Folder 15.\u00a0 Letters to her family.\u00a0 November-December 1908.\u00a0 15 items.<\/b><\/p>\n
[November 1, 1908] 1209 Park Avenue, Indianapolis, Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cMy dear own folks,\u2014November first is as mild and as sweet as one could wish, and I, who was up only long enough to eat breakfast…\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday Morning.\u00a0 \u201cMy dearest Mother, Your last letter told of a snowstorm\u2014the first of the season\u2014and as I answer it I am sitting here by a wide open window!\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday Evening.\u00a0 \u201cMother dear,\u2014I am spending the last hour of the day with you…\u201d [scrap of brown fabric attached to letter]<\/p>\n
\u201cDearest Mother and Helen\u2014I\u2019ve just finished a long letter to Antoinette, who failed to get my last one, and wrote in great anxiety to know what was the matter…\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday Morning.\u00a0 \u201cDearest Mother\u2014This is in school\u2014before my classes begin…\u201d<\/p>\n
1209 Park Avenue\u2014Ind\u2014Thanksgiving Evening.\u00a0 \u2018Dearest Mother and Sister, Five minutes ago I got in the house from the Thanksgiving party…\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dear father\u2014Tomorrow is your birthday, and you should have had a letter for it on the very day, if I could have managed it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 \u201cMy very dear ones\u2014Have you been feasting on cold turkey today, and wonderful cakes out of Harper\u2019s Bazar\u00a0 [sic] (I\u2019m de-lighted [sic]at your hint of a box for me…\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday \u201cMy very dears\u2014This has been a lovely day\u2014even though it had some busy hours in it\u2014and now at the end of it, I am going to write you a little letter….\u201d<\/p>\n
Dearest Mother\u2014Here I\u2019ve been codgering my brains for more than a half hour…\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday Night.\u00a0 \u201cDearest Mother and Helen\u2014I aim to write you short, joint letters from now till Christmas time!\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday Afternoon.\u00a0 \u201cThere is just a five minute intermission between starting out for the Fletcher Sanatorium where we are going for tea\u2014and wrapping up the Christmas packages…\u201d<\/p>\n
Wednesday Morning.\u00a0 \u201cMy own very dear ones\u2014Merry Christmas! and a heartful of love to you!\u201d<\/p>\n
Christmas Evening 8.30 \u201cMy very dear Father, Mother, and Helen, I have left the Stones and their five guests in the library, and come off to write to you by the grate in my room.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDearest Mother and Helen\u2013I hesitated for a minute, trying to decide whom to send this too[sic]\u2014and then I thought that in the holidays it must go to both of you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Folder 15.\u00a0 Letters to her family.\u00a0 November-December 1908.\u00a0 15 items. [November 1, 1908] 1209 Park Avenue, Indianapolis, Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cMy dear own folks,\u2014November first is as mild and as sweet as one could wish, and I, who was up only long enough to eat breakfast…\u201d Sunday Morning.\u00a0 \u201cMy dearest Mother, Your last letter told of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7583,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7804","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n