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Here's a letter nicely tailored to the recipient's interests: music and Christian Science.
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334, Eighth St. N.E.
Atlanta, Ga.
Thursday.
My dear Eva,
I have to go back to my old beginning and say that I am sorry that it is so long since I have written. As usual I have been busy. I believe that I wrote to you after my first trip to Savannah. When Margaret returned from camp she and I went down on the bus. It is of course an all day trip but was very pleasant. We were there a little more than a week and then Will came down in the car, stayed a day and we all came back home and the children started to school the next day and became busy right away. It was very hot in deed. We looked forward to Alma's visit and had about decided that she was not coming when we heard that she was on her way. We enjoyed her visit very much, wished that she could have stayed longer, at least over the week end, so that she could have been here when there was not quite so much night work on hand. The music lessons I did not start until the first of October.
As you know Margaret has finally gone to Agnes Scott. The degree given at Eastman when the major subjects are music is B.M. and with the B.A. only a limited amount of music is allowed. Will did not approve of Margaret working for BM. Thought she should get BA. Musical people who depend on music for their livelihood in this part of the country seem to have quite a hard time of it. Of the colleges around here the Agnes Scott courses are the best. Margaret really enjoys it very much and seems to be doing very well. She has really had very good preparatory work. What she will do next year remains to be seen. I am always hoping that Will will take up some work and cannot bring myself to makes plans under the present conditionsl, in the meantime the years go by. If there is anything that you think I should do I wish you would tell me.
Kathleen was pleased to have a letter from you and of course we all enjoyed hearing from you. The children are all very busy with their school work and other activities. Margaret is to continue her piano lessons. I hope she will get in some singing too. She was disappointed not to get in the College glee Club. The man who has charge of it would not take her in unless she had private lessons. The lessons did not have to be from him, but he said that all his pupils could get into the Glee Club. I had been warned, by people who should know, not to send Margaret to him for private lessons as they did not approve of his teaching.
Do you hear the Damrosch school programme on Friday mornings? I think they are delightfully interesting, and am sorry that the children to not have the privilege of hearing them too.
I know that you must have enjoyed your visit with Alma. I wished so much that she could have spent more time with us, but we were grateful for the two days. We are having such delightful weather, cool and bright and so pleasant. Did you ever think of teaching at Principia? They wrote me that when they opened the new college next year, they hoped to have a music department. Will has just come in to remind me of the fact that I promised to give him an early lunch today, so I must stop writing and go into the kitchen for awhile. I hope that you will have a pleasant winters work. I was of course sorry not to get to my Association this year. I forget whether I told you that Mr. and Mrs. Rathvon were here for a few days in May. Mrs. Rathvon came to address an association here.
Much love,
Kathleen.
Atlanta, Ga.
Thursday.
My dear Eva,
I have to go back to my old beginning and say that I am sorry that it is so long since I have written. As usual I have been busy. I believe that I wrote to you after my first trip to Savannah. When Margaret returned from camp she and I went down on the bus. It is of course an all day trip but was very pleasant. We were there a little more than a week and then Will came down in the car, stayed a day and we all came back home and the children started to school the next day and became busy right away. It was very hot in deed. We looked forward to Alma's visit and had about decided that she was not coming when we heard that she was on her way. We enjoyed her visit very much, wished that she could have stayed longer, at least over the week end, so that she could have been here when there was not quite so much night work on hand. The music lessons I did not start until the first of October.
As you know Margaret has finally gone to Agnes Scott. The degree given at Eastman when the major subjects are music is B.M. and with the B.A. only a limited amount of music is allowed. Will did not approve of Margaret working for BM. Thought she should get BA. Musical people who depend on music for their livelihood in this part of the country seem to have quite a hard time of it. Of the colleges around here the Agnes Scott courses are the best. Margaret really enjoys it very much and seems to be doing very well. She has really had very good preparatory work. What she will do next year remains to be seen. I am always hoping that Will will take up some work and cannot bring myself to makes plans under the present conditionsl, in the meantime the years go by. If there is anything that you think I should do I wish you would tell me.
Kathleen was pleased to have a letter from you and of course we all enjoyed hearing from you. The children are all very busy with their school work and other activities. Margaret is to continue her piano lessons. I hope she will get in some singing too. She was disappointed not to get in the College glee Club. The man who has charge of it would not take her in unless she had private lessons. The lessons did not have to be from him, but he said that all his pupils could get into the Glee Club. I had been warned, by people who should know, not to send Margaret to him for private lessons as they did not approve of his teaching.
Do you hear the Damrosch school programme on Friday mornings? I think they are delightfully interesting, and am sorry that the children to not have the privilege of hearing them too.
