Letter from Mama Margaret to Alma: 4/16/1924
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A letter from Mama Margaret, visiting Will and Kathleen and the grandchildren in Atlanta, Georgia, to her oldest daughter, Alma, in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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Mama Margaret dashes off a letter to Alma in time for Will to mail it on his way to work.
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April 16
Wednesday AM
Dear Alma,
Will is finishing his breakfast and I want to send it with him.
Please send me the recipe of the oatmeal cakes that they make. I intended to ask Mrs. Cameron for before I came and forgot it, I know they would like them here. I made doughnuts last week and will make more soon. It has been pleasant for a few days.
I think I will probably go next week. The daffodils are coming out, four or five open now. They are all enjoying them.
I must stop now and give this to Will.
With love
Mother
I hope to get a letter from Laura or Grace today, then I will make plans to go.
I get so tired of the papers here. I am enclosing the best thing I have seen. They fight among themselves about McAdoo.
Wednesday AM
Dear Alma,
Will is finishing his breakfast and I want to send it with him.
Please send me the recipe of the oatmeal cakes that they make. I intended to ask Mrs. Cameron for before I came and forgot it, I know they would like them here. I made doughnuts last week and will make more soon. It has been pleasant for a few days.
I think I will probably go next week. The daffodils are coming out, four or five open now. They are all enjoying them.
I must stop now and give this to Will.
With love
Mother
I hope to get a letter from Laura or Grace today, then I will make plans to go.
I get so tired of the papers here. I am enclosing the best thing I have seen. They fight among themselves about McAdoo.
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1.
Please send me the recipe of the oatmeal cakes that they make. I intended to ask Mrs. Cameron for before I came and forgot it, I know they would like them here. I made doughnuts last week and will make more soon.
Will's and Kathleen's older son Billy had very fond memories of his grandmother. Perhaps Mama Margaret's cooking had something to do with it.
2.
I hope to get a letter from Laura or Grace today, then I will make plans to go.
Mama Margaret was planning to go to Ohio next. Obviously the Laura she mentioned was her daughter Laura, in Canton. I don't know who Grace was. There was a cousin Grace Hanlin on the Gracey side of her family, but I don't see why Mama Margaret would be visiting her. Maybe this Grace was Laura's current companion.
3.
I get so tired of the papers here. I am enclosing the best thing I have seen. They fight among themselves about McAdoo.
It is surprising to see Mama Margaret talking about the news. As for McAdoo, Wikipedia says:
William Gibbs McAdoo Jr. /ˈmækəˌduː/ (October 31, 1863 – February 1, 1941) was an American lawyer and statesman. McAdoo was a leader of the Progressive movement and played a major role in the administration of his father-in-law President Woodrow Wilson. A member of the Democratic Party, he also represented California in the United States Senate.
[…]
McAdoo was again a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1924. Widely regarded as the front-runner in 1923, McAdoo's candidacy was badly hurt by the revelation that he had previously accepted a $25,000 contribution from Edward L. Doheny, an oil tycoon implicated in 1922 in the Teapot Dome scandal. McAdoo had returned the normal-course contribution once he learned of Doheny's possible bribes to Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall to get oil leases.
Please send me the recipe of the oatmeal cakes that they make. I intended to ask Mrs. Cameron for before I came and forgot it, I know they would like them here. I made doughnuts last week and will make more soon.
Will's and Kathleen's older son Billy had very fond memories of his grandmother. Perhaps Mama Margaret's cooking had something to do with it.
2.
I hope to get a letter from Laura or Grace today, then I will make plans to go.
Mama Margaret was planning to go to Ohio next. Obviously the Laura she mentioned was her daughter Laura, in Canton. I don't know who Grace was. There was a cousin Grace Hanlin on the Gracey side of her family, but I don't see why Mama Margaret would be visiting her. Maybe this Grace was Laura's current companion.
3.
I get so tired of the papers here. I am enclosing the best thing I have seen. They fight among themselves about McAdoo.
It is surprising to see Mama Margaret talking about the news. As for McAdoo, Wikipedia says:
William Gibbs McAdoo Jr. /ˈmækəˌduː/ (October 31, 1863 – February 1, 1941) was an American lawyer and statesman. McAdoo was a leader of the Progressive movement and played a major role in the administration of his father-in-law President Woodrow Wilson. A member of the Democratic Party, he also represented California in the United States Senate.
[…]
McAdoo was again a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1924. Widely regarded as the front-runner in 1923, McAdoo's candidacy was badly hurt by the revelation that he had previously accepted a $25,000 contribution from Edward L. Doheny, an oil tycoon implicated in 1922 in the Teapot Dome scandal. McAdoo had returned the normal-course contribution once he learned of Doheny's possible bribes to Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall to get oil leases.
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