Letter from Grace E. Hall to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway

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Letter written by Grace E. Hall in New York to Clarence E. Hemingway, dated February 7, 1896.

This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.



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[postmark] "CHICAGO, ILL. / [F]EB 9 / 5-PM / 1896"

[in lower right corner, in pencil:] 70

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P.S. I will enclose the kind letter I received from dear Hayden. There is a subtle connection in our minds. (1) Just as you werer writing reminding me of the evening we spent with Hayden, I was receiving his letter. (2) When you were writing for the first time here mentioning "john" & saying how you longed to read some of it, just at that time I obeyed a yearning impulse & for the first time opened and read "John Halafax" You see our minds are loving by keeping track of each other Sunshine [THE P.S. WRITTEN AT TOP OF PAGE]

Thursday evening Feb 6th '96

My Darling Clarence,

I know not whether I ought to date this Friday, as it is past the midnight hour. The concert was a glorious success but am very very tired, so will first kiss you goodnight and tell you about it tomorrow. Your loving Sunshine

Friday Eve. 7 P.M. Feb 7th '96

My Dearest One,

You will think "What a lazy lazy girl

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when you see this letter made to cover two days. First, darling, they have been such full days, that time has been at a great premium. Yesterday morning (Thursday) I opened my lazy eyes at just 10.30 A.M. having slept 11 hours -- Practicing and giving Natalie her lesson took up the ragged [remainder?] of the morning -- received call in the afternoon and the Rubinstein Concert in the evening -- The concert was a great success. I will mail you a programme. For a person who did nothing, I received a most copious amount of flattery etc.

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It rained pitchforks and shovel handles, but Mr. Bigelow, Natalie, Uncle Nat, and myself weathered the elements and were well repaid. [Rinarde?] the violinist who is written up in this month's "Munsey" was the soloist of the occasion. This morning I took my lesson and this afternoon went to the Metropolitan Art Museum and made two very distant calls. Heard from Mallinson to the effect that he woiuld go with me to sing for Chapman on Monday morning and then we would

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go on a "toot" for the rest of the day. I was indeed startled at the news in your letter, of Warren Lewis, though not surprised that he should do such a thing. Lack of faith in God, begets a lack of appreciation of the solemnity of God's laws to say nothing of the lack of trust and respect toward parents. It is a dreadful thing to see young people start off in that sneaking shame faced way, as if marriage were not a [?] and holy ordinance in the sight of God & man.

God bless thee, my noble, upright love. I trust we shall always glory in our pure bond of love, before the world but most of all to each other.

Your Grace

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