I know that you must have enjoyed your visit with Alma. I wished so much that she could have spent more time with us, but we were grateful for the two days. We are having such delightful weather, cool and bright and so pleasant. Did you ever think of teaching at Principia? They wrote me that when they opened the new college next year, they hoped to have a music department. Will has just come in to remind me of the fact that I promised to give him an early lunch today, so I must stop writing and go into the kitchen for awhile. I hope that you will have a pleasant winters work. I was of course sorry not to get to my Association this year. I forget whether I told you that Mr. and Mrs. Rathvon were here for a few days in May. Mrs. Rathvon came to address an association here.
Much love,
Kathleen.
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1.
We looked forward to Alma's visit and had about decided that she was not coming when we heard that she was on her way. We enjoyed her visit very much, wished that she could have stayed longer, at least over the week end, so that she could have been here when there was not quite so much night work on hand.
I wonder what else Alma was doing on this trip. It can't be so terribly long - a few months at most - since she got back from India. Was this the first time that Will and Kathleen saw her after she got back?
And then she went down south again - see:
1931-12-30 LETTER FROM BILLY TO EVA
...in which Billy says:
We went down to the station on Monday and saw Aunt Alma.
I figure "night work" is what I would have called homework, for school.
2.
As you know Margaret has finally gone to Agnes Scott. The degree given at Eastman when the major subjects are music is B.M. and with the B.A. only a limited amount of music is allowed.
I couldn't find anything about an Eastman school or college in the Atlanta area with a music curriculum.
3.
Do you hear the Damrosch school programme on Friday mornings?
This seems to be the following, from Wikipedia:
Music Appreciation Hour was a National Broadcasting Company radio series that offered lectures on classical music aimed at students. The show was part of a broader mid-20th-century movement to popularize serious music. From 1928 to 1942, orchestra conductor Walter Damrosch hosted the show.
As for Walter Damrosch, Wikipedia says:
Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30, 1862 – December 22, 1950) was a Kingdom of Prussia-born American conductor and composer. He was the director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and conducted the world premiere performances of various works, including Aaron Copland's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F and An American in Paris, and Jean Sibelius' Tapiola. Damrosch was also instrumental in the founding of Carnegie Hall. He also conducted the first performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the composer himself as soloist.
4.
We are having such delightful weather, cool and bright and so pleasant.
I get the impression that Kathleen - who, after all, grew up in England - really did not like the heat of the South.
5.
I was of course sorry not to get to my Association this year. I forget whether I told you that Mr. and Mrs. Rathvon were here for a few days in May. Mrs. Rathvon came to address an association here.
This is Christian Science stuff. The Rathvons lived in Boston, and Kathleen had stayed with them there in 1927 - see:
1927-08-04 LETTER FROM BILLY TO KATHLEEN
We looked forward to Alma's visit and had about decided that she was not coming when we heard that she was on her way. We enjoyed her visit very much, wished that she could have stayed longer, at least over the week end, so that she could have been here when there was not quite so much night work on hand.
I wonder what else Alma was doing on this trip. It can't be so terribly long - a few months at most - since she got back from India. Was this the first time that Will and Kathleen saw her after she got back?
And then she went down south again - see:
1931-12-30 LETTER FROM BILLY TO EVA
...in which Billy says:
We went down to the station on Monday and saw Aunt Alma.
I figure "night work" is what I would have called homework, for school.
2.
As you know Margaret has finally gone to Agnes Scott. The degree given at Eastman when the major subjects are music is B.M. and with the B.A. only a limited amount of music is allowed.
I couldn't find anything about an Eastman school or college in the Atlanta area with a music curriculum.
3.
Do you hear the Damrosch school programme on Friday mornings?
This seems to be the following, from Wikipedia:
Music Appreciation Hour was a National Broadcasting Company radio series that offered lectures on classical music aimed at students. The show was part of a broader mid-20th-century movement to popularize serious music. From 1928 to 1942, orchestra conductor Walter Damrosch hosted the show.
As for Walter Damrosch, Wikipedia says:
Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30, 1862 – December 22, 1950) was a Kingdom of Prussia-born American conductor and composer. He was the director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and conducted the world premiere performances of various works, including Aaron Copland's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F and An American in Paris, and Jean Sibelius' Tapiola. Damrosch was also instrumental in the founding of Carnegie Hall. He also conducted the first performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the composer himself as soloist.
4.
We are having such delightful weather, cool and bright and so pleasant.
I get the impression that Kathleen - who, after all, grew up in England - really did not like the heat of the South.
5.
I was of course sorry not to get to my Association this year. I forget whether I told you that Mr. and Mrs. Rathvon were here for a few days in May. Mrs. Rathvon came to address an association here.
This is Christian Science stuff. The Rathvons lived in Boston, and Kathleen had stayed with them there in 1927 - see:
1927-08-04 LETTER FROM BILLY TO KATHLEEN
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