Misc. Married Couples Letters Collection

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Letter: Margaret Bancroft to Milton Bancroft, June 21, 1900

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I can picture Fathers [?] when he would [opened?] the door - he will feel sure that something is wrong, and nothing can convince him if he once gets ideas. It was awfully funny that it should have happened that way. I am glad portraits [beloved?] thee, for I know that thee is thy own [best?] critic. [Work?], old man, work and alone all be like to [?]. Ms. Moore and I are reading "Makers of Venice" which is delighful though I enjoyed [Florence?] more. [?] that reminds me will thee go [into?] some one of our second

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Letter: Margaret Bancroft to Milton Bancroft, May 12, 1900

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really suffer. She went out yesterday afternoon, and when she came back seemed so unlike herself that I felt worried about her. She will have to be careful. She has gone this morning to give the school children a talk on London - was going to read from her letters. Jean went with her- he is a dear that boy, and has the looks of a young prince when in health. Mr. Merritt has acted strangely - I certainly would not order the frame in my own name - in fact I would send it in my own temporarily unless thee thus thinks thee might never get it back. I can't remember the [Nicols?] at all, unless they are those people who were at the boarding house on 15th St. I would let George [?] alone- I think such behavior as his can only be met by a dignified silence. J. has just returned full of "London Town", and he seems to have taken some of it in: he certainly has a good head, and he is the sweetest nature I have alomst ever known. He and April can't hit it off but I hope that will come with time. I am really better I would tell thee if I was not that discharge is less and less frequent, and I don't feel that overpowering weakness so often as I did in N.Y. I walk about the place, and weed a little, and do odd jobs, and the the moment I feel tired I lie down on our old

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Letter: Margaret Bancroft to Milton Bancroft, May 26, 1900

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[left side page] as we see in a Maryland March when the snow melts. The ground had been frozen the early part of the week and the pond had been skimmed with ice - and Mr. [Bemis?] donned a great fur coat to drive up from Chesham the frost was just coming from the ground in some places and the horses plunged and sand and sprang out, rushing ahead ---

[right side page] the wintry langdscape so exquisite in the moonlightthe apple blossoms left behind in the Connecticut Valley the tender buds between Keene and South Vernon ---what weather[?] boarding was left on the cabin seemed mostly loose at one end and swinging and flapping and flying - such a sight - I was so thankful to get here, to feel the wind rushing over the hill as we drove up - such a wind - tooting and shouting and screaming - and the stupid locks to the barn doors had not wakened up yet and for a long time

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