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Sept. 20 1909
Dear Will,
I have not heard from Truro for nearly three weeks. In Alma’s last letter she said Eva is to be married in October. This week Laura supplied the date. I had hoped to be able to make her some doilies for a wedding present but she got in too big a hurry for me to finish them. I learned to make tatting and I was going to spring it on her. I will have to send her what I have done then and promise her more later.
At Saugatuck we had quite a Tatters Club! Miss Little of Oberlin, a cousin of ‘Uncle Henry’ does lots of tatting and I learned the art and taught Ruth and Mabel etc. until there were seven of us. I had to quit tatting and start a shuttle factory. I made ten shuttles to supply the needs of the camp. It took about two hours to turn one out with the tools and materials at my disposal. The best wood available was rather soft so they hike [???] after a day or so for some and and others got along with but one each. I will enclose you a sample of the pattern I am working for Eva.
Cousin Henry had a box kite for the use of the younger ones but as it usually happens he did more with it than the children. Henry is very entertaining and sings beautifully. He is soloist + choir leader in the 1st Cong. Church in Chicago. He has taken his choirs to Saugatuck every summer for six years. He has three choirs boys, girls, and adults. He gives each choir a week and then has the family for two or three weeks.
My last news from Truro was that you were going to New York the next day to see Frank. The two of us who will not get to see him have had representatives however. Leonard Christian for mine and Mary Howells for Laura. Laura’s particular friend at Kirksville called to see him at Laura’s request and gave a very good account of her experience and impression.
You know how much curiosity I am supposed to have. All of it has been directed that way. I have a picture of him and Eva has given me some very appreciative descriptions.
Our school opened this week and we are again hard at work trying to master Pharmacology, Physiology, Bacteriology and Quantitative Analysis. The Quantitative Analysis course is all lab work and includes the analysis of all the body fluids and also eating a test breakfast and then making the analysis of your own gastric juices. It will be more interesting than the work of last year tho that was very fascinating. The courses are all very practical and the instruction very good. Dr. Risley has all the latest improvements in lab apparatus, and is very practical as might be supposed from the fact that he has charge of the San laboratories where they make all kinds of chemical analyses + microscopical examinations every day.
As usual my letter is not complete without an appeal for funds. I earned some besides my expenses this summer but that has been salted down to get Mabel a ring so I don’t reckon it with my assets or available cash. I don’t know much about rings but I guess they don’t give them away at the jeweler’s openings [???]. My present needs are for tuition and books amounting to 50 and about 20 respectively.
Dr. Don Scott died this summer and as far as I know, there will be no one here to continue his work. He provided my tuition last year and Mabel’s the spring term before. Now Mabel’s tuition is remitted because she is the child of a missionary.
I have made a sort of schedule for letter [illegible] this year and I hope to get around oftener. I don’t know how it will work but I have set apart Sunday night for writing and perhaps I may do some at other times too. Alma said you had left some shirts + a razer for me. I will probably get them when they get back to So. Hadley. Thank you for them very much.
With love
Fred.
Dear Will,
I have not heard from Truro for nearly three weeks. In Alma’s last letter she said Eva is to be married in October. This week Laura supplied the date. I had hoped to be able to make her some doilies for a wedding present but she got in too big a hurry for me to finish them. I learned to make tatting and I was going to spring it on her. I will have to send her what I have done then and promise her more later.
At Saugatuck we had quite a Tatters Club! Miss Little of Oberlin, a cousin of ‘Uncle Henry’ does lots of tatting and I learned the art and taught Ruth and Mabel etc. until there were seven of us. I had to quit tatting and start a shuttle factory. I made ten shuttles to supply the needs of the camp. It took about two hours to turn one out with the tools and materials at my disposal. The best wood available was rather soft so they hike [???] after a day or so for some and and others got along with but one each. I will enclose you a sample of the pattern I am working for Eva.
Cousin Henry had a box kite for the use of the younger ones but as it usually happens he did more with it than the children. Henry is very entertaining and sings beautifully. He is soloist + choir leader in the 1st Cong. Church in Chicago. He has taken his choirs to Saugatuck every summer for six years. He has three choirs boys, girls, and adults. He gives each choir a week and then has the family for two or three weeks.
My last news from Truro was that you were going to New York the next day to see Frank. The two of us who will not get to see him have had representatives however. Leonard Christian for mine and Mary Howells for Laura. Laura’s particular friend at Kirksville called to see him at Laura’s request and gave a very good account of her experience and impression.
You know how much curiosity I am supposed to have. All of it has been directed that way. I have a picture of him and Eva has given me some very appreciative descriptions.
Our school opened this week and we are again hard at work trying to master Pharmacology, Physiology, Bacteriology and Quantitative Analysis. The Quantitative Analysis course is all lab work and includes the analysis of all the body fluids and also eating a test breakfast and then making the analysis of your own gastric juices. It will be more interesting than the work of last year tho that was very fascinating. The courses are all very practical and the instruction very good. Dr. Risley has all the latest improvements in lab apparatus, and is very practical as might be supposed from the fact that he has charge of the San laboratories where they make all kinds of chemical analyses + microscopical examinations every day.
As usual my letter is not complete without an appeal for funds. I earned some besides my expenses this summer but that has been salted down to get Mabel a ring so I don’t reckon it with my assets or available cash. I don’t know much about rings but I guess they don’t give them away at the jeweler’s openings [???]. My present needs are for tuition and books amounting to 50 and about 20 respectively.
