Munich, Germany June 2nd 1890 My dear Mother & Father, Here I am in Munich. We arrived here yesterday morning about 6.20 after traveling since 8.48 Saturday. We did not stay is any one place very long Saturday. I have just been laughing with Miss Swan over our meals that day. We took our […]
Cassel, Germany, May 30, 1890 We started on our journey yesterday noon. Almost the whole family came to the stattion- thirteen in all. they gave me a lovely bouquet of lililes (sic), and Miss Swan a pretty one of Sea France rose & other flowers. Yesterday we visited Wilhelmshohe (William Heights)- 1364 ft above […]
Dresden, Germany Oct 20, 1889 Evangelical Vereins House 15 neu Gasse Dear Mother & Father, Here I am after having visited galleries and seem so many paintings that I’ve wanted to see, and stood before paintings that the whole world wonders at. It has bee a week full of delightful experiences. The Dresden […]
Hannover, Germany My Dear Mother & Father, Another week has passed and I have had no word from you. But I know you must be very busy- so busy that it tires me to think of it. I wrote you soon after coming back from Hildesheim about my lovely visit there. I hope you […]
Hannover, Germany Oct. 13, 1889 My dear Mother & Father, Another week has passed and I have had no word from you. But I know you must be very busy- so busy that it tires me to think of it. I wrote you soon after coming back from Hildesheim about my lovely visit there. […]
(ed note: this is the second letter dated Oct. 6th but postmarked Oct. 7th) Sunday Evening, Oct 6, 1889 I have also mailed you a letter this evening- but as something happened at the table which I think you may wis;h to hear while it is fresh in my mind. I will write to send […]
Hamburg, Germany Oct. 6,1889 My dear Mother & Father, I’m all ready for church except my outside garments and there are not a few minutes bforeit is necessary to start. It looks like a lovely day. Two young ladies, German, are going wit us to the English church.One is a new pupil of the frauleins […]
Hannover, Germany Sept. 28, 1889 or care of: Bei Fraulein Zimmermann My dear Mother & Father, There are a few minutes before church tie Miss Swan and I are both writing. I read your letter mailed the 17th yesterday and was very glad and thankful to hear from you. You did not say how the […]
Hannover, Germany Sept. 25, 1889 My dear Mother & Father This day has passed too quickly. I thought to accomplish more. I have just finished a letter to Auntie Hall. From whom I heard day before yesterday. She was then hoping to go to Mrs. Gross’s where she and Mr. Hinton were invited, where she […]
Hannover, Germany Sept, 22. 1889 My Dear Mother and Father, I have just returned from church and, having taken off my wet things, am now read to talk with you until supper is ready. Our service is at six. It has been an unsettled sort of day, raining when we got up, clearing […]
Ed. Note: This is a series of letters written by my great, great aunt to her parents in North Brookfield/ Waterville, New York and others in 1889-1890 when she was studying and traveling abroad. She was twenty-six years old and had graduated from Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts before leaving for Europe. The “note” […]
New York, __Mar 7 , 1888* My dear little sweetheart Son. I am sitting in our room writing to little Ray. Papa has gone over to Jersey City for the day — so Mamma is to be alone until four o’clock. Mamma thought of her babies so much last night and wondered if […]
Now, I want to tell you of a day in late Summer in the waning years of the 19th Century. In those days the fortunes of my branch of the family in America, descended from Richard Wrisley, one of thirteen men who founded Hartford, Connecticut and who, himself, claimed the Earl of Southhampton, Sussex, intimate […]
