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No mention of Fernbank, but we know from Will's last letter to Kathleen that it's being built.
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Faculty House,
South Hadley, Mass.
August 27, 1922
Dear Kathleen,
Fred and I are going to take the early train to Boston to-morrow. Fred is going to do his packing and I am going to try to see some railroad shop people. I tried it in Springfield but the local men said they had no authority to get anything that was not standard. I may come back to-morrow evening but hardly think I can finish in time. Fred expects to come back Wednesday and I think it will turn out that I do too.
Mother had a telegram from Laura saying that Aunt Sally had passed on this morning. I was glad I was able to see her on my way here. She seemed very feeble and I would hardly have recognized her. I suppose you know she had had a stroke (two or three years ago, I think) and had never fully recovered.
We have been having a rainy gloomy day and it seems as if nearly every day has been that way for over a week. This morning the clouds hung around the tops of the mountains and made quite a pretty sight. We still get in a swim nearly every day, but we generally have the lake to ourselves. Alma says that there is only one teacher and a couple of children who will go in when it is cloudy.
I am sorry to have missed seeing Cecil and Jessie. I don’t know yet which way I will go but think it likely that it will be the northern route. Fred is coming with us. He sails for England on Sept. 20th, and from Southampton for Portugal on Oct. 6th.
It will not be much longer now until I am on my way back. I can hardly realize that the summer is about over, without having had any really hot weather. It seems as if it were still spring or early summer.
I am anxious to hear how the children take your return, especially the younger ones.
With lots of love to my girl and our kids,
Will
South Hadley, Mass.
August 27, 1922
Dear Kathleen,
Fred and I are going to take the early train to Boston to-morrow. Fred is going to do his packing and I am going to try to see some railroad shop people. I tried it in Springfield but the local men said they had no authority to get anything that was not standard. I may come back to-morrow evening but hardly think I can finish in time. Fred expects to come back Wednesday and I think it will turn out that I do too.
Mother had a telegram from Laura saying that Aunt Sally had passed on this morning. I was glad I was able to see her on my way here. She seemed very feeble and I would hardly have recognized her. I suppose you know she had had a stroke (two or three years ago, I think) and had never fully recovered.
We have been having a rainy gloomy day and it seems as if nearly every day has been that way for over a week. This morning the clouds hung around the tops of the mountains and made quite a pretty sight. We still get in a swim nearly every day, but we generally have the lake to ourselves. Alma says that there is only one teacher and a couple of children who will go in when it is cloudy.
I am sorry to have missed seeing Cecil and Jessie. I don’t know yet which way I will go but think it likely that it will be the northern route. Fred is coming with us. He sails for England on Sept. 20th, and from Southampton for Portugal on Oct. 6th.
It will not be much longer now until I am on my way back. I can hardly realize that the summer is about over, without having had any really hot weather. It seems as if it were still spring or early summer.
I am anxious to hear how the children take your return, especially the younger ones.
With lots of love to my girl and our kids,
Will
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My, my what a lot of news!
1.
Mother had a telegram from Laura saying that Aunt Sally had passed on this morning.
Aunt Sally was Aunt Sallie Provines Ballard, a sister of Mama Margaret's. We hear very little about her, but Will went to see her in Canton. This is a reminder that the Five Stokey Siblings stuck with the Provines side of the family, not the Stokey side of the family.
2.
I am sorry to have missed seeing Cecil and Jessie.
It sounds as though there was a visit from Kathleen's brother Cecil and his wife Jessie - did they came to see the family in Cincinnati? And where did Kathleen go? Or was it that Kathleen went to visit Cecil and Jessie? I need to read more letters.
3.
I don’t know yet which way I will go but think it likely that it will be the northern route. Fred is coming with us. He sails for England on Sept. 20th, and from Southampton for Portugal on Oct. 6th.
We have firm date for Fred’s departure for Africa - vey pleasing. But who is the "us" that Fred is coming with?
Kathleen apparently wrote to her parents, who were visiting England, that Fred would be there.
Will's father-in-law, in England at the time, mentioned Fred in a letter a couple of months later.
1922-10-03 LETTER FROM WJ FARMER TO WILL
Mauretania is due at Southampton tomorrow. Hope soon to meet your brother.
The Mauretania sailed between New York and Southampton.
And then Will's mother-in-law wrote:
1922-10-07 LETTER FROM ANN FARMER TO RUTH AND KATHLEEN
Received a letter from you Babs, so far Fred has not turned up
1.
Mother had a telegram from Laura saying that Aunt Sally had passed on this morning.
Aunt Sally was Aunt Sallie Provines Ballard, a sister of Mama Margaret's. We hear very little about her, but Will went to see her in Canton. This is a reminder that the Five Stokey Siblings stuck with the Provines side of the family, not the Stokey side of the family.
2.
I am sorry to have missed seeing Cecil and Jessie.
It sounds as though there was a visit from Kathleen's brother Cecil and his wife Jessie - did they came to see the family in Cincinnati? And where did Kathleen go? Or was it that Kathleen went to visit Cecil and Jessie? I need to read more letters.
3.
I don’t know yet which way I will go but think it likely that it will be the northern route. Fred is coming with us. He sails for England on Sept. 20th, and from Southampton for Portugal on Oct. 6th.
We have firm date for Fred’s departure for Africa - vey pleasing. But who is the "us" that Fred is coming with?
Kathleen apparently wrote to her parents, who were visiting England, that Fred would be there.
Will's father-in-law, in England at the time, mentioned Fred in a letter a couple of months later.
1922-10-03 LETTER FROM WJ FARMER TO WILL
Mauretania is due at Southampton tomorrow. Hope soon to meet your brother.
The Mauretania sailed between New York and Southampton.
And then Will's mother-in-law wrote:
1922-10-07 LETTER FROM ANN FARMER TO RUTH AND KATHLEEN
Received a letter from you Babs, so far Fred has not turned up
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