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"I will stop and try to make the map for Anne that I promised."
Note the square towards the bottom left for where Will, Mama Margaret, and Maggie lived.
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Mama Margaret talks about daily life in Savannah, with a mention of some modern inventions, and also of the summer trip to California that she and Alma are planning.
Mama Margaret included a hand-drawn map of the neighborhood where they were living.
Mama Margaret included a hand-drawn map of the neighborhood where they were living.
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303 Hall at E
May 6
Dear Alma,
It is almost bedtime but I will start a letter and finish tomorrow. It was late before I got Margaret in bed and I didn’t get as much sleep as I wanted last night I must go to bed earlier. There was a big wedding across the street. (across Lincoln a narrow street and it seemed quite near) The ceremony was at the church but there were about two dozen autos returned with the wedding party and it made it pretty lively around here I will send a paper. Anne may see some familiar names. The bride is leaving a beautiful home to go to a mining camp. I am thinking she will get very homesick.
I have nothing much to say about Margaret, so many things are amusing but may not seem so when written. When I do anything now that displeases her she will say “I won’t play with you any more Grand mother.” A few days ago she opened the sideboard and when she heard me coming she slammed the drawer and said “I am not busy Grand mother,” she evidently had been very busy as the sugar was scattered all around. Yesterday I had a pin sticking in my waist and she said to me “You might get scratched grand mother I’ll take it and sew Eva” she very seldom calls herself Margaret now.
Will was away all last week. He left on Sunday night to investigate a branch of the Savannah and he thought he would not get home until Thursday, so when he didn’t come on Saturday I commenced to feel a little uneasy about him and was pretty glad to see him walk in about nine o’clock Sunday night. On Thursday Col. Langfitt called me up and invited us to go there to dinner on Friday, he thought Will would be home by that time. Then on Friday he called me and asked me to go even if Will did not come in time, so I went for 7:30 dinner, Capt. and Mrs. Berry were there and had invited Capt and Mrs. Wheeler but they had a previous engagement and were not there. I had a fine time everything was lovely. I had not met any of them before except Capt. Berry as we were away when Col. and Mrs. Langfitt called also when Capt. Berry wife and daughter called. They all called on Sunday. Miss Berry is a Smith girl, graduated last year. Her father gave her an automobile for a graduating present and she expects to go up to Commencement in it this year. When she entered Smith they lived in Cal. Have only been here since Jan. He is in the revenue cutter service is of course a Navy man. Mrs. Langfitt was knitting one of those coats for her daughter, Capt. Willey’s [???] wife. It was very pretty a shade nasturtium to be trimmed in Angora. It was soft pretty yarn. I might try one after while if I can get up enough energy. It has been warm here since Friday until yesterday it rained. There was quite a thunderstorm with hail and today it has been really cool. Strawberries are very plentiful on the streets now at ten cents a basket, I have not found any good ones yet.
Thursday AM
When Will came last night I found it was late enough to go to bed.
The pecan trees are doing very well. Will has forgotten himself how many he ordered but I think between fifty and a hundred. The well has caved in so there will have to be a new one build [???] that is going to be extra expense. However Will says I can go to Cal. and he has the auto fever again and thinks he will be ready to get one by Christmas. The hot weather last week made me think we would have to get another house if possible. There is no place for Margaret on a hot day. There are nice large shade trees all around the house but the house stands right out to the pavement.
I am glad you are learning to ride. I used to ride some but never got over being afraid. I see some ladies riding here occasionally.
They nearly all have autos I should think from the number I see driving them. There are many autos here for the size of the place did I ever tell you we have an instantaneous heater in this house. They are a great institution. Mrs. Hansard across the hall came over the first day we were here and showed me how to run it and in a day or two a colored man from the office came to give me a lesson and had an explosion that frightened me so I was afraid to use it for some time and preferred going to the kitchen and get hot water. Now I am not at all afraid. I am glad too to have a telephone and can hear very well. Much better than I expected. I still have the same maid. Servants they call them here. I like her better than I did, she is neat and clean and can cook pretty well and I think is good to Margaret. She has Margaret up in the park this morning as this is her afternoon off. I don’t think she would take anything but something to eat. In fact she told me that. The other one even took needles. I had several papers and not one left. It was hard on the disposition for as soon as I couldn’t find anything I would think “that nigger took it.” This one asked four dollars a week at first. I gave her that two weeks I think, then I told her I was going to pay her but three and a half and if she could get four she could go. She staid on and the next week I told her I was only going to pay her three and still she didn’t go. She said she wanted to stay and has really done better since and I didn’t cut her down to three but pay her $3.50. The usual price is $3.00 some only get $2.50 a week. Ella is above the average. I will stop and try to make the map for Anne that I promised. I commenced one and it happened to be on a letter that I had started for Eva. Good by.
