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16-year-old Maggie writes home to 8-year-old Roger, telling about a lively summer at Fernbank, with lots of interesting tidbits of information.
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Aug 13 - 1929
Dear Roger -
How are you and Theodore getting along? I hear that you went to the Howard. Ahem! Was it a nice picture?
Yesterday Billy and Kathleen, Daddy, Aunt Laura, Aunt Sibyl + her mother and father went to Gay Head. They had a very pleasant trip.
I've been having a grand time with Ruth. Yesterday we had a singing lesson, made candy to sell at the M.B.L. Club tea. I have a job now - about a dollar a day a little less perhaps. Ahem! Look me over!
Tell Mother I'm feeling so fine now I don't know what to do. Pickle rides the bicycle now very well.
Stewart + Ruth + I have been fishing many times. We feed the fish to the seals. They are so cute and playful!
Boris Gorokhoff has 21,000 stamps. A grand collection! We are all going to Provincetown today. Have to get back in time for the chorus practice tonight tho. I think several of our family etc. are coming up tonight. The concert is Saturday night. Mr. Gorokhoff is the best chorus leader in the country! We have a very pretty + well-done program for the concert - I think. I played + sang Sunday for us all + Ruth sang too.
I'm skipping my job this morning to go to Provincetown. But it's all right.
Miss Haynes a roomer here is going with us today.
Help! I'm needed to help make sandwitches.
Please write soon.
Love
Margaret
P.S. Aunt Sibyl is just fine. You sure would like her. She is so sorry you and Mother aren't here - for then she would have seen the whole family + now she hasn't. Too bad!
We miss you very much.
P.S.S. This is for Mother too.
P.S.S.S. Thank you lots (Mother) for the coat.
P.S.S.S.S. Got cards from Aunt Ruthie.
Dear Roger -
How are you and Theodore getting along? I hear that you went to the Howard. Ahem! Was it a nice picture?
Yesterday Billy and Kathleen, Daddy, Aunt Laura, Aunt Sibyl + her mother and father went to Gay Head. They had a very pleasant trip.
I've been having a grand time with Ruth. Yesterday we had a singing lesson, made candy to sell at the M.B.L. Club tea. I have a job now - about a dollar a day a little less perhaps. Ahem! Look me over!
Tell Mother I'm feeling so fine now I don't know what to do. Pickle rides the bicycle now very well.
Stewart + Ruth + I have been fishing many times. We feed the fish to the seals. They are so cute and playful!
Boris Gorokhoff has 21,000 stamps. A grand collection! We are all going to Provincetown today. Have to get back in time for the chorus practice tonight tho. I think several of our family etc. are coming up tonight. The concert is Saturday night. Mr. Gorokhoff is the best chorus leader in the country! We have a very pretty + well-done program for the concert - I think. I played + sang Sunday for us all + Ruth sang too.
I'm skipping my job this morning to go to Provincetown. But it's all right.
Miss Haynes a roomer here is going with us today.
Help! I'm needed to help make sandwitches.
Please write soon.
Love
Margaret
P.S. Aunt Sibyl is just fine. You sure would like her. She is so sorry you and Mother aren't here - for then she would have seen the whole family + now she hasn't. Too bad!
We miss you very much.
P.S.S. This is for Mother too.
P.S.S.S. Thank you lots (Mother) for the coat.
P.S.S.S.S. Got cards from Aunt Ruthie.
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Alma always loved writing on stationery, so it's no surprise that she had Fernbank stationery made up. But she isn't mentioned in this letter, so I daresay she has already set out for her two years in India. Something to pay attention for in other letters.
Yesterday Billy and Kathleen, Daddy, Aunt Laura, Aunt Sibyl + her mother and father went to Gay Head.
Laura is at Fernbank. This must be her one visit, when she was shocked by the brevity of the bathing suits.
And Sibyl is there, with her parents, but apparently not Fred. He probably was busy with his work at the hospital in Westboro. Meanwhile the Stokeys are showing off the Cape and Islands to the Hoskings.
AG has commented more than once about that Aunt Laura reminded her of her grandmother Hosking - both of them so very loving - so I would have like to see them together, and it's sort of discordant that the memory of Aunt Laura from this visit is that she was judgmental.
Why weren't Kathleen and Roger there? Maybe another letter will tell me sometime. I said at the top that Roger was in Atlanta, but it's possible that he and his mother were in Savannah, visiting Kathleen's Farmer family - her parents and her sister Ruthie.
In later life, Maggie lived in Washington State and didn't come back east. My family lived in Massachusetts. Growing up, I never saw my Aunt Maggie. I heard a little about her, but I didn't meet her. Then, in the 1980s, when my father - Roger - was in his last illness and could barely talk, he wanted to see her. It took us days to understand what he was trying to say. My mother figured it out, and contacted Maggie, and she came to see us. Reading this letter from Maggie to her little brother, with her reassuring him that the new aunt was OK - it brings tears to my eyes.
Yesterday Billy and Kathleen, Daddy, Aunt Laura, Aunt Sibyl + her mother and father went to Gay Head.
Laura is at Fernbank. This must be her one visit, when she was shocked by the brevity of the bathing suits.
And Sibyl is there, with her parents, but apparently not Fred. He probably was busy with his work at the hospital in Westboro. Meanwhile the Stokeys are showing off the Cape and Islands to the Hoskings.
AG has commented more than once about that Aunt Laura reminded her of her grandmother Hosking - both of them so very loving - so I would have like to see them together, and it's sort of discordant that the memory of Aunt Laura from this visit is that she was judgmental.
Why weren't Kathleen and Roger there? Maybe another letter will tell me sometime. I said at the top that Roger was in Atlanta, but it's possible that he and his mother were in Savannah, visiting Kathleen's Farmer family - her parents and her sister Ruthie.
In later life, Maggie lived in Washington State and didn't come back east. My family lived in Massachusetts. Growing up, I never saw my Aunt Maggie. I heard a little about her, but I didn't meet her. Then, in the 1980s, when my father - Roger - was in his last illness and could barely talk, he wanted to see her. It took us days to understand what he was trying to say. My mother figured it out, and contacted Maggie, and she came to see us. Reading this letter from Maggie to her little brother, with her reassuring him that the new aunt was OK - it brings tears to my eyes.
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