SERIES III: ARABELLA BRAY DE LONG
\nFolder 9.\u00a0 Letters, January-Late Spring 1920. 46 items.<\/b><\/p>\n
Saturday 1.15.\u00a0 Just a most loving greeting to my dearest, darlingest Helen child:\u00a0 I want to know too, how my little Captain is.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWouldn\u2019t you love to see our boy\u2019s face when he sees his mother?\u201d [scrap on Grand Hotel paper]<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019Geography\u2019 in Feb. Atlantic, excellent.\u201d [scrap on Grand Hotel paper]<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019Many thanks\u2019 for the paper, pencil and sissors [sic]\u201d\u00a0 [scrap on Grand Hotel paper]<\/p>\n
\u201cWednesday, mid afternoon.\u00a0 My precious Sweetheart: I am hoping that you are resting at this particular time…\u201d\u00a0 [on folded Grand Hotel paper]<\/p>\n
\u201cDearest and darlingest daughter Helen; I am hoping you are quite well this morning of February fifth 1920.\u201d<\/p>\n
Receipt.\u00a0 \u201c2\/6 Mrs Delong To be called for by Dr Smith\u201d<\/p>\n
Wednesday a.m.\u00a0 \u201cYou, you darlinest [sic] Captain don\u2019t you member [sic] how we used to call your our brave little Captain?\u201d<\/p>\n
[February 7, 1919]\u00a0 Saturday 3.30. \u201cSweetheart; It seems as if I\u2019d have to fly over to you and just say things instead of writing…\u201d<\/p>\n
[February 10, 1920]\u00a0 \u201cI am wondering when this will go out, perhaps not to-day.\u201d<\/p>\n
[February 12, 1920] Thursday p.m.\u00a0 \u201cPlease\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 darling mine; I never did receive Evelyn\u2019s letter…\u201d<\/p>\n
February 13 [1920]\u00a0 Friday.\u00a0 \u201cMy very darling; Since I must go out on the verandah in a few minutes, I am again compelled to write hurriedly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Monday night.\u00a0 \u201cSweetheart, Dearest love; I am ever sending you, and hoping always that you are well…\u201d<\/p>\n
[February 24, 1920] Tuesday night.\u00a0 \u201cAnd such a night! I hope you are comfortable, you darling love…\u201d<\/p>\n
February 26 [1920]\u00a0 Thursday.\u00a0 \u201cMy darling Sweetheart\u2014I think it must be about three o\u2019clock.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saturday night.\u00a0 \u201cMy very precious Sweetheart; I am so thrilled with the joy of hearing from you…\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVespers (time) Sunday evening Honey sweet; I do hope that you felt<\/span> the gladness in my heart…\u201d [Attached to this letter is a small red envelope \u201cLove From Bess\u201d containing a note to \u2018Aunt Bell\u2019 from Bess, dated February 22, 1920]<\/p>\n March 2 [1920]\u00a0 Tuesday.\u00a0 \u201cMy own Sweetheart; Darlint, how \u2018do you do\u2019, this windy March morning!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIsn\u2019t this a beauteous picture!\u00a0 And isn\u2019t this a delightful letter which I am sending you…\u201d [could be a fragment]<\/p>\n March 25, 1920.\u00a0 \u201cMy most beloved daughter Helen; Dearest little Captain in all the world…\u201d<\/p>\n March 28, 1920.\u00a0 Sunday.\u00a0 One o\u2019clock.\u00a0 \u201cMy sweetheart Helen; Greetings to you on this very beautiful day…\u201d<\/p>\n March 30, 1920.\u00a0 108 Montford\u00a0Avenue.\u00a0 \u201cHelen, beloved child; Though the clocks and my watch all proclaim the hour of eleven, and I \u2018spect that its high time for Arabella to close her eyes…\u201d<\/p>\n [April 3, 1920]\u00a0 Saturday evening.\u00a0 \u201cMy beloved, I am not going to try to write you an Easter letter, my heart is too full…\u201d<\/p>\n Friday night.\u00a0 \u201cMy precious Lambkin; I must tell you about the beautiful drive we had this afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n Monday evening.