mr. H. LANE WILSON. INDIAN DESERT SONG. MUSIC BY AMY WOODFORDE'FINDEN. No. 2 in G Minor. WORDS BY LAURENCE HOPE. No. 1 in E Minor. _’_j. A i\J\l .4-i .1 4:1’. in . - agraig iini - ' xx V’-d-T am waiting in th des—ert,look-ing out towards the sun- set, And counting ev-'ry I am waiting in the desert, looking out towards the sunset, And counting every moment llll we meet; . I am waiting by the marshes and I tremble and I listen Till the soft sands thrill beneath your coming feet. Copyright, 1903, by BOOSEY Si. Go. (is! Verse.) Sung by Miss ADA CROSSLEY. CUPID AT.TIIE FERRY. MUSIC BY EDWARD GERMAN. No. 3 in A. WORDS BY CARYL BATTERSBY. No. 1 in F. l _ .'T 4 "—r 4. A is Hi! If K KI ‘T1 __C r Uri T‘ i I K '7‘ I’ I’ I I I I1’ I‘ I g j . R ﬂ l P P t : d d I - — ‘,9 r :- Cupid at the (er-i-y cried : “Who with me will go. . . . Where beyond the ﬂowingtide Lovers’ garlands (is! Verse.) Cupid at the ferry cried : ' “ Who with me will go Where beyond the ﬂowing tide Lovers’ garlands blow? Fairy songs are sounding there. Fairy breezes play; Leave, 0 leave this world of care, Lovers, come away !" Ah 1 Ho 1 lovers, ho 1 H01 ho 5 say who will go Where the zephyrs of Loveland blow ‘, Say who will go Where light the zephyrs of Loveland blow l Copyright, 1904-, by BOOSEY & Co. BOOSEY & CO., 9, East Seventeenth Street, New York, and 295, Regent Street, London, W.
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Creator: Slade, Caroline E.
Date: February 11, 1866
Text: Vassar Female College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. February 11 1866 My Dear Father & Mother I enjoy writing home very much but I should like it better if I had something interesting to write about so that I might have the satisfaction when they are finished that they ware worth reading but that cant be helped so must endured like writing Compositions we have them for the first time tomorrow I have mine done, the subject English language but it is a very small thing in my opinion some of the girls...
Show moreVassar Female College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. February 11 1866 My Dear Father & Mother I enjoy writing home very much but I should like it better if I had something interesting to write about so that I might have the satisfaction when they are finished that they ware worth reading but that cant be helped so must endured like writing Compositions we have them for the first time tomorrow I have mine done, the subject English language but it is a very small thing in my opinion some of the girls cried all yesterday afternoon but I do not intend to dothat if it is hard work for me to get them done Prof Buckham asked Laura why she objected to writing them and she told him there was a lack of time and ideas. It is really warm to day it seems like a spring It was day It is so warm still there is considerable snow on the ground it snowed all day Thursday it is good sleighing we have been once but going with thirty girls and a teacher is a style I do not fancy and don't care to try It again I think the drives here will be beautiful in summer they are so much more hilly here than at home Last Tuesday evening the President Invited the students to his parlors we did not care much about going as we knew what It would be before we went but as we had never been we concluded to go It was rather stupid no refreshments and no gentlemen but a good deal of dress some of the girls asked Miss Lyman if they should wear gloves she said certainly but we had none to wear so we went without nearly all had themon but I did not care. Miss Lyman wore black velvet, white kids and elegant laces Mr & Mrs Raymond stood in one corner and shook hands with the girls as they came in and went out, the warning bell rang and we dispersed to several rooms feeling tired and rather cross I have just come up from chapel the sermon was on work Dr Raymond has three daughters and several sons but the sons are never seen here his eldest daughter is engaged her gentleman was at Chapel this after- noon he is quite an ordinary looking young man I am surprised one of his daughters should be engaged he is so very exact and particular There are 3SO students here now and there thirty more coming this week I think that the college will be full by that time the dining room is very nearly full now. Mamie asked some time since if our apples froze they did not we have bought a peck and a half since we have been here they cost 40 cts for every half pock but sometimes wewant something so badly that we cannot resist the temptation Perhaps Father will think that he bought us paper enough for us not to have had any more well he did but we just had two or three sheets of this to give you an idea how the college looks also this photograph though I do not think you can gat a very good idea from these. About the verses, Mother you can get tho whole verse or just the name or promise as you choose. We have a Bible Class every evening most, the subject there is to recite texts on the efficacy of prayer. I think that bill of M. Buffinton's was enormous but she did a good deal of work and bought considerable trimmings. Has that bill ever been paid at the Hoop skirt store we took them to try and I forgot to say anything about it. The next time you write please send some of that elastic in One month has gone only five more Elisabeth Haviland has not been out to see us I think it is rather funny I thought when I first came that we should not have exereise enough but I have given up that we have to go up sixty stairs to get to room from walking, besides trudging up and down all day Hoping you are all well I remain your loving daughter Carrie (Careliae E. Slade)
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Creator: Taylor, Lea D.