Lots of love.
May 6
Dear Alma,
It is almost bedtime but I will start a letter and finish tomorrow. It was late before I got Margaret in bed and I didn’t get as much sleep as I wanted last night I must go to bed earlier. There was a big wedding across the street. (across Lincoln a narrow street and it seemed quite near) The ceremony was at the church but there were about two dozen autos returned with the wedding party and it made it pretty lively around here I will send a paper. Anne may see some familiar names. The bride is leaving a beautiful home to go to a mining camp. I am thinking she will get very homesick.
I have nothing much to say about Margaret, so many things are amusing but may not seem so when written. When I do anything now that displeases her she will say “I won’t play with you any more Grand mother.” A few days ago she opened the sideboard and when she heard me coming she slammed the drawer and said “I am not busy Grand mother,” she evidently had been very busy as the sugar was scattered all around. Yesterday I had a pin sticking in my waist and she said to me “You might get scratched grand mother I’ll take it and sew Eva” she very seldom calls herself Margaret now.
Will was away all last week. He left on Sunday night to investigate a branch of the Savannah and he thought he would not get home until Thursday, so when he didn’t come on Saturday I commenced to feel a little uneasy about him and was pretty glad to see him walk in about nine o’clock Sunday night. On Thursday Col. Langfitt called me up and invited us to go there to dinner on Friday, he thought Will would be home by that time. Then on Friday he called me and asked me to go even if Will did not come in time, so I went for 7:30 dinner, Capt. and Mrs. Berry were there and had invited Capt and Mrs. Wheeler but they had a previous engagement and were not there. I had a fine time everything was lovely. I had not met any of them before except Capt. Berry as we were away when Col. and Mrs. Langfitt called also when Capt. Berry wife and daughter called. They all called on Sunday. Miss Berry is a Smith girl, graduated last year. Her father gave her an automobile for a graduating present and she expects to go up to Commencement in it this year. When she entered Smith they lived in Cal. Have only been here since Jan. He is in the revenue cutter service is of course a Navy man. Mrs. Langfitt was knitting one of those coats for her daughter, Capt. Willey’s [???] wife. It was very pretty a shade nasturtium to be trimmed in Angora. It was soft pretty yarn. I might try one after while if I can get up enough energy. It has been warm here since Friday until yesterday it rained. There was quite a thunderstorm with hail and today it has been really cool. Strawberries are very plentiful on the streets now at ten cents a basket, I have not found any good ones yet.
Thursday AM
When Will came last night I found it was late enough to go to bed.
The pecan trees are doing very well. Will has forgotten himself how many he ordered but I think between fifty and a hundred. The well has caved in so there will have to be a new one build [???] that is going to be extra expense. However Will says I can go to Cal. and he has the auto fever again and thinks he will be ready to get one by Christmas. The hot weather last week made me think we would have to get another house if possible. There is no place for Margaret on a hot day. There are nice large shade trees all around the house but the house stands right out to the pavement.
I am glad you are learning to ride. I used to ride some but never got over being afraid. I see some ladies riding here occasionally.
They nearly all have autos I should think from the number I see driving them. There are many autos here for the size of the place did I ever tell you we have an instantaneous heater in this house. They are a great institution. Mrs. Hansard across the hall came over the first day we were here and showed me how to run it and in a day or two a colored man from the office came to give me a lesson and had an explosion that frightened me so I was afraid to use it for some time and preferred going to the kitchen and get hot water. Now I am not at all afraid. I am glad too to have a telephone and can hear very well. Much better than I expected. I still have the same maid. Servants they call them here. I like her better than I did, she is neat and clean and can cook pretty well and I think is good to Margaret. She has Margaret up in the park this morning as this is her afternoon off. I don’t think she would take anything but something to eat. In fact she told me that. The other one even took needles. I had several papers and not one left. It was hard on the disposition for as soon as I couldn’t find anything I would think “that nigger took it.” This one asked four dollars a week at first. I gave her that two weeks I think, then I told her I was going to pay her but three and a half and if she could get four she could go. She staid on and the next week I told her I was only going to pay her three and still she didn’t go. She said she wanted to stay and has really done better since and I didn’t cut her down to three but pay her $3.50. The usual price is $3.00 some only get $2.50 a week. Ella is above the average. I will stop and try to make the map for Anne that I promised. I commenced one and it happened to be on a letter that I had started for Eva. Good by.
