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Mary Rockwell Hook 1925 Correspondence
A log from sawmill goes past Big Log House. 1920s [mccullough_II_51a.jpg]
TAGS: Mary Rockwell Hook correspondence 1925, Mrs. Inghram D. Hook, Katherine Pettit, weaving, William and Sal Creech, Fourth of July events, community, health care, Chapel, Aunt Sal’s Cabin, donations, the Mungers, architecture, architects, Big Log,
MARY ROCKWELL HOOK 1925 Correspondence
[Note: Letters from PMSS staff in the PMSS Collections are carbon copies, typewritten, unsigned, and meant for the Office files. The original signed copies were sent to the correspondents. The initials at the bottom left of most PMSS letters indicate the writer (along with initials of the secretary). For example, “EZ” refers to Ethel de Long Zande, “KP” to Katherine Pettit, and “EKW” to Evelyn K. Wells. Mary Rockwell Hook‘s letter is handwritten and original. The following list of contents is in chronological order and not necessarily in the order of the image numbers.]
001 [003] July 9, 1925. Katherine Pettit to Mary Rockwell Hook. “My dear Mrs. Hook” from KP (Pettit), inviting her to visit; describes a meeting of the Junior Agricultural Clubs at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, which several PMSS girls attended and won a prize for a mountain-style weaving demonstration; Uncle William (Creech)’s granddaughter talked about her grandmother’s coverlets and blankets. Pettit then tells about the Fourth of July family gatherings at PMSS: “The mothers led their nags with four or five children on them all wearing Fourth of July caps…. There were some many babies and such a difference in their general health and daintiness since our first Fourth of July celebration twelve years ago! Our nurses and doctors have certainly been good angels for the babies in this district.”
002 [002] July 23, 1925. Ethel de Long Zande to Mary Rockwell Hook. To “Mary dear” from EZ (Zande), responding to Hook’s letter in which Hook expresses a longing to visit PMSS; insists that Hook “come soon” to see the new church (Chapel) and the Girls’ Industrial Building. Zande comments on the house Hook is planning to build for “Emily”; encloses a copy of her letter to Mrs. Martin.
003 [001] September 17, 1925. Evelyn K. Wells to Mary Rockwell Hook.
To “Mary” in Kansas City, MO, from EKW (Wells), asking Hook to forward Wells’ response to Mrs. John Prince in Michigan.
004 [004], [004a] November 27, 1925. Mary Rockwell Hook to Ethel de Long Zande. (2 pages)
[004] asking her to “send designs for the front of the schoolhouse (School House). We hope to remodel it with the boys before school is out, this year. The platform is already made, big enough to accommodate a great many children. The walk goes right straight in to the front. …”; will send photos. Mentions their children, Dick (Hook), Berto (Zande) and Elena (Zande). Describes Thanksgiving, including the basketball team’s game against Wooten: “Fancy eight boys riding in on horseback, from thirty miles away, for a Thanksgiving game!” with dinner and country dancing afterwards. [004a] Reports that “Marguerite Butler and Mrs. Campbell are actually starting the John C. Campbell Folk School at Brasstown, North Carolina….” Mentions Luigi’s (Luigi Zande) desire to see his mother but they can’t afford the trip.
GALLERY: MARY ROCKWELL HOOK Correspondence 1925
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- 001 Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_001]
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- 002 Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_002]
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- 003 Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_003]
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- 004 Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_004]
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- 004a Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_004a]
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- 005 Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_005]
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- 006 Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_006]
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- 008 Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_008]
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- 008a Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_008a]
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- 008b Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_008b]
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- 008c Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_008c]
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- 009 Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_009]
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- 010 Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_010]
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- 011 Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_011]
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- 012 Hook Correspondence, 1925-26. [misc_corresp_1925-26_012]
SEE
MARY ROCKWELL HOOK – Biography
MARY ROEKWELL HOOK Autobiography 1970 “This and That”
MARY ROCKWELL HOOK Correspondence Guide
See Also:
MARY ROCKWELL HOOK Album I – Full Pages
MARY ROCKWELL HOOK PHOTO ALBUM II Part I – Individual Photos
