SERIES III:  ARABELLA BRAY DE LONG
Folder 6.  Letters, 1918. 43 items. 

April 19 [1918]  Friday.  Between 12 and one o’clock.  “Arabella, at her desk, writing to on her very bestist paper to her small daughter Helen…”  [postmarked Norwich, Conn. Apr 19  6:30 PM 1918; addressed to Miss Helen Bray de Long c/o Miss Bertha Scripture Lincoln Massachusetts]

“Sunday morning.  April showers are falling, Church bells are sounding, birds are singing and Arabella sits in the big rocking chair…”  [postmarked Norwich, Conn. Apr 21 6 PM 1918; addressed to Miss Helen Bray de Long c/o Miss Bertha Scripture Lincoln Massachusetts]

April 22, 1918.  “My Sweetheart; Your Saturday letter came about an hour ago…”  [postmarked Norwich, Conn. Apr 22 8 PM 1918; addressed to Miss Helen Bray de Long c/o Miss Bertha Scripture Lincoln Massachusetts]

“Wednesday morning 7.46 o’clock.  Darling Child; Good morning!! and this is a good morning in very truth…”  [postmarked Norwich, Conn. Apr 24 8 PM 1918; addressed to Miss Helen Bray de Long c/o Miss Bertha Scripture Lincoln Massachusetts]

April 27, 1918.  “My precious darling;  Here is mother on the fourth floor of the University Club in a very pleasant room.”  [written on Women’s University Club 106 East Fifty-Second Street stationery]

April 28, 1918.  “My darling daughter Helen; It is between six and seven o’clock.  Ethel and Arab are supposed to be resting awhile.”  [written on Women’s University Club 106 East Fifty-Second Street stationery]

April 30, 1918.  The Annex.  “My own darling Child; It does seem as if we were quite miles and miles apart, when I remember the railway journeys I’ve taken since I left Norwich Town on Saturday last…”

Wednesday—Two thirty o’clock.  Ethel is sitting in front of one big window Arab in the other…”

May 2, 1918.  “Beloved Child; It is really quite like a May morning tho’ there is a chill in the air especially if you face the wind.”  [written on The Sanitarium Clifton Springs, New York stationery]

May 3, 1918.  “Ho, My Sweetheart; Lovely lovely daughter Helen, Your May basket letter is a joy and I do thank you…” [written on The Sanitarium Clifton Springs, New York stationery]

May 5, 1918.  Sunday.  “My precious child; Howdy? this first Sunday in May.”

May 6, 1918.  Thursday. [sic]  “My most precious daughter Helen; Of course you mother ought to be paying up some of her old debts and writing to folks who really need a letter from Arabella…”

May 10 [1918]  Friday morning.  “My beloved Child; dearest daughter Helen—You are just about to begin your work at School…”

May 14, 1918.  “My dearling Child—Howdy to-day? Good I’m hoping.”  [written on The Sanitarium Clifton Springs, New York stationery]

May 15, 1918.  125 Jewett Avenue, Buffalo, New York.  “My beloved daughter Helen; You will see, by the above address, that we arrived.”

May 16, 1918.  “My very very darling Child; I must send you a wee line to-night…” [written on The Sanitarium Clifton Springs, New York stationery]

May 16, 1918.  Wilmer Stone to Arabella de Long.  On back letter from Arabella to Helen.

May 17 [1918]  1.20.  “Darling; Here’s just a big bunch of loving, tender thoughts and hopes…” [written on The Sanitarium Clifton Springs, New York stationery]

May 17 [1918]  5 o’clock.  “Child of my heart, here is dearest love to you and the fourth communication within twenty four hours.”

Thursday evening.  “My very darling daughter; I truly haven’t a word to say but I must just speak to you, with pen and ink, again this week.”

May 23, 1918. “Darling; It is now four fifteen by the reading room clock.”  [written on The Sanitarium Clifton Springs, New York stationery]

Sunday.  Two o’clock.  “My beloved Child; If I could only know that you are now this very minute quite as welll as I am I’d be a most happy creature…”  [written on the back of a letter from Edmond C. Ingalls to Arabella, dated May 17, 1918]

“I sent Ethel a check for $2.50 from your check…”  [note written on the back of a letter to Helen from Wm. Filene’s Sons Company dated May 21, 1918]

May 28, 1918.  “My own most beloved daughter Helen; There! that’s along sentence is it not?”  [written on The Sanitarium Clifton Springs, New York stationery]

May 30, 1918.  “My own beloved Child; Your very precious letter, I have with me and I am just longing to re-read it over and over.”  [written on The Sanitarium Clifton Springs, New York stationery]

“Precious One; Your most delightful is a joy and I am happy to have it.”  [sic]

June 4 [1918]  Tuesday.  Eleven o’clock.  “My own darling Helen; How I wish that you instead of Arabella, were leading a very lazy, almost luxuriant life.”

June 20, 1918.  Tuesday.  ‘my beloved Child; How I wished that you and ‘Sister‘ were with us last night when we took the wonderful ride, from her [sic] to Easthampton…”

June 26, 1918.  Wednesday.  Ingalls Retreat.  “My own darling Helen; Child beloved, this is to assure you of my safe arrival at the lovely, quiet Retreat…”

June 27, 1918.  The Retreat.  “My precious love; How I do love you and long to know that you are in health.”

“Friday afternoon.  Last edition.  My very dearest dear; Who dy spose [sic] I saw yesterday?”

June 29 [1918]  Saturday morning.  “Most precious child Helen; with dearest love I greet you and pray for your well being.”

Sunday.  Early evening.  “My darling CHild; I am hoping that you arrived in due time…”

July 1, 1918.  Monday.  “Mr Ingalls is working the garden…”

July 6, 1918.  Saturday morning.  “Here I am my most beloved; and I am sending out thoughts of deepest love and longing for you and dear ‘Sister’ just wanting you…”

July 8 [1918] Monday morning.  “Good morning; My darling maid, and how dy do to-day? [sic]”

July 9 [1918]  Tuesday.  “Mr Ingalls on his way to Somerville…”

Saturday morning.  “Just a word, my precious Love; I am hoping that you are having a happy, restful time…”  [postmarked Jul  remainder illegible; addressed to Miss Helen Bray de Long c/o Miss Alice Howe Wakefield, Massachusetts]

July 13, 1918.  North Reading.  “Howdy my Sweetheart; I am hoping that you are better…”

Saturday evening. [November?]  “My own precious child: I simply could not send you…”

“Sunday, Two Thirty o’clock, Arabella alone in her room.”

“Tuesday, Twelve fifty, and nearly time for dinner…”

Wednesday.  “My Treasure, ‘beloved and longed for’ and yet, Sweetheart..”