Date: December 02, 1900
Text: Sunday evening. (Dec. 2, 1900) Dear papa, I wish you could have been here today and heard all the nice things I heard said about you. I went up to dinner with Miss Gail Shepard, a Des Moines girl, who has heard you lecture- and who thinks a good deal of you. She came down to call on me twice and I went up to see her and we missed each other each time, so at last she invited me to dinner. She is a very nice, and very interesting, girl. Then I met the minister, who preached today, Dr. Riggs of...
Show moreSunday evening. (Dec. 2, 1900) Dear papa, I wish you could have been here today and heard all the nice things I heard said about you. I went up to dinner with Miss Gail Shepard, a Des Moines girl, who has heard you lecture- and who thinks a good deal of you. She came down to call on me twice and I went up to see her and we missed each other each time, so at last she invited me to dinner. She is a very nice, and very interesting, girl. Then I met the minister, who preached today, Dr. Riggs of Auburn Theological Seminary and he knew Uncle Will and had heard a good deal about you. He was very nice indeed. Then I also met a Miss Clara Reed, an extremely nice Senior, who said that you stayed at her home in Springfield, Mass. when you were attending some convention there. So you see I felt very proud to be your daughter- Oh, and then I was at a little tea given by the Christian Association, and the Pres- of "Christians" said that if ever you came here she wanted to have you surely speak before the Association. It is only two weeks until Christmas, and I expect the time will fly. A good many of the Chicago girls are going home - and they are going to try and have a car to themselves. It will be hard not to get on and go along with. Perhaps you will see me turning up there some fine morning. Vacation begins Friday noon, Dec. 21 and it will be very convenient because then I can get the one o'clock train to New York - which gets there at about three. Grandma told me I had better have my trunk expressed as it was cheaper. Louise has a small one which she is not going to use, so I guess I will take that, as she is willing. I think it would be nice if mama could invite Louise and Gertrude Keith down to lunch some day during vacation. I know they would love to go. A Mrs. Albert O. Cheney and Miss Cheney from town, called on me the other day when I was not at home. Will you ask mama to write me very soon, who they are. If she knows, as I shall have to return the call before Xmas- and would like to have some Idea as to why they called on me. The examination in history took place last Saturday and I ought to have taken my Greek History then. But I had no idea it had to be made up this year- and thought it would be much better to leave it until summer and take the examination in the Fall as I had about all I could manage now. But I found out that it must be taken this year or never, so X shall have to take it in June. I hate to have it hanging over me. I must stop now as it Is late. Papa, dear, I hope you aren't working too hard. I suppose that this Sunday the first services were held in the new building. How X should have liked to have been there and seen it. I hope that you had as glorious a day as we have had- Remember me to those in the house and give lots of love to Mama, Helen and Katharine- and keep a good big portion for your- self- From Your ever loving- Lea. (Lea D. Taylor, '04)
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Creator: Washburn, Lucy M.
