SERIES III: ARABELLA BRAY DE LONG
\nFolder 8.\u00a0 Letters, October-November 1919.\u00a0 40 items.<\/b><\/p>\n
October 1, 1919.\u00a0 [a piece of purple fabric is clipped to this letter]\u00a0 \u201cMy darling: How glad I am for the little note of assurance which came to-night…\u201d<\/p>\n
October 2, 1919.\u00a0 Thursday.\u00a0 \u201cMy very precious Child: No letter to-night, I do hope that you are just resting…\u201d<\/p>\n
October 3, 1919.\u00a0 Friday.\u00a0 \u201c9.20 o\u2019clock. Ethel gone to bed, Luigi typewriting, type bro\u2019t down stairs to-night, Berto sleeping sweetly.\u201d<\/p>\n
[October 5, 1919]\u00a0 Sunday 11 o\u2019clock p.m.\u00a0 \u201cMy beloved Child: You know how it is here on Sunday…\u201d<\/p>\n
October 6, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy very darling:\u00a0 I Thank you for the dear little note I received to-night.\u201d<\/p>\n
October 7, 1919. \u00a0\u201cMy very precious Child:\u00a0 Dearest daughter Helen\u2014I am hoping to-night that you are comfortable…\u201d<\/p>\n
[October 8, 1919]\u00a0 \u201cWednesday, Eight o\u2019clock (evening) My very darling Child:\u00a0 I am wondering if no letter are coming to-night.\u201d<\/p>\n
[October 9, 1919]\u00a0 \u201cEleven o\u2019clock Thursday night\u00a0 Ethel and Luigi and Berto awake in their room…\u201d<\/p>\n
[October 10, 1919]\u00a0 \u201cFriday night\u201411.30 o’clock.\u00a0 My precious Love: I know that I must not try to tell you all that happened to-day for it would take too long a time.\u201d<\/p>\n
[October 11, 1919]\u00a0 \u201cI rose early to go to breakfast with Miss Pettit and her guests at Big Log.\u201d<\/p>\n
[October 12, 1919]\u00a0 \u201cSunday\u201412\u20141919 Five thirty o\u2019clock. Ethel and baby upstairs, Luigi and Kitty in the kitchen Evelyn at the round table writing to Angela…\u201d<\/p>\n
October 14, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy very precious daughter Helen\u2014In parenthesis I will tell you, (why we did not send<\/span> receive your letters earlier…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c11 o\u2019clock, Friday Oct 17th \u00a0Too sleepy to write…\u201d<\/p>\n [Beginning seems to be\u00a0missing]\u00a0 \u201cIndeed we \u2018do like to know\u2019!!!\u00a0 Who are the Eastons?\u201d<\/p>\n October 19 [1919]\u00a0 Sunday.\u00a0 11.30 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 \u201cEthel went to bed 8.30, Luigi a few minutes after, leaving Leon and me, without, in Ethel\u2019s case even a good night…\u201d<\/p>\n October 20, 1919.\u00a0 Monday.\u00a0 \u201cMy very belovedest daughter Helen:\u00a0 It is good to hear from you again…\u201d<\/p>\n [October 22, 1919]\u00a0 \u201cEleven forty five Wensday [sic] night\u2014My own dearest child Helen: I am hoping that you have been fast asleep for at least two hours…\u201d<\/p>\n [October 24, 1919] \u201cDarling: It is ten o\u2019clock, Friday night I am sitting here in the living-room just sleepy, but not wanting to go to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n October 26 [1919]\u00a0 Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cwell my beloved: I am wishing that I had had an opportunity to write you earlier in the day…\u201d<\/p>\n October 27, 1919.\u00a0 Monday night.\u00a0 \u201cPrecious Child, my lovedest daughter Helen: Just think your Saturday and Sunday letter got here to-night and I am so happy to have them…\u201d<\/p>\n October 28, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy precious Child:\u00a0 another day gone and I am wondering if you are well…\u201d<\/p>\n October 29, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy very dearest: The mushrooms came, and are now reposing on a chair on the porch.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy very best beloved Child:\u00a0 It was indeed a delightful surprise…\u201d\u00a0 [This letter is missing at least one page; it almost seems to have been two letters sharing at least one common sheet. There are scraps of white fabric included with it.]<\/p>\n November 2, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cEleven o\u2019clock, Sunday night, my belovedest daughter Helen: Ethel said this morning \u2018O if we could only have Helen here\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n November 3, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy very darling Child:\u00a0 My, but it will be good, gooder, goodest<\/span> to see you…\u201d<\/p>\n November 6, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy very darling Child:\u00a0 Six weeks from to-morrow? Oh\u2014oh\u2014won\u2019t that be beautiful!!\u201d<\/p>\n November 7, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cTen thirty five o\u2019clock. Darling: my darling, six weeks, my but it seems as if I couldn\u2019t possibly wait.\u201d<\/p>\n November 9, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cSunday morning ten o\u2019clock Baby asleep on my bed…\u201d<\/p>\n November 10, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy very darling little Captain: Preciousest Helen, first let me tell you how distressed I have been…\u201d<\/p>\n November 13, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy own beloved Child:\u00a0 You would certainly be surprised…\u201d<\/p>\n November 13, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cWhy, pretty quick, I\u2019ll be writing November 18th\u00a0and I\u2019ll be thinking, only one more month…\u201d<\/p>\n November 14, 1919.\u00a0 8.45\u00a0 \u201cMy bestest darling Helen: I think your letter that came to-night is beautiful…\u201d<\/p>\n November 15, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cMy very longed for, precious Darling: The five weeks seem five years…\u201d<\/p>\n November 17, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cHow lovely lovely that the day was fine and you could go on that wonderful trip…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy own darling Child Helen\u2014It is not seven o\u2019clock and we are all thru\u2019 supper and Kitty is washing the dishes…\u201d<\/p>\n Sunday night.\u00a0 \u201cMy most precious Helen:\u00a0 Your jubilant letter that came last night is very precious…\u201d<\/p>\n Thursday.\u00a0 \u201cDarling, My Baby: And my brave little Captain too, I do hope that you are not too anxious…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor My Sweetheart Friday four\u00a0thirty o\u2019clock my beloved, and I have not had a chance to read those beautiful letters over yet…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy beloved, preciousest\u00a0child: It\u2019s late and Ethel has just gone to bed, trying to exact a promise from me not to write to you to-night, but you see, I just must…\u201d<\/p>\n November 25, 1919.\u00a0 \u201cAnd Thursday will be Thanksgiving Day my belovedest Helen child:\u00a0 Why you are a wonder!!!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SERIES III: ARABELLA BRAY DE LONG Folder 8.\u00a0 Letters, October-November 1919.\u00a0 40 items. October 1, 1919.\u00a0 [a piece of purple fabric is clipped to this letter]\u00a0 \u201cMy darling: How glad I am for the little note of assurance which came to-night…\u201d October 2, 1919.\u00a0 Thursday.\u00a0 \u201cMy very precious Child: No letter to-night, I do hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7583,"menu_order":110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n