SERIES I: ETHEL MARGUERITE DE LONG ZANDE
Folder 63 .  Unclassified letters to her family.  19 items.

This folder contains letters which we have not been able to assign accurately to a specific year or period within a year.   

“Dearest Mother—By all means take the Franklin Street house.  Neighborhood, location, space—all make it seem much more desirable.”  6:30 A.M. Wednesday.

“Dearie:  The log in the fireplakce is almost burned out, but before it is quite gone, I must send you word of my safe arrival here.”

Friday at six.  “My dear little sister,—Here I am!  And it is fine to be back, if only a certain person I know were having the same sort of good time.”

“Dear Ones: It is already time for me to set forth to dinner, so you see you are not going to get any adequate answer to your fine letters, which came Tuesday.”

“My precious Mother,—This is just a little private word of love, to tell you how dear a lady you are—& how sorry, sorry, sorry I am for all your lonely hours.”

Card. “Miss Helen de Long.”  “With more love than I ever dream of on the February morning when you were a tiny stranger…”

“Dearest Mother: I hate to think you have been ill, and are still!”

“Dearest Mother—I think Puritan Arabella is a sweet one.  It’s a lovely Easter present.”

[On Pine Mountain Settlement School stationery pre-marriage]  “My dear—I am about to join the Nat’l D.A.R. so as to have an additional ‘pull’ in getting their interest…”

[On Pine Mountain Settlement School stationery pre-marriage] “Dearest Lady—This place is swarming with children & visitors.”

[On Pine Mountain Settlement School stationery pre-marriage] Monday.  “My dears, Of course you’ve guessed why I’ve been silent?”

[On Pine Mountain Settlement School stationery pre-marriage] Mon.  “Nobody outside the family well ever understand the relief we feel in knowing that dearest Arab hasn’t some mysterious incurable disease.”

“Have sent enclosed to N.Y. & N.J. people on mailing list.”

[On Pine Mountain Settlement School stationery pre-marriage]  Fragment.  “Best love in the world always.”

Sunday night.  “Dearests—My telegram must have reached you today”

[On Pine Mountain Settlement School stationery “Zande”] Mon.  “Dearest arab Wherever are you?  What a funny feeling I have not knowing!”

[On Pine Mountain Settlement School stationery “Zande”]  “Loveliest kimono for E.!”

Thursday.  “Darlingest Little Berto—Mother’s Little Duckie…”

“Dear Berto, I can hardly wait to hear if the dump truck has come.”