{"id":8231,"date":"2014-03-14T13:54:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T17:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitright.pmss.net\/?page_id=8231"},"modified":"2014-03-16T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T22:06:22","slug":"de-long-zande-papers-series-iii-folder-7-letters-march-september-1919","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=8231","title":{"rendered":"de LONG \u2013 ZANDE PAPERS: Series III – Folder 7. Letters, March-September 1919."},"content":{"rendered":"

SERIES III: ARABELLA BRAY DE LONG
\nFolder 7.\u00a0 Letters, March-September 1919.\u00a0 42 items.<\/b><\/p>\n

The March and April letters are to Ethel; the August and September letters, to Helen.<\/i><\/p>\n

March 17, 1919. Monday.\u00a0 \u201c\u2019My dearly beloved and longed for\u2019 my darling child:\u00a0 Of course you are weary, weary and I am too, for I just can\u2019t bear to have you under such a strain…\u201d\u00a0 [to Ethel]<\/p>\n

March 19, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy precious love, dearest daughter Ethel: I find no words in which to express my love and joy and\u2014relief!!\u201d<\/p>\n

To think of it, to just hold it and say, \u2018Yes, Ethel wrote it with her own dear hand,\u2019 why beloved…\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDearest love, my Ethel Child\u201d<\/p>\n

April 6 [1919]. Sunday. Two-thirty o\u2019clock.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cApril 6th<\/span>\u00a0and how I am wondering and wondering if my lovely child and her precious baby are making preperations [sic] for a journey\u201d\u00a0 [to Ethel]<\/p>\n

April 10, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy children, most dear:\u00a0 I am sending you very many loving thoughts for this auspicious day…\u201d<\/p>\n

[August 28, 1919].\u00a0 Thursday evening. 7.30 o\u2019clock (our clock).\u00a0 \u201cLuigi gone over to see Leon, Ethel reading the School mail, Alberto fast asleep in his little bed, Arabella writing to her darlingest Helen child.\u201d<\/p>\n

August 29, 1919.\u00a0 Friday.\u00a0 \u201cMy precious little Captain: Oh, but it was delightful to hear directly from you thru\u2019 Miss Blackburn…\u201d<\/p>\n

[August 31, 1919]\u00a0 Seven o\u2019clock, Sunday night, just before supper.<\/p>\n

September 1, 1919. Seven thirty o\u2019clock. \u201cNo mail yet!!!! and I am \u2018just crazy\u2019 to see, to hear, my darling Helen\u2019s voice…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 2, 1919.\u00a0 8.35.\u00a0 \u201cNearly nine o\u2019clock, My very darlingest child: I shall have to race through a little note and send it on to you…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 3 [1919].\u00a0 5 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 \u201cDarling: I am holding Berto, who is fast asleep, in my arm, we are sitting in my room…\u201d<\/p>\n

[possibly September 4, 1919]\u00a0 [small slip]\u00a0 \u201cDid you take any nail scissors, by mistake?\u201d<\/p>\n

September 4, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cDearest child Helen: It\u2019s just nine o\u2019clock we\u2019ve finished eating the watermelon, Ann stayed and ate some with us…\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c12.15 Friday the 5th\u00a0of Sept. [1919] My precious \u201cSmall Child\u201d little Captain, Howdy:\u00a0 My bed is still unmade…\u201d<\/p>\n

[September 7, 1919] [small piece of paper with ivy leaf mounted on one side and four-leaf clover on the other]\u00a0 \u201cPicked Sunday September 7th, 1919 on the Zande estate, Pine Mountain Kentucky For my little Captain\u201d<\/p>\n

[possibly September 7, 1919].\u00a0 Sunday. 9.30 clock.\u00a0 \u201cMy beloved Child: As Leon said a minute or two ago, Tell her \u2018tomorrow will be Monday\u2019..<\/p>\n

