Letter from Mama Margaret to Eva: 11/5/1916
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A letter from Mama Margaret, who is visiting Will and Kathleen (and Maggie!) in Cincinnati, Ohio, to her youngest daughter, Eva, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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There's nothing exciting in this letter, just pleasant details of family life. But I always laugh when I read that Will's Buick is having problems.
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2201 Nelson Ave.
Cincinnati, O.
Dear Eva,
I arrived here Friday evening at 5:30 and the family were there to meet me, but no Buick. It is needing attention. Margaret seemed very glad to see me and not at all shy, as I thought she might be. She held my hand all the way home, when there was a chance. When we would change cars, she would call out, “Come, grandmother.” She was very attentive. She sits near me at table and loves me a good many times, with hugs and kisses.
Kathleen had an excellent dinner birth-day dinner. Roast duck, mushrooms, fried sweet potatoes, squash, celery, cranberry jelly, apple pie, coconut cake ice cream. I don’t know the name, but one layer was hickory nuts, and walnuts, one chocolate, and the center something soft and [illegible]. It was excellent. We had good coffee too.
I wish you could see Margaret in her new green velvet hat and coat. The hat is lined or faced with pink silk and has pink flowers in it and some fur. The coat also has fur on it. She looks so pretty in it. It is I think prettier than the blue was. Kathleen has cleaned the light blue facing of the blue and put it in since I came.
We all went to church today. Will took Margaret to Sunday school and Kathleen and I went in time to meet them before church. There is a lecture Friday night, I don’t know whether we will go or not.
The house looks very well. It took a lot of curtains to do the windows.
They succeeded in getting a very good maid. She keeps everything nice and is a fairly good cook, is willing to learn, she is rather young and nice looking. Margaret is fond of her, she was telling Margaret today that she has forsaken her since her grandmother came.
Will and Kathleen made a call this afternoon. They are playing duets tonight. Will goes on a two day trip tomorrow.
I found one of your hankies with mine and am sending it in this. The weather is fine. I wish the old Buick was in good shape. They won’t put a light in the garage so he has not much chance to work on it.
Lots of love,
Mother
Cincinnati, O.
Dear Eva,
I arrived here Friday evening at 5:30 and the family were there to meet me, but no Buick. It is needing attention. Margaret seemed very glad to see me and not at all shy, as I thought she might be. She held my hand all the way home, when there was a chance. When we would change cars, she would call out, “Come, grandmother.” She was very attentive. She sits near me at table and loves me a good many times, with hugs and kisses.
Kathleen had an excellent dinner birth-day dinner. Roast duck, mushrooms, fried sweet potatoes, squash, celery, cranberry jelly, apple pie, coconut cake ice cream. I don’t know the name, but one layer was hickory nuts, and walnuts, one chocolate, and the center something soft and [illegible]. It was excellent. We had good coffee too.
I wish you could see Margaret in her new green velvet hat and coat. The hat is lined or faced with pink silk and has pink flowers in it and some fur. The coat also has fur on it. She looks so pretty in it. It is I think prettier than the blue was. Kathleen has cleaned the light blue facing of the blue and put it in since I came.
We all went to church today. Will took Margaret to Sunday school and Kathleen and I went in time to meet them before church. There is a lecture Friday night, I don’t know whether we will go or not.
The house looks very well. It took a lot of curtains to do the windows.
They succeeded in getting a very good maid. She keeps everything nice and is a fairly good cook, is willing to learn, she is rather young and nice looking. Margaret is fond of her, she was telling Margaret today that she has forsaken her since her grandmother came.
Will and Kathleen made a call this afternoon. They are playing duets tonight. Will goes on a two day trip tomorrow.
I found one of your hankies with mine and am sending it in this. The weather is fine. I wish the old Buick was in good shape. They won’t put a light in the garage so he has not much chance to work on it.
Lots of love,
Mother
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There's no date on the letter (typical Mama Margaret) but it has to be before Billy was born, and everything points to the birthday in question being that of Will, i.e. November 3. And then on December 3, Mama Margaret wrote in a letter (not yet uploaded) that it had been a month since she came.
I wonder if Kathleen was a little nervous about Will's birthday dinner: her first birthday dinner for her new husband, with a newly arrived mother-in-law - a mother-in-law who enjoyed good food.
I wonder if Kathleen was a little nervous about Will's birthday dinner: her first birthday dinner for her new husband, with a newly arrived mother-in-law - a mother-in-law who enjoyed good food.
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