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dc.creatorClark, Bessie
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-01T20:20:58Z
dc.date.available2021-03-01T20:20:58Z
dc.date.issued1901-12-15
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/43792
dc.descriptionLetter about moving to Amarillo and wanting to be home for Christmas
dc.format.medium5x8 paper
dc.relationClark Family Letters
dc.rightsPrior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph
dc.sourceBox 2, Folder 5, Item 3
dc.subjectClark, Bessie
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Sr.
dc.subjectClark, Sally McQuigg (Mrs. Addison)
dc.subjectClark, Zemula "Zemmie"
dc.titleLetter to Addison Clark
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcriptionAustin Texas.Dec 15th1901My Dear Father,I have gotten your letter and card since I wrote to you.I hope you got the little presents all right. I didn’t get them off until Monday afternoon, we didn’t have enough stamps to mail them and our letters Monday morning. I am glad you like that country and the people. It wont be very easy to get a place to live out there will it? I am anxious for summer to come so we can move. I want to find a place to teach out there somewhere. It would be nice if we could get a place in the Amarillo school. Mother would not mind moving if she knew some of us would be at home. I would like to be there and take an active part in the church work. I havent felt like I belonged to any church in so long, moving about from one place to another and going to one church just a little while makes a body less interested in church work. Your birthday letter did me lots of good. It was very nice of you to say you forgotthe year. But I am not so old yet that I care for the years being mentioned this was the 22ndone I believe.Thatisnt very old but it seems like a longlongtime since I was a child. Your children must seem like very queer people to you. I have often wished that I could tell you how much I have always loved and admired my Father and how proud I have always been of him. But I never can express my feelings and in that I am just like you and like Mother too. I think it is a misfortune for people to be that way. But it is good to have the love in your heart any way and there are other ways of showing it besides just talking. I have always been very proud of my name too and I have always felt like I ought to do something great and good to justify my name and repay your love and care. But I wasn’t made for doing great things, that courage that is necessary to have in order to cope with the world was left out of my make up. So I shall have to be content to be just an ordinary woman and make some man a good wife. That in itself isnt a very easy thing to dohowever,butthere isnt much glory or honor to be gained. We will be at home this time next week. We wontdo much butread eat and talkbut we will enjoy being at home again. I wish people could stay at their homesdon’t you? You will get spoiled boarding all this time, you wont want to go back to milking cows and cutting wood will you? I feel like I ought to go home and stay Christmas, I know Mother must get lonesome and it really isnt right for us all tostay away. I never would have consented to come down here but Sister and Zem were so determined that I should come. It seems so uselessly selfish for us to all be down here whenBrother or I either we could stay at home. He wont but I would so gladly. I hope you wont freeze this kind of weather, stay by the fire all the time.Lots of love from,Bessie Ruth.


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