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359 W 57th St.
New York April 6th

My dear Will,

Eva received your letter yesterday so I suppose you are at Savannah by this time.  I am glad you did not have to go to Honolulu for you will certainly get a leave and can be with us in the summer.

Alma returns to Mt. Holyoke tomorrow but I will stay a week or so longer with Eva and do some sewing.  We have rented a machine and I am now sewing for Alma and expect to do some for Eva and myself.  This is a good boarding house.  It is nice and clean and the table is good.  They don’t serve a great variety but it is fresh and well cooked.  I am glad Eva found such a good place.  The room is so nice and large and everything new in it.  The house had been burnt out and has only been used since in the fall.  There is a nice class of boarders.  Most all of them sing or play.  One young man has quite a case on Eva.  He took Eva and Alma and I to the Oberlin Glee Club concert last night, at the Waldorf-Astoria.  It was very good.  And to get to see the inside of the Waldorf was something worthwhile.

We went to Rutherford last Friday to take lunch with Mrs. Christle.  We had a fine time and an excellent lunch.  She looks more like Mrs. Braden as she gets older.  It is about nine miles from New York and they have a nice home.  We have also been to visit Lily’s friends in Jersey City where we spent New Years.  I like the people here much better than the New England people.  Alma and Eva want me to stay here a few weeks but I am afraid it is too expensive.  However I shall stay until I get some sewing done.

We celebrated Eva’s birthday down at the studio.  Had a nice little party.  Served ice cream cake and coffee.  She got several presents.  The young man with the case (Mr. Evans) gave her Browning’s poems and a dozen carnations.  Mrs. Inman (whose daughter she tried to reform) sent her a dozen daffodils and Mrs. Dufour at the same house brought her a bunch of large white Lilies that came from Bermuda.  Alma got her a cup and saucer and a dictionary.  She went out today and bought a bag or book? to carry her music in.  She said she was going to write to you to tell you what you gave her, she said that was your present.  I am so glad to hear Eva sing again.  She sings songs now and I enjoy it.

Our old neighbor Mr. Folk is dead.  He was working in the elevator in Peters Hall and the rope broke.  He fell fifty feet, and lived from Friday until Tuesday.  I feel very sorry for Mrs. Folk and family.  He was certainly a good neighbor.  The Oberlin people know how to be neighborly, but the people in South Hadley know nothing about it.  I wonder if we will ever live there again.  I don’t think I could ever have the least desire to go to housekeeping at Mt. Holyoke.  I would like a home again but not there.  When we were in Oberlin I was contented and would have been satisfied to live there always.  I am glad for this opportunity of seeing and learning something about the east.  And I have enjoyed my visits to New York.  I was in hopes you could be here while we were.  Have you any idea when you will get leave.  Of course Alma would rather you would not get it until after school closes at Mt. Holyoke.  I think it closes on the 17th of June.  Let us know what the prospects are for a vacation.  It is a long time since I have had a letter from you - not since you sent the money and as you were so generous then I venture to come again.

I owe ten dollars to the Church in Oberlin.  When I subscribed to the new church I supposed we were going to stay there.  They have not and may not ask for it but as it is only ten dollars I would rather pay it.  So if you can send that and a little for a dress I shall be glad.  I will close now and retire.  Hope to hear from you soon.  Love from Mother.
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359 W 57th St.
New York April 6th
The year must be 1909, because that was the only year that Eva was single and living in New York.

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I am glad you did not have to go to Honolulu for you will certainly get a leave and can be with us in the summer.
Will was transferred from Cuba to Savannah in April 1909.  The company that he was with in Havana, Company G of the Second Battalion of Engineers, went to Honolulu after it came back from Havana - see: ​
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Alma returns to Mt. Holyoke tomorrow but I will stay a week or so longer with Eva and do some sewing.
So Alma spent Mount Holyoke spring vacation in New York with Eva and Mama Margaret, apparently.

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One young man has quite a case on Eva.
Our first look at Frank Evans, Eva's future husband and ex-husband.

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We went to Rutherford last Friday to take lunch with Mrs. Christle.  We had a fine time and an excellent lunch.  She looks more like Mrs. Braden as she gets older.
Mrs. Christl was the sister of Mrs. Braden, a next-door neighbor of the Stokeys in Canton.  There is a Non-Family page on this website for the Bradens.  I gather that Mrs. Christl occasionally came to visit Mrs. Braden in Canton, but I don't know anything about it.  Mrs. Braden later moved to New Jersey to live with her sister.

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We have also been to visit Lily’s friends in Jersey City where we spent New Years.
This sounds like Mabel Watson's family.  There is a Non-Family page on this website for Alma's friends Mabel and Lil.

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The young man with the case (Mr. Evans) gave her Browning’s poems and a dozen carnations.
If I had to choose a favorite poet, it would probably be Browning, but he is an interesting choice for a young man in love.  Not as romantic as I would expect.

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Our old neighbor Mr. Folk is dead.  He was working in the elevator in Peters Hall and the rope broke.
I googled for this accident, but didn't find anything.  Safety elevators had (according to my google results) been around for fifty years, so how could this accident have happened?
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