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I wish Alma could have given Margaret botanical lessons on what's a weed and what's a flower, and I wish I could have been a fly on the wall while she did it.
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Dear Isoetes,
We have just written Eva a composite letter, and thought we would send you one to keep peace in the family. Have you found Friday yet? Did you plant the nuts? They are the best thing in the world for your trouble. You can eat them all day without getting enough to make you fat.
Margaret and I went to hear Pepito Arriola, the child wonder. I am enclosing the program and the proofs that we went. It was a splendid concert. You ought to go to hear the kid if you have a chance.
We are going to hear Mary Garden Thursday. This reminds me that we have a garden of our own, or at least we have the weeds for one. Margaret rides out to the cliff and gets them to ornament our rooms. She thinks they are flowers. When you can I want you to give Margaret enough lessons in botany to enable her to distinguish weeds from flowers.
My dear Alma:
It is quite true what Will says about going out to the Cliff and getting flowers. I don’t believe they are weeds - not all of them at least. Will calls them weeds because he has never seen any thing like them before some of them are beautiful I get lots of foliage for the jardinieres. It lasts so long - I dearly love flowers - I wish I could go with you on some of your excursions in the woods.
I can’t believe you are not coming west this summer. I fully realize that it would be an expensive trip, and you would want to take so many trips here in California, besides how happy you must be to have mother with you and how fortunate you are too.
I can imagine how you would neglect your mending. Knowing that mother would do it for you when she did arrive. I had to have a woman come in and do my mending while I was in business.
Will and I heard Mary Garden last night - she has wonderful voice and we more than enjoyed hearing her. Will was startled at her low cut gown. She is very beautiful.
We went to see Sarah Bernhardt in Madame X about six weeks ago. Isn’t she wonderful? Will didn’t care for her.
We may move to the Hotel Robins soon. Mrs. Barker called Will on the phone yesterday and told him she would like to have us live there, and that she would give us a good rate, she is going to call me up this morning and talk it over.
Alma I wish you could see some of the new apartment houses that I have seen, the apartments have from 1 room to eleven rooms, and so complete in every detail, the rents are very high.
I suppose you are glad vacation time is here, and you can rest. I spent most of my vacations in the mountains. I am very fond of riding horseback you see so much of it out west.
Do write and tell Will what you have decided about the nuts.
I can imagine what a lovely visit you will have with Eva - I wish you would send us some pictures, do you know Will has not finished the Del Monte pictures yet do send us a line soon - and if you change your mind about coming to California let us know the very minute you decide. Won’t you?
Worlds of love from both -
Margaret
Friday Morning
We have just written Eva a composite letter, and thought we would send you one to keep peace in the family. Have you found Friday yet? Did you plant the nuts? They are the best thing in the world for your trouble. You can eat them all day without getting enough to make you fat.
Margaret and I went to hear Pepito Arriola, the child wonder. I am enclosing the program and the proofs that we went. It was a splendid concert. You ought to go to hear the kid if you have a chance.
We are going to hear Mary Garden Thursday. This reminds me that we have a garden of our own, or at least we have the weeds for one. Margaret rides out to the cliff and gets them to ornament our rooms. She thinks they are flowers. When you can I want you to give Margaret enough lessons in botany to enable her to distinguish weeds from flowers.
My dear Alma:
It is quite true what Will says about going out to the Cliff and getting flowers. I don’t believe they are weeds - not all of them at least. Will calls them weeds because he has never seen any thing like them before some of them are beautiful I get lots of foliage for the jardinieres. It lasts so long - I dearly love flowers - I wish I could go with you on some of your excursions in the woods.
I can’t believe you are not coming west this summer. I fully realize that it would be an expensive trip, and you would want to take so many trips here in California, besides how happy you must be to have mother with you and how fortunate you are too.
I can imagine how you would neglect your mending. Knowing that mother would do it for you when she did arrive. I had to have a woman come in and do my mending while I was in business.
Will and I heard Mary Garden last night - she has wonderful voice and we more than enjoyed hearing her. Will was startled at her low cut gown. She is very beautiful.
We went to see Sarah Bernhardt in Madame X about six weeks ago. Isn’t she wonderful? Will didn’t care for her.
We may move to the Hotel Robins soon. Mrs. Barker called Will on the phone yesterday and told him she would like to have us live there, and that she would give us a good rate, she is going to call me up this morning and talk it over.
Alma I wish you could see some of the new apartment houses that I have seen, the apartments have from 1 room to eleven rooms, and so complete in every detail, the rents are very high.
I suppose you are glad vacation time is here, and you can rest. I spent most of my vacations in the mountains. I am very fond of riding horseback you see so much of it out west.
