117 100 60591 https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/25e17be83cc2817dfb55ae77ab8b4f2a.pdf e752192c9b9523b4c9babb1079979b8b PDF Text Text Hundred-Stanza Renga by Gail Sher and Andrew Schelling [Published in Simply Haiku, Autumn 2010] (1) summer A whole year’s passed— he fetches down the elk skull, aspen leaves shaking (2) summer night: except for the occasional squawk of a korhaan . . . (3) autumn moon and a Moon of Yellow Willows breaks across bits of these tattered lives (4) autumn little knife-edges of snow luminous against the clear blue sky (5) autumn mid-September— and Wang Wei’s poem hides a haiku? pre-dawn buck’s cry says yes (6) misc. pass me the hoe! how many times do I have to ask? (7) winter �Sand Hill Cranes rise from the stubble field’s first snow— ice wrinkling the Platte (8) winter now I am thinking that immolation is wrong (9) travel pawprints, criss-cross trails, green tracks in the mud— I, too, take the Great Journey (10) travel the truth of its clothes in the cold hall, think of clothes (11) lamentations she thinks that had she become a nun something about coats light as soft as yellow foxes fur (12) love now her cloister’s a careless bedsheet across her thighs (13) love like a tree’s shadow in darkness, she says seated in her flesh watching young night creep behind the massif (14) love �dark ridge bristles with pine dark thighs fragrant of jasmine (15) spring flowers fondling the flower— light plump peas float in the loosening pod (16) spring her eyes are blank I feel no connection with her (17) spring rash blue petals a dukula cloth covers Radha’s deep lotus (18) autumn moon chestnut-moon: I smear the land a fierce bright lilac (19) autumn he eyes the mist-filled ravine longing for “home’s familiar moon” (stars) (20) autumn bubbles splurge, though they are slow bubbles sometimes empty white holes (21) autumn �cold constellations twist over Kullu even the plum wine’s sour (22) winter beware of mud piled and caked in little squares of mud maps (23) lamentations my ornaments bones of emptiness – I study them for clues to lost love (24) lamentations yet, practically speaking, what is her fan compared to the carp’s life (25) misc. he studies the formal stiff board, the fibers of silk and longs for wind-torn high granite (26) misc. today you are a brook, feeling brook energy, a monk thinks in his forest cell near Hua Hin (27) spring flowers a Full Wolf Moon the brittle snow but who recalls the dogtooth violet? (28) spring �which dawn did the fresh wind blow toward a knoll of fawns (29) spring love where in the dark grove, eyes, eyes, where the ivory instep, the petal-soft foot (30) love sun shines on my spine as I greet him through the window (31) love the river merchant’s wife— by the gate the thick mosses the unused hinges (32) love I read it as a book against war a hundred years what did we learn (33) misc. light falls on raw wood and softly falls on her as she passes into sky (34) travel she bows, mimicking the dancer because her ancestors are there too (35) autumn travel rises, tightens a scarf against the year’s �first snow, the angled trees strange skyline, smoldering clouds (36) autumn moon the noise of its blue resolves into stars (37) autumn twice gone moon song glint the poetry shelf’s one phase of the hunt (38) love her braid seeks shadows snowdrops, honeysuckle, or in summer, violets (39) love he’d give her sapphire, avalanche can’t crush it, but dwarf dogwood’s soft on her cheek (40) lamentations I’m thinking of wings rubbed with sky (41) lamentations sometimes it hurts to hear that no snowflake falls in the wrong place (42) miscellaneous where does a person with three kinds of defects �breathe out the master asks (43) miscellaneous or the sand lily – if you say change to a sea-bird where would it root (44) miscellaneous how a beaver floats under sky-words – before what in a bud sprouting on a sprig of grass (45) miscellaneous this was near Chama, a clump of blue juniper where the clicking bones sang don’t fear (46) miscellaneous that wild red impassible gully rushed with such violence (47) travel I thought of sea-beds thought of tilting red sandstone plates the drift of continents (48) travel a relaxed tousled gamine emerges from last year’s prim and simple one (49) love easy to be near her, but now I can’t shake the Taoist �emblem inked on her nape-line (50) love I shiver through a shallow sleep on this night of extreme cold (51) love her glowing bare shoulders burn me indecipherably— moon, crater, remorse (52) religion as if you are light and as you approach you are dimmer light (53) religion and in that dim aura coils of smoke, gray, twisted— to you I offer a handful of water (54) autumn moon an old owl coos stirring the girl whose face looks out (55) autumn steep rib of canyon, view of Denver ne bear fattens on what— crabapples? (56) autumn the combination of sere, barren wood ladened with richly colored fruits being starkly beautiful �(57) travel being, in the Chinese cycle metal, when the blues enter our heart, …on a northbound train (58) love was it his tooth in her lighted body beckoning him (59) love one brittle shard in his sheets a bone fragment left by the dream (60) spring flower the crocus breaks as parts of the sky that are hers (61) spring all those abstract skirts of rain sweeping the mesa at Hopi (62) spring dogs chew light they lay it at her feet (63) travel she has seen marvels none scared her more than the gods of the Punjab Hills �(64) lamentations movement being like a shell or castanet like the days and lives of her horses (65) autumn moon only the crickets chirr’d when the word brindled sank through Eldorado Gap (66)autumn the crocus breaks as parts of the sky that are hers (67) autumn he studies the clouds the first hard snow pellets sting what has he lost (68) lamentations a flower is soft and the pain of soft presses against the hill (69) lamentations just as I’d befriended the Holocene, angry constellations burnt the night sky (70) miscellaneous when you appear the interior land shifts making sounds like stones �(71) spring flower Tim Hogan showed me the billion year jump, stone to stone, kinnikinnik bells (72) spring he regrets that he’s disturbed their nap under the peony blossoms (73) spring useless, useless, a late frost throws them to the winds all the words of Hamlet (74) travel an instinct for home in a carrier-pigeon has no presence in what will happen then (75) travel or the myna stole the peacock’s feet— that’s what I heard in the Kangra (76) travel the nipple of the bird its sound in the dark grass (77) love tabla ektar tambur bent the way we make love one string one insect �(78) love and the fire-pink, its ontogeny, how it came to be, as you say, erupted (79) love caribou horns cast their moss the moon’s lost its link, dream dream cries the blackbird (80) miscellaneous the impression I get is of an image being destinies (81) autumn moon now redshaft flickers left wings needle towards leaf-fall-moon (82) autumn travel a distant reddish-brown mountain looks like a flying dragon (83) autumn days I shuffle the Taoist bird script symbols, at night dream of baseball (84) travel and love he hears cars as air containing pleasure towards which he has a certain relationship (85) love �each time they thought their thirst sated (redwoods, bay laurel) old desire again (86)winter so my image of sky flips white alternately occluded and revealed (87) winter while by night crackly glitter over shagged lodgepoles we glimpse the Hunter’s Belt (88) (miscellaneous) a tulip on the sill for a minute I forget (89) miscellaneous lost in the raga’s ascending notes the mood the blue grove sets (90) miscellaneous its non-benevolence equitable to some hidden karmic debt (91) autumn there’s sinew there’s a dark gust tossing the letter thunder yellow willows guilt (92) autumn moon �to exfoliate the water the skin of night growing clear (93) autumn water plants words omens of animals in céénkoo’ I keep antler dreams in the pouch (94) miscellaneous but I get tired like the naga, Elapatra (95) spring flower when I doze pasque flowers, prairie smoke then from Swift Turtle a star falls (96) spring bluebells light a field the scent of ones grown thin and tall (97) spring religion others cluster by the bridge where I burn juniper spring runoff take these words (98) spring religion Negro sound is pale wheeling down into the skies (99) miscellaneous �curved night dome a rock-cut Mary surveys the valley high up the Great Bear (100) miscellaneous having blossoming of light, crop of morning light, forks of light cross the horizon of seeing then _______________________________________ . � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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LIB-PC011 Language A language of the resource eng poetry publications SherMagazine SherPublications https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/cd60174c2ace3eec2e2b9692aca5c627.pdf 7ef835e94985ba9fcd10ed24545644f9 PDF Text Text FPO PLACE BARCODE HERE night crane press night crane press Gail Sher Gail Sher lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area as a writer, teacher and counselor. She has published over thirty books of poetry, six book-length haiku sequences, three books on writing as a practice, and a book on breadmaking based on her years of experience at the San Francisco Zen Center’s bakery. Her poetry has appeared in over forty literary journals, and her haiku have won awards both in the United States and Japan. For more information and to read her poetry online go to gailsher.com. Te Haiku Masters: Four Poetic Diaries in the annals of haiku, Gail Sher’s Te Haiku Masters is unique. Tere exist many volumes on how to write or teach haiku. Dozens of fne translations of Japanese poets can be had in English. Until now, though, nobody has thought to write an original book on the four master poets—a book that recounts their biographies in the rhythmic interplay of prose and verse known as haibun. Gail Sher’s diary-like chapters follow the arduous search of each poet, her own poems responding to their hard-won spiritual and poetic insights. When I link those two terms—poetic and spiritual—it is a move all four poets would understand in a fash. Haiku—the best of it— conveys a fash of satori, and this is its enduring Zen legacy. andrew schelling Naropa University Te Haiku Masters: Four Poetic Diaries Gail Sher �Te Haiku Masters: Four Poetic Diaries �also by gail sher prose Writing the Fire: Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive • 2006 The Intuitive Writer: Listening to Your Own Voice • 2002 One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers • 1999 From a Baker’s Kitchen • 1984/2004 poetry Who: A Licchavi • 2007 Calliope • 2007 old dri’s lament • 2007 The Copper Pheasant Ceases Its Call • 2007 East Wind Melts the Ice • 2007 Watching Slow Flowers • 2006 DOHA • 2005 RAGA • 2004 Once There Was Grass • 2004 redwind daylong daylong • 2004 Birds of Celtic Twilight: A Novel in Verse • 2004 Look at That Dog All Dressed Out in Plum Blossoms • 2002 Moon of the Swaying Buds • 2002 Lines: The Life of a Laysan Albatross • 2000 Fifty Jigsawed Bones • 1999 Saffron Wings • 1998 One bug . . . one mouth . . . snap! • 1997 Marginalia • 1997 La • 1997 Like a Crane at Night • 1996 Kuklos • 1995 COPS • 1988 Broke Aide • 1985 Rouge to Beak Having Me • 1983 (As) on things which (headpiece) touches the Moslem • 1982 From Another Point of View the Woman Seems to be Resting • 1981 �Te Haiku Masters: Four Poetic Diaries Gail Sher night crane press 2008 �Copyright 2008, Gail Sher All rights reserved. Night Crane Press 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 435 Emeryville, California 94608 Second Printing 2018 No part of this publication my be reproduced or transmitted in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner and publisher. isbn: 978-0-9794721-3-8 �For Brendan ��Contents Preface by Andrew Schelling ix Basho: Epoch of Dusk 1 Get on a Sleigh: Buson’s Heart Song 35 Issa Issa 79 Shiki: Epitaph of a Flower 99 ��Preface In the sixty-odd years since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the poetic form known as haiku has moved from the wards and precincts of Japan’s old cities to circle our planet. What was once a specifcally Japanese verse practice, rising to extraordinary popularity during the feudal Edo Period (1615-1868), is now the most widely practiced form of poetry in North America, Europe, and possibly worldwide. Te scholar Haruo Shirane calls it Japan’s most successful export. Schoolchildren in Colorado or Oklahoma who have never tasted sashimi may be seasoned composers of haiku. Tey can do it in traditional seventeen-syllable form, as well as the more contemporary free-style version, which Jack Kerouac announced: POP-American (non-Japanese) Haikus, short three-line poems or ‘pomes’ rhyming or nonrhyming delineating ‘little Samadhis’ if possible, usually of a Buddhist connotation, aiming towards enlightenment. Haiku and its related writing forms—which include linked verse renga and the prose-and-poem hybrid called haibun—are looked on with suspicion by Western gatekeepers of literature. Poets, though, have used them to see the natural world sharply, refresh our language, and to redirect our focus: “aiming towards enlightenment” might be a whole new way of writing in the Occident. Gary Snyder (who received Japan’s Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Grand Prize in 2004) was asked in Te Bloomsbury Review to comment on what inroads haiku has made into Western culture. ix �I think it’s on its way, but I wouldn’t say it’s anywhere near yet. Tis doesn’t translate into consciousness and respect for [haiku] in the English department, or in the comparative literature department, or in Te New York Review of Books, where they want to see more irony and intellect. Te postmodern mental habit is anti-simplicity, among other things. Surely there are those who squint at haiku as a holdover from the American sixties, which along with Zen, the search for a tranquil simple life, an ecology ethic, and the efort to limit petroleum intake, will vanish. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Poets of distinction—including Nobel Prize recipient Octavio Paz, Yves Bonnefoy in France, and Sweden’s Tomas Transtromer—use the form prolifcally and unapologetically. Hundreds of North American poets have pulled of a near-revolution with the form (Kerouac called it the rucksack revolution). In fact haiku has been written in the New World since Mexican poet José Juan Tablada published a book of his own in 1911. And Japanese-language haiku clubs, ginsha, were founded in San Francisco, Fresno, and Stockton, in the frst quarter of the twentieth century. Japan considers four poets the masters of the craf. So diferent are they from each other, you might imagine they watch over haiku, like guardians of the Four Directions at some rustic wooden temple. Each introduced a new sensibility to the practice. Tese nearly legendary Japanese poets are the “Four Masters” of Gail Sher’s book: Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Yosa Buson (1716-1784), Kobayashi Issa (1762-1826), and Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902). With Shiki haiku advances to the opening of the twentieth century. In fact he edges so near to our own world that poems of his are included in a recent anthology of haiku on baseball. I fnd it worth noting that Shiki was also the frst poet to use the modern term “haiku” for the short seventeen-syllable poem, of which x �millions get written every year in Japan alone. His baseball haikus do just what haiku’s always done, taking extraordinary interest in ordinary, commonplace things. “Plainness and oddness are the bones,” as Basho said of haiku. In feudal Japan haiku helped poetry break free from the old aristocratic scene, so onion farmers and fshermen, not just court poets could write it. In the States it does just fne—as Snyder noted—outside the English department. In the annals of haiku, Gail Sher’s Te Haiku Masters is unique. Tere exist many volumes on how to write or teach haiku. Dozens of fne translations of Japanese poets can be had in English. Until now, though, nobody has thought to write an original book on the four master poets—a book that recounts their biographies (or auto-biographies) in the rhythmic interplay of prose and verse known as haibun. Gail’s diary-like chapters follow the arduous search of each poet, her own poems responding to their hard-won spiritual and poetic insights. When I link those two terms—poetic and spiritual—it is a move all four poets would understand in a fash. Haiku—the best of it—conveys a fash of satori, and this is its enduring Zen legacy. Te old masters saw simplicity and poverty as central to the haiku search. “Eat vegetable soup rather than duck stew,” Basho told his students. I do not mean to dismiss or romanticize Issa’s sufering. He saw each of his infant children die, as well as their mothers. Poverty surely had something to do with it. Shiki, a generation later, went through crippling years of pain, a victim of spinal tuberculosis, frequently bedridden, wracked with fever, and confned in his dying years to a sickroom. Only Buson lived a full-length span by modern standards, and he was notably poor until achieving a bit of success as a painter in his old age. What I mean is none of them wavered in their conviction that this pursuit— of one of the world’s briefest yet richest poetry forms—was the only life worth living. xi �come to my hut and hear the cry of the bagworm Basho Haiku was these men’s way of tracking life into its deepest lair. Gail Sher’s instinct is to write about the four Japanese haiku poets in a way that feels deliberate as their lives and writings. Her book comes from years of immersion in their work. Not incidentally, Gail took Buddhist vows and for some years wore robes at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, just as Basho and Buson wore robes. But where does one fnd the tenderness Issa or Shiki turned into companionship with spiders or peonies? Maybe the source is a life dedicated to ahimsa (Sanskrit: non-injury), which is not just fancy Buddhist teaching or monkish precept, but simple bedrock decency. Cause as little harm as possible. If you turn ahimsa the other direction and see it from a point that doesn’t refer to yourself, it means giving careful, unobtrusive attention to living creatures—a practice that radiates from the lives of these masters. I fnd something irreducible in Issa’s comment on a walk with his uncle: “Tree years of study seem worthless compared to this conversation.” So this book belongs with your rucksack, walking staf, and old stalwart boots. A companion on the journey. Part of the delight is to hear Gail’s haiku echo against those of the old masters, and to realize she’s inviting you to compose your own. “Come to my hut / and hear the cry / of the bagworm.” How do you answer? Basho: “Don’t follow in the footsteps of the old masters. Seek what they sought.” Andrew Schelling Fourth of July Valley, Colorado September 2007 xii �BASHO: EPOCH OF DUSK ��Te Way of Elegance I am a poet. As a dropout from bushido society, I reject the vulgar values of the merchant class. Stitched together by a single thread of art, literature provides an alternative. I call it fuga-no-michi, the “Way of Elegance.” atop a clothesline pole one black crow— in the day’s snowy silence 3 �Onomatopoeia, Rhyme, Slant Rhyme = My Favorite Tools the old pond a frog jumps in— the sound of water furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto It is spring. I am at my riverside hut in the north of Edo. Trough the sof patter of rain comes the throaty cooing of doves. Ten the sound of a frog leaping into water. For me a frog is a dear little creature. By focusing on its leap (rather than croak), the poem—its warm, slow-moving day aspect—perfectly matches the tranquility ripening in me. Kikaku responds with this wakiku: “a spider’s nest / hanging on young reeds.” Might it normalize a bit what some call my “perspective by incongruity?” hi, hi . . . yo, yo . . . o frog, your old old voice 4 �Makura Kotaba: Pillow Word: Its Double Entendre a fash of lightning; through the darkness goes the cry of a night heron inazuma ya yami no kata yuku go’i no koe Late in life, during a visit to my native village, Iga, I am lying, comfortably suspended in the magnetic silence of an oncoming autumn storm, when suddenly lightning fashes. Trough the darkness that returns, a night heron screams. A night heron not only has a terrifying voice but lustrous wings that glow in the dark. Te fash of lightning, plus this bird with its weird and ghastly scream, create an eerie beauty. Te “pillow word?” Since go’i, the name of the night heron, is identical in pronunciation and ideograph to Go’i (Te Five Modes) of Tung-shan, these are present as a shadow. August moon In its depths tonight the sound of fowers 5 �Kake Kotoba: Pivot Word the temple bell fades and the scent of cherry blossoms rises in the evening kane kiete hana no ka wa tsuku yube kana Te motion of the poem is carried by the pivotal verb tsuku, which means “strike” or “ring.” (Te cherry blossoms ring their scent.) Since kane (temple bell) and tsuku have the same phonetic element in their ideographs, hearing with your nose is the way to the poem’s interior. rice and beans warming the room too 6 �Te Right Word Rightly Used now being seen of, now seeing of—the outcome: autumn in Kiso Midway on my pilgrimage to see the full moon at Sarashina, friends bid me farewell. We wave and wave and wave till nothing is lef but autumn. windless day— dusk too disappears 7 �Mushin: Te Art of Artlessness look, children hailstones! let’s rush out! I am indoors. When the storm ends, me and my young friends run outside to see the hailstones all piled up—maybe gather some! waves crash and what with glorious peaks and fowers . . . 