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dc.creatorClark, Jessie May
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-29T14:28:37Z
dc.date.available2021-03-29T14:28:37Z
dc.date.issued1894-01-27
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/44272
dc.descriptionReference to Add-Ran society and Blanche update
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 1, Item 9
dc.subjectClark, Jessie May
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Jr. "Addie"
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Sr.
dc.subjectClark, Zemula "Zemmie"
dc.subjectAddRan Literary Society
dc.titleLetter to Addison Clark Jr.
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcriptionThorp Spring, TexasJan. 27.1894.Dear Brother:You were mistaken if you thought that out of the abundance of my goodness and unselfishness I sent you the picture Blanche gave me. Of course I’m pleased to know you think me so thoughtful, considerate, unselfish,–but I must not let you give me creditfor what I do not deserve. I would most certainly have supposed Blanche sent you a picture had I not known it. I never thought to explain about the one I sent and of course it was but natural you should conclude I had deniedmyself for your sake. Blanche sent you one of the pictures she first received, -the second ones she received being much better she decided to send you one of them and knowing we were going to send ours soon she gave me one of hers to send with them. The one she gave me stands on thepiano in the parlor, with yours by the side of it.I’m glad you don’t like my picture –for if you did I would have to believe I look like that. I don’t doubt but that I look so sometimes, but I don’t like to think so. Mama and the children delight to say how good the picture is and how much it looks like me. The next pretty Saturday I’m going to Granbury just for the purpose of having my photo taken and if they are no better I’ll give it up, and become reconciled to the fact that I’m not as I thought I was. We were delighted with Col. Bain –but I think I told you last Sunday how we were pleased with him. I have a fearful cold now and makes me feel miserably. We have had a few fearfully cold days, the coldest I’ve ever known. I often think of our snug little room at Mr. Cotners and wish I had it here. Our rooms are all so open and uncomfortable. I’m sure you will like Zemmie’s picture, we all think it excellent. She takes such a good picture. You should hunt up the kinsfolk before vacation in orderto receive an invitation to visit them during the summer. I haven’t a very great desire to visit the kinsfolk in Mo., -am not in a moodfor such quiet pleasure, -but would most certainly enjoya visit to Detroit and on up to Grimsby with you. How glorious that would be! But I don’t suppose I must think of it, for I want to be as economical as possible so that I may attend school after next session. I’m looking and planning for this now and can enjoy most anything in anticipation of it. I suppose it would not take much more than fifty dollars to go to Detroit and back, would it? I might spare that much and still be able to go to school in ’95. But we want a buggy so much, and that $50 would pay half. There is no store here and we can get nothing without going to Granbury –and no way to go except on the hack, which costs fifty cents every trip.I want Carlie to send his orations to you to criticize when he finishes them. I’m soanxious for him to have them well prepared and deliver them well. I will drill him good on delivering them. He does not deliver well and I’ve wanted to go in my Elocution class, but he won’t.Papa wants me to give up the elocution classes because they keep me confined so late, but I enjoy them and it brings me a little –thoughnot much. I’m beginning to prepare for closing exercises of the free-school –quite an undertaking -but could not go through the session without something of the kind and there will not be enough after the free school classes. I can’t get up the entertainment for the society I had anticipated for they are always having some pay something, -and some thoughtit would not do to have it just for the Add-Ran society,–besides I have not enough time or material. Every one is so busy. I wish now I had agreed to recite for the association in March,but I thought then I could get up a recital. I don’t like it much because they did not ask Blanche, but asked both LouElla and Lena, -they have not begun on their prices yet. I fear it will be a poor affair. A “tacky” play, two recitations, an oration, and music.I wish I had the selections on that program you sent me –judging from the names I think they must be good. Were you present and were anyof the selections extra. The young lady was not at the school this past summer.I’m in need of some good pieces, and am at a loss where to send. Who besides Blanche do you think we should put on recitation for the close? We have no others who recite even moderately well. I’ve never heard Pearl –doyou think she could be trained to do well enough to come on in June? Ifyou know of any piece that would be good for B –to say in June please send me the name of it, for I must be getting her something. I have no fear but that she will carry off the honorson that occasion and will do all in my power to help her. Enough scribbling for this time.Much love,Yours,Sister.


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