Do write and tell Will what you have decided about the nuts.
I can imagine what a lovely visit you will have with Eva - I wish you would send us some pictures, do you know Will has not finished the Del Monte pictures yet do send us a line soon - and if you change your mind about coming to California let us know the very minute you decide. Won’t you?
Worlds of love from both -
Margaret
Friday Morning
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1.
This one of three letters to Mama Margaret, Alma, and Eva that Will and Margaret started on Sunday, May 21, 1911. The letters aren't dated, but the postmarks on the letters and the contents of the letters make it clear that the three letters were started at the same time. The three letters are:
1911-05-21 LETTER FROM WILL & MARGARET TO EVA
1911-05-21 LETTER FROM WILL & MARGARET TO ALMA
1911-05-21 LETTER FROM WILL & MARGARET TO MAMA MARGARET
2.
Dear Isoetes
Alma's PhD thesis was on Isoetes, which are commonly known as quillworts. That explains everything, right?
3.
Have you found Friday yet?
I think this is a cat. Somewhere there's a cute postcard from this time without words that seems to refer to a missing cat. I'll hunt for it when I get these three letters finished. I'm wondering if Will met Friday in Truro in the summer of 1909.
4.
Did you plant the nuts? They are the best thing in the world for your trouble. You can eat them all day without getting enough to make you fat.
Alma mentioned thinking about her weight a few times here and there. I remember her as tiny, but apparently it wasn't always easy for her.
5.
Margaret and I went to hear Pepito Arriola, the child wonder.
Wikipedia says:
José “Pepito” Rodríguez Carballeira (December 14, 1896 – October 24, 1954) was a Spanish child prodigy pianist and eventual master violinist.
6.
We are going to hear Mary Garden Thursday.
Wikipedia says:
Mary Garden (20 February 1874 – 3 January 1967) was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century.
7.
We went to see Sarah Bernhardt in Madame X about six weeks ago. Isn’t she wonderful? Will didn’t care for her.
Ooh, Sarah Bernhardt! Wikipedia gives her dates as October 1844 – 26 March 1923, so she was a few months older than Mama Margaret, and would have been 66 at this time.
8.
I can imagine how you would neglect your mending. Knowing that mother would do it for you when she did arrive.
Ooh, a nice little glimpse of Alma.
9.
I wish you would send us some pictures, do you know Will has not finished the Del Monte pictures yet
Del Monte was where Will and Margaret went for their honeymoon in March 1911.
This one of three letters to Mama Margaret, Alma, and Eva that Will and Margaret started on Sunday, May 21, 1911. The letters aren't dated, but the postmarks on the letters and the contents of the letters make it clear that the three letters were started at the same time. The three letters are:
1911-05-21 LETTER FROM WILL & MARGARET TO EVA
1911-05-21 LETTER FROM WILL & MARGARET TO ALMA
1911-05-21 LETTER FROM WILL & MARGARET TO MAMA MARGARET
2.
Dear Isoetes
Alma's PhD thesis was on Isoetes, which are commonly known as quillworts. That explains everything, right?
3.
Have you found Friday yet?
I think this is a cat. Somewhere there's a cute postcard from this time without words that seems to refer to a missing cat. I'll hunt for it when I get these three letters finished. I'm wondering if Will met Friday in Truro in the summer of 1909.
4.
Did you plant the nuts? They are the best thing in the world for your trouble. You can eat them all day without getting enough to make you fat.
Alma mentioned thinking about her weight a few times here and there. I remember her as tiny, but apparently it wasn't always easy for her.
5.
Margaret and I went to hear Pepito Arriola, the child wonder.
Wikipedia says:
José “Pepito” Rodríguez Carballeira (December 14, 1896 – October 24, 1954) was a Spanish child prodigy pianist and eventual master violinist.
6.
We are going to hear Mary Garden Thursday.
Wikipedia says:
Mary Garden (20 February 1874 – 3 January 1967) was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century.
7.
We went to see Sarah Bernhardt in Madame X about six weeks ago. Isn’t she wonderful? Will didn’t care for her.
Ooh, Sarah Bernhardt! Wikipedia gives her dates as October 1844 – 26 March 1923, so she was a few months older than Mama Margaret, and would have been 66 at this time.
8.
I can imagine how you would neglect your mending. Knowing that mother would do it for you when she did arrive.
Ooh, a nice little glimpse of Alma.
9.
I wish you would send us some pictures, do you know Will has not finished the Del Monte pictures yet
Del Monte was where Will and Margaret went for their honeymoon in March 1911.
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