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Seated waiting for the concert Hatcher, Miss [?] & Humphreys behind me. Hears in front of me & Johnnie [Parson?] and wife beside us I have just discovered somebody who wrinkles his forehead as bad as you it is Johnnie P. Dean [Pitkin?] has just made his little speech without his swallow-tail.
The speech is an excuse for the non appearance of Mrs Bishop which is simply heartrending-- I mean her non appearance
Now that Dean [Pitkin?] has walked across the floor & stage about 6 or 8 times and the audience has begun to snicker when they catch sight of him I guess it is about time for the show to commence.
They have got that awful tin pan of a [Scoville?] Institution piano at which the pianist made a face when he entered
Maud Powell has just been charming our ears with most delicious strains she plays as only a great musician can, and
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is only about my age, though she looks like a woman of forty blaze and [?] with that bitter expression of the mouth they all have. Oh! I am so glad to have you instead of the stage. all her [?] womanly ness is gone and what has she that can ever take its place, merely the passing admiration of the crowd
Now the Heavenly strains of Shubert's angels serinade harp and violin. Mrs Murray looks like an angel sitting at her golden harp with her fair [?] face. And there is a little tear steals down my cheek unawares for the darling mother whose dearest ambition it always was to play a harp, perhaps she plays one now. Well, Dear, this is the last, I addressed the envelope before I came so that I could take notes and slip them in. I don't even dare address this missive at the top for fear someone might overlook my page A loving kiss, darling, your own Sunshine
Dec. 5th, '95.
