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This page covers people whom Alma met in India. And other places. It started out just India, but I really wanted to put Professor Bower somewhere.
At the moment there is just Mrs. Thivy and Bea Cosmey. I'm just starting to look at the India letters some more, so we'll see if this page ever amounts to anything. Hmm...I think I need to add Edith Coon. And Professor Bower, now that I've changed this page just for him.
Mrs. Thivy was Francesca Thivy - Fanny Thivy, I believe. Maybe Fannie Thivy. Alma knew her at the Women's Christian College in Madras (Chennai). She came to the US in 1939 to study, and spent time at Fernbank and got stuck here because of World War II. That's the basics. I need to do more. I think Alma and Glady saw her in their 1956-7 trip around the world, and I think there's a letter from her that I could upload. (Yup. There is.)
Bea Cosmey was Beatrice S. Cosmey. Later she came to Woods Hole, and her name is on Glady's picnic tablecloth.
Alma met Professor Bower when she was in England in 1910, and met him there again in 1936. Wikipedia says:
Frederick Orpen Bower FRSE FRS(4 November 1855 – 11 April 1948) was an English botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1909 and the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1938. He was president of the British Association in 1929–1930.
There's a picture of Professor Bower in the 6/26/1936 letter listed here. Someday I'll get around to putting it in in this page.
There's an Eleanor Mason that gets mentioned in the 1933 Fernbank News and the 1945 Fernbank News, but I know nothing about her.
Eleanor MacDougall is mentioned in a 1936 letter. She was head of the Women's Christian College for...um...many years, before going back to England. In 1940 she wrote Alma about her home being destroyed in the Blitz. There's a Wikipedia article for her, but it isn't overly informative.
At the moment there is just Mrs. Thivy and Bea Cosmey. I'm just starting to look at the India letters some more, so we'll see if this page ever amounts to anything. Hmm...I think I need to add Edith Coon. And Professor Bower, now that I've changed this page just for him.
Mrs. Thivy was Francesca Thivy - Fanny Thivy, I believe. Maybe Fannie Thivy. Alma knew her at the Women's Christian College in Madras (Chennai). She came to the US in 1939 to study, and spent time at Fernbank and got stuck here because of World War II. That's the basics. I need to do more. I think Alma and Glady saw her in their 1956-7 trip around the world, and I think there's a letter from her that I could upload. (Yup. There is.)
Bea Cosmey was Beatrice S. Cosmey. Later she came to Woods Hole, and her name is on Glady's picnic tablecloth.
Alma met Professor Bower when she was in England in 1910, and met him there again in 1936. Wikipedia says:
Frederick Orpen Bower FRSE FRS(4 November 1855 – 11 April 1948) was an English botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1909 and the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1938. He was president of the British Association in 1929–1930.
There's a picture of Professor Bower in the 6/26/1936 letter listed here. Someday I'll get around to putting it in in this page.
There's an Eleanor Mason that gets mentioned in the 1933 Fernbank News and the 1945 Fernbank News, but I know nothing about her.
Eleanor MacDougall is mentioned in a 1936 letter. She was head of the Women's Christian College for...um...many years, before going back to England. In 1940 she wrote Alma about her home being destroyed in the Blitz. There's a Wikipedia article for her, but it isn't overly informative.
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- 1910-09-05 LETTER FROM ALMA TO MAMA MARGARET ---- Professor Bower
- 1930-01-23 LETTER FROM ALMA TO KATHLEEN ---- Bea Cosmey
- 1931-01-11 INDIA INKLINGS VOLUME II NUMBER 4---- Edith Coon, Eleanor McDougall
- 1933-08-07 FERNBANK NEWS ---- Eleanor Mason
- 1936-06-24 POSTCARD FROM ALMA TO EVA ---- Professor Bower
- 1936-06-26 LETTER FROM ALMA TO EVA ---- Bea Cosmey, Professor Bower
- 1936-06-28 LETTER FROM ALMA TO EVA ---- Eleanor MacDougall
- 1936-12-25 CHRISTMAS CARD FROM PROFESSOR BOWER TO ALMA ---- Professor Bower
- 1937-01-13 LETTER FROM ALMA TO EVA ---- Mrs. Thivy
- 1939-07-03 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE MENTIONING ALMA ---- Mrs. Thivy
- 1940-12-19 LETTER TO ALMA FROM HER FRIEND ELEANOR McDOUGALL ---- Mrs. Thivy, Eleanor McDougall
- 1942-10-04 FERNBANK NEWS ---- Mrs. Thivy
- 1945-08-23 FERNBANK NEWS ---- Mrs. Thivy and Eleanor Mason
- 1958-12-09 LETTER FROM ALMA TO EVA ---- Bea Cosmey
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I think we probably have a picture of Mrs. Thivy, but I need to look for it.
LATER: Yup. They're with the Fernbank News - 1942 or 1945. I'll copy them here sometime.
LATER: Yup. They're with the Fernbank News - 1942 or 1945. I'll copy them here sometime.
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