{"id":7903,"date":"2014-03-13T21:17:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitright.pmss.net\/?page_id=7903"},"modified":"2014-03-16T16:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T20:00:52","slug":"de-long-zande-papers-folder-31-letters-to-her-family-july-december-1915","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=7903","title":{"rendered":"de LONG &#8211; ZANDE PAPERS: Series I &#8211; Folder 31. Letters to her family.  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Lord, August 7, 1915]<\/p>\n<p>Fri.\u00a0 \u201cMy dears\u2014I feel like a sheepkilling dog\u2014it\u2019s so <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">long<\/span> since I\u2019ve written you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">awful<\/span> hot day, dearest Mother, &amp; I\u2019m taking a little rest&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tues.\u00a0 \u201cMy first night in the lovely new hourse!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a much despised telegram\u2014resrted to by every member of the de Long family when the pleasure of rural life is great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friday Night.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAnd <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what<\/span>\u00a0is to be yr. new address in Norwich town&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell\u2014dearest two\u2014I can\u2019t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ree<\/span>collect whether you are at Rockport or South Dennis&#8230;\u201d [<i>letter is torn but complete.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cDear Mother\u2014I am thinking how your birthday is coming&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see I don\u2019t aim to have a mail go out without something from me to you&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDearest lady, I am not surprised to hear that you are plucky&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Postmarked Pine Mountain, Ky., October 5, 1915.\u00a0 Addressed to Helen care of Miss Eunice Gulliver, Norwich Town, Connecticut.\u00a0 \u201cMy dearest Helen\u2014So you at\u00a0 [<i>sic<\/i>] your dear Gullivers\u2019 this Sunday!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn my way to Louisville Chicago, Cincinnati!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t know how fascinating the world is to me, dear two, when I make such a flying excursion as this!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dear Mother &amp; Helen\u2014I wish I could convey to you an impression of the utter stillness &amp; beauty of this lovely day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friday. \u201cDearest Two\u2014I am sitting in the station at Frankfort&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Arabella: November 15]\u00a0 \u201cIf it were only two hours earlier, dearest of mothers, this would be the coziest\u00a0room.\u201d\u00a0 [Enclosures:\u00a0 letter from Erica T(horp).\u00a0 Article from Christian Endeavor World, August 19, 1915]<\/p>\n<p>Apparent fragment.\u00a0 \u201cWhat was cousin Wesley\u2019s message to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday A.M.\u00a0 \u201cDearest Two, I wish you c\u2019d have been with us for Thanksgiving&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>December 3, 1915.\u00a0 \u201cMy dears\u2014Just a line must go to you every mail, at least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cDearest of Mothers,\u2014Your letter was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dear<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c10 P.M. of a snowy stormy cold night.\u00a0 All is well\u2014warm fires within&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBulletin no. 13\u2014All well in our family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the beautifullest day in the world\u2014snow, snow, delicately caught in pine needle cups, lying like blossoms on rhododendron bushes, drifted down the sombre hills&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">aims<\/span> to be a bulletin\u2014but s\u2019posing it should arrive on Xmas\u2014why then it would be a Christmas letter!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lovely<\/span> Christmas as this was, my dears!\u00a0 You would have liked it through and through&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SERIES I: ETHEL\u00a0MARGUERITE\u00a0DE LONG ZANDE Folder 31.\u00a0 Letters to her family.\u00a0 July-December 1915.\u00a0\u00a0 31 items. \u201cMy dearest Mother I have thought of you so constantly today&#8230;\u201d \u201cDearest Mother &amp; Helen\u2014the tiniest of cunning little kittens are in my lap.\u201d \u201cMy dearest Mother &amp; Helen\u2014It has been raining &amp; the greenness of the mountains&#8230;\u201d \u201cDearest Mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7583,"menu_order":31,"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-7903","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.1.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>de LONG - ZANDE PAPERS: Series I - Folder 31. 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