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dc.creatorClark, Jessie May
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-29T14:28:38Z
dc.date.available2021-03-29T14:28:38Z
dc.date.issuedn.d.
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/44287
dc.descriptionPersonal and family 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 24
dc.subjectClark, Jessie May
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Jr. "Addie"
dc.subjectClark, Bessie
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Sr.
dc.subjectClark, Robert Carlton "Carlie"
dc.titleLetter to Addison Clark Jr.
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcriptionSaturday Morning. Dear Brother:Your letter rec’d yesterday. I am not at all surprised at your state of feeling. I was sure you would feel just as wedid. I’m sorry it was necessary for me to tell you of it because it would cause you so much worry and pain. But you can’t do anything, we can’t mend matters, but just have to live it down.Try not to think too hard of papa –his idea of right and justiceare very different from ours. We can never have the same love and respect for him again, I fear, but lets try to return good for evil, and endeavor to show him we are deserving of his confidence and trust. It has been a great struggle for me to master myfeeling enough to even speak pleasantly to him, but I’m trying. We are never all together except at meal time and then very little is said, though we all try to be pleasant, -while the heart is heavy. Try to write to papa just as before, for your letters are a source of much pleasure to him,–he devours every word. He is proud of you and his only hope is in you, -he is disappointed in his other children, so don’t write anything that will make him feel towards you as he does towards me. We will try to forgive and forget the wrong before you are with us again.I want you to go next year there, just as we had planned. I’ve set my heart on you taking a degree. After you finish there will be time enough to send Bessie off to school, and in the mean time she will keep up her studies with me. When you come home we will work together and let Carlie and Bessie both go to school. Carlie can make enough in one year to go one and we can send Bessie. Lets look on the cheerful side and try to be happy whatever misfortunes come. We won’t be put down by any body.Much love my dear brother. Don’t think of unpleasant things. Do your best. Yours –Sister.


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