Date: February 23, 1871
Text: Vassar. Feb. 23- 1871. Daar friend Alvah. Really I think there is danger that I shall never receive another letter from you, unless I answer your last without much more delay. So - Vassar to Ann Arbor, greeting.1 Thanks for all the descriptions, and the photo. I enclose a very poor picture of our college building - the best I could find at the time I bought it. It will save counting all the windows and doors for detailed description. Yesterday our flag was at half mast on account of the death...
Show moreVassar. Feb. 23- 1871. Daar friend Alvah. Really I think there is danger that I shall never receive another letter from you, unless I answer your last without much more delay. So - Vassar to Ann Arbor, greeting.1 Thanks for all the descriptions, and the photo. I enclose a very poor picture of our college building - the best I could find at the time I bought it. It will save counting all the windows and doors for detailed description. Yesterday our flag was at half mast on account of the death of the lady principal. She had been failing for some time, yet her death was a shock to the college. Shedied within an hour or so of tea time. The dining hall that evening was almost oppressive in its quiet - I would not have believed that its usual clatter could be hushed to such stillness. She must have been a gifted woman. Even the girls who disliked her always showed admiration for her ability. They often tell me I do not know how different the college was under her active supervision. Since I came, she only appeared In chapel once, and at the table two or three times. I heard her address the girls perhaps three times, and could easily believe the stories they told of her remarkable gifts. With this exception, we have jogged on quietly through the winter. I wonder what a dozen Ann Arbor boys would do transplanted to ouratmosphere of such propriety and order. Often I would be glad enough to see a little mischief, if only it could be funny enough to be worth having. The tame pranks that are all our most irrepessible girls can execute, are hardly enough to elicit a smile. So you are "twenty two years old - almost a quarter of a century I "cannot Imagine how aged you feel"—— You "believe lain twenty six. Am I not"——— Now isn't that cool? Indeed! Do you suppose I will condescend to a word in reply to such a speech? As for the Ann Arbor ladies, I wish them success, and am inclined to add the wish that I were with them. I want to see them do finely, and so answer the manifold objections that have been made to admitting us to theuniversities. Only this afternoon, a very lovely girl was telling me how she had wished that she could enter there the moment the doors were open. Circumstances, however, kept her here. I am a little surprised at the proposition of ladles in your different departments - Law, one — Medical, twenty - Did I ever tell you that I believe my Mother would be glad to see me a physician? I am sorry myself, occasionally, that I have no taste In that direction - I am pleased to see women taking places in this field - surely an appropriate one - but if I were a man, the medical profession seems to me the last I should choose - certainly being a woman does notmake It more attractive, in the present state of public opinion. Don't misunderstand me - I am a physician's daughter, and am proud of the noble profession - But I have no bent in that direction myself. I am glad you are so well pleased with your studies, and hope you will meet with full success. Thank you for counting me on your fingers, among your friends. Do you indeed remember the talk we had at the gate of my home, so long ago? 1 had supposed of course that was among the forgotten things to you - I remember I was very much in earnest - no more so than I should be now, if I began to speak on the samesubject. Time has not made me feel a firm religious faith a less vital thing. I wonder how or where I shall see you next summer - You speak of returning to Ann Arbor - where I certainly shall not be - Will you not be at home during the vacation? As for myself, my plans are too indefinite to be called plans at all. I presume I shall visit my friends a month or so after commencement, and then go west. As for our old acquaintances, I hear from Miss Wright, of course. She is working quite hard in school, and I fear that her health is by no means perfect - Agnes is well, and writes me long letters - Ada Lake is, I suppose, at Titusville, as she and Orville were on the point of going there some weeks since. Yourbeloved old friend. Prof. Homer P. has given up preaching, and settled down permanently in charge of an academy at St. Johnsbury, Vt. Dont you envy the boys and girls on whom his glasses will beam? Belle Arigill I see every day. She has been very cordial to me, and we have become good friends. I like her for herself, as well as for the kindness she showed me when 1 came here, a stranger. I have just noticed that it is "about the first of March" that you speak of leaving Ann Arbor. So if you are elsewhere, I can only trust to the postmaster's forwarding this letter and, as the Irishman said - "If you don't get this, let me know." I shall be glad to hear from you, whenever youfeel disposed to write. Remember me to Eddie Mark, if you meet him. Did you ever know the Hayman boys, Wayne and Frank, who used to live at Fredonia, and are now both at A.A. sophs I believe? Frank used to be a crony of my brother Charlie's, and I was quite pleased with his appearance last summer. I should like to know how he stands in college. Sincerely your friend Lucy M. Washburn.
