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A nice, comfortable letter for Will, with news of the whole family.
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Canton O.
August 26, 1903
My dear Son,
I don’t like to write to you on such ordinary paper, but the girls took all the good paper visiting, so you may expect better from them. It is quite lonely here just now. Alma has been gone two weeks. I sent your letter on to her at Elizabeth NJ and she will get the table of logarithms and send from New York. Eva went down to Hanlin’s on my birth day. Of course she is having a fine time. She will wherever she goes. She took all of her music with her. June is a good pianist and wrote to her to bring all with her. She will play about a month down there and when she returns she will commence taking lessons again. She wants to take piano too. She has improved a great deal under Mrs. Smith.
Laura is still on night duty. She has pretty hard work just now, so many Typhoid patients. She comes home to sleep, as it is quieter here than out there also cooler.
Mrs. Greenwood (Mr. Lamb’s aunt) died last week of Cancer. She had been in the hospital in Cleveland for several weeks.
Papa is going to give some kind of a lecture at the Institute the last of the month. He has been trying to make something to make an experiment with. Fred is over there to-night helping him with it. He has made use of one of your big knitting needles.
Mrs. Braden and her sister Bina were down last Wednesday but I was not at home so didn’t get to see them.
Mary is going home in October when they have excursions up into Mich. The fare there is reduced to about one half. She wants me to go with her and I am thinking seriously about it.
Laura will have two weeks vacation in about a month. She will go to Hanlins or someplace out of town. I will close now and take this to the P.O. I will find you some more papers soon.
Is there any thing you want sent - just let me know. Write soon and often. We all enjoyed your last it was such a good long letter.
May God bless and keep you.
Your loving Mother.
August 26, 1903
My dear Son,
I don’t like to write to you on such ordinary paper, but the girls took all the good paper visiting, so you may expect better from them. It is quite lonely here just now. Alma has been gone two weeks. I sent your letter on to her at Elizabeth NJ and she will get the table of logarithms and send from New York. Eva went down to Hanlin’s on my birth day. Of course she is having a fine time. She will wherever she goes. She took all of her music with her. June is a good pianist and wrote to her to bring all with her. She will play about a month down there and when she returns she will commence taking lessons again. She wants to take piano too. She has improved a great deal under Mrs. Smith.
Laura is still on night duty. She has pretty hard work just now, so many Typhoid patients. She comes home to sleep, as it is quieter here than out there also cooler.
Mrs. Greenwood (Mr. Lamb’s aunt) died last week of Cancer. She had been in the hospital in Cleveland for several weeks.
Papa is going to give some kind of a lecture at the Institute the last of the month. He has been trying to make something to make an experiment with. Fred is over there to-night helping him with it. He has made use of one of your big knitting needles.
Mrs. Braden and her sister Bina were down last Wednesday but I was not at home so didn’t get to see them.
Mary is going home in October when they have excursions up into Mich. The fare there is reduced to about one half. She wants me to go with her and I am thinking seriously about it.
Laura will have two weeks vacation in about a month. She will go to Hanlins or someplace out of town. I will close now and take this to the P.O. I will find you some more papers soon.
Is there any thing you want sent - just let me know. Write soon and often. We all enjoyed your last it was such a good long letter.
May God bless and keep you.
Your loving Mother.
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1.
Alma has been gone two weeks. I sent your letter on to her at Elizabeth NJ and she will get the table of logarithms and send from New York.
Alma was visiting her friend Mabel Watson, who is in the Non-Family page for Mabel, Lil, Steenie, and Orestes. Alma mentioned in a letter to Will the logarithm tables that Will had requested, and Mama Margaret mentioned the logarithm tables in another letter:
1903-08-22 LETTER FROM ALMA TO WILL
1903-09-13 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL
2.
Eva went down to Hanlin’s on my birth day.
The Hanlins were Gracey cousins - see the section for the Provineses and the Graceys.
Mama Margaret's 59th birthday was August 15, 1903.
3.
Laura is still on night duty. She has pretty hard work just now, so many Typhoid patients.
It sounds as though Laura was working as some sort of a nurse. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in a Deaconess facility.
4.
Papa is going to give some kind of a lecture at the Institute the last of the month. He has been trying to make something to make an experiment with. Fred is over there to-night helping him with it. He has made use of one of your big knitting needles.
So Papa Charles isn't completely disabled, and Fred gets along with him well enough to help him with a project. And Will has big knitting needles.
Mama Margaret mentions a lecture in a subsequent letter, and I think it must be this lecture:
1903-09-13 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL
5.
Mrs. Braden and her sister Bina were down last Wednesday but I was not at home so didn’t get to see them.
The Bradens have a Non-Family page.
6.
Mary is going home in October when they have excursions up into Mich.
Mary is Mama Margaret's older sister, Mary Provines Hicks - see the section for Provineses and Graceys. Mama did go to Michigan with her - see:
1903-11-22 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL
Alma has been gone two weeks. I sent your letter on to her at Elizabeth NJ and she will get the table of logarithms and send from New York.
Alma was visiting her friend Mabel Watson, who is in the Non-Family page for Mabel, Lil, Steenie, and Orestes. Alma mentioned in a letter to Will the logarithm tables that Will had requested, and Mama Margaret mentioned the logarithm tables in another letter:
1903-08-22 LETTER FROM ALMA TO WILL
1903-09-13 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL
2.
Eva went down to Hanlin’s on my birth day.
The Hanlins were Gracey cousins - see the section for the Provineses and the Graceys.
Mama Margaret's 59th birthday was August 15, 1903.
3.
Laura is still on night duty. She has pretty hard work just now, so many Typhoid patients.
It sounds as though Laura was working as some sort of a nurse. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in a Deaconess facility.
4.
Papa is going to give some kind of a lecture at the Institute the last of the month. He has been trying to make something to make an experiment with. Fred is over there to-night helping him with it. He has made use of one of your big knitting needles.
So Papa Charles isn't completely disabled, and Fred gets along with him well enough to help him with a project. And Will has big knitting needles.
Mama Margaret mentions a lecture in a subsequent letter, and I think it must be this lecture:
1903-09-13 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL
5.
Mrs. Braden and her sister Bina were down last Wednesday but I was not at home so didn’t get to see them.
The Bradens have a Non-Family page.
6.
Mary is going home in October when they have excursions up into Mich.
Mary is Mama Margaret's older sister, Mary Provines Hicks - see the section for Provineses and Graceys. Mama did go to Michigan with her - see:
1903-11-22 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL
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- WILL: DOCUMENTS ----- Incoming
- ALMA: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- FRED: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- LAURA: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- EVA: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
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- PAPA CHARLES: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- PROVINESES & GRACEYS: DOCUMENTS ----- Mary Provines Hicks, and the Hanlins (Gracey cousins)
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- NON-FAMILY: THE BRADENS ----- Related
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