Lots of love.
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1.
I will send a paper. Anne may see some familiar names.
This must be Anne Starr, but since she was from Ohio, I don't understand why there would be familiar names for her. There's a non-family page for Anne on this website.
2.
I have nothing much to say about Margaret, so many things are amusing but may not seem so when written.
Maggie is about two an a half years old at this point.
3.
Will was away all last week. He left on Sunday night to investigate a branch of the Savannah
Will's specialty seems to have been waterways.
4.
On Thursday Col. Langfitt called me up and invited us to go there to dinner on Friday, he thought Will would be home by that time.
Wikipedia says:
William Campbell Langfitt (10 August 1860 – 20 April 1934) was a major general in the United States Army. He was prominent as the chief of staff and chief engineer for the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
and:
From 1914 to 1916, he was chief engineer of the Southern Department, responsible for improving rivers and harbors in and around Savannah, Georgia.
He gets another mention by Mama Margaret in:
1915-09-09 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO ALMA
5.
The pecan trees are doing very well.
This has got to be the pecan venture in which Will was involved with his uncle Jim Provines, Mama Margaret’s younger brother.
6.
However Will says I can go to Cal.
Mama Margaret is going to California with Alma, for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition!
7.
I am glad you are learning to ride.
Alma is so athletic!
8.
did I ever tell you we have an instantaneous heater in this house.
The Department of Energy says:
Tankless water heaters heat water instantaneously without the use of a storage tank. When a hot water faucet is turned on, cold water flows through a heat exchanger in the unit, and either a natural gas burner or an electric element heats the water.
9.
The other one even took needles. I had several papers and not one left. It was hard on the disposition for as soon as I couldn’t find anything I would think “that nigger took it.”
Oh dear.
10.
I will stop and try to make the map for Anne that I promised.
This has to be Anne Starr.
11.
If you look for East Hall Street in Savannah on Google Maps, you'll find that the map that Mama Margaret drew is quite recognizable.
I will send a paper. Anne may see some familiar names.
This must be Anne Starr, but since she was from Ohio, I don't understand why there would be familiar names for her. There's a non-family page for Anne on this website.
2.
I have nothing much to say about Margaret, so many things are amusing but may not seem so when written.
Maggie is about two an a half years old at this point.
3.
Will was away all last week. He left on Sunday night to investigate a branch of the Savannah
Will's specialty seems to have been waterways.
4.
On Thursday Col. Langfitt called me up and invited us to go there to dinner on Friday, he thought Will would be home by that time.
Wikipedia says:
William Campbell Langfitt (10 August 1860 – 20 April 1934) was a major general in the United States Army. He was prominent as the chief of staff and chief engineer for the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
and:
From 1914 to 1916, he was chief engineer of the Southern Department, responsible for improving rivers and harbors in and around Savannah, Georgia.
He gets another mention by Mama Margaret in:
1915-09-09 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO ALMA
5.
The pecan trees are doing very well.
This has got to be the pecan venture in which Will was involved with his uncle Jim Provines, Mama Margaret’s younger brother.
6.
However Will says I can go to Cal.
Mama Margaret is going to California with Alma, for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition!
7.
I am glad you are learning to ride.
Alma is so athletic!
8.
did I ever tell you we have an instantaneous heater in this house.
The Department of Energy says:
Tankless water heaters heat water instantaneously without the use of a storage tank. When a hot water faucet is turned on, cold water flows through a heat exchanger in the unit, and either a natural gas burner or an electric element heats the water.
9.
The other one even took needles. I had several papers and not one left. It was hard on the disposition for as soon as I couldn’t find anything I would think “that nigger took it.”
Oh dear.
10.
I will stop and try to make the map for Anne that I promised.
This has to be Anne Starr.
11.
If you look for East Hall Street in Savannah on Google Maps, you'll find that the map that Mama Margaret drew is quite recognizable.
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