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My dear Mother,
Will has just left for the office, so I will have a visit with you, in the way of a letter, just think we will be married three weeks Wednesday, in a way it seems only a day, the time is flying past, and again it seems it has always been just so and I have had Will always. You must not think from this that I am taking him away from you he is such a dear there is plenty of love for all of us, don’t your ears burn? We speak of you many times a day. I hope we will remain here for the summer at least I know you will enjoy the trip west and will find San Francisco very interesting. We have so many Chinese here the Chinese girls and little babies are the funniest things, Will is afraid I will bring one of these little tots home with me. I am going to meet Will this afternoon at Sing Fat’s, in Chinatown, it is only a few blocks from the office. I was quite amused last night, I was getting Will’s cloths ready for him to put on this morning. I had darned his hose, he looked at them very carefully and said you did very well but you should see the way Mother can darn it’s so even and smooth, so you see I must improve on my darning. We took some pictures at Del Monte will send them as soon as we get some finished.
Will spends most of the evenings with his music he is really doing very well and gets so much pleasure out of it.
In the event we remain here for the summer and you and Alma come out, we will take a house across the Bay. Most of the people in town that rent live in flats or apartments the homes in San Francisco are not as attractive as the Los Angeles homes the homes across the bay are very nice. Alma wrote us about the wedding you all had on “The Twenty second of March.” Isn’t Alma just a dear? I enjoy her letters so much - we had our wedding dinner at Del Monte about seven thirty in the evening. I tease Will because he did not take me to the Minister’s house in a carriage I told him it was the one disappointment of my life. I really did not discover the fact until hours later, I wish you could have seen the dear child waiting for me at the station with a bouquet of violets, one of my friends gave me a box of lily of the valley and I added these with the violets, and most of the time Will was carrying the bouquet.
My dear I must dress and then start for town. Do write us real soon and tell us you are quite your self again. We want you to be well and strong, give our love to Eva and worlds of love for your own dear self. I am sending you love from both -
Margaret
Monday April Tenth
Will has just left for the office, so I will have a visit with you, in the way of a letter, just think we will be married three weeks Wednesday, in a way it seems only a day, the time is flying past, and again it seems it has always been just so and I have had Will always. You must not think from this that I am taking him away from you he is such a dear there is plenty of love for all of us, don’t your ears burn? We speak of you many times a day. I hope we will remain here for the summer at least I know you will enjoy the trip west and will find San Francisco very interesting. We have so many Chinese here the Chinese girls and little babies are the funniest things, Will is afraid I will bring one of these little tots home with me. I am going to meet Will this afternoon at Sing Fat’s, in Chinatown, it is only a few blocks from the office. I was quite amused last night, I was getting Will’s cloths ready for him to put on this morning. I had darned his hose, he looked at them very carefully and said you did very well but you should see the way Mother can darn it’s so even and smooth, so you see I must improve on my darning. We took some pictures at Del Monte will send them as soon as we get some finished.
Will spends most of the evenings with his music he is really doing very well and gets so much pleasure out of it.
In the event we remain here for the summer and you and Alma come out, we will take a house across the Bay. Most of the people in town that rent live in flats or apartments the homes in San Francisco are not as attractive as the Los Angeles homes the homes across the bay are very nice. Alma wrote us about the wedding you all had on “The Twenty second of March.” Isn’t Alma just a dear? I enjoy her letters so much - we had our wedding dinner at Del Monte about seven thirty in the evening. I tease Will because he did not take me to the Minister’s house in a carriage I told him it was the one disappointment of my life. I really did not discover the fact until hours later, I wish you could have seen the dear child waiting for me at the station with a bouquet of violets, one of my friends gave me a box of lily of the valley and I added these with the violets, and most of the time Will was carrying the bouquet.
My dear I must dress and then start for town. Do write us real soon and tell us you are quite your self again. We want you to be well and strong, give our love to Eva and worlds of love for your own dear self. I am sending you love from both -
Margaret
Monday April Tenth
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1.
I am going to meet Will this afternoon at Sing Fat’s, in Chinatown, it is only a few blocks from the office.
Sing Fat’s was a big deal. Here’s a description from
https://sf.curbed.com/2017/7/24/15995166/chinatown-grant-san-francisco-sf-history
While the previous buildings looked contiguous with the rest of the city, despite their Chinese tenants, the newly constructed Chinatown featured designs reminiscent of China.
One of the first buildings to incorporate this new aesthetic was the Sing Fat Company building at the southwest corner of California and Grant. Built by (non-Chinese) architects Ross and Burgren, the pagoda-roofed building was billed as an “Oriental Bazaar” with additional branches in Los Angeles and New York.
The building is still standing today with retail shops, but has lost much of its original ornamentation.
There’s a picture of it. Four stories (on a hill, so in some parts of the building only three show) with a Chinese pagoda-type tower at the top. Also there are five flagpoles on the roof. Two US flags, I don’t know about the others.
Sing Fat Co., Inc.
The famous Oriental bazaar
S.W. corner California St. and Grant Ave.
Chinatown
San Francisco, California
Branch: 615 South Broadway,
Los Angeles
2.
I was quite amused last night, I was getting Will’s cloths ready for him to put on this morning. I had darned his hose, he looked at them very carefully and said you did very well but you should see the way Mother can darn it’s so even and smooth, so you see I must improve on my darning.
Mama Margaret responded to this anecdote in her 4/27 letter:
1911-04-27 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL & MARGARET
Eva and I laughed about the darning. When she was a little girl and wanted anything darned neatly she would take it to her grandmother Provines, because I couldn’t do it to suit her. Now she is glad to have it done any way.
I am going to meet Will this afternoon at Sing Fat’s, in Chinatown, it is only a few blocks from the office.
Sing Fat’s was a big deal. Here’s a description from
https://sf.curbed.com/2017/7/24/15995166/chinatown-grant-san-francisco-sf-history
While the previous buildings looked contiguous with the rest of the city, despite their Chinese tenants, the newly constructed Chinatown featured designs reminiscent of China.
One of the first buildings to incorporate this new aesthetic was the Sing Fat Company building at the southwest corner of California and Grant. Built by (non-Chinese) architects Ross and Burgren, the pagoda-roofed building was billed as an “Oriental Bazaar” with additional branches in Los Angeles and New York.
The building is still standing today with retail shops, but has lost much of its original ornamentation.
There’s a picture of it. Four stories (on a hill, so in some parts of the building only three show) with a Chinese pagoda-type tower at the top. Also there are five flagpoles on the roof. Two US flags, I don’t know about the others.
Sing Fat Co., Inc.
The famous Oriental bazaar
S.W. corner California St. and Grant Ave.
Chinatown
San Francisco, California
Branch: 615 South Broadway,
Los Angeles
2.
I was quite amused last night, I was getting Will’s cloths ready for him to put on this morning. I had darned his hose, he looked at them very carefully and said you did very well but you should see the way Mother can darn it’s so even and smooth, so you see I must improve on my darning.
Mama Margaret responded to this anecdote in her 4/27 letter:
1911-04-27 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL & MARGARET
Eva and I laughed about the darning. When she was a little girl and wanted anything darned neatly she would take it to her grandmother Provines, because I couldn’t do it to suit her. Now she is glad to have it done any way.
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