8 �Kokoro: Te Heart/Soul of a Poem coming along the mountain path I fnd something endearing about violets It reminds me of Ch’ang-sha’s response to the head monk who inquired afer his wanderings: “First I went following the scented grasses; then I returned following the falling blossoms.” He never strayed from the aesthetic point. Sometimes my poems are plain in setting, straightforward in structure, regular in pattern and lucid in diction. In fact, they look so ordinary, one wonders where their real meaning lies. Tese poems are intentionally plain and ambiguous. Tey present an incident without commentary to force the reader to experience it herself. Looking frivolous, this poem simply presents a violet blooming beside a road. I do comment—that I fnd it endearing—but it is vague. Te mountain road is lonely, tiresome. Suddenly, the loveliness of purple brightens a corner of the path. Te sensation I feel is so tender, so all-inclusive, specifcity would burden it, hamper a reader’s roaming, explorative mind. Hokku should not spell everything out. What remains unexpressed is rooted in its beauty’s source, deeper than human understanding. dawn melts into light, pale clouds rise picking herbs a young girl yawns 9 �Yu Wei: Afertaste the cry of the cuckoo goes slanting—ah! across the water hototogisu koe yokoto ya mizu no ue I composed this poem at the urging of my disciples Sanpu and Sora who, seeing me grief-stricken at my nephew’s death (which occurred in my hut), suggested that I write on the theme “hototogisu by the water’s edge.” I drew on the couplet of Su Tung-p’o—“Te gleaming water extends to heaven, / and the white mist lies stretched across the water,” which to me connotes not only the spaciousness of water but the bird’s lingering sound in its hovering mist. Te latter tails of like a comet or like smoke from a steam engine on a balmy summer day, like the vanishing spirit of Toin who faded away just as ephemerally. Kikaku calls it “magic” (when an aural perception suddenly becomes a visual one). Te hototogisu, a gray-headed Asian cuckoo whose song is a series of notes rather than the two notes (cuc-koo) normally associated with this bird, appears in the Fourth Month (May), at the beginning of summer, afer migrating from the south. Te very name, hototogisu, invokes its lonely cry. Tough it is traditional to think, “Even if the hototogisu sings noisily, one must compose in such a way as to suggest waiting for its voice impatiently,” I choose to portray its actual behavior. (Unlike most birds, which rest on trees while they sing, the hototogisu sings or cries as it 10 �fies.) Here, as the hototogisu soars overhead, its sharp penetrating cry lies sideways, hanging over the water’s surface, probably at dusk or night. Ue, the poem’s last word, means “surface” (as in water’s surface) but it includes the area above the surface. Te subtlety of that space prepares the space in one’s heart to receive the scream’s piercing land, like a sword, shattering all conceptions of cuckoo, cry, slanting, water. what is this sound in the evening wind as summer overlong lingers . . . 11 �Yugen: Depth of Meaning at the same inn play women too were sleeping: bush clover and the moon As legend has it, one day the monk Saigyo, having encountered a sudden shower in the village of Eguchi, asks for shelter at a nearby house but is denied by its mistress, a courtesan. Tereupon he sings: You’d never bring yourself to hate and forsake this world no matter how I plead . . . Yet, how can you begrudge to lend a temporary shelter? Te mistress responds with the waka: Knowing you are someone who has forsaken this world, I naturally thought you would not be concerned with this temporary shelter. Te story comes to mind as I see bush clover blooming in the garden and the autumn moon shining in the sky, seemingly companions. At the inn a similar bond develops between a traveling poet in gray robes and two pretty courtesans who also happen to lodge there. Regarding yugen, we have a proverb—“Te crow goes ‘caw-caw,’ the sparrow, ‘chirp-chirp.’” Truth itself spurns embellishment. 12 �a fsh, a leaf a moment in the river 13 �Aware: Ah—Elegant Sadness Matsushinma ya ah Matsushinma ya Matsushima ya Pine Islands, ah! Oh, Pine Islands, ah! Pine Islands, ah! Standing on the shore, seeing the two hundred islands carved by tides and wind-twisted pines rising at sharp angles . . . long gone, the monk who tolls the evening bell— yet its echo, in my heart, this rainy night 14 �Do Not Simply Follow in the Footseps of the Ancients. Seek What Tey Sought. the fragrance of chrysanthemums at Nara: many ancient Buddhas kiku no ka ya Nara ni wa furuki hotoke tachi On October 27th of 1694, on Chrysanthemum Festival Day (Choyo), which fell on the Ninth of the Ninth Month, I composed this poem while stopping in Nara (Japan’s capital in a period that saw Buddhism fourish as a state religion) on my way to Osaka. Te hokku can be taken as a single scene in which the “many ancient Buddhas” (furuki hotoketachi—a haikai phrase) are surrounded by chrysanthemum fowers (kiku), a seasonal word for autumn, but it is better rendered as a combination poem in which the two parts are unifed by scent. Te chrysanthemum, considered the aristocrat of fowers in classical poetry, possesses a powerful but refned fragrance (not sensual yet strong and pure, as in incense ofered to the Buddha). Furuki means not just old, but timeless. Te many Buddhas in the capital of Nara evoke a similar sense of dignity, solemnity, and grace. Inhaling their fragrance, one feels their life and breath. Te poem is rooted in nioi, a linking technique wherein a delicate, almost imperceptible fow of air moves from one stanza to the next. Here the nioi stays in a single verse. 15 �from my sagebrush bed the sky’s vault vast beyond it, vaster still . . . 16 �Kajitsi: Te Formal Aspects of a Poem (Ka is the “beautiful surface of the poem.” Jitsu is the “substantial core.” Studying both, Fujiwara-no-Kinto composed his Nine Steps of Waka, a reasoned study of the poem’s architecture.) I am resolved to bleach on the moors my body is pierced by the wind nozarashi wo kokoro ni kaze no shimu mi kana In the Eighth Month of the frst year of Jokyo, I leave my dilapidated hut on the riverside. Te autumn wind is blowing with an unaccountably chilling sound. Te hokku breaks afer ni (in). Kaze no (wind’s) begins the second clause. Tus elliptical wording in two parts (“My body is pierced by the wind and I am determined to bleach my bones on the moors”) is laid over a poem whose structure is in thirds. Increasingly aware of the pains of living, I wish to enter a realm of perfect liberation by any means possible. One way, suggested by the sages, is to travel—to go on a journey with all its hazards. I see in my mind’s eye my own skeleton, lost in the wilderness, beaten by rain and snow. In Japan, any travel is risky. Indeed, soon afer taking to the road, I am confronted with death in an abandoned child. 17 �But it’s not enough to simply travel. In fact, travel can be a distraction. As Huang-po Hsi-Yun said to his assembly: “You are all eaters of brewer’s dregs. If you go about on pilgrimage as you do, when can you meet today?” He was not attacking pilgrimage per se, he was scolding a lazy, absent-minded attitude. “You cannot meet today. You cannot meet this moment, if you just wander around consuming smelly secondhand truths.” near me near death trembling peony 18 �Te Lyricism of Tu Fu and Li Po, the Zen of Han Shan, and the Romantic Love of Po Chu-i= My Poetry’s Four Principal Flavors when I look carefully nazuna is blooming beneath the hedge If one looks around in the right frame of mind on a rainy evening or dewy morning, one will notice the tiniest of weeds fowering in response to the coming spring. As the Chinese say, “Everywhere I am startled to fnd things renewing themselves.” Attracted by fecks of white beneath a hedge, I pause to examine teeny four-petaled blossoms erupting with vigorous spirit. “Ah!” I exude, for when I discover something, it comes to exist for me for the frst time. As if I created it myself! Of all living beings, these little weeds (shepherd’s purse) have the least capacity to protect themselves. Tey simply endure what is given to them. Once I wrote in an unrelated postscript, “As we look calmly, we see everything is content with itself,” a line I derived from a poem by Ch’eng Ming-tao. It applies here as well. poppies open shatter in the wind today 19 �Wabi: Elegant Simplicity departing spring! birds crying tears in the eyes of fsh yuku haru ya tori naki uo no me wa namida Departing spring is the time just before the beginning of summer—the trees have blossomed and the rainy season is about to begin. I am poised to venture on my journey to the north (yuku, meaning both “to go” and “to pass time,” conveniently conveys ceaseless passage). Tis, the second hokku of my trip (the frst travel poem), is made to seem as if written as my friends are seeing me of at Senju, a northern suburb of Edo. Everyone weeps, aware of the hardship of the journey and the possibility that this separation could be forever. (Actually it was composed later, when I put Oku no hosomichi together.) Naki refers to the cry of any animal, though its homonym means “weep” so this meaning is an overtone. As “I” disappear, wind becomes my wailing voice. sloughing to Katada eyeing, and again, eying that unbudging cloud 20 �Each Poem, the “Only” Poem a cloud of blossoms— was that the bell of Ueno or Asakusa? As I am musing beneath a cloud of cherry blossoms, the distant BONG of a temple bell pierces my consciousness. “Tat was a temple bell!” I realize. “From what direction did it come? I’m not sure.” Ueno and Asakusa are names of districts in Edo that have large temples. My hut is just a few miles from both. Tough normally one could easily identify their bells, since it is cherry blossom season, all is wrapped in haze. Merging the delicious, dreamy mind of a man on a spring day with these “clouds” of blossoms, I feel as though distinctions are impossible. Clarity, purity, harmony, nonattachment—literalness can destroy their virtue. While we must be clear, the wandering thought, at times, is superior. Wu-men warns: “To be alert and never ambiguous is to wear chains and an iron yoke.” Te Ts’ai-ken t’an says, “Water which is too pure has no fsh.” tossing his ball through yesterday’s sky the child sleeps 21 �Compassion: Its Ever-Varied Face the whitebait! they open black eyes to the net of the law. Te title—“Inscription over a Picture of Kensu”—refers to Hsien-tzu, a T’ang-period fgure usually portrayed standing in a stream catching shrimps with a net. As to the Priest Hsien-tzu of Ching-Tiao, we do not know anything about his origins. Te record that remains is very strange. He had no fxed place of abode. Afer receiving transmission of mind from Tungshan Liang-chieh, he lived as a layman at the River Min. He did not cultivate Dharma devices, and he did not follow conventional modes of behavior. Each day, along the bank of the river, he set about catching prawns . . . When it got dark, he made his bed in the paper money at the White Horse Mausoleum of Tung-Shan. Te residents thereabouts called him Father Prawn. Money in old China was made of metal. Paper money was burned at funerals to supply the dead with fnances needed in the next world. Undoubtedly, the White Horse Mausoleum had a storeroom full—a comfortable spot for a character like Hsien-tzu. Whitebait are silvery fsh, tiny (an inch or so long), clean-looking, and lovable. Teir luminous black eyes, large and deep in proportion to their size, open calmly to the Law. While an ordinary Buddhist monk would never catch fsh or any other living creature, Master Shrimp’s viewpoint was that it didn’t matter, for the net that catches and kills is also the net of Dharma. 22 �curling in the heat young grass blades— up and up the mountain’s smoke 23 �Ordinariness: A Most Valuable Poetic Quality salted sea breams their gums too look cold— the fshmonger’s shelf Because of the stormy winter weather, shelves at the fsh shop are almost empty. Only two or three salted sea breams lay there, white teeth exposed. When my disciple, Kikaku, overpraises my image, saying that with it I had attained “true mystery and depth,” I tell him that what I most value is the poem’s “ordinariness.” “ouch!” that’s how you know a Sitka 24 �Sabishi: Spiritual Loneliness the morning glory! this too cannot be my friend asagao ya kore mo nata waga tomo narazu (Around the time when I closed the gate of my residence in Fukagawa is the poem’s title). Ya conveys the idea—“Tere is just this morning glory in the whole world.” Having returned to Edo (near the end of my life, a poet of some fame) I am forced to live more gregariously. Te leisure I’d enjoyed, along with natural beauty that helped dissolve my loneliness, are no longer accessible. In addition, I discover that the principle of sabi, at which I had arrived afer a long search, does not seem to be universally valid. While I want to be lef alone, to relish the morning glory’s friendship, not only am I now too old and weary to get up early enough, but even when I do, its lovely fowers fail to provide consolation. “as for their tororo” cries the man but no one pays attention 25 �Sabi: An Undertone of Loneliness from the Purer “Loneliness” of Sabishisa let my name be “traveler”; frst rains. It is the beginning of winter. As I am about to set out for Iga, near Kyoto, from my hermitage in Edo, it rains. Only a true “traveler” would understand why I go anyway. At my farewell party the night before, we compose a ren-ku. Tis stanza was its hokku and my host capped it may you have camellia fowers as shelter, night afer night as if to say, “All are wanderers, but if camellias do not punctuate our wandering . . .” Later the verse opens Oi no kobumi, preceded by the lines: Te weather was unsettled at the beginning of the Tenth Month, and I also felt as unsure of my future as a leaf in the wind. Tough the juxtaposition of “traveler” and “frst rains” may seem facile, with it I celebrate Saigyo’s waka, Sogi’s renga, Sesshu’s painting, Rikyu’s tea ceremony. Te host at Iwaki, a person called Chotaro, composes the wakiku and offers a farewell dinner at Kikaku’s residence: 26 �once more taking sasanquas for my lodging Tough my hokku certainly carries my resolve to travel and endure the loneliness and uncertainty implied in “frst rains,” I hope that it simultaneously conveys the fact that I (like ancient travelers) revel in the upcoming trip. “First rains” implies excitement—anticipation of delight. “Let my name be ‘traveler’” similarly echoes the words of the waki priest who introduces himself at the beginning of a Noh play before journeying to meet the spirits of the dead. (I like to attach text from this play to manuscript copies of the hokku.) Tus “frst rains” becomes a medium through which I travel across time, relishing with the “ancients” the ineluctable favor of fukyo (poetic “madness”). Te moon and sun are eternal travelers. Even the years wander on. A lifetime adrif in a boat or in old age leading a tired horse into the years . . . in shallow wind, dead leaves whisper I wait for moon to rise above the peaks— how chill the grass once blooming with so many diferent fowers 27 �Makoto: Sincerity autumn nearing inclination of my mind! a four-and-a-half-mat room. At Bokusetsu’s hut in Otsu, on the twenty-frst day of the Sixth Month, the summer season had begun perceptibly to incline toward autumn. Grief-stricken at the news of Jutei’s death, in failing health, the bareness and simplicity of the tea room—my mind goes here. in the wild violets, birds— a child stops clutches her monkey 28 �Kokai: A Feeling of Regret Afer Reading a Poem come to my hut and hear the cry of the bagworm Tis poem, written in 1687, appears in Sequel to Empty Chestnuts with the headnote, “Listening to the Quiet.” In response, Sodo (a scholar of Chinese literature and a kanshi poet) writes a haibun essay called “Comment on the Bagworm” on which my “Postscript to ‘Comment on the Bagworm’” remarks. Te whole thing results in an extended prose dialogue, where, in linked-verse fashion, we alternately meditate on the nature of reclusion. Because of a passage in Te Pillow Book, the bagworm (minomushi, a seasonal word for autumn) is thought of as a creature that, with the arrival of the autumn winds, plaintively cries, “Father! Father!” (chichi yo chichi yo). In reality, the bagworm does not make any sound at all. It just sits in its little bag, gestating and metamorphosing into a moth. Another bagworm story: Once Vimalakirti, a contemporary of the Buddha, becomes ill. Te Buddha sends Manjushri with 32,000 bodhisattvas, arhats, and devas to inquire afer his health. (Vimlakirti graciously accommodates them all in his ten-by-ten-foot room.) “What is the bodhisattva-gate to the dharma of not-two?” someone asks. Everyone attempts to answer, but Vimalakirti? He says nothing. He just sits there like a bagworm. Still, everyone says he heard quite a lot, probably because teacher-student intimacy also is based in thundering silence. 29 �and still . . . your cypress hat hanging in its shadow stirs me through and through 30 �All Eternity Is Yesterday a village where no temple bell sounds— what do they do? twilight in spring. Written in the vicinity of Kanuma (in Shimotsuke Province), this hokku alludes to monk Noin’s waka in Shinkokinshu: spring nightfall in a mountain village where, at the sound of a bell tolling the close of a day, cherry blossoms keep falling When, at evening, a temple bell is struck, it echoes the great void. Whose resonance carries timelessness. Anyone who hears it must in some way feel validated. It recalls another poem: though in Kyoto I long for Kyoto the song of the cuckoo blossoms from a tree tremble, shake, fall . . . even afer waking their motion in my chest 31 �Karumi: Lightness in plum-blossom scent pop! the sun appears— the mountain path On the slopes of a pre-dawn mountain, groves of plum trees are in fragrant blossom. It is earliest spring. Bitterly cold. Plum trees hold snow as well as blossoms. With notto! I emerge from my absorption. For I am near death. Trudging along in the freezing, early morning, lost in the pervading plumblossom scent, just as I’m entirely ready for the sun—pop!—it appears! Tis hokku, composed with Yaba in Edo and subsequently published in Charcoal Sack, opens our sequence. Yaba’s wakiku keeps the same season—lingering winter cold—but expands it. here there pheasants cying as they fy away In Yaba’s verse, the sharp cries of the pheasants scattering from the grass echo the sun as it pops through the fragrant morning. And karumi? It’s the plain theme, lighthearted tone, and rich resonance of a dawn mountain road on a refreshingly beautiful February day. above fowers below fragrance o lotus! 32 �Zen Is Poetry. Poetry, Zen. summer grasses! the remains of dreams of warriors. I am visiting the ruins of Takadate Castle at Hiraizumi, where a historic battle was fought in the civil war of the late twelfh century. It was a terrible tragedy, ending with the great general Yoshitsune committing suicide afer killing his wife and children. Te hokku is preceded by a haibun essay: Te glory of three generations of Fujiwara vanished in the space of a dream; the remains of the Great Gate stood two miles in the distance. Hidehira’s headquarters had turned into rice paddies and wild felds. Only Kinkeizan, Golden Fowl Hill, remained as it was. First, we climbed Takadachi, Castle-on-the-Heights, from where we could see the Kitakami, a broad river that fowed from the south. Te Koromo River rounded Izumi Castle and, at a point beneath Castle-on-the-Heights, it dropped into the broad river. Te ancient ruins of Yasuhira and others, lying behind Koromo Barrier, appear to close of the southern entrance and guard against the Ainu barbarians. Selecting his loyal retainers, Yoshitsune fortifed himself in the castle, but his glory quickly turned to grass. ‘Te state is destroyed, / rivers and hills remain. / Te city walls turn to spring, / grasses and trees are green.’ With these lines from Tu Fu in my head, I lay down my bamboo hat, letting the time and tears fow. Te “remains of dreams / of warriors” are the dreams of the three generations of Fujiwara who valiantly conquered the Ainu tribesmen and built a splendid civilization only to see it disappear, and of Yoshitsune’s 33 �brave retainers who died for their master. Te ephemerality of ambitions is foreshadowed in the opening phrase of the prose passage, a reference to the Noh play Kantan, about a man (Rosei) who napped and dreamed a lifetime of glory and defeat while waiting for dinner. Tus the traveler takes on the aura of a waki (traveling priest) in a Noh warrior play who visits the site of a former battlefeld and then, as if in a dream, watches the ghost of a slain soldier re-enact his most tragic moments on the battlefeld. In the green, green, warm-blooded grass, the glorious luxuriance of summer joins vanishing chasm of dreams. in the deutzia Kanefusa appears white-haired [Sora’s capping verse] lovely! lovely! her discarded stems caught by the photographer 34 �Get on a Sleigh: BUSON’S HEART SONG ��Born near the sunlit Naniwa River, I spend many springs and autumns in the bird-crying eastern country. 37 �[1] Kema is a farming village. With clear weather we can see the Ikoma Mountains in the east and the Senri Hills lying low across the river to the north. spring thaw— one small carp hides in the shallows 38 �[2] In spring, the mustard’s yellow blossoms blow in beds as far as eye can see. As willows lose their leaves, bush clover, madder and maidenfower burst into bloom. ’neath white-crane sky, the old year sinks out back on the hill I stand in fukakusa grass 39 �[3] With autumn, falling blocks fll the air with sadness. Wild boars knock dew from the maiden-fowers with their tusks. autumn begins— here and there windows partially-closed 40 �[4] Winter starts with drizzle, then turns into squalls, frst of rain, then rain mixed with snow. Ducks and geese migrate from the north. Sometimes we spot whales. old, old, old the sound of the mountain today 41 �[5] But it’s the fox fres that grab me, mysterious lights glowing in tall dry grass. Winter showers sound like rats scrambling across a koto. how red, yet teeny (tiny)— plum blossom buds in the cold north wind 42 �My master Soa calls his house at Nihonbashi Yahantei (Midnight Pavilion) because nearby is a bell tower whose midnight toll reminds him of Chang Chi’s “Te sound of the midnight bell reaches a traveler’s boat.” 43 �[6] Here’s a story about Ihoku (a friend) that typifes my years with Soa: For a while Ihoku lives in the north. When he comes back to Edo, he has a hard time and stays in a miserable cottage on the edge of town. Soon he uses up his money on food and rent. At which point I help him set up a monthly poetry circle. I run all over town and do everything I can. Before long, Ihoku’s place becomes a popular spot, the center of a fourishing circle. a butterfy crosses my cryptomeria hedge circles the neighboring garden and comes wheeling back futtering in the pine tops over the water basin 44 �[7] Ihoku, meantime, has a valuable letter that Kikaku had once written. To thank me for my help, he ofers me this prized possession, but I say, “No thank you. In my place it would be like a ‘green rug.’ Tere is a Chinese anecdote about a famous ofcial who wakes up in the night to fnd thieves taking everything. “Wait,” he cries. “Tat green rug is a family heirloom. Would you please leave it behind?” I feel that I am too poor to keep an object merely of sentiment. night falls: catching the stream’s current a wooden clog 45 �[8] Abruptly Soa dies. I sit in his empty room. I go through his papers and try to compile a work that I want to entitle “Lone Crow.” But it is no use. For the next ten years I simply wander. ho! a blossom! one magic purple fower below the torma and ofering-bowls of rice 46 �With my rather high forehead, thick eyebrows and crooked moustache, my shadow-of-a-beard looks not so much as if I let it grow on purpose as if I carelessly neglected to shave. 47 �[9] First I stay with Jou whose villa is covered by trees and overgrown with grass. One autumn night while his old caretaker idles away the evening, Buddhist rosary in hand, I am in a back room struggling to compose hokku. Afer a while I pull a quilt over me and as I’m beginning to doze of, I hear loud banging sounds on the storm doors enclosing the veranda. Tere are twenty or thirty bangs and my heart is pounding fast, but when I get up to look, no one is there. I go back to bed. Te same thing happens again. Utterly unnerved, I ask the caretaker about it. “it’s father!” cries the son spotting in some branches an imperceptible breeze 48 �[10] “It’s a badger. Next time he comes, you chase him away. I’ll go out the back, hide behind a hedge and wait for him.” Before long the bangs start. “Tere he is!” I open the door. With a cry the old man dashes out. But there’s not a soul in sight. Tis same incident occurs for four consecutive nights. Just as I’m feeling too exhausted to stay in the villa, Jou’s head servant comes to see us. “Early this morning, a villager killed an old badger at a place called Yabushita,” he says. “I’m sure he is the one playing tricks on you. Please have a restful sleep tonight.” late winter night— on the kettle hanger paused I see it seeing me see 49 �[11] Sure enough, the badger doesn’t come. But I feel sorry for the animal. I don’t like what he has done to me, but then again, he is a visitor who has come to console this lonely traveler sleeping away from home. Perhaps he and I have karmic ties. I am so grief-stricken that I give alms to a mendicant friar called Zenku and ask him to ofer prayers for the badger’s soul. white sails chase the passing sound of rain— below the waves, one trailed cloud-scrap 50 �[12] Following Basho north I too dress as a monk. My shaven head shows every bump and irregularity. Te venture takes a year during which time I become ill, go hungry and sufer from extreme heat and cold. daybreak—pale fowers— glancing at the moon an old man stoops 51 �[13] While I neither keep a diary nor write many poems (life on the road is simply too harsh and painful), at Ashino, the place of Saigyo’s famous tree, I cannot help myself. the willow is bare the clear stream has dried, and stones lie scattered here and there You may recall that Basho, when he visited this spot, wrote: over an entire feld they have planted rice—before I part with the willow What with the willow’s lacking leaves and the stream lacking water, my scene seems more desolate than that of both Saigyo and Basho. It may be, however, that I am more lonely. but when the felds are cut the smell from hulling rice— feels more elegant and leisurely 52 �Tao Ch’ien’s prose poem “Return Home!” begins: “I will go home. My felds and garden are lying in waste.” 53 �[14] Near Kema, in the province of Tango, ’neath the shadow of Mount Oe, rough waves pound on rocky bays and inlets. Winter breakers toss white foam as if to meet the sky. frosty tree, sparkling sun, from dazzling limbs one spinning twig 54 �[15] Su Shih’s prose, “Te mountains towering high, the moon looks small; the level of water having fallen, the stones are exposed,” I fnd especially poignant. yellow wings, yellow light to somewhere far of their zigzag trail 55 �[16] A narrow strip of land juts far into the bay. (Sesshu has painted the slender strand of pine that stretches across the water almost meeting the mountains on the other side and forming a lagoon.) Around this lip, that quivers like a living thing, tall peaks lock the bay as if in a huge womb. rufing the lake its moony midnight glaze— waterbird’s dream 56 �[17] It is ofen said that in Japanese music, the space between the notes is the most important part. For me, time away from Kyoto is like this. Sitting in muggy Shikoku, I think of the sof new shoots on one of my favorite trees and realize that now I truly belong to Kyoto. I lean against thin railing lif my face to rain look! a pair of swallows 57 ��Water goes and clouds stay. Trees are old. Birds sleep. Te dark bamboo forest looks as though steam still lingers from his tea kettle. 59 �[18] come, traveler, get on a sleigh and visit us from the land of the Buddhas I call out. Both (the collection and gathering) are hosted by Shoha’s son, Kuroyanagi Korehoma. As I remember the poet, close to death, grasping my hand saying tearfully, “I’m sorry I won’t be able to join you in the new haikai movement,” I now, like then, cannot stop crying. “My haikai has disappeared into the western land of death,” poor Shoha lamented again and again. dawn, snowy dawn— from the hunter, crane’s asylum 60 �[19] ring around the moon like a frayed old umbrella— cold drizzle ahead Te old umbrella describing the ring also stands for the shimmering light of the moon at the coldest time of the year. It is not used for the autumn moon, but only in winter, as Master Nankaku once said. scattering its petals, a single rose— huddled against cold I watch 61 �[20] “What can a poet do to arrive at such a transcendental state of mind?” Shoha asks. “Study Chinese poetry,” I answer. plucking, this fall, one red chrysanthemum which I sketch but never fathom 62 �[21] Te poet should not deliberately try to write a poem. He is to wait until his mind reaches the state most susceptible to poetic creation. When that state arrives, he should start composing with his eyes closed, since the verse is to mirror the landscape he sees in his mind’s eye. Te composition has to be done in the presence of past masters, because haikai is a traditional verse form. Te masters will disappear as soon as the creative process is over. All that is lef will be a poetic paradise that is the poet’s own. from a mountain bird a mountain song— piercing the blustery wind 63 �[22] To Masana and Shunsaku: cool feeling! detached from a bell the sound of the bell moon afer rainfall who is it at night with white limbs? Tese are not in the fashionable style. Too much fashion is annoying. piled on its leaves midnight snow ah . . . white camellia . . . 64 �I overhear people saying of me, “How hale and hearty the old man is!” 65 �[23] I love Kyoto’s beautiful landscapes and never forget to view cherry blossoms and the red maple leaves of the eastern suburbs and western mountain. vesper bells: absorbing their echo sparkling wisps of red and black 66 �[24] I have been very close to the courtesan Koito. Once, in fact, Doryu, who is (no surprise) a Confucian scholar, remonstrates with me. I admit that because of my useless romantic feeling, I lose my dignity in my old age. Tough I forbid myself, I continue to see her— it’s well-known. tonight, it’s my bird’s tin roof that the moon appropriates for a mirror 67 �[25] Admittedly I am troubled when my bantering mood spills over into renku. carolers depart but the wind . . . I linger on the doorstep 68 �[26] Toward the end of autumn, I drag my walking stick to a place called Tahara in the farther part of Uji. I let my eyes be pleased with high clifs, cascading water, odd stones and strange rocks. I write a tearing of silk streaming out from a biwa the voice of autumn while recalling Po Chu-i’s “Four strings, one voice, like the tearing of silk cloth.” though clear, the fountain runs deep— near a shimmery root the tea master lingers 69 �[27] While the young people are greedily hurrying ahead, I, far behind, quietly look from place to place. I fnd fve mushrooms as big as small grass huts. How splendid! I wonder why Chief Counselor of State, Lord Uji TAkakuni, wrote only about the strangeness of hiratake mushrooms and never mentions the splendor of matsutake. you should see the fve mushrooms with dew-drops that were not picked! the squirrel gallops of— in its wake of leaves two butterfies wrestle 70 �[28] Uji River’s most rapid torrents are at a place called Komekashi. Water and rocks struggle with each other. Splashing, leaping waves make a spray like fying snow. Te sound roaring in the gorge overpowers human voices. a mother to her doe— with each call the moon, in mist, lowers 71 �[29] Ten the withered winter sky with quiet rainfall. Late crickets sing. Wind, morning and evening, penetrate my robes. But I get sick. My chronic chest pains worsen. Inside I know that my life is ending. as the Chinese bellfowers and pinks go to seed the long-awaited bush clover begins to open— though I tenderly wash them, the buds on the tips of the muddied clover rot without blooming 72 �Dusk falls early in the afernoon. Showers come frequently. 73 �[30] Around the middle of December, though my inner sickness seems to pass out of my body and my sufering appears to be healing, I have no appetite, my body and mind are exhausted and each day hope seems less. Everyone gathers and wishes only for my good. from earth, sky, trees not a single sign— yet autumn . . . 74 �[31] Tomo, Kuno, Gekkei, Baitei—many both in morning and evening help me rise and lie down, but I moan, especially on the twenty-second and twenty-third nights. I can tell that people feel extremely downhearted and unsure watching this sick face. I say, “Tis stupid old man’s wishes are all fulflled. But my daughter has no worldly connections, and the matter of her future lingers in my mind. Perhaps afer I go, two or three of you people may show her kindness. Well, concern over things will get in the way of passing on with a peaceful mind.” With that I pull the quilt over my face. brittle, shiny, brown— burrowing beetles, as winter appears, wall up their doors with earth 75 �[32] Dawn is near. My family and students are beside me. Closing my eyes I hear myself say, “Te time has come for me to leave this world. Is the night still deep?” winter sun sets but glistens still in the rock-moving Zen master’s headband 76 �[33] On the night of the twenty-fourth, my sick body is very calm and my speaking becomes natural again. I call Gekkei and say, “I made some poems during my sickness. Write them down quickly.” Brush and inkstone are prepared and I recite: winter uguisu— long ago in Wang Wei’s garden hedge too! uguisu! what is that rustling— frost on the bushes And afer a while: with white plum blossoms these nights to the faint light of dawn are turning 77 ��ISSA ISSA ��oh Issa carver of poems even in soba four 81 �[1] Listen. A mother crow caws pitiably for her injured young. As for me, I sometimes wonder, which is worse—feeling the feelings of the distraught crow or feeling the lack of them? scattered seeds— on hunter’s soil a crane 82 �[2] When I hear the story of the stepmother who agrees to feed her near-famished stepchild only if the village statue eats the rice she cruelly makes him ofer it (of course the stone statue wolfs it down) I can’t resist: serves the old woman right— now she must feed her own children her stepchild and the stone statue Basho your rainproof paper hat the one you made imitating Saigyo’s— I too have felt desperately alone 83 �[3] Tough Senroku and I have diferent mothers, that in itself would not account for the hostility between us. Surely we were enemies in a previous life. Satsu also, vicious and contentious as she mostly is, cannot be without motives carried over from a former debt. fog rolls in— fat gulls hover over the water 84 �[4] Father’s words, arising from his delirium, “Don’t fall in the well! Don’t fall in the well!”—I would die to be again the child he has in mind. New Year’s Eve listen— snow is falling 85 �[5] When Satsu hears “Don’t fall in the well!” she screams (beet-red, pointing a fnger at the dying man), “Your precious son! So you love him as much as this?” scattering rice… pigeons and sparrows shoo away the clucking chicks 86 �[6] “While you are in Zenkoji would you please bring me some sugar,” father requests towards dawn. (Sugar forces down the phlegm that interferes with his breathing.) Satsu: “It’s just wasted on someone about to die.” She rattles on, really being bothered by the fact that father shares his sugar with me. full moon—facing it knees braced beneath my robe 87 �[7] Children from my village observe a peculiar custom: capturing a lively frog they bury it, cover its grave with plantain grass, and run away: Hey ho! Te frog is dead! Hey ho! Te frog is dead! Come, let us bury him, Come, let us bury him, Under plantain leaves! Under plantain leaves! bowing over the frog’s grave— cherry blossoms 88 �[8] Having planted a chestnut in a sunny corner of my garden, I am thrilled to see it sprout, but soon, a new addition on my neighbor’s house blocks it from light and rain. Tereafer my seedling manages to grow little more than a foot. When winter comes, my neighbor shovels snow of his roofop onto the ground breaking the sapling at its base. Indeed, such is the fate of this poor tree that every winter, snow from the roof stunts it again. draped over a stone— are you dead yet little goldfsh 89 �[9] Having walked a good way beyond the village of Tsuchikuchi to visit Chorai, my beloved friend, I learn he has been dead these ffeen years. His successor (a priest) denies me even so much as a place to rest. wet spring night… wandering aimlessly Chorai close by 90 �[10] As for my unpaid debt to father (a drifer is hardly flial)—my wanderings, my staying away till my hair is white—no wonder I consider whether the Five Violations can be worse than this. even in his company seeing his gray hair I long for his company 91 �[11] My inability to sever the ties of afection for my daughter Sato refects a profound misunderstanding of the nature of impermanence. For this reason I am deeply embarrassed. Yet I hear of enlightened masters pleading with their teachers, “Don’t die, don’t die, please don’t leave us.” midsummer night— the feverish man frets over his little boy of years ago 92 �[12] I quickly forgive Takamaru’s parents for weeping shamelessly, even though they are priests who preach indiference to life’s vicissitudes. “Who can blame them?” I assure myself. “It is only human that their hearts should be deeply oppressed by their unbreakable attachment to the child.” wedged in the pocket of the drowned boy, blossoms of butterbur 93 �[13] As for the hollow New Year observances, you’ll fnd no crane, no tortoise, no pine beside my door. Why should I sweep out the dust when my tiny cottage might, at any moment, be whisked away by the wild north wind? silent house silent snow I stand in the moonlit doorway 94 �[14] my Kiku— she never cares how she looks I inscribe imagining I am capturing something of my wife with her baggy mompe, cotton kerchief, and scarlet braids. Now I see that I, who think nothing of visiting the Lord of Kaga in my scraggly clothes, am merely recognizing (and admiring) something of myself in this lackadaisical side to her. morning-glories stumbling upon them outside my gate 95 �[15] No matter how many villagers pick fruit from the old chestnut tree near Suwa Shrine, it never lacks (at the very fewest) one or two of its little prickly husks for the next hungry person. dusk cakes rising on the stove— the moon 96 �[16] Until he learns its meaning, Ota, the wealthy baron, is naturally irritated at receiving from the farmer’s daughter, instead of the cape he requests in the sudden rainstorm, a sprig of kerria. He is deeply embarrassed however to learn from a retainer that her gesture, being a punning allusion to an old poem, is a poetical way of expressing that no cape is available. Ashamed of his ignorance, he becomes an eager student of literature. dawn sofly sofly through the undergrowth 97 ��SHIKI: EPITAPH OF A FLOWER ��[1] My father dies. I am fve. In order to support Ritsu and me, mother sews. Te living room is constantly cluttered with her paraphernalia. carrying dawn a dove sails of— following it with my eyes 101 �[2] One day, while my uncle, Kato Tsunetada, is massaging my maternal grandfather’s back, Kinbei, owner of the Tanakaya pawn shop on Tojin Street, walks in without even knocking and demands payment of a debt. Displaying a polite amount of embarrassment, grandfather replies, “Kinbei, I am so sorry. I can barely aford rice for our New Year’s cakes. Te children are screaming for their kites. I will surely pay you afer the New Year. Please be patient.” a temple gate creaks— the sound of wind through the door-crack 102 �[3] At frst silent, Kinbei stands up muttering angrily, “What do I care about your kites and your rice cakes? At least I can take this!” and he storms out carrying my mother’s precious brass handwashing basin. Not noticing mother’s pain, grandfather remarks, “Kinbei always was a man of action.” bolt upright on the still, blue water— morning moon 103 �[4] Uncle Tsunetada notices. He resolves at once to retrieve the handbasin. During the day he pounds rice. At night he copies text from elementary-school books. Afer several months he proudly redeems the basin whereupon grandfather looks at him with annoyance, “Do you suppose you’ll become a great man by worrying about such trivial things?” “how charming!” I think, seeing one wisteria tuf, trailing from its vase onto my pile of books 104 �[5] Later, when uncle and I are walking in the country he happens to say, “It is remarkable how a piece of white paper will turn black when you spill India ink on it.” Ten he refects, “When a man puts on a woman’s clothes and does his hair up like a woman, he looks just like a woman. Yet a man is a man; one can never say he is a woman.” His words are stirring and I cannot help but think, “Tree years of study seem worthless compared to this conversation.” “no, not the scarlet peach blooms, it’s the forsythia . . .” I say to the fower lady 105 �[6] While I am aware that philosophy is serious and literature is not serious (Buddhist priests, for example, don’t write novels), I am also aware that I cannot live without novels. “more arrogant than a farmer which he is not”—he reads— drenched in a ray of sun 106 �[7] I am eighteen when I start writing haiku. At nineteen I call on old Ohara Kiju (a disciple of Baishitsu, one of the three great haiku masters of the Tempo era) whose study (I take this as a sign of his complete dedication and immersion) is wall-to-wall haiku. Kijo is very kind and reads my poems. By way of response, he composes two of his own about a dragon bounding over Mt. Fuji. I hope it’s not too presumptuous to read this as an endorsement—that he is confdent I will become a great poet. so cool, the sea through a hole in the storm lantern— Buddha too opens his altar doors 107 �[8] My interest in haiku and novels begins to overshadow the attraction of my university classes. At one point I actually stop attending them and move out of the dormitory. I rent a house in Komagome, a very quiet spot suited to the studying I plan to do. But when I sit down to study, a haiku emerges before I even read the frst page. Since I have dutifully put everything related to poetry aside in order to force myself to concentrate on the task at hand (my university exams), I don’t have anything on which to write my poem. So I write it on the lampshade. Soon I become engrossed in covering the lampshade with haiku. bulging, swelling rosebuds on my fence— “hello rosebuds!” 