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Mama Margaret, who is staying with her middle daughter Laura in Alliance (which is about 20 miles from Canton), talks a little about her two prospective daughters-in-law: Will's fiancée Margaret Clarke and Fred's fiancée Mabel Woodside.
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Alliance Nov. 13th ‘10
My dear Will:
I was surprised and pleased to receive another check so soon. It will help me out on my doctor bill, so I thank you very much for it. My ear is about well and my hearing as good as it has been for a few years. I don’t hear as well as I did when you and the rest of the children were small, but I don’t think the noise ever bothered me much. It would be music in my ears now. How I wish I could have you all together again, including the new members of the family to be, Margaret and Mabel. We all know Mabel except you and am sorry you and she did not get to know each other as it will be a long time before she returns to the states again. I am very fond of Mabel and I hope that sometime I may get to know Margaret and love her too. I may be different from some mothers in wanting my sons to get married. When I see mothers who object I think it is selfishness. You know the old saying, “A daughter is a daughter all her life, but a son is a son until he gets a wife.” I know it will make some difference but I know too that if you and Margaret are well mated you will be a great deal happier, and I will be happier too because you are. I am so glad that she says you are not going to smoke anything. I know you have the will power to keep from it if you want to, and I have thought you were more likely to smoke excessively when you were lonely. Now, and I hope all the time to come she will be all in all to you. I don’t know much about Christian Science. I have never known but two personally. One was a neighbor in Oberlin (Mrs. Gager), the next house to Folbes. And the other a lady who was at the table Eva and I were at in the boarding house in New York City. I like their optimism but I don’t think I could agree with them in all their teaching. However, Margaret and I will not quarrel about our religions or faith. Methodism is good enough for me and I am not bigoted. I know there is good and bad in all churches and we are to judge by the best and not by the worst in them.
I am anxiously waiting for a picture. Don’t you take any pictures any more? I should think you could get a snapshot for for me if you have a way of developing or printing you could get it done. I am getting more and more anxious to have her picture.
Is there really an alligator farm at Los Angeles? I have wondered about that picture you sent.
This is a dark gloomy day, think we will have more snow soon. There is snow on the ground now. I don’t suppose you have seen any snow for several years. You seem to be favored in that way that you don’t have to spend your winters where it is cold. I think I will enjoy the winter here better than in Mass; I don’t think it is as cold and Laura’s treatments are doing me good. She is getting a pretty good practise here. She goes to Sebring twice a week to give treatments in a millionaire family, but they will soon be going to their Florida home for the winter. You asked what Laura thinks of Christian Science. Her answer was, that it is neither Christian nor Science. But you know Laura is very orthodox.
I must now write some other letters, that I wish were written.
Thank you dear heart again for the check, and hope to hear from you soon.
With much love,
Mother.
[written perpendicular near the crease]
Laura and I are already invited out to Thanksgiving dinner.
My dear Will:
I was surprised and pleased to receive another check so soon. It will help me out on my doctor bill, so I thank you very much for it. My ear is about well and my hearing as good as it has been for a few years. I don’t hear as well as I did when you and the rest of the children were small, but I don’t think the noise ever bothered me much. It would be music in my ears now. How I wish I could have you all together again, including the new members of the family to be, Margaret and Mabel. We all know Mabel except you and am sorry you and she did not get to know each other as it will be a long time before she returns to the states again. I am very fond of Mabel and I hope that sometime I may get to know Margaret and love her too. I may be different from some mothers in wanting my sons to get married. When I see mothers who object I think it is selfishness. You know the old saying, “A daughter is a daughter all her life, but a son is a son until he gets a wife.” I know it will make some difference but I know too that if you and Margaret are well mated you will be a great deal happier, and I will be happier too because you are. I am so glad that she says you are not going to smoke anything. I know you have the will power to keep from it if you want to, and I have thought you were more likely to smoke excessively when you were lonely. Now, and I hope all the time to come she will be all in all to you. I don’t know much about Christian Science. I have never known but two personally. One was a neighbor in Oberlin (Mrs. Gager), the next house to Folbes. And the other a lady who was at the table Eva and I were at in the boarding house in New York City. I like their optimism but I don’t think I could agree with them in all their teaching. However, Margaret and I will not quarrel about our religions or faith. Methodism is good enough for me and I am not bigoted. I know there is good and bad in all churches and we are to judge by the best and not by the worst in them.
I am anxiously waiting for a picture. Don’t you take any pictures any more? I should think you could get a snapshot for for me if you have a way of developing or printing you could get it done. I am getting more and more anxious to have her picture.
Is there really an alligator farm at Los Angeles? I have wondered about that picture you sent.
This is a dark gloomy day, think we will have more snow soon. There is snow on the ground now. I don’t suppose you have seen any snow for several years. You seem to be favored in that way that you don’t have to spend your winters where it is cold. I think I will enjoy the winter here better than in Mass; I don’t think it is as cold and Laura’s treatments are doing me good. She is getting a pretty good practise here. She goes to Sebring twice a week to give treatments in a millionaire family, but they will soon be going to their Florida home for the winter. You asked what Laura thinks of Christian Science. Her answer was, that it is neither Christian nor Science. But you know Laura is very orthodox.
I must now write some other letters, that I wish were written.
Thank you dear heart again for the check, and hope to hear from you soon.
With much love,
Mother.
[written perpendicular near the crease]
Laura and I are already invited out to Thanksgiving dinner.
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Alliance Nov. 13th ‘10
This looks like 18 at first glance, but it’s 13. The loop in the middle makes it clear that Mama Margaret was making a 3.
We all know Mabel except you and am sorry you and she did not get to know each other as it will be a long time before she returns to the states again.
In 1910, Mabel Woodside, Fred's fiancée, left for Angola to be a missionary like her parents. Fred followed later.
Is there really an alligator farm at Los Angeles? I have wondered about that picture you sent.
When I googled on “Los Angeles alligator farm 1910” I got a postcard. I wonder if that’s the picture that Mama Margaret is talking about. Will liked sending postcards.
This looks like 18 at first glance, but it’s 13. The loop in the middle makes it clear that Mama Margaret was making a 3.
We all know Mabel except you and am sorry you and she did not get to know each other as it will be a long time before she returns to the states again.
In 1910, Mabel Woodside, Fred's fiancée, left for Angola to be a missionary like her parents. Fred followed later.
Is there really an alligator farm at Los Angeles? I have wondered about that picture you sent.
When I googled on “Los Angeles alligator farm 1910” I got a postcard. I wonder if that’s the picture that Mama Margaret is talking about. Will liked sending postcards.
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DOCUMENT LISTS FOR PEOPLE:
- WILL: DOCUMENTS ----- Incoming
- LAURA: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- EVA: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- MAMA MARGARET: DOCUMENTS ----- Outgoing
- MARGARET: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- MABEL: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
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