\u00a0 \u201cSweetheart; How I do love you my most precious child, and how sorry I am to know of your indispositions…\u201d<\/p>\n Saturday, five o\u2019clock.\u00a0 \u201cMy love, my love I am so anxious and O, so grieved, and sorry…\u201d<\/p>\n Monday morning.\u00a0 \u201cMy precious darling, I am so much relieved to have heard from you this morning…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy most precious child Helen; My heart is sad because you are so miserably ill…\u201d<\/p>\n April 18 [1920] \u201cHelen, my sweetheart child, It is four thirty o\u2019clock, this Sunday evening.\u201d<\/p>\n Friday. One o\u2019clock.\u00a0 \u201cDarlint; Howdy, to you, I am hoping that you are quite recovered…\u201d<\/p>\n Wednesday.\u00a0 6 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 \u201cSweetheart; Here is just a loving howdy to you I am hoping that you got home all safe and sound…\u201d<\/p>\n Friday morning.\u00a0 10.20.\u00a0 \u201cMy own precious child; If all is well, I shall see you to-morrow…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMayday morning\u2014 At 353 Hillside Street, My most precious love, darling daughter Helen; Since you and Dr. Smith have issued a decree that I must not, shall not go to you. I must resort to pen…\u201d<\/p>\n Friday afternoon, Arab is sitting on the porch Miss Cushman and Miss Copeland My own dearest love Helen; I have just read your morning\u2019s letter…\u201d<\/p>\n May 3, 1920. \u201cMy love, dearest love, Helen; It seems a long, long time since I saw your sweet strong face…\u201d<\/p>\n May 4, 1920. Tuesday morning.\u00a0 \u201cMy precious Love; I think that you realize just how my heart is longing for you…<\/p>\n \u201cSaturday afternoon and the fifteenth of bonnie May in the year nineteen hundred & twenty.\u00a0 And Arabella? well she is missing the lovely afternoons spent with her treasure, lovely Helen…\u201d<\/p>\n May 16, 1920.\u00a0 Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 \u201cDarling, my own most precious Helen; Isn\u2019t this like a Day in June?\u201d<\/p>\n May 18, 1920.\u00a0 \u201cLove, dearest love Helen; What a contrast in the weather to-day & Sunday…\u201d<\/p>\n May 19, 1920.\u00a0 12.15. Wednesday.\u00a0 \u201cHowdy! my precious Sweetheart; What a lovely noon-tide it is…\u201d<\/p>\n Thursday noon.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve been to Mrs. Reynolds\u2019 darlint, tried my frock on, and instead of stopping to do any errands in town, came right home.\u201d<\/p>\n May 23, 1920.\u00a0 Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cLove, my most precious love, Helen Child; I\u2019ve been wondering, ever since yesterday afternoon, why I do, and say things so contrary…\u201d<\/p>\n May 26, 1920.\u00a0 Wednesday.\u00a0 \u201cHowdy! dearest love; Your little note of Monday cheered me and I am hoping that each day brings you added strength.\u00a0 [A small clipping from newspaper is attached: \u2018\u201dAfter the neighbor\u2019s mooing cow…\u201d]<\/p>\n Thursday a.m.\u00a0 \u201cDarlint, I thought of you very, very often last evening…\u201d<\/p>\n Friday afternoon. 4.40.\u00a0 \u201cMy very preciousest love Helen; Now what do you suppose; I have finished my jacket!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLet me help you pack, for you know I can do it very well…\u201d [opening of letter appears to be missing]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SERIES III: ARABELLA BRAY DE LONG Folder 9.\u00a0 Letters, January-Late Spring 1920. 46 items. Saturday 1.15.\u00a0 Just a most loving greeting to my dearest, darlingest Helen child:\u00a0 I want to know too, how my little Captain is.\u201d \u201cWouldn\u2019t you love to see our boy\u2019s face when he sees his mother?\u201d [scrap on Grand Hotel paper] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7583,"menu_order":111,"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-8235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n