108 �[9] Needless to say, I fail my exams. Which gives me an excuse to withdraw from school once and for all. beyond young leaves water, wheat, the mirage aswirl with sun 109 �[10] I am twenty-two when I frst cough up blood. In response I adopt the penname Shiki which means hototogisu, the bird that (according to legend) coughs blood as it sings. Having made this concession to my illness, I proceed to live an intensely active life with the result that I sufer several more lung hemorrhages. summer dawn— a slug, its crawl, smearing the dewdrop 110 �[11] When the Sino-Japanese War breaks out, with all my heart I wish to go to China. My two friends, Kuga and Iogi are adamantly opposed. Iogi, a surgeon, reminds me that, if nothing else, the sanitary conditions should dissuade me. My greatest enemy, he stresses, are not shells and bullets. If I fall ill, there will be no medical care. As the boat chugs away, the clarity of its whistle arouses the thought, “I will never return alive.” clipping roses in a clear spell— from my bed hearing the shears 111 �[12] Ironically, even as we wait to disembark, a truce is declared. at his gate instead of sun . . . its memory in his body 112 �[13] Aboard ship I cough up blood. Te hemorrhaging continues, as drugs (except for cholera) are unavailable. Even so, a case of cholera breaks out, with the consequence that when our ship docks in Shimonoseki, disembarking is prohibited. Instead, the ship proceeds to a quarantine station. Six full days we are detained, at which point I am so weak I have to be carried by stretcher to the Kobe hospital. “you see,” she says— as she cleans its cage the bird begins to sing 113 �[14] Te pain hits my pelvis. I can barely walk, which means I can no longer avoid facing the fact that I have tuberculosis, that it is incurable, and that I will never be able to do anything more strenuous than read and write. As you might expect, I become ferce about reading and writing. pelting rain: my life and lives in the cock’s sober cry 114 �[15] Having set my heart on a lineage, I think my life is over the day Kyoshi, a mere boy, refuses to be my literary heir. My disappointment refects my own immaturity. One needn’t ask. Kyoshi, along with Hekigodo, are to become my literary heirs whether they want to or not. from rock to rock lifing his robe . . . even the stream seems to curtsy 115 �[16] Kyoshi’s refusal comes as a great shock. He admits that he wants to be a writer but not badly enough to study. I say, “Ten your aims and mine are completely diferent.” ’neath a thinner and thinner moon slender branches shiver with the bell 116 �[17] We leave the restaurant separately. Hands in the sleeves of my kimono, I drif aimlessly back to Uguisu Lane. summer evening— even my jacket wants to fee 117 �[18] Formerly I was desperate; now I am alone with no one but my dying self to rely on. the waterbird’s neck as the rainbow gathers its clarity 118 �[19] Dawn peeps through the shabby paper glued over a hole in my screen. one limb in a spot of light turns . . . suddenly. . . up 119 �[20] In my dream a tormented beast accepts the paw ofered by a gentle rabbit. taking the rabbit’s paw in both of its own— kissing it So exciting is my dream that my underkimono soaks through with sweat and my temperature soars to 102 degrees. misty dawn— in my fre in full color 120 �[21] Mother and Ritsu cannot leave my side. Sachiio, Hekigoto, Kyoshi and Sokotsu take turns trying to divert me. Diarrhea, fatulence, nosebleeds, migraines—my only hope is morphine, but since my allotment is restricted, relief is never long. crows at four, sparrows at fve thus I reckon the endless summer night 121 �[22] “Some dumplings would sure taste good right now,” I say cheerfully. Ritsu doesn’t respond. So I say, “Go now. Buy me some dumplings!” What is an invalid to do? evening falls— from the shadow of a hill the old man’s sigh 122 �[23] With the canary, however, Ritsu sits motionless in front of its cage for hours at a time, simply gazing. “is today Wednesday? I thought . . .” she begins stroking its light blue feathers 123 �[24] Tough I care more for the sublime in poetry than the elegant, more than both, I care for plainness, its pleasant freshness. For example, when I write about Ritsu awakening from a nap and swatting a fy, commonplace though this image may be, my particular perspective conveys the heat, my sister’s exhaustion nursing me, my crankiness and inability to sleep and a little of her embarrassment in the face of having dozed in front of me. is it death it paints this mirror moon lighting my eyebrows? 124 �[25] Actually, it is not just tone but scale—the seeming banality—that give my poems the unassuming, mortal quality, that I have come to so appreciate. I could be talking to myself. in the bubbles of a spring how still its horny body 125 �[26] From 1897 I have to wait, virtually immobilized, in steadily increasing pain, for death to come. My infamed spinal cord, tubercular boils, pus and festering sores are agonizing. Since there is no treatment, all that can be done is to wipe away the pus and wrap the sores in cotton bandages. I am a mass of oozing slime girded in oiled paper. hot-water bottle tepid I hug it anyway, cheered, somehow, by a glimpse of winter moon 126 �[27] Bujian and I correspond until he dies, of my same disease. Tat is spring 1901. Some time later, members of his family pay me a call. Tey are struck by our many similar mannerisms—not letting our nurses leave our bedside even for a second, becoming angry when demands are not fulflled before we even fnish expressing them, fnding it difcult to breath in the presence of a large person, showing intense likes and dislikes of people, feeling pain if the coverlet is hard but also if it is sof, overeating and becoming furious if visitors comment on our lack of thinness whereupon we both poke out our match-stick legs saying, “How ’bout these?” Bujian Bujian you are my brother— we have never met but only you understand how I sufer 127 �[28] Living with ever-palpable death, my relationship with time is diferent from most people’s. On the one hand, it passes slowly, making boredom a constant torment. On the other, it seems feeting, leaving me with an unsheddable sense of urgency. spring evening: squandering its light the cloister’s duf 128 �[29] I take pleasure in the bathing drama that goes on inside my large wire birdcage. It used to be that even before one’s hand is out of the cage, having replenished the water in their basin, the fnches arrive and splash away till most of the water is gone. Which, needless to say, leaves the other birds very little to go on. Lately, however, I’ve noticed that the two black-headed manikins zip in ahead of the fnches. Afer them come the Jakarta sparrows, the zebra fnches and fnally the canaries. Te basin’s edge is thronged with birds in order of arrival. As each pair fnishes, they fy up to their perch and fap their wings furiously. Teir joy is so great, I am not even jealous. just outside my door they chirp and play— I myself have not been able to bathe for fve years 129 �[30] when I can read at all I read newspapers and magazines even at this, pain ofen interferes Te boy who was so promising, who at age eleven wrote poems in classic Chinese, never expected to be reduced to statements like the above. “your chrysanthemums, honey, you know that pink . . .” but her voice trails of 130 �[31] When my diaper is changed, I peek at my abdomen. (It’s been hurting a lot these past few days.) It is completely black. I’m sure another fstula will open. windy night loosely fastened, beyond the moor— to whom might it belong? 131 �[32] Six months later (March 1902) I gather all my strength and look at the fstula on my stomach for the frst time. I expect it to be small, but it is a hollow. ladling trout ’neath the mountain’s blue sky the surprise, my surprise! 132 �[33] Meanwhile I cannot write at all. I must dictate what I have to say. spring quail from Shimosa’s Yuki Village— oh teeth, would that you were here! 133 �[34] Lef alone one autumn night, my eye falls on a penknife and an eyeleteer on the inkstone box. I think of the razor in the next room, but I can’t even crawl. demure yew in the shade waiting your turn 134 �[35] Instructions for My Funeral: I feel it necessary to formalize such directives because of the tendency people have to misconstrue a thing. My death is an occasion for joy. Let’s not mince words. I want: No advertisement No speeches No posthumous Buddhist name No tombstone made of natural stone No wake before the cofn No tears Please laugh and talk in an ordinary way. Celebrate! “in the shade of trees I sleep”— this, on a piece of paper tied to his quiver 135 �[36] Today, as usual, it rains. My grogginess is intolerable, so I take morphine. Ten I try to sketch the Ezo chrysanthemum. abandoned train station a stone Buddha sits autumn leaves in hand 136 �[37] Four or fve years ago, when I frst became an invalid, I used to say I wouldn’t mind being unable to walk far, if only I could walk in my garden. Afer a few years, when I could no longer walk, it still seemed that simply being able to stand up would be a joy. By the summer before last I had reached the point where I grumbled, “I’m not hoping to stand—I only ask the god of sickness to let me sit up.” Yesterday and today my plaint has been, “Who cares about sitting up? What joy to simply be free of pain, able to lie down in comfort for a single hour!” along the railbed too on the road to Akabane— next year I’ll have time 137 �[38] Morphine Diary—1902 I take the drug two to four times daily along with sedatives and medicine for my stomach— even so my condition gets worse— that crow where we hang the wash looks at me . . . looks away 138 �[39] I cannot think the evening news confuses me I cannot write or talk with any degree of coherence occasionally I lif my head peer through the glass at the garden’s rampant bushclover 139 �[40] I cannot move my body— only if I take three doses of painkiller can I achieve, even for a short while, a sense of well-being “to bloom afresh stick wilted stems in strong sake”— if it works for wisteria, churns my mind . . . 140 �[41] my body hurts I have no strength even to take up my writing brush— to whom shall I talk how shall I pass the day “how deep is it now?” “has it buried the pampas grass “yet?” 141 �[42] I have legs like someone else’s legs I have legs like huge immovable stones if one so much as touches them all the earth’s plants and trees cry out heaven and earth quake the stalks his knife— the monk hesitates 142 �[43] call Kyoshi too please call Kyoshi too— Ritsu hold my writing board Hekigoto guide my brush and Shiki—too weak to speak— slowly write three deathbed poems windy winter night— wild ducks settle into sleep in the harbor where the boats tie up 143 �Te Haiku Masters: Four Poetic Diaries is set in Minion, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in the spirit of the humanist typefaces of ffeenth-century Venice. 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By using extended sequences of haiku to describe the life-cycle of small animals in the wild, Gail Sher stretches the poetic form in ways that are fresh, unexpected and original. G ail S her is the author of One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers (Penguin), the first of a widely- F I V E H A I K U N A R R AT I V E S These unique “stories in haiku form” were first printed praised series of books on writing as a practice. Writing “a haiku a day” was her own beginning practice. Her haiku, initially published in literary magazines, went on to win awards in the United States and Japan and became Gail is one of just ninety-one ordained lay disciples of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, the person credited with bringing Soto Zen Buddhism to the West. She practiced Zen for many years at both Tassajara Zen Mountain Center GAIL SHER the foundation of her highly experimental poetic work. and San Francisco City Center. Today, in addition to her own writing, she provides consultation to writers, supervison to clinicians in training, and psychotherapy to in San Francisco’s East Bay. FPO PLACE BARCODE HERE NIGHT CRANE PRESS adolescents and adults. She practices Tibetan Buddhism F I V E H A I K U N A R R AT I V E S GAIL SHER �f i v e h a i k u na r r at i v e s �Also by Gail Sher prose One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers The Intuitive Writer: Listening to Your Own Voice Writing the Fire: Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive From a Baker’s Kitchen poetry Ezekiel Sunny Day, Spring Mingling the Threefold Sky The Twelve Nidānas Figures in Blue The Bardo Books White Bird Mother’s Warm Breath The Tethering of Mind to Its Five Permanent Qualities The Haiku Masters: Four Poetic Diaries though actually it is the same earth East Wind Melts the Ice The Copper Pheasant Ceases Its Call old dri’s lament Calliope Who: A Licchavi Watching Slow Flowers DOHA Birds of Celtic Twilight: A Novel in Verse redwind daylong daylong Once There Was Grass RAGA Look at That Dog All Dressed Out in Plum Blossoms Moon of The Swaying Buds Lines: The Life of a Laysan Albatross Fifty Jigsawed Bones Saffron Wings Marginalia One bug ... one mouth ... snap! La Like A Crane At Night Kuklos COPS Broke Aide Rouge to Beak Having Me (As) on things which (headpiece) touches the Moslem From Another Point of View The Woman Seems to Be Resting �f i v e h a i k u na r r at i v e s Like A Crane at Night One bug … One mouth … Snap! Saffron Wings Fifty Jigsawed Bones Lines: The Life of a Laysan Albatross GAIL SHER Night Crane Press 2015 �Copyright 1996-2015 Gail Sher www.gailsher.com All rights reserved Night Crane Press 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 435 Emeryville, California 94608 No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permisssion from the copyright owner and publisher. ISBN: 978-0-9858843-5-2 �for Brendan ��preface Each one of these “stories in haiku form” was originally printed as a small, limited-edition book, hand-wrapped in Japanese paper and given as a New Year’s gift to friends and family. Using extended sequences of haiku to describe the life-cycle of small animals in the wild—including turtles, butterflies, and cranes—stretches the poetic form in ways that are unexpected and, I hope, revealing. May this one-volume collection bring enjoyment to a wider audience and happiness and the causes of happiness to all suffering beings wherever they may be and whatever form they may take. ��contents Like a Crane at Night 1 One Bug … One Mouth … Snap! 45 Saffron Wings 133 Fifty Jigsawed Bones 197 Lines: the Life of a Laysan Albatross 251 ��Like a Crane at Night A day at Kushiro Marsh, nesting ground for Japanese Cranes on the northern island of Hokkaido �daybreak daybreak— vapor rising over just-stirring birds 2 �silence but for buntings twittering in the sedge 3 �notes of a reed-warbler riddle this icy morning 4 �male on nest— his cry in the rising meltwater 5 �sunrise sunrise— swelling in the marsh water new grass 6 �April thaw— twigs in ice cover the bud 7 �straggling through the cloven ice— yellow floweret 8 �dead stalks of kitayoshi conceal the nest from the gunman kitayoshi = “reeds of the north” 9 �morning spring morning— a speckled egg on the grassy hummock 10 �snowflakes dust the new-born chick From December to April, Kushiro Marsh is almost completely frozen over, thus snow is still present in springtime. 11 �righting itself shuddering—gently shaking its wings 12 �staring at the second egg tawny chick— still 13 �noontide broad-winged bird silhouette swaying in the noontide 14 �wind-driven snow and you—oh white bird bouncing, leaping treading air in the squall 15 �white bird, blue sky wingspan arched gilded by the sunlight 16 �swift upbeat of wings followed by slow feathering of the air 17 �singing her solo pierces the winter sky 18 �a full-throated call— arching, hoisting his wings toward the trespasser 19 �necks cross puffs condense in the chilly air 20 �Crook, Crook! he cries then ceases abruptly when it’s over 21 �feeding thick green duckweed— a yearling dives under to feed 22 �a fledgling drinks … insects float on the stagnant swamp 23 �minnow in its beak young crane stops in the rippling bog 24 �a wriggling fish tossing it catching it further down the bill The small eel-like dojo, a kind of loach or mudfish, is the crane’s favorite treat in spring and summer. 25 �preying passing a cow four cranes—graze the summer pasture 26 �craning its neck scamming the bird red fox motionless 27 �dashing through a stand of spruce 28 beneath the airborne flock �shooing the buzzard away from her chick in a whirl of snow 29 �dusk dusk— creeping fog darkens the estuary 30 �shroud of fog … mallards bob among the spongy islands 31 �the sun sets— shadows flutter under hovering wings 32 �dips below the horizon ripples of pink in its wake 33 �twilight twilight— back to roost in the silver birch 34 �a V of shrubs alights a clump among 35 �gliding shuddering wing-tip stunned by the wire 36 �moonrise— a silhouette drifts along the inlet 37 �moonlight no-necked crane plumage folded one leg lifted off the sandbar 38 �raising it shaking it then tucking it in its breast 39 �washing in the pool long black legs—and more— long black legs 40 �sable throat vermilion crown glowing in the moonlight. 41 ��aknowledgment Thanks to author Dorothy Britton and photographer Tsuneo Hayashida whose elegant book, The Japanese Crane: Bird of Happiness (published by Kodansha International, New York, 1993), informed and inspired these poems. original publication date: 1996 43 ��One bug . . . One mouth . . . Snap! A Year in the Life of a Turtle �spring the swamp—it’s musty smell— airs in the crisp March wind 46 �alders the above curly- cry cues your of tailing mist 47 �absorbing the rain the quagmire sleeps . . . steeps in the morning sun 48 �between the cries of a black-crowned night heron— the sound of unseen birds 49 �* burning off the morning haze a sunbeam spots the tip of her nostrils 50 �beneath a layer of leaves in the pale light her plastron still 51 �the sun shifts she shifts—then dives into the water 52 �spring-green leaf-tips erase the sky 53 �* gilded yellow bars— also gleaming in twilit waters a male’s eyes 54 �locking forelegs and necks the pair counter-clockwise 55 �silent night— stars swim a black and blue ocean 56 �silence but for two shells grinding together in the dusk 57 �* afterwards what’s left of her tears— dark wet mud Turtles sometimes shed tears as they lay their eggs. 58 �tamping her nest she lumbers away— laden with dirt 59 �stalking down the slope she vanishes in your shadows . . . softly blowing bluestem 60 �one pink-white egg nestled in the earth . . . the moon 61 �* starless sky nosing the flask-shaped chamber— five flashes of white 62 �groping, missing— a black-masked hunter rakes the twilight 63 �fondling for a moment the morning sun— her barren nest 64 �carnage over tiny bits of sun-dried shells wind and weather-beaten 65 �* shrouded in fog a tiny dinosaur inches toward dawn 66 �across her nest’s sandy ridge dragging her spiked inch-long tail 67 �from broken shell to clump of bluestem . . . making a dash for it 68 �kerplunck— scurrying through the grass then plopping in the water 69 �* morning sun— dozing on a mat of reeds a baby snapper 70 �spinning orange and yellow through the sunny pool . . . little cooter, your spots 71 �on a tuft of moss near a flowering cranberry eggtooth intact . . . 