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dc.creatorClark, Jessie May
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-29T14:28:37Z
dc.date.available2021-03-29T14:28:37Z
dc.date.issued1894-02-04
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/44273
dc.descriptionPersonal and school update
dc.format.medium6x9 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 10
dc.subjectClark, Jessie May
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Jr. "Addie"
dc.subjectClark, Robert Carlton "Carlie"
dc.subjectClark, Roy
dc.titleLetter to Addison Clark Jr.
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcriptionThorp. Spring.Feb. 4, 1894.Dear Brother:Last evening we arranged our program for the close. As follows:Salutatory –Pearl BooneOration –E. E. Faris Vocal Solo –WallaceRecitation –Blanche RawlinsEssay –Lula BrickmanVocal Solo –Pearl WylieOration –Carlie ClarkIn. Solo-Will HowardRecitation –Jessie ClarkValedictory –R. L. MillerWhat do you think of this, can you offer any suggestions as to bettering it? And what do you think of me being on duty? Some think it would be better for me not to, as I’m a teacher, and have been to Canada to study Elocution, &c.Do you think it will be all right? I really don’t know what else we could do, -I suppose that is why they put me on as they could do no better. If I do recite I want something real good, and something good for Blanche, too.I have written Uncle Tommie asking him to suggest some pretty pieces. I wish he were near enough for me to go to him for help.SaturdayFriday evening we had sociable at the boarding house. I went with bro. Morrison, Carlie with Miss Emma Taylor, and Blanchewith “Little Shep,” as Mr.Shepherd Jr. is called.Blanche is very popular. She always looks so pretty and can entertain so well it is not at all surprising. I have noticed no change in her, but I never see her but for a few momentsat a time, and have no opportunity to discover the change if there were one. I trust it is only your imagination that makes you think that there might be a change. I have never noticed the young men boarding at her house paying her any more attention than walking to and from school with her occasionally.They have never taken her to a social or to church. They are in the same classes and study together at night, she said and Miss Maud Miller and the young men –so she told me.She had not been to the socials until Carlie took her two evenings Christmasand we have had none since until Friday last. She is kept so busy that I hardly think she could find a convenient time to change if she felt inclined.She and Minnie seemed to think a great deal of the two Mr. Campbells boarding there, the younger is nowteaching school in the country. I’m just judging from the profuse remarks Iheard Minnie make. She and Minnie are very little together since Minnie moved. If Blanche should ever change –which I don’t believe –do you think she would tell you? Don’t let imaginings worry you. You will know the truth in time.I intended going to Granbury yesterday but it rained and was such an ugly day. Will try to go next Saturday. Mr. Burnet won the medal in the military contest yesterday. Yesterday Mr. Forrester was cutting wood and a tree fell on him crushing his leg so badly it had to be taken off clear up to the thigh. Poor man I wonder what he will do if he gets well.We will have a very interesting time in “my menagerie” from now until close of Free school practicing for our “exhibition.” Two months will pass rapidly then an easy time I’ll have. Mr. Faris is journalist and last nightevening he had a very good paper. Wish I had some of his jokes to send, but remember them well enough to tell you, -one good on Carlie and one on me. I will try to get them and send them to you. Mr. Faris and Miss Lula Brickman “have up a case,” Mr. CampbellandLena, Annie and Mr. Chandler, Maggie Brooks and C.B. Rider, Dabney and Ed. Doyle, and LouElla and Mr. Holloway. I think thelast is a settled case now. Poor things! I pitty both. Roy is getting along real well at school. I’m trying to make him get over his timidity, I never saw a more timid child than he was at the first of the session, but he is fast overcoming it. Aunt Alice is going down to see Uncle Tommie soon.Am so sleepy I must take a nap. Thank you for the books, Much love,Sister.


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