Letters to her family. August-December 1905.
SERIES I: ETHEL DE LONG ZANDE. FOLDER CONTENTS.
Folder 8. Letters to her family. August-December 1905. 39 items.
In August 1905 she was visiting at Hindman. She received an offer to teach in Indianapolis at Manual High School and went there in September. She lived at 29 East Pratt Street.
August 6, 1905. Dearest Mother. It seemed so long from your last letter till last night…
August 13, 1905. Dearest Mother: My letter should be dated Lacybourn, England…
September 17, 1905. [error: it was August] Dearest Mother and Father: Three little girls of six or seven years each….
Dear ones of mine: It is evening, and at the close of my first day in Indiana….
My dears: You are sitting down to supper, I reckon…
Dears: I have just come in from a swift walk….
Dears: You-all are aimin- to miss me, heant you?
September 17, 1905. My very dear ones: How much I wish I could talk to you to-day, face to face….
[September 18, 1905] I have just got out my best stationery to do justice to this happy occasion!
[possibly October 1] My dear, dear ones: How glad I am, this Sunday morning, that I can think of you still….
Fragment: my room to-night so you can imagine me more specifically…
My very dear ones: What a long long time it seems since last Friday, when I heard fully from you!
My dear ones: The air has been full of golden lights all day to-day…
My very dear ones: It grieves me so to know of the illness you’ve been having, Mother dear…
Dearest Mother: This letter is especially to you, because you are sick, and anyway….
Dear ones: Every day when I come from school I cross ten or twelve tracks,—an ugly enough prospect, you would think—
[Sunday prior to October 20] My own dear three: I have just been rereading the three lovely letters that came from you…
My birthday. Dearest Mother: Was it worth while, you wondered in this morning’s letter…
My very dear ones: What a long time it seems since I wrote 146 Bay St. last, on Friday my birthday!
My dearest Mother; What wouldn’t I give to be spending this Sunday at home with you….
Helen dear: After such a good letter from you as came last Tuesday, I must send you…
My dear dear ones: I have just finished the article on Hindman and the fire, that Miss Pettit asked me to write for a New England paper and the Outlook…
My darling Mother: Just a word or so for your very own, and the first one will be to tell…
Mother dearest: It is lovely to have two letters of yours to reply to, since I wrote to you….
My precious ones: What a happy day I have had! First thing this morning I got a lovely…
6.55 Thanksgiving Morning. My dear ones: It’s a good thing we can’t tell what is going…
Precious Mother: I have time for only a wee note to you before supper…
My dearest Mother; Mails from the East were late this week, I suspect, for…
My dearest Mother: The principal thing on my mind tonight is Lucy.
Dearest Mother: I hoped for a letter from your own dear hand this morning…
Dearest Mother: Those tears of discouragement that you shed on Thursday morning…
My very dear ones: It has been raining so steadily and quietly to-day…
Dearest Mother: I wonder where you are to-day—whether you stayed over…
Dear ones: I am writing in the Auditorium of school, while I keep a few children in order…
My dearest ones: You don’t know how grieved I am to hear that my little girl is sick…
My dearest ones; A peaceful, blessed, mirthful Christmas to you!
My dearest family, Father, Mother Helen; Here I sit in the late afternoon in a room full of Christmas presents…
“To resume,” “As I was saying,” I had a good good time at the Birges…
My dearest Mother: I am glad I went to the postoffice this morning for I found your….
