SERIES I:\u00a0 ETHEL\u00a0DE LONG ZANDE.\u00a0 FOLDER CONTENTS.<\/b>
\n<\/b>Folder 1.\u00a0 Letters to her family.\u00a0 October 1888-circa 1899.\u00a0 17\u00a0 items.<\/b><\/p>\n
October 23, 1888.\u00a0 \u201cMy dear mamma, Would you be so obliging as to let me have a few chestnuts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Postmarked Peapack\u00a0Jul [illeg].\u00a0 Postmarked\u00a0 Newark, N.J. Jul 13 10 30 AM 91 Transit.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the train.\u00a0 Dear Mama,\u2014I got to the town where they pack the peas all right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday, 12th. Peapack, N.J.\u00a0 \u201cDear little Helen,\u2014Sister would like to have you here ever so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
July 12, 1891.\u00a0 \u201cDear Mama and Papa,\u2014 I wish you were up here with me for its so lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n
July 15, 1891.\u00a0 \u201cDear Mama,\u2014Yesterday afternoon Dave and I took a lovely drive.\u201d<\/p>\n
July 19, 1891.\u00a0 \u201cDear Mama,\u2014George arrived here safely with the stockings, candy and note.\u201d<\/p>\n
Postmarked Peapack Jul 23 N.J.\u00a0 July 22, 1891. \u201cDear little Helen,\u2014Sister did get your little letter and liked it very much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Postmarked Montclair NJ Jul 24 7 AM 1891 Rec\u2019d.\u00a0 July 23, 1891.\u00a0 \u201cDear Mama,\u2014I am writing this postal to you in the Peapack store…\u201d<\/p>\n
Evening, July 23, 1891.\u00a0 \u201cDear Mama,\u2014I haven\u2019t had a letter from you in a long time it seems to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
July [torn]\u00a0 \u201cDear Mama,\u2014Doesn\u2019t the tim [torn] Yesterday Dave was in the sulks all day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSeptember twelfth\u00a0\u00a0 My dear little Sister,\u2014Your lovely letter came just as we sat down to dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tuesday Evening.\u00a0 \u201cMy precious little Mother,\u2014Only a week from yesterday and I\u2019ll go down to the station to meet my dear little Mother and Grandma, and how glad I\u2019ll be to see you!\u201d<\/p>\n
[Helen:\u00a0 Sept. 9, 1898]\u00a0 \u201cMy dear dear little Mother,\u2014Well I think you are persuading yourself into the belief that Papa and I are your Grandpa and Grandma…\u201d<\/p>\n
[Helen: 1898]\u00a0 \u201cMy dear little Mother,\u2014Your very welcome postals\u00a0and letter have been most astonishingly numerous and of course have been thoroughly enjoyed by the de Long trio.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dears,\u2014It\u2019s impossible to write about all the beautiful new things that keep coming up her, and I\u2019m not going to try, but will come home with my notes…\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dear Homefolks,\u2014Well I have just about twenty minutes in which to write you a little letter, and tell you something about the way things go up here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SERIES I:\u00a0 ETHEL\u00a0DE LONG ZANDE.\u00a0 FOLDER CONTENTS. Folder 1.\u00a0 Letters to her family.\u00a0 October 1888-circa 1899.\u00a0 17\u00a0 items. October 23, 1888.\u00a0 \u201cMy dear mamma, Would you be so obliging as to let me have a few chestnuts.\u201d Postmarked Peapack\u00a0Jul [illeg].\u00a0 Postmarked\u00a0 Newark, N.J. Jul 13 10 30 AM 91 Transit. \u201cOn the train.\u00a0 Dear Mama,\u2014I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7583,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7586","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n