Find A ProjectSign Up To TranscribeSign In
EN
DeutschEnglishEspañolFrançaisPortuguês

Letter from Lillian Whiting to May Wright Sewall.

ReadAboutContentsHelp


Pages

Page 1
Complete

Page 1

WHITING, LILIAN APR 20, 1918

The Brunswick Boston, April 20/18

Dearest May-

How friendship persists developing from its own vitality, depending so very little on outer circumstance and personal meeting. I doubt if you & I have met ten times in an life! And almost - if not all - the meetings have been fragmentary - yet I always think of you & speak of you as "an old friend" & I hope you do so of me. & it is a spirit to spirit friendship owing so little to outer contact - & of all others these

Last edit about 4 years ago by chickadee
Page 2
Complete

Page 2

are really the closest - the outer contact is as likely to interrupt as it is to blend ties closer.

I wonder if Dr. John Mill Wright is your brother? The "awful" winter, you say; I never knew such cold in my life, but, curiously (while I never before passed a winter in Boston without nearly perishing of a cough) I was never in my life in such good health as I was this winter. As soon as the snow disappeared (in March! think - my usual cough returned. We did

Last edit about 4 years ago by chickadee
Page 3
Needs Review

Page 3

2

not see the bare ground for more than three months - & always - heretofore - there have seldom been more than three consecutive days of white ground. I have a great horror of snow & cold weather; but I confess I was [?] converted to the purity of air that results from just these two things. Not withstanding the coal shortage, the Brunswisk was pufectly heated all the time - I was out every day in the keen, sharp air - & we had a great deal of sunshine --

Last edit about 4 years ago by chickadee
Page 4
Needs Review

Page 4

I had expected to go to southern California before xmas - but I was on a book - "The Golden Road" (not ethical in travels, or biography, a reminis circus but a blend of all - & instead of campliting it so nearly that I could carry the [?] [?] [?] "hang fire" & I was not able to deliver the [?] till April 1. Now I await (either here or in N.Y.) the proof-reading [?] but anyway - [?] [?] I prefer to "start in" - early in the autumn - in southern California for an indefinite so-

Last edit almost 4 years ago by neorem
Page 5
Needs Review

Page 5

3

[?]. Why should you not - ? If the war is to go on year after year - ten years twenty - thirty - till 1947, as are occultist prophisies - why Europe is forever closed - so for us for those of us now living , it will certainly take many years to build our ships - to train 10 million men to transport them - it's all so incredible! People here do [?-] [?] for any and before 10 years, at least - & the Germans are calculating that infants in

Last edit almost 4 years ago by neorem
Displaying pages 1 - 5 of 8 in total
Original item can be found at http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/mws. Reporting a Copyright Violation As required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA"), the Indianapolis Public Library has designated an agent for receiving notification of alleged copyright infringements. If you believe your copyrighted work is being infringed upon, please use the following contact information to notify the designated agent for Indianapolis Public Library: Meaghan Fukunaga The Indianapolis Public Library PO Box 211 Indianapolis, IN 46206 Telephone: 317-275-4720 Email: mfukunaga@indypl.org Content of Notices under the DMCA Any notice of an alleged copyright infringement must be in writing. In order for the Indianapolis Public Library to take action, the notice must include the following information: An identification of the copyrighted work being infringed. In the event you allege multiple copyrighted works are being infringed, please provide a representative list of such works. A description of the material that is claimed to be infringing, and information sufficient to permit the Indianapolis Public Library's agent to locate the material. As an example, such information may include a URL of the alleged infringing material. Your contact information. Include your address, telephone number, and email address. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or the law. A statement that the information in the respective notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, you, as the complaining party, are authorized on behalf of the owner to enforce the copyrights that are claimed to be infringed. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly being infringed.