72 �more strikes and afterwards . . . swirling pondweed 73 �* foraging the lagoon a hatchling choked by weeds 74 �the shadow moves the yearling . . . freezes 75 �under a pine and mounds of pine-needles— another mound 76 �one bug one mouth snap! 77 �* smack of a jaw slap of a tail . . . silence 78 �with whiplash speed plowing through the swamp lily pads stuck to his dome 79 �hunt over . . . a water lily 80 bobs in the waves �upside down caked with mud . . . a tortoise’s sun-bleached bones 81 �summer high and still on the milky horizon— summer clouds 82 �steamy morning lulling me to sleep—tree frogs— their rubbery croak 83 �the afternoon purrs stroked by soft summery light 84 �night falls— lying on a bed of leaves the moon 85 �* hot windless day even the song-sparrow’s nest is deserted 86 �a puff of cloud . . . its trailing edge in the quiescent sky 87 �the heron stands . . . bakes in the hard dry air 88 �circling the cove immense blue wings stir the stagnant ether 89 �* day in, day out— bull frogs and the echo of bull frogs 90 �night, dawn, noon, dusk . . . will they ever stop 91 �slapping them, grabbing them, swiping them out of my hair 92 �landing on a spear of rush bending the rush— your rattling wings 93 �autumn softly on a barely-detectable north wind 94 a whiff of autumn �lowering sun: a few red leaves blaze in the pale grass 95 �from blade to blade picking seeds from the toppled reedgrass 96 �clear blue sky warm winds crook the deeply-yellow flower heads 97 �* drizzly day: darts and wiggles in the waterweed 98 �a kingfisher’s call through the shallow rain— riverbed deserted 99 �no chirps no twitters just rain 100 �oncoming storm— thunderous ghosts patrol the horizon 101 �* thunder— in one haywire jolt the forest’s silhouette 102 �one bolt searing the landscape white 103 �thunderstorm over rainwater—its sound— seeping into the earth 104 �thunderheads occlude the sky at dawn, at dusk . . . the moon’s absent face 105 �* scorching a no-longer-summer landscape— summer heat 106 �hot restless wind— treading it with your fairy wings 107 �she cocks her head— algae wave in the sunny floodwater 108 �hot-purple bellies sinewy stems undulating in the heat 109 �* little water, no rain one by one exiting the marsh 110 �without its yellow flowers bladderwort—deflated— splattered with mud 111 � fingering the parched riverbed trickles . . . then rivulets . . . 112 �even as you screech your imminent silence 113 �* your mournful call crosses my mind this wet cold morning 114 �now after they’re gone . . . their ceaseless cries 115 �winging low over a field whose springtime bluets are gone 116 �frogs wait, birds wait, snakes wait . . . the season shifts 117 �winter pine needles laced with snow— between their clusters your departing V 118 �cold air sinks—the hollows a black network of bare elm 119 �roiling, tumbling, riding the winter wind— witch grass 120 �darker colder each day arcing lower 121 �* more than wind more than cold rustles through the stiffening reeds 122 �dusk— a lone Canada goose vanishes in the leatherleaf 123 �brown leaves shrivel— pock-marked fruit fail to ripen in the weak October sun 124 �not hawks but wind— the branchless saplings dead 125 �* mucky river and you—eyes closed tight— lodging among the roots 126 �her breath stops— the frozen moor covered with night 127 �winds howl snow mounts the wintry thicket . . . lifeless 128 �under ice, under mud deaf to the whistling winter birds 129 ��acknowledgement Thanks to David M. Carroll’s exquisitely delicate The Year of the Turtle (published by Camden House, Vermont, 1991) which informed and inspired these poems original publication date 1997 131 ��Saffron Wings �Soaring Courting Mating Egg-Laying Hatching (as larva) Pupating Emerging (as butterfly) Basking Nectaring Surviving (Weather, Predators, Humans) Migrating Roosting Overwintering 134 �p u g l g n I g i d i n g g a a z d g o i z w teeny alpine n 135 �no two! no five! 136 in the iris-colored clouds �big blue butterfly past my eyes and out to sea 137 �poof . . . your lacy path rockslide 138 over the vast mountainface �frisky lady around the cow across the ribgrass 139 �tippling with dew painted lady in the understory’s half-light 140 �monarch: spearing the sun as it sets on the pylons 141 �scarlet wings in the brewing storm 142 scuttle by the lek �after the chase arrested by a flower in the verdant gulch 143 �behind the shrubs at the field’s verge caught by the fiery sun 144 �balanced on a sunflower her wings—encased in his— grow quiet 145 �mating over she drops to the ground dark and soft with loam 146 �stinging nettle leaf . . . glued underneath her small pile of eggs 147 �curled beneath a bud her abdomen— caressed by the lowering sun 148 �swollen streambed: depositing her egg on its cavernous bank 149 �gravid nymph grasping a leaf with your claw-like toes 150 �surveying a stem of hairs its plump prickly body atop a creamy egg-case 151 �nibbling the blade chewing, excreting . . . 152 whorls of leaves �wandering instar on the highway’s dusky shoulder paused . . . 153 �o caterpillar . . . in your wake 154 a sump of leaves �windless day— dangling from a web a silver of bark 155 �monarch pupa . . . swaddled in green dotted with gold 156 �iridescent checker your prenatal profile etched evermore deeply . . . darkly . . . 157 �skiff of snow: on the barbed wire a pupa blows 158 �a monarch pupa cracks— tiny ichneumon wasps scramble into sunlight 159 � unfurling in a wings shaft gossamer of light 160 �waving long legs dragging itself through the widening split in the pre-dawn light 161 �from treelimb to violet little imago’s almost-somersault 162 �chestnut wings warming them in the morning sun 163 �high noon lime-green sulphurs mud-puddle in the canyon dust 164 �an arctic basks— wings tilted toward the salmon-pink sky 165 �the boy dozes . . . perched on his fly rod a red admiral 166 �horse-mint ripe . . . a din of silverspots in the noontime hush 167 �landing on a spear of rush bending the rush— your rattling wings 168 � satyr: your darts around the stand of Turk’s cap 169 �little snout beyond the jetty flanked by flowers 170 �gust of wind— a hairstreak tips on its maple leaf perch 171 �sliced by the squall wings litter the dirty sand 172 �rain bends the umbel . . . the fritillary below 173 �after the storm— jinking about the leeward flank of the dune 174 �hovering around the bloodroot— fresh billmark across her wing 175 �reeking of the sea facing the sea fat white grub in its beak 176 �eaglet ripping the soldier free from the asphalt 177 �spitting out the Queen the yellow bird’s shrill call 178 �ghostly wings an orange-black heap against the curb 179 �slipping on the scree her wings smeared my fingers powdery 180 �still drinking the phlox beneath my net . . . a swallowtail 181 �August moon overflowing the jar with its wire-mesh mouth 182 �softly scudding clouds . . . a gaggle of sightseers points at the roving flock 183 �from the prow of the ferry watching them spin ever faster over the bay 184 �flat pink sea: saffron wings flutter over the prawn boat 185 �cold snap: riding a tailwind a male skipper 186 �winter sun— pale wings flutter about the woodpile 187 �following the drift ice grazing the coast . . . pallid overwintering blue 188 �whirling with the tide in the shallow’s flattened stubble 189 �twilight . . . fast asleep in the silver birch 190 �snow melts . . . the fir tree sags from the sleeping flock 191 �behind the storm-window latticed with ice . . . dangling threadbare wings 192 �winter’s end: curled along the window’s ledge its brittle body 193 �under ice under snow a gracile wing original publication date 1998 194 ���Fifty Jigsawed Bones A Sea-Turtle’s Life �her earthly scent expelled by the surf nosing the sand tasting the red ploughed sand 198 �wild, skittish shedding the sea its alabaster light 199 �snout to sand along the beach pausing, her oval shadow 200 �breast-stroke slow among the tangled weeds her grunt above the backwash 201 �moonlight shears the rustling grass a lone raccoon its prowling shadow 202 �dome to earth, gut to sky wheeling overhead the seagull’s thighs 203 �afterwards in the hollow the whirr of stones the echo of slow water 204 �in the scrub above the waterline a skeleton 205 �bloated with eggs— her belly then his 206 �delicately the urn under her tail too close to the marked high tide 207 �shallow pit swollen with eggs this burgeoning Easter morning 208 �in shreds beneath the sky one hundred globes of soft white parchment 209 �silent night, silent sea she blinks, peers . . . her saucer silhouette 210 �turtle . . . moon . . . face to face at the water’s edge 211 �flying through shallows chased by waves steadily her paws 212 �just before its crash the wave’s well-defined rim 213 �beyond the lagoon clear skies, calm waters the little nest covered & hidden quietly bakes in the sun 214 �an embryo steeps in the dark wedged securely 215 �morning sunbeams flatback tracks hidden in the high water 216 �grazing the island hovering on a thin breeze the sound of an approaching oar 217 �first one, the pop! a few false starts igniting the clutch 218 �hot June night a spasm of squirming up the chamber’s flask-shaped neck 219 �tap tap scritch a bottle-cap body stretching, wiggling into dawn 220 �bop! a head keeyow! a gull phloop! into a seaweed patch 221 �thousands, by the light of the moon scampering toward the light of the moon 222 �now none now millions scurrying among the pebbles 223 �just after dusk the squiggly pack covered with flying sand 224 �caked with sand, clobbered with sea picked up, spun about the water’s doily-edge 225 �glare— not moon— the turtle stops 226 �pink sand lizard’s mouth wingbeat close behind 227 �snip snip a shadow severs beneath the ghostcrab 228 �clack, click-clack turtle’s tail drifts into the tide 229 �sprint, little turtle don’t stroke the water— let your flippers fly 230 �shadow above movement below— quick! 231 �whitecaps whirl, breakers build from their billowy faces dark little eyes 232 �snap gulp eyes ahead & steady 233 �a yearling sleeps the raft drifts sun beams down on the August pasturage 234 �rocked by wind, rolled by current in your sargassum cradle foreflippers tucked 235 �splop! up for air a baby crab, a water strider whoosh . . . the wave recedes 236 �scree! scree! from the bushy raft gull plucks her dozing dinner 237 �the smell of water dark coral cave old turtle sleeps through the sunny day 238 �under a ledge, under a pipe scraping, scratching her faraway expression 239 �brown & crested tiny dinosaur still sunning 240 �on the bottom sand nudged beneath a rock green turtle’s sea-washed shell 241 �one female, one male as they mate the other seven 242 �scraping, thrashing two shells submerged— their mutual gasps for air 243 �his grappling nails her deeply-notched scars after dark in the unstable mud 244 �shell gouged, shoulders slashed she drags her body away from the bull 245 �washed up - dead flippers tied . . . the slow boat back her bloody, sliver-moon eyes 246 �sewage & petrol their shifting film inching up her parched caged body 247 �swaying in the sky strummed by the breeze her flat gonglike belly 248 �dawn: scooping out blood forcing the ladle down into the beast original publication date: 1999 249 ��LINES The Life of a Laysan Albatross �lord of the air “the goonies are here!” “the goonies have come back!” squawking, squabbling their drowsy hum from the bush 252 �on lime-green flats little water-spout tracks 253 �the pelagic bird stops through roaring troughs her hulking shadow 254 �dusting clouds slender waves tacking through the spindrift 255 �>> two nests too close their killing stare 256 �settling on the egg talking to the egg shhh . . . listen . . . 257 �pssstt . . . the babe turns slowly . . . slowly . . . crack! 258 �matted fuzz, spiky fluff kicking away the blunt shell end 259 �>> a newborn sleeps, a father stirs on the atoll’s floor gossamer prints 260 �open bill on open bill crosswise 261 �coaxing its face forward pointing, peeping scooping its tail toward his chick-pouch 262 �folding wings straightening feathers his long gaze at the sky 263 �>> on flight-stiff legs her beeline toward the fledgling 264 �gulping, guzzling wiping its beak in the sand 265 �chick pauses to swallow dangling from its mouth mucousy strings of goo 266 �the still-small bird away from its nest— its expression seeing father 267 �monarch of the ocean skies >> silent tide, silent sea crest to crest her graceful arc 268 �rocketing higher gliding right up the wind shrinking to a pinpoint 269 �her flight line dips now vast, now toward starlit moonless water 270 �surfing the air its rushing edge— the long bones of her wings 271 �>> tropical Kuroshio, frigid Oyashio hush! do you hear the fishing grounds? 272 �birds scatter, birds drown catching squid in a vicious typhoon 273 �one breaker’s spray the spume of the next cold northwest blast 274 � after dark down as the ocean swells & forward up & away like a storm-driven snowflake 275 �>> head tucked, feathers flat on the sea’s slick skin a watertight bird 276 �look! loligos! small alive! fresh! 277 �one dying saury one dead squid in the dusk’s sloe light impaling them on her bill 278 �following a breeze its wafting scent of pup-filled sharks 279 �ruler of the sun >> heels rooted, toes raised in the undulating air a youngster pants 280 �hugging the trees’ broad strips of shade hundreds face away from the glare 281 �one thin reed one still fowl in its sun-spotted shadow 282 �neither stirring nor breathing hauled to the incinerator 283 �>> circling oops! the lagoon’s greenish water 284 �breast to ground reeling forward . . . a little too fast 285 �churling birds, whirling sand the grizzled sea a white-capped chop 286 �over aerofoil wings—its gentle lift savoring the glow in the bow waves 287 �rider on the wind >> “hey!” but the youth quickly departs 288 �dive-bombing, blanketing him with droppings “you can’t come here!” “you can’t come here!” 289 �a truck driver honks climbs down from his cab the juvenile’s gawky stare 290 �shady lawn skidding rear the smashed-bird’s face 291 �>> he, still she notices will she stay? 292 �drawing himself up he remains rooted— she tosses a twig aside 293 �“moo” clacks the bird croaking, whistling shaking his feathers into place 294 �regaining her balance settling her wings as they shriek, fight, stumble over one another 295 �>> erect, a skyward victory scream after a nap in the rare spring sun 296 �throwing grass he bows to the ground “eh…eh… eh…eh” he murmurs 297 �she sits he sits nearby gently nibbling her neck feathers 298 �caressing his bill she raises one wing— the male’s rapt look 299 �>> two birds touch, lower to the ground through nubile limbs their dappled bodies 300 �she watches quietly the tip of her beak on his expanded breast 301 �water ebbs surges on the sand the rising moon’s flickering shadows 302 �morning sun in its chiseled lace turtle’s mottled shell original publication date 2002 303 �Five Haiku Narratives was set in optima, a humanist-inspired, sans-serif typeface designed by hermann zapf (1918-2015). illustrations from the first limited editions: lory paulson. cover design: bryan kring. ��� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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LIB-PC011 Language A language of the resource eng Haiku poetry publications SherPublications https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/7e9afd4597da6d4c1e590353fc54341c.pdf 083832f965f37b421447f3fd83461db5 PDF Text Text Figures in Blue �also by gail sher PROSE Writing the Fire: Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive • 2006 The Intuitive Writer: Listening to Your Own Voice • 2002 One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers • 1999 From a Baker’s Kitchen • 1984/2004 POETRY Figures in Blue • 2012 The Bardo Books • 2011 White Bird • 2010 Mother’s Warm Breath • 2010 The Tethering of Mind to Its Five Permanent Qualities • 2009 though actually it is the same earth • 2008 The Haiku Masters: Four Poetic Diaries • 2008 Who: A Licchavi • 2007 Calliope • 2007 old dri’s lament • 2007 The Copper Pheasant Ceases Its Call • 2007 East Wind Melts the Ice • 2007 Watching Slow Flowers • 2006 DOHA • 2005 RAGA • 2004 Once There Was Grass • 2004 redwind daylong daylong • 2004 Birds of Celtic Twilight: A Novel in Verse • 2004 Look at That Dog All Dressed Out in Plum Blossoms • 2002 Moon of the Swaying Buds • 2001 Lines: The Life of a Laysan Albatross • 2000 Fifty Jigsawed Bones • 1999 Saffron Wings • 1998 One bug . . . one mouth . . . snap! • 1997 Marginalia • 1997 La • 1996 Like a Crane at Night • 1996 Kuklos • 1995 Cops • 1988 Broke Aide • 1985 Rouge to Beak Having Me • 1983 (As) on things which (headpiece) touches the Moslem • 1982 From Another Point of View the Woman Seems to be Resting • 1981 �Figures in Blue Gail Sher night crane press 2012 �Copyright 2012, Gail Sher All rights reserved. Night Crane Press 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 435 Emeryville, California 94608 No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner and publisher. isbn: 978-0-9858843-0-7 �For Brendan ��contents Daffodils 1 Eagle 5 Spring 9 Juke Box 13 Fuzz 17 Sprig of Laurel 21 Tulip 25 Tree 29 Thumb 33 Black 37 Cow 41 Meadow 45 ��DAFFODILS A woman alone at a large open window gazes at the sky. The soft flesh of her arm folds around a basket. If she is dead, the colors may be alive. Her soft flesh holds a premonition of her, calls its form within the form of its space in sky. She is miming sky with her body. Taming its color, like a double her of color. There is a sense of intense activity in the buildings and neighborhood, so familiar, yet her skin is not that. 1 �Angst from the street, but what prevails is the face of a person waiting. An agony of light chugs through her body. If she could roll out her body, like make a road of her body, there is the sense of that being all there is. As if her flesh were a habit, a woman stands in sky, catching it in the drape of her dress. 2 �As she rests in the bare window she is dead. I (am dead) she says. It stands like a point of view. A strip of death is on the woman’s arm. She wants the death eagerly, like time tucked in her arm. On the crest you can just touch death, she feels. She sees an arm (the boundless ordinary nature of her arm) in a gown, in the sky, wrapped in a column of the unsaid. 3 �Sky like sea, around a woman hugged by sea. A man is a response (like sky and a sea wall). The float of him sinks, then appears on the horizon. I am exempt from sky if I empty myself toward it. The flaccid man’s ribs absorb the thick musculature of her arm. Daffodils range, placated by time, but it is the habit of deep slumber. 4 �EAGLE An old man sits, quiet like a log. His knees are crossed. Somehow he is stalling, unplaced, like the woods of his head. If he sees age, it is good age he feels. As if time happens twice in the crux of his body. But it waits. The spine of an animal coils in air as it dangles from a limb, sun stroking it nervously. 5 �The man sees blue in a bulbous core of light. His outline bobs just outside his body. There are animals in his body (the knowing of what locomotes the folds of a man’s body). Sun spalls time. Something is heard but he is dead. Giddy describes the animal climbing out of his eyes. As the animal creeps away, a rising eagle empties (gathers slowly) into his body. 6 �The eventual empty sky or incremental bardos of sky, as if sky is one continuous living membrane. The ridge of the eagle’s motility in my mind dwarfs its vanishing in clouds. I think I see the contour of its movement (the bird’s flying outside the possibilities of its body). It leans into the land, then drains into sky. As if a boundary included in its disappearance also imprints the bird, sky and the part of sky that’s thought. 7 �I dream myself to being the majesty of a body, a sphere with an eye as in the self-view of a mental body. I dream myself to a shape that looks like a fresh smell. The sloppiness of birth, if I seek its tail in the crack of myself, whose poison, excrescence, great gelatinous spookiness hang like an old breast on the person. The androgynous bearing of a breast, sagging in day like a normal breast, the normal day of no-day, as if she were a fog leaning over and asking a question. 8 �SPRING A child peers from the spines of a sapling, tender like soft eyes. A knuckle propping her cheek seems stiff, awkwardly awake in a dark rivet of sun. Now is between joining what is present to one. Light on the blue wall is making the child public, though she is alone, miscible, her feet are alone. To replay time, like a child’s favorite story, has the same soothing sense (her being a rabbit) again. 9 �The foreclosure of a life being locked into this sky, this orb of seasons and death, such as the spring of sky. If a baby walks in sky, she too is an example of how containers simply amplify karmic structure. Pink flesh makes a covenant. An eye is silk and slips out. The play of a person’s face, in perfect precision with her, drifts in sky like a boat. 10 �Like she might trip over her body wandering through a scarlet field. If the container formulates from inside, slippage becomes hostile. Spring touches the nonlocation of her ground, the pace of her mind as a shield. There is a string around a mind still situated in her body though no longer biologically seated in her body. Many insects collect there. It is a grieving ground. 