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I like seeing Kathleen enjoying plants.
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334, Eighth Street N.E.
Atlanta, Ga.
Aug 13, 1929
My dear Kathleen,
I was very glad to receive your letter and hear that you had arrived in Woods Hole. I know you must be having a very good time. I hope you will send Valeria + Margaret Maccauley and Mary Kerr either letters or p.c.s. I met Alice Polak and her mother yesterday. Alice wanted to know where you were and I told her. I don't think she had been away and her mother said sometimes it was hard for her to find something to do!
Today I weeded your garden - partially. The poppies and phlox are all gone and most of the brown eyed Susans. There are still some nasturtiums and your lantana has grown very much. Roger's is about the same size as when we bought it. He has had a number of blossoms on his hollyhocks, but yours have not bloomed. We have had rain the last four days and it has made the garden look much brighter again. There are ever so many zinnias + the marigolds are blooming.
On Sunday night Mr. Davenport brought me over a night blooming cereus. It was a perfect specimen and was very beautiful. He said it would fade in the night and I felt like sitting up all night to watch it but I did not do so. In the morning it was closed but was still pretty and I still have it a bowl. The flower is closed but it does not look at all faded - more like a beautiful bud. I wish you could all have seen it.
Tell Billy to write to me and I will write to him very soon.
Roger was pleased to have some p.c.s from you and Bobby.
Much love to you all,
Mother.
Atlanta, Ga.
Aug 13, 1929
My dear Kathleen,
I was very glad to receive your letter and hear that you had arrived in Woods Hole. I know you must be having a very good time. I hope you will send Valeria + Margaret Maccauley and Mary Kerr either letters or p.c.s. I met Alice Polak and her mother yesterday. Alice wanted to know where you were and I told her. I don't think she had been away and her mother said sometimes it was hard for her to find something to do!
Today I weeded your garden - partially. The poppies and phlox are all gone and most of the brown eyed Susans. There are still some nasturtiums and your lantana has grown very much. Roger's is about the same size as when we bought it. He has had a number of blossoms on his hollyhocks, but yours have not bloomed. We have had rain the last four days and it has made the garden look much brighter again. There are ever so many zinnias + the marigolds are blooming.
On Sunday night Mr. Davenport brought me over a night blooming cereus. It was a perfect specimen and was very beautiful. He said it would fade in the night and I felt like sitting up all night to watch it but I did not do so. In the morning it was closed but was still pretty and I still have it a bowl. The flower is closed but it does not look at all faded - more like a beautiful bud. I wish you could all have seen it.
Tell Billy to write to me and I will write to him very soon.
Roger was pleased to have some p.c.s from you and Bobby.
Much love to you all,
Mother.
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Will and the three older children had gone up to Woods Hole. Kathleen and Roger stayed behind. I don't know why this was. I imagine that somebody had to stay behind to keep an eye on the chickens, and that 8-year-old Roger might have been too young to be away from his mother for so long, but that's just a conjecture.
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I hope you will send Valeria + Margaret Maccauley and Mary Kerr either letters or p.c.s. I met Alice Polak and her mother yesterday.
I don't know who Valeria, Margaret, Mary, and Alice are.
3.
On Sunday night Mr. Davenport brought me over a night blooming cereus. It was a perfect specimen and was very beautiful. He said it would fade in the night and I felt like sitting up all night to watch it but I did not do so. In the morning it was closed but was still pretty and I still have it a bowl. The flower is closed but it does not look at all faded - more like a beautiful bud. I wish you could all have seen it.
Did Mr. Davenport bring over a whole night blooming cereus or just one bloom?
Nearly four years later, Fred's wife Sibyl sent a postcard with a picture of a night blooming cereus to Kathleen's mother in Savannah:
1933-06-06 POSTCARD FROM SIBYL TO ANN FARMER
When Sibyl sent the postcard in 1933, Kathleen was staying with her parents in Savannah, because her father was ill. In 1929, when this letter from Kathleen to Kay arrived at Fernbank, Sibyl was staying there, with her parents. I wonder if Kay passed the letter around, or if she simply told everybody about it. (Kay was, after all, an aspiring reporter.) And I wonder if, in 1933 when Sibyl was looking for a postcard to send to Savannah, she remembered Kathleen's pleasure in the night blooming cereus.
Will and the three older children had gone up to Woods Hole. Kathleen and Roger stayed behind. I don't know why this was. I imagine that somebody had to stay behind to keep an eye on the chickens, and that 8-year-old Roger might have been too young to be away from his mother for so long, but that's just a conjecture.
2.
I hope you will send Valeria + Margaret Maccauley and Mary Kerr either letters or p.c.s. I met Alice Polak and her mother yesterday.
I don't know who Valeria, Margaret, Mary, and Alice are.
3.
On Sunday night Mr. Davenport brought me over a night blooming cereus. It was a perfect specimen and was very beautiful. He said it would fade in the night and I felt like sitting up all night to watch it but I did not do so. In the morning it was closed but was still pretty and I still have it a bowl. The flower is closed but it does not look at all faded - more like a beautiful bud. I wish you could all have seen it.
Did Mr. Davenport bring over a whole night blooming cereus or just one bloom?
Nearly four years later, Fred's wife Sibyl sent a postcard with a picture of a night blooming cereus to Kathleen's mother in Savannah:
1933-06-06 POSTCARD FROM SIBYL TO ANN FARMER
When Sibyl sent the postcard in 1933, Kathleen was staying with her parents in Savannah, because her father was ill. In 1929, when this letter from Kathleen to Kay arrived at Fernbank, Sibyl was staying there, with her parents. I wonder if Kay passed the letter around, or if she simply told everybody about it. (Kay was, after all, an aspiring reporter.) And I wonder if, in 1933 when Sibyl was looking for a postcard to send to Savannah, she remembered Kathleen's pleasure in the night blooming cereus.
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