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Creator: Shipp, Margaret M.
Date: 21 March 1902

Creator: Shipp, Margaret M.
Date: 25 January 1902

Creator: Griffin, Charles, Miller, John, Campbell, Mildred
Date: [After 1950]
Text: JAMES FOSDICK BALDWIN 1871 - 1950 James Fosdick Baldwin was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1871. He died in Poughkeepsie, New York, on Thurs- day, Qctober the fifth, 1950. During forty-four of the seventy-nine intervening years, he was a member of the Vassar College faculty in the department of history. Hence it is to a fellow gildsman of long service that we now pay respect and honor. As Mr. Baldwin, setting about his most recent task of writing a history of the college in its modern era...
Show moreJAMES FOSDICK BALDWIN 1871 - 1950 James Fosdick Baldwin was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1871. He died in Poughkeepsie, New York, on Thurs- day, Qctober the fifth, 1950. During forty-four of the seventy-nine intervening years, he was a member of the Vassar College faculty in the department of history. Hence it is to a fellow gildsman of long service that we now pay respect and honor. As Mr. Baldwin, setting about his most recent task of writing a history of the college in its modern era, sifted with trained eye and hand the boxes and volumes that constitute the college archives, - Presidents' cor- respondence, faculty minutes, committee reports, reports of departmental chairmen, and old files of the Miscellan News that recounted gala skits of Founder's Day, Ee must often have run across his own name and his own handwriting, for he had a zest for life and was ever an active partic- ipant in all that was going on about him. His courses in English history introduced him to large numbers of stu- dents and his circle of friends and acquaintances among alumnae was wide. His interest in every part of the col- lege was marked, - one could mention for instance certain of our library treasures, rare for a college of this size that are here because of his scholarly discernment and his initiative. Engrossing as was the campus to him, however, Mr. Baldwin did not forget that there were pleasures and obligations outside of it, that he was a resident of the town of Poughkeepsie, a citizen of Dutchess County and of his state and nation. He took a lively interest in public affairs to which his approach was that of a humanitarian and a liberal. Better also than some of us, he was able to transfer the field of his specialized interests to the scene at hand. Hence the student of constitutional origins in a distant age and place found ways of making Dutchess County origins exciting to his friends and fel- low townsmen. He held office repeatedly in the Dutchess C t Hi t ri i t ° l f i oun y s o cal Soc e y, and in 9h2 was o fic ally honored with the title, Dutchess Count Historian. Other community activities enlisted His support. His lifelong interest in music, found expression in his work as an organist in one of Poughkeepsie's churches, a post which he filled for years. After his retirement many of these interests were continued. Indeed, there was true gallantry in the way Jmnes Baldwin set about to explore Q 28 JAMES FOSDICK BALDWIN (Continued) the resources within himself in order to make his retirement a period both useful and happy. And it was a source of pleasure to his friends that neither old_ age nor adversity dulled his salty wit nor dimmed the twinkle in his eye. But beyond these memories left with friends and assoc- iates, James Fosdick Baldwin in his early manhood created a more lasting memorial through his contribu- tion to historical scholarship in a highly selective field, that of the Ehglish Medieval Constitution. His book on the Kin 's Council in En land Durin the Middle A es published §n Uxford In I§I§ was Hailed By scholarly journals on both sides of the Atlantic as charting new ground and superseding previous treatments of the sub- ject. It led to his election at once to membership in the Royal Historical Society, and gave him a place among the best scholars in the field in his own country. Even now after almost forty years it still remains a recognized authority. Hence, as Poughkeepsie notes the passing ofia good citizen and neighbor, and Vassar Col- lege a friend and colleague, medieval historians in both Europe and America record the passing of a respected member of their fraternity, the author of The King's Council. Charles Griffin John Miller Mildred Campbell XIII - 1&3
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