Below is a letter from "Mayme" to my great grandmother, Sara Curry, dated August 2, 1906. That was about eight years after Sara's husband Gilbert was killed by lightning, and 12 years before her son John was killed in the Battle of Cantigny in France. The letter was folded up in "The Teacher's Assistant, or Hints and Methods in School Discipline and Instruction" by Charles Northend (Sara was a teacher in Plains). It was one of the Curry books left in the house that Bob Corcoran kindly gave me yesterday. I wonder what Mayme's referring to when she writes on page 3: " I have something to tell you when I return. I would not trust it to paper." Guess we'll never know. Click on any page to enlarge image.
I love the line "You know how well everything tastes out in the open air". I like the genteel way she describes a phenomenon that is still true.
Posted by: Isabella Bannerman | 01/02/2012 at 12:51 PM