Dr. Don Scott died this summer and as far as I know, there will be no one here to continue his work. He provided my tuition last year and Mabel’s the spring term before. Now Mabel’s tuition is remitted because she is the child of a missionary.
I have made a sort of schedule for letter [illegible] this year and I hope to get around oftener. I don’t know how it will work but I have set apart Sunday night for writing and perhaps I may do some at other times too. Alma said you had left some shirts + a razer for me. I will probably get them when they get back to So. Hadley. Thank you for them very much.
With love
Fred.
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1.
My note with the scans says:
About Fred’s 1909 letters to Will…
4/18/1909 1909-04-18 LETTER FROM FRED TO WILL
9/20/1909 1909-09-20 LETTER FROM FRED TO WILL
10/28/1909 1909-10-28 LETTER FROM FRED TO WILL
What AG had was photocopies of them, not the actual letters. They looked as though they had gotten wet, so I imagine they were copied and then thrown out as not salvageable.
We do have the original envelope for the 9/20/1909 letter. As I finished up scanning this bunch of stuff, a stamp fluttered out from somewhere, and it appeared to have come from the envelope, so I rescanned the envelope with the stamp in place, and then stuck the stamp inside the envelope.
2.
I have not heard from Truro for nearly three weeks.
Alma rented a house in Truro MA on Cape Cod that summer. She and Mama Margaret went there, and Will, Eva, and Frank Evans visited at various times.
3.
At Saugatuck we had quite a Tatters Club!
I asked AG if Uncle Fred tatted. She said yes. He had a shuttle, she remembered, and there were samples of his tatting. He recommended it as occupational therapy. When he had a patient who for some reason could only use his left hand, he (Uncle Fred) taught himself to tat with his left hand so he would be able to help this patient.
I emailed AG with what I had written above, and also what Uncle Fred wrote in the letter. She responded:
That's interesting that the tatting shuttles were wood. The one he had that I saw was metal.
So I guess he went and bought a shuttle or two.
Reading this over as I upload it, I remembered Mama Margaret's mention of Fred using Will's knitting needles back around 1903 or 1904, when Will was in the Philippines. I'll try to remember to put a link to that letter here when I upload it.
arious times.
3.
Miss Little of Oberlin, a cousin of ‘Uncle Henry’
and
Cousin Henry had a box kite for the use of the younger ones but as it usually happens he did more with it than the children.
I think the Uncle Henry and Cousin Henry might be a Woodside relatives.
4.
Laura’s particular friend at Kirksville
Aha! Wikipedia says:
A.T. Still University (ATSU) is a private medical school based in Kirksville, Missouri, with a second campus in Arizona and third campus in Santa Maria, California. It was founded in 1892 by Andrew Taylor Still and was the world's first osteopathic medical school. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. ATSU includes three campuses on 200 acres with seven schools and colleges.
Kirksville is a couple of hundred miles northwest St. Louis, where Laura did her Deaconess Traveller's Aid work.
My note with the scans says:
About Fred’s 1909 letters to Will…
4/18/1909 1909-04-18 LETTER FROM FRED TO WILL
9/20/1909 1909-09-20 LETTER FROM FRED TO WILL
10/28/1909 1909-10-28 LETTER FROM FRED TO WILL
What AG had was photocopies of them, not the actual letters. They looked as though they had gotten wet, so I imagine they were copied and then thrown out as not salvageable.
We do have the original envelope for the 9/20/1909 letter. As I finished up scanning this bunch of stuff, a stamp fluttered out from somewhere, and it appeared to have come from the envelope, so I rescanned the envelope with the stamp in place, and then stuck the stamp inside the envelope.
2.
I have not heard from Truro for nearly three weeks.
Alma rented a house in Truro MA on Cape Cod that summer. She and Mama Margaret went there, and Will, Eva, and Frank Evans visited at various times.
3.
At Saugatuck we had quite a Tatters Club!
I asked AG if Uncle Fred tatted. She said yes. He had a shuttle, she remembered, and there were samples of his tatting. He recommended it as occupational therapy. When he had a patient who for some reason could only use his left hand, he (Uncle Fred) taught himself to tat with his left hand so he would be able to help this patient.
I emailed AG with what I had written above, and also what Uncle Fred wrote in the letter. She responded:
That's interesting that the tatting shuttles were wood. The one he had that I saw was metal.
So I guess he went and bought a shuttle or two.
Reading this over as I upload it, I remembered Mama Margaret's mention of Fred using Will's knitting needles back around 1903 or 1904, when Will was in the Philippines. I'll try to remember to put a link to that letter here when I upload it.
arious times.
3.
Miss Little of Oberlin, a cousin of ‘Uncle Henry’
and
Cousin Henry had a box kite for the use of the younger ones but as it usually happens he did more with it than the children.
I think the Uncle Henry and Cousin Henry might be a Woodside relatives.
4.
Laura’s particular friend at Kirksville
Aha! Wikipedia says:
A.T. Still University (ATSU) is a private medical school based in Kirksville, Missouri, with a second campus in Arizona and third campus in Santa Maria, California. It was founded in 1892 by Andrew Taylor Still and was the world's first osteopathic medical school. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. ATSU includes three campuses on 200 acres with seven schools and colleges.
Kirksville is a couple of hundred miles northwest St. Louis, where Laura did her Deaconess Traveller's Aid work.
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- WILL: DOCUMENTS ----- Incoming
- ALMA: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- FRED: DOCUMENTS ----- Outgoing
- LAURA: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- EVA: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- MABEL: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- FRANK EVANS: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
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