11 �Sometimes the sky looks like ducks and I remember floating on an arrow toward a city. Like time in a foot where sky is the foot. A thinking person’s thoughts die in little clumps. So the impact of the arrow, the brain of the arrow. When it dies its bones and tongue smell of spring as if spring were something made in its body and later revealed by its body. 12 �JUKE BOX A woman in her doorway looks up. She raises her hand to her hat as her head tilts back. Summer is high. The image of sun fusing with her body such that she becomes the sun, its place in sky resting back toward herself watching. Her feet are bare in high-heeled shoes. Soft folds of her dress stir in a slight breeze. The description is a protection, a barrier placed as a scene. There is tension between herself and the scene. The brim of her hat dips. Its motion is time. There is tension between the time of her hat’s dipping and the time of the sun streaming through sky, creating decrepitation in her body. 13 �The woman is loose. Her bones move as she rests back on her lungs. The woman breathes in conjunction with her lungs as if everything in her world were contained within a bagpipe. Her body no longer shields her, she feels. She lowers her arm and brushes its skin to remove the tension that has resulted. It is a thick body, like tea leaves or lamb. A body like sweet fruit. She leans against a piano. Her body is not a pianist’s though. 14 �A woman hungering for her body moves along the edges of her body. She moves it to her heart, toward the belly of its hair. The chaos in a hair, a flank of hair, but the true flank refuses to spread farther than its own body. Sound cuts space bleeding in her bones, tourniquets of sound in her hemline. Being the grandmother of her sound, the great great grandmother of her highest lightest sound, like an unsound, sound with a backbone. 15 �A moth spreads funerary wings across a fragment of sky. I see her skin (the sound in skin) hovering in its body. Dusk over grass lights a spot on the moth’s wing. There is a dance in her, but she will not know it. She looks away because she sees this. A juke box dissolves, calms into a shuffle, a slow dance of days in which she can be ready. 16 �FUZZ If you look you see a little fuzz of hair above the head and neck of a blonde woman. She appears to be standing, waiting in a stall, reading a magazine. Her headband clears a space that she inhabits if I think of her. What is the real face? The photograph of someone living, but it is a paper face, double non-living. Is how we wait for our mind to know what we are, the fragrance of a number gone. 17 �I want to cry when I see her hair, stiff with an idea of a place she might take up. Her skirt is loosely feral. Gravity is a lesion on her. Her laugh I infer from the hair. I live in my hair, she says to you casually, like a caucus of hair opprobriously abusing its own hair. She will relax and be her hair, the spine of each hair. Little hairs on your forearm. 18 �Sky gathers around her hair. She lifts her hand. Sky crawls under her hand as if it recognizes its mother. Her hand is and always will be the life inside a hand. The belly of the hand is in the woman’s eyes. Time is umbilical, as if her hand suddenly defines my amount, more accurately than my amount. A cop’s black leather hand pushes back night because he knows he can. (He is a shepherd of fire.) 19 �She passes herself (and her periphery) walking down as if down were handcuffing her. All arrows point down. Night abides making space for its light because night recognizes its same light family. There is a robbery. The lapse of a person (the mulling of its eye) whirring in air a few centimeters off. Night rubs night so that death can carry the sky to the people. 20 �SPRIG OF LAUREL A woman’s full body in the folds of her soft full body may be a portrait of death. She is looking at sky, loosely alive. The painter paints light so that its breath is exposed in the folds of her t-shirt against her shoulder. Her hair is loose, pushed back behind her hand. It bends in like a child. May I loosely let go of her emaciated hand, like a turkey in flight hangs in sky, loosely falling away from its flying. 21 �That the painter requires a sprig confuses her. He sticks the sprig into her hand. The gnarled causes of a hand are beginningless, she’s thinking. Air seeks the awareness of her, making a thin film between life. Soft desolation keeps churning against a wall. If I carry my shell up, the image of a bird. Hell is a bird which flickers in and out of being married like that. The room exists partially to mimic a bird flowing, but it leaves a bad color. 22 �The wait of a woman at the edge of air, sweetly like a wing, swift and awake, so as to sweep the air close in. An image of her heart is showing on its face, which turns inside out so that the heart is holding the face. She smiles the smile of the face as it has appeared both during its growing and later during its samadhi. Even angels have faces in her, she feels. Until is the memory of one—until-when grasses—or how-long grasses is her own memory of one. 23 �Is there, without the girl, a girl holding a sprig? (I’m wondering if she is simply an old longing.) Like if you die but you don’t, does your feeling for the girl disappear? If air dies but the girl is living, what happens to my feeling if she is Vajrapani? I offer light and smoke to an unassailable space, an aphasia of space, like a belt of space. 24 �TULIP A woman sits facing light. Sun hits her hands resting on a flowered dress. A long row of windows stand in the dawn quietly. So that we too (that’s our mind). She is not existing in sitting’s aspect. We don’t see her eyes. We infer that she is reading from the texture of her skin. As if her skin is reading. To which her body, she feels, is surrogate. The space is there but not available, which the act of reading addresses. 25 �The resonance of a reader’s mind coagulates in her earth sign. Earth is time, then making a little bowl of it for her head. As if time were skin, like a family of her body, I want the boy erect, she says. I want him like a card as its colors fold around it. She sees the color of the dead one so that she could be dead again. Autumn is the frame. Red leaves, violet sky, like a chop signing him off. 26 �Sometimes I hear her death, like lip from behind a word. Words are a prick, prick, prick, thin as air, but some say. No! She’s round like a ball. The word is alive. I speak it by touch. My eyes bulge and my mouth puckers, but I am dead first, she is saying. The lip moves sleepily. In sticky summer like a heavy foot. See, it’s wandering through a vibrant field of flowers! No one arrives, which has the pleasant feeling of continuous sky. 27 �A moth breaks off sky. It spins around then lands on a blue wall. A marking on its wing trails through its fur. Wind through a hill because of the hill holding a place for it, is how it can be that. Its feathers are broken. Whose long arc of pastness, like the wings of a crane fanning out in space. Death is imposed on blowing branches against a wall, like nearness and life, beauty and wilting tulips. 28 �TREE A girl lolls on grass in a tutu. The blue ruffle of a violet is the same as sky, she’s thinking. (Blue is not a location but a warmth of pressure around an object.) Gathering rain presses against sky, then falls in squares mirroring the farmland. Tonally it is dark. The musicality of a land (almost neon in the palm) plays a doubly dark magnetic field. The thought of sky, dispersing itself to its own full origin, may be death in its still quiet flush. 29 �I am older from sky, such as a waltz dovetailing sky. A guardian of sky sprinkles saffron across her body. Appearance quells in patterns against light, the curve of her hip, then flaring and draping over something we can’t see. If she could rest in sky, but she is aggravated. A tuft of cotton sticks out from an ear. A fundament of time is exactly a cigarette, the vagaries of a thumb suddenly weak and drifting. 30 �The dissepiment may be a tree. Roots are bones, bone to bone in strange woolly clusters. The corpse is alive though. Its tongue is its mind as soon as it wakes up. Mountains of sad trees but one tree lays its limbs out wide, direction carpeled to a simple fruit. A caravan of heads, rolls and rolls of swaddled heads, fades into a bluebird’s call. 31 �Rain through sky, through the greenery of sky. Fire and rain create a pocket. You are dead. Something in the pocket reaches for you. The spirit just sticks its hand into your body. Then he gives it back. A golden carp of golden bones escapes you, it says. The ache of a tree, like an arabesque of bones, sheds its trace imperceptibly. 32 �THUMB A woman partially hidden by a wall stands in midday light. She is a rounded person with soft brown skin. A curl falls on her forehead. The fullness of the setting demands a potential connected object so that the image of her doesn’t fragment. A second woman seated facing away eludes space by an unseen motion, the peep of her hat, the beauty of thin leaves layering sky onto the woman standing. Wings of sky make flowers that look like birds, a spire of delicacy inside the person. 33 �The view of a partially hidden woman is absolutely alive. Someone is jealous. A man shuffles by if he is alone. How light hits air is how the weight of her appearance, a tulip feathering out, a painter paints that, the feather-weight of appearance carried by a woman’s body. A town of women grow in light. If she’s free. (A dab of blue is not freedom though.) The man wears blue but he has not achieved the purity of blue. What is not blue’s purity is like another person. 34 �I am watching sky and a dark man watching sky. The time of this sky is the non-time of looking. A vast amount of sky may take place inside his belly. If he sneezes it is there like his own twin body. Part of sky is a clear line of intensity but part scatters like sun over a pool. In the lordosis of sky the pulse of his blazing white undershirt refracts such that light stops behind itself inside his belly button. 35 �A person waits. A brown bare body holds the tension of waiting. Nothing moves except (slightly) his thumb resting on the waist of his jeans. The excursion is in the neck, like sky along his neck. As how the eyes of a bird to a person from a distance form an intimacy one can’t touch. I make pleasant. If he waits for the portion he will ultimately be, like shine in a deep pool or wind in a rabbit’s eyes. I place my heart in some wishbone there. The wishbone pops like time in the dead man. 36 �BLACK A humpback wearing red fishes in black water. He leans against a tree if it is angled in a cloudless morning. A bird flies out. Pierced hair slithers onto its wing. I am startled by the parity of a simple action by a simple person relatively relaxed, covered by time. The size of time works through day, like fish breathing mud, squirming against day’s barriers. 37 �Perhaps the artist, as an effigy of death, makes the bird to avoid or ward death off. The bird could be suicide (or way of performing a natural process). Since the wakening of the bird, correlates (empty of the bird) may look like a higher stage of bird. Mountains and rivers are faces with hollow eyes. Stilettos in air hang prettily from blue satin. Clouds are like a string of pearls where one pearl is black and that’s why they’re all there. 38 �A cloud in the shape of a bird hangs low in evening sky. Its shadow forms a hump. The cloud could be a door swiveling in space, a spark of lavender in grass, only it is black. If black peers from the death of me, I may lose track of its trajectory, confusing it with life, thinking it is my life. A nerve of sky pierces my side so I walk with a limp, which reminds me of a mountain’s breast. 39 �A painter paints a mountain, shedding the mountain. (Black replaces black in the subtle crevice between himself and what he discards.) If he is where someone lives then. We place ribbons on our mountain and let its water fall out. You can kill a mountain by shutting your eyes or looking at the mountain thinking of your dead mother. No color rises. Orange turns to sand in a country without flowers. 40 �COW If you throw some earth on a table, the figures in the earth, what is there to be derived, from air, from a spell, like a flavor. There is a geomancy there, taken from the harbor. Immanence in eating, what stands in front of it, so that when something happens, it has already happened also. Also is time. An eater places that against a numerology of color, like the brown wall of the room, which is neither earth nor his dark hand. 41 �The thought in a wrist and each bare lobe of hand. Yellow is crucial in the gentle unfolding of its earth element. Hunger is the border, divination the table, a context clean of all past expression. I am born each minute that the man eats bread. I place a palm against his brow. My mind is what he digests. If I think of the person, yellow almost becomes the person because my mind and the thing don’t separate. 42 �An eating man’s neck, free of all justification in him, is a portrait of time swallowing a neck. Electrical swallowing speaks the ache of time in his chewing. I’m reminded of a dog, knocking over cans, scarfing. A neck is a mental neck and the throat swallowing death thinks that it is still lunching. A petunia taking birth near a cow means that the teller (time) will definitely complete the yugas, it rambles. 43 �A cow wearing red is gliding toward rebirth. Its mind is a plum that it sucks while they tear up its body. He draws the cow down into his body so it can rest and finally sleep within his body. Like if snow were food, the sense of miles and miles of snow. Still, the person’s throat has not even a particle of snow in it. If snow were crafted in earth with it in mind instead of sourcing it from sky (like the pair of lovers floating in sky with death in mind). 44 �MEADOW A face in the light of you, which is dusk or early morning. Wind in hay and the tall anchoring of a blanket, as if her hair were the blanket. A cat bays in the moon whose face appears in the light of you. Dew is thick. The loosening of its weight holds an even placement of view. Arms and hair curve like grass in the exact amount of their sleeves. 45 �Acres of red born in the same sky. A man watches light stretch and thin across the hay bundles. To comb a flame, his face against her hair. Aghast is what abides beyond the scope of shape. Shape is space in its aspect of brilliance, her face through shifting breeze brushing hair over shadows. The waist of a scene expands beyond its boundaries so that meadow convexes anterior to sky, like a bulge in sky, as if it were dead. 46 �The eye of the painter focusing on a meadow is how my mind wants the space of its real dead body. They want it to be kinship, we two together, but in fact it is a splurge of shape (the potential shape of sky). Someone paints night, space consecutive with darkness, as if one space is more dead. Death is space whose appearance results from space, unbridled in the soft of low, emergent face on stone. 47 �Night releases to I as an object. A winterland of limbs. (The winter of her body is this very body dead.) As if sky were alone a century beforehand. The sound, heavy through night, retains its weight in light. I locate you back to the outreaches of sky. Low slow land is a transparency in her body. Prehistoric quiet covers up day like a sheet. 48 ��Figures in Blue is set in Minion, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in the spirit of the humanist typefaces of fifteenth-century Venice. Minion was originally issued in digital form by Adobe Systems in 1989. In 1991, Slimbach received the Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale for excellence in type design. ������� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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LIB-PC011 Language A language of the resource eng poetry publications SherPublications https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/a305545b3e8e6099efa4d2fc3fd545f6.pdf 4ff583e3569892e8c13072ec1219e659 PDF Text Text Fifty Jigsawed Bones �A Sea-Turtle's Life Gail Sher �contents her earthly scent ........ l beyond the lagoon . .. ... 18 a yearling sleeps ....... 39 the smell of water ...... 44 dead ...... 53 washed up - �her earthly scent �expelled by the surf nosing the sand tasting the red ploughed sand 2 �wild. skittish shedding the sea its alabaster light 3 �snout to sand along the beach pausing, her oval shadow 4 �breast-stroke slow among the tangled weeds her grunt above the backwash 5 �moonlight shears the rustling grass a lone raccoon its prowling shadow 6 �dome to earth, gut to sky wheeling overhead the seagull's thighs 7 �afterwards in the hollow the whirr of stones the echo of slow water 8 �in the scrub above the waterline a skeleton 9 �bloated with eggs her belly then his 10 �delicately the urn under her tail too close to the marked high tide �shallow pit swollen with eggs this burgeoning Easter morning 12 �in shreds beneath the sky one hundred globes of soft white parchment 13 �silent night. silent sea she blinks, peers ... her saucer silhouette �turtle ... moon . . . face to face at the water's edge 15 �flying through shallows chased by waves steadily her paws 16 �just before its crash the wave·s well- defined rim 17 �beyond the lagoon �clear skies. calm waters the little nest covered & hidden quietly bakes in the sun 19 �an embryo steeps in the dark wedged securely 20 �morning sunbeams flatback tracks hidden in the high water 21 �grazing the island hovering on a thin breeze the sound of an approaching oar 22 �first one. then pop! a few false starts igniting the clutch 23 �hot June night a spasm of squirming up the chamber's flask-shaped 24 neck �tap tap scritch a bottle-cap body stretching, wiggling into dawn 25 �bop! a head keeyow! a gull phloop! into a seaweed patch 26 �thousands. by the light of the moon scampering toward the light of the moon 27 �now none now millions scurrying among the pebbles 28 �just after dusk the squiggly pack covered with flying sand 29 �caked with sand. clobbered with sea picked up. spun about the water's doily-edge 30 �glare not moon the turtle stops ]I �pink sand lizard's mouth wingbeat close behind 32 �snip snip a shadow severs beneath the ghostcrab 33 �clack, click-clack turtle's tail drifts into the tide 34 �sprint, little turtle don't stroke the water let your flippers fly 35 �shadow above movement below - quick! 36 �whitecaps whirl, breakers build from their billowy faces dark little eyes 37 �snap gulp eyes ahead & steady 38 �a yearling sleeps �the raft drifts sun beams down on the August pasturage 40 �rocked by wind. rolled by current in your sargassum cradle foreflippers tucked 41 �splop! up for air a baby crab, a water strider whoosh ... the wave recedes 42 �scree! scree! from the bushy raft gull plucks her dozing dinner 43 �the smell of water �dark coral cave old turtle sleeps through the sunny day 45 �under a ledge, under a pipe scraping, scratching her faraway expression �brown & crested tin y dinosaur still sunning 47 �on the bottom sand nudged beneath a rock green turtle's sea-washed shell �one female. one male as they mate the other seven 49 �scraping. thrashing two shells submerged their mutual gasps for air 50 �his grappling nails her deeply-notched scars after dark in the unstable mud 51 �shell gouged. shoulders slashed she drags her body away from the bull 52 �washed up - dead �flippers tied ... the slow boat back her bloody, sliver-moon 54 eyes �sewage & petrol their shifting film inching up her parched caged body 55 �swaying in the sky strummed by the breeze her flat gonglike belly 56 �dawn: scooping out blood forcing the ladle down into the beast 57 �Published by Night Crane Press c/o Gail Sher 1500 Park Avenue Suite 435 Emeryville CA 94608 © 2001 Gail Sher Design and illustrations by Lory Poulson and Susan Gluck � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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A sea-turtle's life Subject The topic of the resource Turtles -- Poetry Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sher, Gail, 1942- Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Night Crane Press State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2016-03-04 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. 2001 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Gail Sher and used with permission. For more information contact the Poetry Collection at lpo-poetry@buffalo.edu. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-PC011_009 Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. her earthly scent beyond the lagoon a yearling sleeps the smell of water washed up- dead Extent The size or duration of the resource. 61 p. Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. LIB-PC011 Language A language of the resource eng poetry publications SherPublications Turtles https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/1a1acf2687d67372ac779cc3b4bed3d4.pdf c2d111c80eb3a51ff987bb1131e69be6 PDF Text Text Ezekiel “When I found Gail Sher’s books, I imagined her having stepped from a Japanese Noh play. Her poems, sharpened by rigorous Buddhist discipline … were tough, refreshingly hard-edged, full of the natural world—constructed of bits and pieces of mineral, insect, bark, summer grass…. They showed a sensibility that was refined, educated, attentive to natural detail, & enamored of the chipped, the asymmetric, the rustic. They put me in mind of the writers of Japan’s Heian court, the best of whom were women. I still hear echoes of Murasaki Shikibu or Ono no Komachi when I open Gail’s books.” Ezekiel — Andrew Schelling, Faculty, MFA program in Writing & Poetics, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado FPO PLACE BARCODE HERE Gail Sher Gail Sher is the author of One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers (Penguin), the first of a widely-praised series of books on writing as a practice. She has authored over twenty books of poetry, six book-length haiku sequences, and a critically acclaimed book on bread-making (From a Baker’s Kitchen) based on her years of experience as the head baker at the San Francisco Zen Center’s Tassajara Bread Bakery. Her writing has appeared in over twenty literary journals, and her haiku have won awards both in the United States and Japan. She lives and works as a writer, psychotherapist and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. For detailed information about her, visit gailsher.com. Gail Sher �Ezekiel �Also by Gail Sher Prose Writing the Fire: Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive • 2006 The Intuitive Writer: Listening to Your Own Voice • 2002 One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers • 1999 From a Baker’s Kitchen • 1984/2004 Poetry Sunny Day, Spring • 2014 Mingling the Threefold Sky • 2013 The Twelve Nidānas • 2012 Figures in Blue • 2012 The Bardo Books • 2011 White Bird • 2010 Mother’s Warm Breath • 2010 The Tethering of Mind to Its Five Permanent Qualities • 2009 though actually it is the same earth • 2008 The Haiku Masters: Four Poetic Diaries • 2008 Who: A Licchavi • 2007 Calliope • 2007 old dri’s lament • 2007 The Copper Pheasant Ceases Its Call • 2007 East Wind Melts the Ice • 2007 Watching Slow Flowers • 2006 DOHA • 2005 RAGA • 2004 Once There Was Grass • 2004 redwind daylong daylong • 2004 Birds of Celtic Twilight: A Novel in Verse • 2004 Look at That Dog All Dressed Out in Plum Blossoms • 2002 Moon of the Swaying Buds • 2001 Lines: The Life of a Laysan Albatross • 2000 Fifty Jigsawed Bones • 1999 Saffron Wings • 1998 One bug . . . one mouth . . . snap! • 1997 Marginalia • 1997 La • 1996 Like a Crane at Night • 1996 Kuklos • 1995 Cops • 1988 Broke Aide • 1985 Rouge to Beak Having Me • 1983 (As) on things which (headpiece) touches the Moslem • 1982 From Another Point of View the Woman Seems to be Resting • 1981 �Ezekiel Gail Sher Night Crane Press 2015 �Copyright 2015 Gail Sher All rights reserved Night Crane Press 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 435 Emeryville, California 94608 No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permisssion from the copyright owner and publisher. ISBN: 978-0-9858843-4-5 �for Brendan ��CONTENTS White Dew, Summer Ends 1 Three Evening Bells 17 The Sound of White 39 The Deepest Blue of Sky 59 ��White Dew, Summer Ends ��Chin to knee, shoulders hunched, ezekiel sat in a spot of morning sun. With the instinct of a cat she had picked that spot, spread out a towel, and chin tucked perfectly in the little niche of her right knee, looked to be admiring her toes. Her toes were long. They came straight out of her feet and evenly spanned the whole width of her metatarsus. But her feet, she knew, felt unwelcomed in her body. 3 �° ‘What lovely feet you have!’ The girl had taken off her shoes. The instep was high. The line from her big toe mound all the way to her ankle, to Ezekiel’s eye, looked perfect. ‘Oh that.’ She saw the girl shudder. Ezekiel had felt a darkness in her escape and pass into her. The memory returned now. Ezekiel was alone. By the light of a skinny moon she was watching a woman’s shift sway back and forth on a clothesline. A shallow breeze would inflate it. “It looks happy,” she thought, watching it bloom quietly. 4 �° Probably it was the unusually hot weather that had made the child dress so scantily. She had slung herself on a bench outside an ice cream parlor. An older man was also on the bench. Ezekiel could tell—by his studied respectful distance and by a certain casual tension in his body—that he was charmed by her. The girl was just a kid. Her rolled up shorts and pony tail were simply what she had when she’d left the house. Yet her very long legs—so long that they hardly fit under the bench (she had to screw them up awkwardly)—and her lean, sylphlike body that the pony tail somehow sexified for him. He was eating ice cream which gave him something to do. Was the girl eating ice cream? No. She was sitting in the sun waiting for a friend. 5 �Her tortoise shell barrette gleamed in the noonish light. Getting her legs under the bench—it was the turnout—that was what Ezekiel right away had noticed. I should have been her. The girl, she saw, was very aware of her body. But Ezekiel had never liked pony tails. 6 �° It was her skinniness, the sharp line of the girl. Her soul was like a tree. Her limbs, though thin, were strong and knobby. And flexible. Like a rubber band. She wouldn’t eat. Her not-eating had come from god, she felt. Thus her thinness had always been redoubtable. 7 �“so it’s summer again.” Ezekiel examined the light. The longest day of the year had always held for her a certain charm. Sparrows were cheeping on the hill outside her room as she was considering what to wear. They’d been even louder the day before. A whole group of them had been jumping and incessantly calling. Today, however, the nervousness that she’d noted was gone. Some other birds joining them were quieter and less given to jumping. The glow of their wings and the fresh color of their breasts made them seem new to the year. By comparison the sparrows looked old and used up. 8 �° “Those are very pretty roses,” Ezekiel said, pointing to some yellow ones. She’d been wandering through a flea market. Actually she wasn’t feeling very well. She waited while the vendor finished with someone else. Her mind was on the girl, the image of her in her short shorts and flats. “Madelaine,” someone called. A rather large mutt with a very pink nose perked up its ears. It had been lying, chin to cement, paws splayed awkwardly. While the animal had very long toes and beautiful, pristine toenails, its rear ankles were wrapped in manes as if they were a lion’s. “Madelaine,” someone called again. The dog roused itself and wandered over to a dirty SUV. 9 �° ‘Flare you toes!’ The voice had been imperious. And Ezekiel had lacked the ability. ‘I can’t,’ she’d finally said. ‘Can’t,’ he mimicked, then turned again to the class. From her futon she was looking at the roses and curling her toes by the light of them. “At least they work,” she muttered, flexing and flaring them wide. It had been a rainy day. The sun, as the class ended, was rising on yellow roses. “It’s good to exercise your toes,” she parroted. Supporting her foot she allowed her toes to yawn. When her mind wandered, they tightened like a monkey’s. 10 �° Rose. That was her name. The startled expression in those eyes. If she touched her face, her face receded further behind her eyes. ‘She protrudes into sky like a cat,’ averred her mother. Ezekiel put her hands in her pockets leveraging a shrug by pressing them down deep. ‘She steals from you, mama. You should fire her. Why don’t you fire her?’ ‘Oh I don’t know, honey.’ 11 �° ‘It’s in here. I put it in before I left.’ ‘Take you time,’ the salesgirl said, watching the woman rifle through her bag. From a little ways away Ezekiel saw that her mother had stolen something. She opened her eyes and looked at her hands. One still held her toe while the other fiddled with the clippers. “You have nice hands,” someone once commented. Ezekiel could smell the dark blue serge of her long stylish skirt. The uniform that she had worn at school was of a similar serge but the smell was evoked by the stolen one that her mother, as soon as they got home, urged her to try on. ‘It looks pretty on you, honey.’ ‘I don’t need a skirt.’ ‘It may need shortening. You’ll change your mind.’ ‘No I won’t.’ 12 �° ‘Your mother is beautiful, isn’t she?’ He was following her with his eyes. The day was gone. As she looked, the sky had turned a very sweet wine color. ‘What knocks about the sky . . . ’ Seeing the light uncoupled from her . . . the bonelessness of her blousy body. The thinness of her fat, dowdy like a slut. 13 �° ‘Come with me.’ Someone had appropriated her arm. It was a policeman and he was leading her back to the store. He didn’t say anything, but as he steered her, he was holding her arm firmly. ‘What’s in your pack?’ ‘Open it please. Put everything here.’ He waited while she’d clumsily loosened the drawstring. ‘Have you done this before?’ He asked this as he was looking up her history. ‘No,’ she lied. Apparently he hadn’t found what he’d expected. ‘I’ll be right back,’ he said, leaving the room. It was a dingy office smelling of cigarettes. After a very long time he returned. ‘Since this is your first offence, I’m only going to give you a warning,’ he said a little more gently. 14 �Ezekiel was sobbing. All the food she had stolen was still laid out on the desk. ‘You’re free to go now.’ The officer waited. ‘Next time you’ll go to jail.’ 15 ��Three Evening Bells ��So it’s autumn,” ezekiel mused, detecting in “ the air a familiar crispness. The night was young and she didn’t feel like going home. For awhile she just walked, taking in the evening. ‘I want to be with sky. I’m going to sky. There is a time for sky in people,’ she exuded. The sounds of day, the shouts of kids at once filled her and at the same time left her with an absolute sense of nothing. 19 �° ‘Look at that wrist! Just look at it!’ Her mother, barging into her room, had grabbed her wrist and was shaking it. Ezekiel had been reading. She herself didn’t see anything wrong with her wrist. Actually, she liked her wrist. She’d been purposely not eating to make her wrist exactly that way. Ezekiel simply sat. She was trying to picture the wrist her mother had so disliked. The memory returned now. She was in a car amidst lanes of stalled out cars. A rabbit was stuffed in the rear window of the sedan just ahead of her. It lay on its side. One pink ear flopped back awkwardly. The animal seemed content riding along with no one to bother it. ‘I bet it’s rocking inside its head.’ She peered into the Ford. There was some junk in the back seat. She pictured the mother, harassed, yelling, hurling it anywhere to get it out of the way. 20 �° Stop her! Just stop her! I’m going to kill her if she doesn’t stop. “It’s an accident.” Two or three bikes had been pulled off the road. The lane to her left was starting to clear up, however. Her mother was screaming and her father didn’t know what to do. I’m an accident! I’m an accident! The car with the rabbit darted to the side and vanished in a throng of suddenly-relieved cars. 21 �the cans in the window were laughing. Pointing their fingers and smirking. One had hair, its smile sinister. ‘We have calories. Calories will make you FAAAAAAAT FAAAAAAAT FAAAAAAAAAAAT.’ Ezekiel woke. It was raining. Big drops landed with a thud. 22 �° “Zeki-san! Did I wake you?” “He’s too tall for his body,” she flashed. “I was just resting.” She had on leggings, an old practice sweater and sagging hand-knit socks. “Her hair is young,” observed the visitor. “Its rich dark depth has the snap of a young girl.” Luciano was not youthful. That is he did not appear to be youthful. Rather than youthful he seemed untouched. Innocent in a pure, clear way. His intelligence hid it however. And his thinness. Sensing the fib he stuck out his hand. “This is for Unn. It’s a recording from Kyoto of New Year’s temple bells.” 23 �° “Would you mind holding this for me?” A tall, young woman with cuffs around her wrist, had handed Ezekiel a clutch-bag. Bulky blue rhinestones made a pattern on her dress. The dress was red. It was ankle-lengh and sleeveless and shaped in such a way that her ribbed green t-shirt, also sleeveless, showed through its several cut-outs. But it was her hair—very black and very cropped—as if an adolescent had taken a scissors to it wrathfully. Its blackness and wildness gave her slightly exotic features an indescribable edge, that along with her flushed face and unexpected visor, added up to a girl that in an odd way was breathtakingly beautiful. “She’s a model,” Ezekiel thought. “Those shoes. No one wears wedgies that are that high and that outrageous.” Shortly she got off. Ezekiel sat back for the long ride to her stop. 24 �The girl had been tall but her tallness was like a force, a tallness of mind that spilled over to her body. Her tallness had utterly absorbed the dress. 25 �° It was tall, so tall that it slumped over and made the hills seem as if they were laughing. It had been toward the middle of June when she’d seen the grass flower into bluish—almost peacock-blue— blossoms. Like a phosphoric sea continues to portray itself, the grass was continuous with none of the monotony of a color. ‘I have lost the respect of the color,’ she thought. 26 �a dark, drizzly morning. unn, in her chair, was relishing the quiet. One bird chirped with a sweet nonchalance. It was just a chirp yet Unn’s body flushed in the pleasure of it. After awhile she noticed a pattern—several chirps then stop, several chirps then stop. It was slow. So slow that when it started back up, there was the sense that even the bird was a little surprised. “Perhaps the bird is tired.” Though it didn’t sound tired. Her mind drifted off to the many things that might have made the bird tired. 27 �° “That was a good sleep.” Unn roused herself slowly. The smell in the air was heavenly. One white azalea streaked and stained with crimson—she could swear she saw it rise, hovering in the air, as the moon played with its petals. Washing felt pleasant. Fibers of light attached to early hours of day looked to Unn to have already accomplished day. She had a sudden desire to sew. 28 �° October passed and the rains settled in. The sky was full of caws and leaves. Witnessing the hill fall strangely silent, its subtle way of heightening a final strain of light. Still the shadows between some branches laid promiscuous, and to her sense redolent, supershadows on the undergrowth. 29 �° “It’s freezing!” Unn muttered as the hygienist snapped a bib around her neck. “Is it possible to turn that off,” she persisted. The girl was behind her, arranging something on a tray. “Off? I don’t know. Maybe.” Unn, tilted back by this time, tracked down the vent. She hadn’t thought to bring a sweater. Her chair faced a window against which a fluffy pine branch swayed. One huge cone was opening its wings. She could actually see inside the dark, cavernous fruit. Since the office was small and the branch huge, it fairly filled her view. Around twenty minutes passed. Now the dentist was leaning over the spot, probing it with a pick. “It’s what we call a ‘gum boil.’ It’s infected,” he said. 30 �Perhaps because of the pressure in her mouth, she felt a little giddy. A spray of white light flowed past her closed eyelids—a spray rising from behind a mammoth body. The dentist, turned away, was saying something she didn’t catch. It had been spotted and the beach closed. The whole town was waiting for it to reappear, maybe closer in. “There was only one left in the storeroom,” his assistant said, reentering the room. She was jotting something on her pad. It was high noon and the whale had jumped such that for all the world there was just the spray, the light and the blue flesh of its great body. The dentist was handing her a mirror. “This tooth has already had a root canal. It means the root must be dead and bone is being reabsorbed. That’s what creates the wobbling and consequently the gum boil.” 31 �The fat feathery pine with branches that looked like arms was waving wildly. 32 �° Unn got home late. Ezekiel’s door and window were open and she was sleeping soundly under a pleasant cross-breeze. Ezekiel, never home, always kept her door closed. “She had a root canal. The periodontist squeezed her in. She came home about an hour ago.” Töl was whispering lest she wake Ezekiel up. Stunned, Unn said nothing. Lately the girl had seemed more and more agitated. “Hello,” she’d one evening early. Her discomposure showed. “Best leave it,” Unn thought, and said nothing. 33 �it was a beautiful evening, mild and still. “It falls into different zones of emotional timing,” Ezekiel mused as her train sped forward. Aloneness, she felt, was settling into her body. Her eyes fell on a small black purse with a long slender shoulder strap. The purse looked new. Its shiny paten shone and the flap had the sort of clasp that gave it an exclusive air. She found herself starring. The strap flopped across the seat. When occasionally the car jerked, the strap slid forward. It never slid backwards however. To her surprise, at the next stop, a young woman in a pink fur coat came bounding through the car and grabbed the bag. She cast a grateful look at Ezekiel as if Ezekiel had been its savior. Beneath her coat she had on tights, and very tall, high-heeled boots that matched the bag. 34 �° That had been Saturday. The next day Ezekiel went for a foot reflexology treatment. The girl at the desk spoke only a little English. The masseuse placed a cloth over her eyes. Removing her feet from a bath he began to rub, deeply, one at a time. Ezekiel cried out and started calling for him to stop. ‘Is this yours? Is this your bag, mister?’ It was the same bag with the long shoulder strap that she had seen on the seat of the train. But he disappeared as soon as she passed the store. Only the handbag was left in the middle of the road. A wad of bills jutted through the clasp. ‘He stole it and is trying to pin the blame on me.’ Later she wondered if the store was really there. What would a stylish window with a mannequin be doing in the middle of a country road? The mannequin was naked except for the purse. Its 35 �long shoulder strap was slung across her chest so that the little bag, on the opposite hip, perched precariously. The window, brightly lit, gleamed through the dark night. ‘He might not have intended to drop the bag. Maybe he was running and hadn’t realized that it was missing.’ The slosh of a wet towel on her legs, then the rubbing of her legs woke her. “O-kay,” the man said loudly, as he started to help her up. There was a sweetness in his face with only a trace of age. 36 �° The sky was clouding at the end of a long lateautumn day. Ezekiel was standing at the bottom of the hill enjoying the evening haze and the patches of moss that it was coloring with charcoal shadows. Higher on the hill a single firefly beeped. She stared unblinking at the pines where she had seen it. A second beep from the moss. Its light, also bright, also quickly vanished. “Are you just standing there?” It was Unn. “I thought I saw some fireflies.” “Fireflies?” She was less and less distinguishable from the hill’s general undergrowth. 37 ��The Sound of White ��It started snowing just as ezekiel was getting up. She saw it start. The very first flake. Then it snowed all day and on into the night. There was a vast depth to its reflection on the hill far to either side. “Is that a wren?” It was perched on a branch. A starling too was whistling and talking. It was alone, but not solitary. The wren on the branch had been solitary. �° She’d woken up feeling low and the last fragment of a dream—one of those stupid dreams—something about bathrobes a street person was selling. She brushed her teeth gloomily. The house was still with a soft sense of nothing. Her candle had blown out. She starred at its charred and drooping wick. The candle was new. And fat. Its shrimpy little wick suddenly looked ridiculous. 42 �° Finally the snow stopped. Each tree stood under a thick coating of white. Ezekiel, having stepped outside, was taking it in slowly. The quiet of the snow . . . she watched some flakes swirl jauntily upwards. “They seem lonely. They seem separate from the sky.” Indeed as she came nearer, the flakes, as if hoarding their brightness, retracted to a looming void. 43 �° The memory of void, not as a sound but of far-off light, a distant cold light. A face, also cold, was at once in front of her and, at the same time, afloat at the foot of the sky. It had pale cheeks and cropped hair. From the window of a train she’d watched the image drain into a flat, dispiriting landscape. Factories and the chimneys of factories had sprung up and silently vanished. Ezekiel knew that each one spoke of many lives, yet at dusk, against the withered plain, they seemed empty. The train too was empty, the light inside dim. Its emptiness, like the land’s, droned on endlessly. 