September 8 [1919].\u00a0 Monday night.\u00a0 \u201cMy precious, precious Child: It was is<\/span> good indeed to have your two precious letters…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 9 [1919].\u00a0 Tuesday.\u00a0 Darling: Here it is a whole week since you bought Alberto\u2019s \u2018pretties\u2019 and they are not here.\u201d<\/p>\n

September 9, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cSeptember 1919.\u00a0 Tuesday the 9th<\/span>.\u00a0 My own beloved child:\u00a0 It is nearly ten o\u2019clock E. is asleep, but I tho\u2019t since Luigi is not here and is expected about twelve that I would continue to write to you…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 10, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy beloved Child:\u00a0 I am wondering \u2018where is my little Captain to-night?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

September 11, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy precious Child:\u00a0 How glad I shall be when you are out of all the hurry and turmoil…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 12, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy most beloved Child Helen:\u00a0 Baby is in his carriage, on the terrace…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 13, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy precious Love:\u00a0 Sleepiness is over-powering my senses…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 14, 1919.\u00a0 Sunday night.\u00a0 \u201cMy very darling\u2014How shall I convey to you my feelings of congratulation and pleasure, in your great joy and pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a precious, precious darling you are\u2014I am thinking of you every minute, but I can\u2019t write very much to-night just because of it…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 16, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy most preciousest: I did wish for a letter tonight though I did not dare to look for one…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 17 [1919]. Wednesday.\u00a0 \u201cMy own darling, beloved Child: Howdy? and I wonder what your hours are and are you through for the day?<\/p>\n

[September 17, 1919] Thursday night.\u00a0 \u201cHurrah, Two letters from my precious \u2018small child\u2019 you see, the letter you mailed on your arrival in Asheville came with the next day\u2019s letter.\u201d<\/p>\n

September 18, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cDarling daughter, I think that you will know how much we wanted you this morning when I tell you that our precious baby was baptized (Christened I rather like the word) this morning…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 19, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cNine thirty o\u2019clock.\u00a0 Ethel and Luigi about to retire to their room, Arabella thinking that she would like to write but waiting until there is some quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n

September 21, 1919.\u00a0 Eleven thirty, Sunday morning.\u00a0 \u201cTo my Darling: I went down to the P. [?] when I came up the bank, I was arrested, Miss Wright called from her window, asking if she might speak with me…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 22, 1919. \u201cMy dearest dear Love:\u00a0 The cuckoo is just striking the hour of twelve…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 23, 1919.\u00a0 9.30 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 \u201cMy darling\u2014Ethel is sitting in front of the fire nursing Berto who frightened us all by a strange little noise…\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat shall we do about Ethel\u2019s birthday?\u201d\u00a0 [this may have been part of another letter or a free-standing letter, but it has no salutation]<\/p>\n

September 24, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy very dearest Child Helen:\u00a0 It\u2019s just a few words to-night for I\u2019ve finished a long letter to Aunt Mary and the others…\u201d<\/p>\n

Wednesday night. 11 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 \u201cMy very precious darling:\u00a0 Since the house became quiet I\u2019ve been looking over the Literary Digest that Leon bro\u2019t…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 25, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cSix twenty o\u2019clock. Ethel and Kitty in the kitchen preparing supper, Luigi killing sheep, for the fair on Saturday…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 26, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy darling, darling Child:\u00a0 Here is the letter that I wrote you on my birthday returned to me because I addressed the envelope to Kentucky…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 28, 1919.\u00a0 Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cMy beloved Child:\u00a0 I have written every day, \u2018cept Saturdays ever since you went away…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 29, 1919.\u00a0 Monday.\u00a0 \u201cPrecious Child:\u00a0 This has been a long day, I wakened early and somehow the hours have seemed very long…\u201d<\/p>\n

September 30, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy most precious Child:\u00a0 No wonder I have had the blues, you\u2019ve been feeling so sick and poorly…\u201d<\/p>\n

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