SERIES I: ETHEL\u00a0MARGUERITE\u00a0DE LONG ZANDE
\nFolder 36.\u00a0 Letters to her family. June-July 1917.\u00a0\u00a0 24 items.<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cSaturday morning dears, & time for me to get up and make the fire, for sure it\u2019s seven o\u2019clock (by your time)….\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSunday afternoon in Pinevile\u2014just to tantalizingly near to P.M.\u00a0 Dearest dearest Mother\u2014and Helen\u2014I wonder what this day has been to you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is Wednesday Evening, in the lovely hour after supper…\u201d<\/p>\n
Thurs. P.M.\u00a0 \u201cDearest Twos\u2014It\u2019s thundering & about to storm & I must read Current Opinion…\u201d<\/p>\n
Monday Night.\u00a0 \u201cI must tell you how Baby prayed \u201cDod bess Damma…\u201d\u00a0 [incomplete letter]<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, my dearests, this is Monday morning & though it is 7.30 I am still doing nothing!\u201d<\/p>\n
Wednesday. \u201cDears, dears, dears\u2014Why did fortune deal us so unkind a blow as to part us this summer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dears\u2014Wednesday no Thurs. night, so you may get this on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday Evening.\u00a0 \u201cDearest Two\u2014The moon is just rising over a wonderful wall of living green.\u00a0 I have never seen Pine Mt. so lovely\u2014the chetnuts ripened & white…\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDearest Lyme Ladies\u2014I wish I had something lovely to send you…\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday.\u00a0 \u201cDearest Mother & Helen\u2014A gray windy day\u2014& you know how lovely the view down the valley is from the Pole House hill. \u201c<\/p>\n
[July 4, 1917]\u00a0 \u201c3 visitors in today.\u00a0 Night of the Fourth.\u201d<\/p>\n
[July 5, 1917]\u00a0 \u201cHere comes Baby swinging up the path from Far House.\u00a0 Now she is at the door.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDearest darling Arabella\u2014when you go put to bed by that pluckiest of women\u2014A.M. de Long\u2014did it help the pain, and are you better now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dears\u2014my dears\u2014They were beautiful letters I had from you last night…\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dears\u2014A chicken fry is just over, at the Pole House, in honor of Alice Batchelder…\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dears\u2014Here is a check & I hope it comes soon enough\u2014for your needs…\u201d<\/p>\n
Tuesday.\u00a0 \u201cDear darlings\u2014I\u2019ve been to a Republican primary rally today & heard about 25 speakers (in the H. in the W.)\u00a0 Do you wonder that I feel a little exhausted?\u201d<\/p>\n
Early Monday Morning. \u201cSuch a lovely day yesterday!\u00a0 Mr. Bradley is here again…\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Precious Pair\u2014How are you by now\u2014as the children say?\u201d<\/p>\n
Thurs. Evg.\u00a0 \u201cDearest Twos\u2014So this will get to you at Fisher\u2019s Island\u2014and aren\u2019t you up and coming to go there…\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDearest Mother & Helen\u2014Of course I shall soon be hearing from Fishers Island, for haven\u2019t you been there 2 whole days?\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday.\u00a0 \u201cDearest Arabella\u2014I have just written Aunt Ida a birthday letter…\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday 2 P.M.\u00a0 \u201cMy dears\u2014This is a sockdolager of a hot day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SERIES I: ETHEL\u00a0MARGUERITE\u00a0DE LONG ZANDE Folder 36.\u00a0 Letters to her family. June-July 1917.\u00a0\u00a0 24 items. \u201cSaturday morning dears, & time for me to get up and make the fire, for sure it\u2019s seven o\u2019clock (by your time)….\u201d \u201cSunday afternoon in Pinevile\u2014just to tantalizingly near to P.M.\u00a0 Dearest dearest Mother\u2014and Helen\u2014I wonder what this day has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7583,"menu_order":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7914","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n