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dc.creatorClark, Jessie May
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-29T14:28:39Z
dc.date.available2021-03-29T14:28:39Z
dc.date.issued1893-01-08
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/44295
dc.descriptionPersonal and church 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 2, Item 5
dc.subjectClark, Jessie May
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Sr.
dc.titleLetter to Family
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcriptionGreenwood, Texas.Jan. 8, 1893.My dear papa:-Your good long letter was received yesterday and cheered me so much. I had been suffering all day with the head ache and as there were no school duties to divert my thoughts they would wander to that dear home ofmine and I could not drive away the homesick feeling.Yes this last week we have had the most delightful weather I ever saw and, as you say, it couldnotpossiblybe improved on The week was an unusually long one, but not tiresome, I believe I enjoyed it more than any of the past. I am becoming more engrossed in my work every day, find new pleasure in it all the time. I never appear before any of my classes with any other feeling that that it is a privilege and great pleasure to ____to instruct them. I tell you this, dear papa, so you will know that your daughter’s heart and sympathy is in this great work and that she is trying to do her duty to the best of her knowledge.It does not seem possible that only one week has passed since we were at home. I can’t be there the 26thof this month, though I want to so much, but am looking forward to a visit of a day or two in March or April-anything on your program for anytime in March? -don’t think I can go before then, will tell you why next Sunday, if what we are anticipating is realized.Brother will go to 26 of this month or next as he wants to see something about the excursion next summer, but of this he will write you.We will begin right away preparations for an entertainment for the benefit of our college library, we have several books and some money I think. There is no place here suitable to give an entertainment in, no place that will seat many, but we will do the best we can.We had a very good attendance [sic]at Sunday school this morning, the interest is still increasing. We stopped at the baptist church on our way home from S.S. and listen to an eloquent sermon(?) I wish all these people could hear some really good preaching for once, but then they might not be satisfied with the old dish if they were allowed to taste of a new one.“Our church” is getting entirely too “progressive,” this morning bro. Clancy had us vote –right in the church house –as to whether we should organize a prayer meeting, the vote carried and next Sunday we will organize. When you finish reading your book and Carlie’s I will send you mine, suppose you have read yours through by now.Soon as you can you must come up to see us, perhaps we can offer a great inducement ere another week passes.I want to write a little tonight to mama and the children so I must not write you any more. I have written all the newsin this, but I’ve been talking to you all the time, now I want to talk to the others a little while. Write your children good long letters just as often as you can spare the time, and tell us how we should do this and that. It seems strange that we –inexperienced children –should act on our own judgement, never asking any onehow we should proceed in this matter or what is best to be done in that, only consulting together and our opinions never differ, so smoothly, so pleasantly we work together, never a far or even an unpleasant feeling. How thankful I am for such a dear brother.Only think two months more and your daughter will be 22 years old, it does not seem possible, a woman,only in years, and I often wonder if I will ever feel, think and act as a woman. The years are passing tooquickly and when I think of it it seems hard that I can’t be at home all the time.A good night kiss.Your loving daughter,Jessie.


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