SERIES III: ARABELLA BRAY DE LONG
\nFolder 12.\u00a0 Letters, October-November 1921.\u00a0\u00a0 25 items.<\/b><\/p>\n
October 5, 1921.\u00a0 \u201cDarlint; And, here we are having to use candles, for didint\u00a0[sic] the electric light plant go and behave badly just as the wanderes\u00a0got back, and hasint [sic] all the people had to retire early…\u201d<\/p>\n
October 7, 1921.\u00a0 \u201cMy own best beloved daughter Helen; How I hope that this night you are not so harassed and worn as you were when you wrote to us on Monday…\u201d<\/p>\n
[probably October 9, 1921]\u00a0 [Sunday]\u00a0 \u201cDid I tell you how he looked for you too…\u201d\u00a0 [the beginning of this letter is missing]<\/p>\n
October 11, 1921.\u00a0 \u201cMy precious, precious Child; sweet little daughter Helen; I am longing for you to-night, and it seems as if I could hardly wait to see you…\u201d<\/p>\n
October 12, 1921.\u00a0 Wednesday.\u00a0 \u201cDarling, my very darling, how sorry I am to have your letter to-night, telling me o yours and June\u2019s wretched colds.\u201d<\/p>\n
[October 17, 1921]\u00a0 \u201cMonday the 17th<\/span>\u00a0of October and O, what a gorgeous night, I hope that you are having the ideal weather we are having and that you are feeling \u2018fit,\u2019 so that you can thoroughly enjoy the glorious Hunter\u2019s Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n October 18, 1921.\u00a0 \u201cDarling; I don\u2019t forget to-night, that if I addressed a letter to 30 Huntington Lane you would get it, for its only Tuesday…\u201d<\/p>\n October 21, 1921.\u00a0 \u201cMy Belovedest beloved; Its just too sleepy am I to say a word, the clock struck ten some time ago and so, I\u2019ll just tell you that I am proud and happy to have your dear letters…\u201d<\/p>\n October 25, 1921. Tuesday.\u00a0 \u201cMy very belovedest child Helen; I am just hoping that you are all right…\u201d [postmarked Pine Mountain Oct 26 A.M. 1921 Ky.\u00a0 addressed to Miss H.B. de Long c\/o Mrs. Porter Hudson Street Berlin Connecticut]<\/p>\n October 27, 1921.\u00a0 Thursday.\u00a0 \u201cDarling; Indeed I do think that you write a great deal…\u201d<\/p>\n October 28, 1921\u00a0 \u201cMy precious love; I thought to leave my letter writing until the morrow but suddenly remembered that unless I sent my letters off to-night they would not go, until Monday afternoon\u201d<\/p>\n October 31, 1921.\u00a0 \u201cMy very darling child Helen;\u00a0 You very precious little note of Friday gives me great pleasure…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNine thirty o\u2019clock, Tuesday the first day of November, and what a stormy day and evening it has been…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFriday the fourth of November.\u00a0 My very weary little, most belovedest; Your Tuesday, & Wednesday, letter, at hand…\u201d<\/p>\n November 6, 1921.\u00a0 \u201cPrecious child, my belovedest Helen; After a rather busy day I\u2019ll write a brief sketch…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEthel wrote to Wilson Lewis to-night\u2014for Joe on Friday…\u201d<\/p>\n November 8, 1921.\u00a0 \u201cMy belovedest little daughter; I realize to-night, that I must address my little letter to Norwich Town\u2014else you will not have one this week.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy precious darling; It\u2019s only a telegram, as it were, to-night…\u201d<\/p>\n November 15, 1921.\u00a0 Harrisburgh.\u00a0 \u201cSo near to Edna, and every minute nearing my belovedest little Sweetheart, my precious.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWednesday, at Ida\u2019s My belovededst Helen\u2014Sweetheart child; I am writing at top speed because Ida and I expect to go over to see Marjorie\u2019s baby this p.m., and I have been so exceedingly dilatory this day…\u201d<\/p>\n November 19 [1921] Saturday.\u00a0 My belovedest child Helen; Altho\u2019 I can hardly wait to come to you, I want you so intensely and eagerly\u2014I shall abide by my first decision…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAt Aunt Ida\u2019s Sunday nearly six o\u2019clock.\u00a0 I came down from Montclair about four o\u2019clock after having a very pleasant time with Auntie Madison & Ida who you know board with Mrs. Fred…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWednesday Two forty five\u00a0o\u2019clock. My belovedest; Here I sit in my very pleasant and comfortable room…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWednesday\u2014May this little note of love and warmest greeting…\u201d<\/p>\n November 26, 1921.\u00a0 \u201cBelovedest; I am glad, on this rainy November Saturday, to know that you are in the home of friends…\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SERIES III: ARABELLA BRAY DE LONG Folder 12.\u00a0 Letters, October-November 1921.\u00a0\u00a0 25 items. October 5, 1921.\u00a0 \u201cDarlint; And, here we are having to use candles, for didint\u00a0[sic] the electric light plant go and behave badly just as the wanderes\u00a0got back, and hasint [sic] all the people had to retire early…\u201d October 7, 1921.\u00a0 \u201cMy own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7583,"menu_order":114,"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-8241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n