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I think this is the first letter we have from Sibyl to Fred, though it sounds as though there was a previous one. It looks to me as though the previous letter from Sibyl was very businesslike, and that Fred's answer was an effort to start a correspondence because he liked her.
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Chissamba,
Dec. 19, 1926.
Dear Dr. Stokey:-
Thanks so much for your prompt reply. I certainly felt relieved when I found you would be going down on the same train. I do not know the station at Cuma at all and I pictured myself relying on a Pg. conductor and consequently riding calmly past my destination. However now I feel safe. Yes I have heard that someone like yourself was known to be trying to find shelter beside a building in a downpour, however we’ll look forward to a bright moonlight night by 11P.M.
Just at present I’m reading David Grayson’s books and and find them very interesting indeed. Take the books that you like to read, I remember that’s what you did when you came to Chissamba, you also played a good game. But I expect Esther and I shall have our hands filled with talking, or perhaps I should say - oh well, never mind, I’m certainly looking forward with pleasure to our visit together, we used to be good pals.
I suppose you have everything that will be needed as you didn’t suggest that I bring anything, such as …….? Dr. Stokey have you the wherewithal to make up some Tr. of Digitalis? I have only the leaves.
Yours truly,
S. Hosking.
Dec. 19, 1926.
Dear Dr. Stokey:-
Thanks so much for your prompt reply. I certainly felt relieved when I found you would be going down on the same train. I do not know the station at Cuma at all and I pictured myself relying on a Pg. conductor and consequently riding calmly past my destination. However now I feel safe. Yes I have heard that someone like yourself was known to be trying to find shelter beside a building in a downpour, however we’ll look forward to a bright moonlight night by 11P.M.
Just at present I’m reading David Grayson’s books and and find them very interesting indeed. Take the books that you like to read, I remember that’s what you did when you came to Chissamba, you also played a good game. But I expect Esther and I shall have our hands filled with talking, or perhaps I should say - oh well, never mind, I’m certainly looking forward with pleasure to our visit together, we used to be good pals.
I suppose you have everything that will be needed as you didn’t suggest that I bring anything, such as …….? Dr. Stokey have you the wherewithal to make up some Tr. of Digitalis? I have only the leaves.
Yours truly,
S. Hosking.
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Just at present I’m reading David Grayson’s books and and find them very interesting indeed.
Wikipedia says:
Ray Stannard Baker (April 17, 1870 – July 12, 1946) (also known by his pen name David Grayson) was an American journalist, historian, biographer, and writer.
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In 1898, Baker joined the staff of McClure's, a pioneer muckraking magazine, and quickly rose to prominence along with Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell. He also dabbled in fiction, writing children's stories for the magazine Youth's Companion and a nine-volume series of stories about rural living in America, the first of which was titled Adventures in Contentment (1910) under his pseudonym David Grayson, which reached millions of readers worldwide.
Sibyl says:
But I expect Esther and I shall have our hands filled with talking, or perhaps I should say - oh well, never mind, I’m certainly looking forward with pleasure to our visit together, we used to be good pals.
Esther must be Mrs. McAllester, so it looks as though there was a Christmas gathering in Sachikela in 1926. On second thought, maybe a post-Christmas gathering?
Wikipedia says:
Ray Stannard Baker (April 17, 1870 – July 12, 1946) (also known by his pen name David Grayson) was an American journalist, historian, biographer, and writer.
And:
In 1898, Baker joined the staff of McClure's, a pioneer muckraking magazine, and quickly rose to prominence along with Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell. He also dabbled in fiction, writing children's stories for the magazine Youth's Companion and a nine-volume series of stories about rural living in America, the first of which was titled Adventures in Contentment (1910) under his pseudonym David Grayson, which reached millions of readers worldwide.
Sibyl says:
But I expect Esther and I shall have our hands filled with talking, or perhaps I should say - oh well, never mind, I’m certainly looking forward with pleasure to our visit together, we used to be good pals.
Esther must be Mrs. McAllester, so it looks as though there was a Christmas gathering in Sachikela in 1926. On second thought, maybe a post-Christmas gathering?
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