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dc.creatorClark, Jessie May
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-29T14:28:38Z
dc.date.available2021-03-29T14:28:38Z
dc.date.issued1894-07-07
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/44279
dc.descriptionPersonal 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 16
dc.subjectClark, Jessie May
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Jr. "Addie"
dc.titleLetter to Addison Clark Jr.
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcriptionWaxahachie, Texas.July 7, 1894.My dear Brother:Was so glad to receive your letter. Am having a delightful time here, living in grand style, -earing lots and getting fat, -going driving every day, hearing good preaching every morning and evening. Papa seems glad to have me with him, wants me to go to Oak Cliff with him after the meeting here. Blanche has not come in yet -we will stay part of next week to the meeting then go out to her place for awhile. I’m so anxious to see her, seems an age since I was with her. She seems like one of us –we all love her. I think I can arrange for her to go to scyhool next year, if her folks will consent, which I’m very fearful of. It is almost impossible to get them to let her do anything I propose. Mrs. R–is as contrary and stubborn as any one could be, and they won’t let B–get back to school if they can prevent. They have a match for her down there, and they are going to do all in their power to marry her to Otis Derrit. Don’t mention this –they can never do it. What I purpose doing is this. The college owes me more than enough to pay her tuition for the session, and every teacher is allowed to put in one on back salary. She can pay me when she wishes –or never, it makes no difference. The trouble will be about the board, we want her to stay with us and she wont do it without paying, and she can’t do that. We don’t want her to pay anything. Papasaid he would board, clothe and pay her tuition if she would stay with us, but of course we can’t purpose anything of the kind. If I can’t get her to accept my proposition and go to school, I’ll have her out there any way to assist in the Primary. There will be a regularly employed assistant this session –about $40 per month. She could assist during the Free school and attend after it closes. Of course this would bring her very little nearer graduation, but we would have her with us, and she would be improving some, it would at least be pleasanter for her, and she would then be independent. If I were to be at home another year I would propose this for next session, and for her to go to school and graduate the next. I wouldmake her save enough to carry her through. The trouble is May and Mrs. R–will take everything she makes. You can’t imagine how they impose on her, May takes everything she has. Write me what you think best be done. I’ll go out next week and talk with her brothers and mother –I hardly expect anything out of them. The only way I can accomplish what I wish is to tell Blanche she is ungrateful and does not consider me her friend, and then she will tell them she is going any way and they can saywhat they will. She can’t bear for me to think this, or get mad at her, and I don’t like to make her think I feel that way, for I do not. I know just how she feels. But I will use any means to get her there. This is the only way I could get her to stay last session. She would rather be with us than at home, and we know it, and she knows and it, and her folks know it. Enough. I’m surprised at Carlie writing as he did. I know Uncle Tommie and Aunt Alice talk like they were sure of you stayingbeing with him in the school, but I thought nothing of it. You had not written us positively you would or would not go down there, and I thought if you had promised him it was all right. I wrote you do to whatever you thought best, and you know I’m satisfied with whatever you do. You know what confidence I have in you, and I love you to well to ever question anything you do –or anything I might not understand. I want you to always feel that it is all right with me, whatever the others may think.I know you love me, and are always grateful for any little thingI can do for you. I would not want you to go in with Uncle Tommie and Miss Mollie, because I think you can do better. I’m a little doubtful about that enterprize anyway, and I would not want you to find yourself in any wayto it. I would be perfectly willing for you to teach down there if they paid you well, and if after while you saw that it was a good thing then take interest in it if you wished. I leave everything to your good judgment, -and I will agree to your plans. If you write soon as receiving this you may send here, if not send home –I will be there in two or three weeks. I’m glad you have some thing to do this summer, hope it will be pleasant work, and pay you well.Do want you to go to Niagara and Grimsby–be sureto see the Whytes, and give them my love.Their cottage is “Blithe Brae” on Lake Front, you can easily find it.Waxahachie is a lovely place, I’m delighted with it. Think I would like to live here. Must quit.Excuse such a scribble. Much love,Yours,Sister.Sunday –Had four callers this evening at six, all at one time –the best young men in Waxahachie –they tell me.I appreciate it very much. Don’t you think I did well to entertain four strangers? I get along twelve or fourteen page letter every week from Messrs. C-& J.-good letters too, I let papa read them occasionally.


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