44 �° “Have I ever not been?” It occurred to her that her whole life could be seen as a defense against admitting it. Her loneliness and lethargy like an icicle. It resided in the air but it resided in her skin and beneath her skin, as if she’d been born in precisely this atmosphere. The bright stars too suddenly looked like icicles. 45 �° “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” Luciano’s voice was low. The night was clear with a brisk, soft wind. “You can see each individual star.” “Even the silver dust,” she said, after a long pause. Both were enthralled by the massive voluptuousness. “I saw it as a kid. ‘That’s the Milky Way,’ my dad said. But ‘milky’ didn’t seem right.” “I know.” 46 �° “My eyes are watering it’s so cold.” Her cheeks were flushed. He thought he saw them flicker for a second. “It’s just my eyes. Everything else is fine,” she added, blinking rapidly as if the action itself would warm them. “We’re lucky it’s so clear.” Luciano didn’t feel like talking. He was looking at the sky and looking at Ezekiel. Silence filled the air as though the universe were voiceless now. As though a core, a point of reference, had irrevocably been torn away. When it fanned out spreading higher and higher and higher, it left Luciano and Ezekiel in darkness. 47 �“what time is it?” unn’s mind lingered in her face and tired legs. Clouds in a rising wind had moved across the sky, hiding her and the sudden flooding in her body. “It will fall again by morning,” she muttered. The window was wet and rattling slightly. It was an atmosphere more than a scene, like everyone had gone but the place still held the embers of them. 48 �° Her thoughts turned to a dream. She had come into the kitchen and in a little tray her husband had laid out all their kitchen sponges— counter sponges, scrubbers, the floppy kind for bottles. They were bone dry as if they’d just been through the microwave. Intent on his task he didn’t look up. The previous evening Unn had read that it’s good to put your sponges in the microwave. Why had it never occurred to her? In her dream it also hadn’t occurred to her. It had occurred to her husband instead. So attuned was he to her mind that even before she had discovered it, he was practicing her revelation. Perhaps in her failure to put herself in his place, and guilt about that failure, she had simply made an example of the extent to which he had done the opposite. 49 �Even in the dream—that it was couched in absurdities easy to dismiss—was it not because she feared uncovering this quality and finally, inescapably, having to face it? And the fact that upon awakening she had difficulty remembering—that certain details and expressions had been blurred—might this be because at the moment of consciousness a kind of cunning went to work to erase its accusations? When she finally got up, the earth was still. The day had the aspect of an end though it wasn’t yet five. 50 �° It did not snow, either that night nor the next day. It was bitterly cold instead. “Would you like to come?” Maybe it was nine. Ezekiel, sprawled before the hearth, was scouring a local paper. “You’re going out!” She twisted around. The scent of Ezekiel’s hair came to Unn pleasantly. “She’s lonely. Her back looks lonely.” “Okay. Yeh.” Her body was moving slowly, however. She let the ‘yeh’ soak into the air as if it were the only word left. 51 �° “That is a raven.” A large black bird from a snowy branch peered directly into her eyes. It didn’t caw. “It’s as strong as the snow, those eyes under the thick sky.” Ezekiel cracked the frame. An edge of anger seemed to emanate from its flesh but also an acceptance. ‘May my green feet fall,’ she prayed silently, passionately. Seeing them floating in a cloud of pairs, they looked nourished and watered there. 52 �° Shutting it again she wiped the wetness off her cheeks. She was aware of the bird still motionless on the branch. It’s not cawing came loud to her. She brought her hand to her face then drew a line across the pane. The misted-over glass made her X into a word. 53 �° “That old worn bell sounds cracked,” she thought. Luciano’s recording drifted from the living room. The raven had flown away. A light through clouds sparkled off the limb washing the spot clean. The white of the snow and the black of the bird— both had been still but the stillness moved in the undercurrents of her life such that Ezekiel for a second lost touch with her real life. Without the bird would the snow exist? Without the snow would she exist? It was a realization more than a statement. 54 �and now the snow was melting. They’d said six or seven inches but already there were puddles, and stacks of sludgy snowmelt. “It’s melted quite a lot,” she thought, passing a number of snowplows. It was the beginning of February. The light in the kitchen was low. The light outside as yet had no qualities. Unn realized this without any reactivity. It occurred to her that snow—it was its sound beating in her mind, warming her mind, that she felt so strongly. It congealed in her chest, like mounds of sound piling up. Actually there were two sounds, the piling up of snow and then the warm burning at the snow’s center. More than an image it was a premonition. 55 �° “The sky has turned such a summer color,” Unn muttered, fluffing her pillows to sit awhile longer. From a dawn sky tiny flakes fell. Some landed on the pane, shattering, then dribbling slowly. One or two stuck. Flattened against the glass their delicate shapes disappeared. “They’re nothing. Absolutely nothing.” Later, peering into day, there was just a little smudge. 56 �° “Well, it’s not freezing.” Thrudging through slush she felt the same as on a normal day. She had on a hat, a scarf, and hand-knit mittens from Ezekiel. “It’s almost too warm.” She pulled her hat higher on her head to expose it to the air. The freshness of the snow made the eaves look even deeper, as if all the earth were at rest. A flake landed on her tooth. “The cold here is different. When you touch something, it feels different.” She listened to the frost monotonously dribble from a tree. Her mind was blank yet the blankness had a color. Now there is sky away from any color. And little bumps of grayish hardened snow. As when winter is over and there are no birds. 57 ��The Deepest Blue of Sky ��Sometimes the day would begin with a particular warming light, very clear, almost sumptuous. “Why am I so happy?” Ezekiel thought, watching a rosel sun rise. As she walked the thought returned, yet it didn’t register as a thought. Instead it was a color. On the sand lay a small starfish. Its rays were short. And it seemed young, hardly more than a baby. “Should I put it back in the water?” Two or three sea-birds, lustrous black, had their long necks thrust out on the waves. 61 �° “What an uncommonly lovely day,” Ezekiel reflected. Really it was May but it was April with its turgid air and fat, plethoric clouds, barely blue, beginning to swell in space. Shortly they formed banks. Mountains and towers of billowy whiteness. Above them there was nothing. Above that, a few wafts of puffiness. 62 �° The next day there was rain, a hard spring rain. Sandy water near the shore swished back and forth quietly. “But it sticks to my toes and the holes between my toes!” She wished she had a better word. Five or six papery white flowers waved in the sea air. She’d passed one earlier on her bike. It was bowing gracefully toward a stretch of barren shoreline. Such an incredibly beautiful flower, slim and erect, seemed rather suited to a hot house than a rough, unprotected coast. 63 �° ‘She’s beautiful alright, but . . . ’ Ezekiel couldn’t think of the word. Still-wet hair, parted to the side, hugged a blondish head and fell to the back. She’d been leaning against a railing. Elbows bent and anchored against her breasts, her hands were by her ears as if she were checking her earrings. Ezekiel didn’t see any earrings though. A shadow had crossed the girl making her all the more striking. 64 �° EZEKIEL, EZEKIEL, someone was calling. She paused thinking she might have heard her name. She was immaculately dressed in her new white jacket and the weather was perfect. Ezekiel turned over. The room was dark. Her clock was facing away so she couldn’t see the time. The feeling of the caller shouting her name and the pause, the vague turn of her body, as if she had heard a sound, but no, it was nothing, and she’d walked on. Immediately there was rain, a hard spring rain. She’d felt the presence of the rain, as if it were both inside her and simultaneously falling all the way down to the water. EZEKIEL. EZEKIEL. The cantilena of the word was like the muffled noise of drops. She peered at the sea barely visible in the mist. It had the same clean beauty as the girl. 65 �“it’s pink, isn’t it? that sky is pink!” Unn was trying to remember if she’d ever seen such a sky. The cabby said nothing though his neck swiveled to the left slightly. “It’s pink! The sky’s never pink!” Amazed at her outburst, Unn slid back in her seat. From the musty smell of his shirt she had gotten his “What-of-it.” 66 �° He left her at the sea. The sand, dead-white, sparkled in the sun. Swarms of insects whirled around restlessly. “They’re almost frantic,” she was thinking. Tiny wings crowded her legs. Likewise the palms. She noticed that their tips, even on the stillest day, trembled slightly. “Nathan. Point to the sun. Show me the sun.” A mother was holding a book in such a way that both of her children could see. Her daughter who was older immediately pointed to the sun. “No Maddy. It’s Nathan’s turn.” Nathan slowly put his finger on the drawing. “That’s right. Maddy, point to the fence. Very good.” “He’s smart isn’t he, Mama?” Maddy was turning away. 67 �Nathan had turned and was giving his sister a hug. “He likes me, doesn’t he?” Maddy’s face beamed. She pulled her brother closer. Maddy looked to be four. The boy, two or three. His hair was black. Both children were chubby. “What a pleasant family,” Unn thought, descending a path toward the tulip field. A small pond with several big fish lay to the right of the beds. “I picked a good day,” she thought, wandering over to a stand of Asian Willows. 68 �° That night Unn had a dream. A table with a lamp and a single glass of water stood at the head of a deathbed. The lamp, turned low, lent the room a quiet, attended-to feeling. As Unn approached she could see her mother’s face, but its shape was like a tulip. The thin neck was bandaged and the head also, though it appeared in the shape of a tulip, resembled a cast. The soul of the deceased flower . . . She glanced at the clock. Unn had always associated tulips with her young, beautiful mother. As the woman aged their relationship had failed. Yet it would seem from the dream that something of the earlier warmth had been maintained. As if the true nature of her mother had pressed the badness into a flower. On the outside there were bandages but on the inside, sculpting them to herself, 69 �she had preserved to the end those aspects Unn had so adored. Unn thought she recalled that the blankets were richly colored giving the whole bed the feeling of a garden. 70 �ezekiel sat at her mirror and slowly undid her braid. It was late and she was tired. “My hair smells like train,” she said. “I’ll wash it in the morning.” When she sniffed at a bunch it smelled fusty. 71 �° “Oh I’m sorry.” Ezekiel paused. She sensed that she’d interrupted. A girl, muttering something she didn’t catch, was half-facing a window. Her dress was from the 50’s. It had capped sleeves and an empire waist that immediately flared into a calf-length skirt of butter yellow satin with an overlayer of lace. The lace was scarlet and stopped just below the knee leaving a wide border of yellow in turn bordered by a very thin ribbon of red. But what stood out for Ezekiel was the hoop. Circling her hips it organized the drape such that from the band of the empire it fell, first softly, then billowed down gracefully. The line was clean and fresh which the girl’s aristocratic, very long, somewhat nervous body addressed. A huge yellow flower with two green sprigs perched on her ring finger. “It’s gorgeous. She’s gorgeous.” For a minute Ezekiel 72 �forgot what she’d come for. “Are you leaving?” The girl was making an effort. “I have a headache.” Ezekiel didn’t want to talk but more than that she felt the girl didn’t want to talk. “It must be here somewhere,” she muttered, shuffling through what had become a gigantic pile. She felt herself blushing. 73 �° “She had on sandals!” It was Ezekiel’s first thought the next morning. Her naturally slim, straight toes had lain comfortably on the soles, so fine-boned and slender. Ezekiel had averted her eyes. The exposure wasn’t being given to her and felt indeed too intimate for her. It wasn’t until now, in an unguarded moment, that she even remembered that she had done that. Her thoughts shifted to the girl. She wondered if the fact that her image remained within her . . . She didn’t even know her. What would it mean to know her? And how would she know that she knew her. Her image of the girl flowed through time, but was her image simultaneously in the girl? Of course time would flow differently in her. 74 �Even if she knew her, she would never know how time flowed in her or how, within herself, the girl experienced time. 75 �° Ezekiel was a bird. She wore a chocolate-brown crèpede-chine pinafore with a black velvet yoke and feathers down the front. ‘Just flutter around,’ had been her instruction. She remembered hovering near some pussy willows at stage left. 76 �° It was early afternoon on a beautiful springlike day. A colony of rooks had distilled into the sky after hovering around the breakwater. Immediately a gull treading the air, angling its body to a wave—she was betting with herself as to when it would nab a fish when it sailed backwards and upwards and vanished in a burst of sun. “The certainty of that bird’s body, its musculature, its control, even its foggy color seems ideally suited to its life.” Ezekiel stared out brutally aware of her own notideally-suited body. 77 �one may morning unn fell into a heavy incomplete sleep. She’d been cleaning the house with the television on when her husband’s face appeared on the screen. As soon as it was visible, a little mouse that he used to feed began to scramble up the wall toward his face. In its excitement it got very high up, impossibly high. It didn’t squeak but its fur spread out and seemed to soften and thicken as if its body were purring. She had thrown off all her covers. Her old body lay flat. Time felt palpable in her chest. She wondered if the fact that things ceased to exist in her meant that they ceased to exist. Does time cease to exist or does it flow parallel to what looks like one’s existence? What is one’s existence? What is the relation between time and one’s existence? 78 �° Snatches of conversation, a strained trombone, the hilarious glee of laughter making its slow way to the river. She was hanging out a window, trying to see through the masks and drowning voices, was it candy they were throwing and the children screaming and the float just beyond where she could still make out the mast? Previously the parade had followed the narrow streets typical of downtown St. Louis. She could almost hear the creak of the great wooden wheels turning at a crossroad. 79 �° KASURI DYEWORKS the sign announced. A faded cotton curtain flapped in a breeze. Unn paused at the door. The young couple specialized in traditional Japanese fabric. Apparently, even in Japan, increasingly it was no longer obtainable. Unn knew that they were thinking of closing the shop. She glanced at the sign. Its weatherworn calligraphy bore a mark of standing but in the event, it seemed weak, as if the owners had lost their faith. To the ordinary passerby it simply looked to be decorative. 80 �° KASURI DYEWORKS. The fabric shop had closed. In its place was a bike repair garage. It seemed that the garage had bought the convenience store as well. A flower vendor stood in front with a small cart. “All I have is some plain wildflowers,” the woman said when Unn approached, obviously looking to buy something. “I like wildflowers. They look so fresh, as if they were just gathered this morning.” “I go every morning, ma’am. I like wildflowers too.” “The shop that was here before . . . ” Unn began. She thought perhaps the woman might have heard what had happened to the couple. She seemed not to be very intelligent. “These here,”—she was pointing to some lupine—“I’d recommend these ma’am. They’re very fresh.” 81 �Ezekiel is set in Minion, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in the spirit of the humanist typefaces of fifteenth-century Venice; it was released by Adobe Systems in 1990. Cover art: Gail Sher. Cover design: Bryan Kring. ������� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gail Sher Collection Subject The topic of the resource Sher, Gail, 1942- Poetry -- United States Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sher, Gail, 1942- Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-PC011 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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LIB-PC011 Language A language of the resource eng poetry publications SherPublications https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/8bbdbcbf73142209de8fa8604670c2a3.pdf 7161a7661bdec7f351f293a2accfa735 PDF Text Text East Wind Melts the Ice & Other Stories East_Wind_text .indd 1 1/23/07 11:02:04 PM �also by gail sher Prose Writing the Fire: Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive • 2006 The Intuitive Writer: Listening to Your Own Voice • 2002 One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers • 1999 From a Baker’s Kitchen • 1984/2004 Poetry The Copper Pheasant Ceases Its Call • 2007 Watching Slow Flowers • 2006 DOHA • 2005 RAGA • 2004 Once There Was Grass • 2004 redwind daylong daylong • 2004 Birds of Celtic Twilight: A Novel in Verse • 2004 Look at That Dog All Dressed Out in Plum Blossoms • 2002 Moon of the Swaying Buds • 2002 Lines: The Life of a Laysan Albatross • 2000 Fifty Jigsawed Bones • 1999 Saffron Wings • 1998 One bug . . . one mouth . . . snap! • 1997 Marginalia • 1997 La • 1997 Like a Crane at Night • 1996 Kuklos • 1995 Cops • 1988 Broke Aide • 1985 Rouge to Beak Having Me • 1983 (As) on things which (headpiece) touches the Moslem • 1982 From Another Point of View the Woman Seems to be Resting • 1981 East_Wind_text .indd 2 1/23/07 11:02:05 PM �East Wind Melts the Ice & Other Stories Gail Sher Q night crane press 2007 East_Wind_text .indd 3 1/23/07 11:02:05 PM �Copyright 2007, Gail Sher All rights reserved. Night Crane Press 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 435 Emeryville, California 94608 No part of this publication my be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner and the publisher. isbn: 978–0–9726115–9–6 East_Wind_text .indd 4 1/23/07 11:02:05 PM �For Brendan East_Wind_text .indd 5 1/23/07 11:02:05 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 6 1/23/07 11:02:05 PM �table of contents Author’s Note ix East Wind Melts the Ice 1 Doves Spread Their Wings 5 Earthworms Come Out 11 The Butcherbird is Silent 15 The Eaglehawk Studies and Learns 23 Swallows Return 31 Burrowing Beetles Wall Up Their Doors with Earth 37 The Tiger Begins to Roam 45 Magpies Nest 53 Waters and Swamps are Thick and Hard 57 East_Wind_text .indd 7 1/23/07 11:02:05 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 8 1/23/07 11:02:05 PM �author’s note These fragments are renditions (often simple retellings) of stories from modern Japanese literature and journalism. By highlighting (zeroing in on) a particular aspect or portion of a larger piece, the focus shifts (narrows and intensifes) so that a certain quality becomes more evident, poignant or simply celebrated. To Yasunari Kawabata, Nagai Kafu, and other modern Japanese writers who inspired these versions, I offer them with a deep bow. gail sher ix East_Wind_text .indd 9 1/23/07 11:02:05 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 10 1/23/07 11:02:05 PM �east wind melts the ice East_Wind_text .indd 1 1/23/07 11:02:05 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 2 1/23/07 11:02:05 PM �“The four children playing twenty questions downstairs in the children’s room could be heard clearly on the second foor.” Such was the opening sentence of (in her opinion) a way-too short story. The quickest child turned out to be the youngest, a second-grader, who correctly guessed the word “raindrops” from four hints. The precocious boy’s mother was insisting that the neighbor’s child (the child who asked “Does it sound like—drip drip drip?”) had clearly known the answer and “let” her child win. “If rain makes noise, it’s raindrops,” she’d said. “That’s not true. The sound of rain and the sound of raindrops aren’t the same,” retorted a supporter of the second-grader—not his mother—who, it turned out, was, to begin with, embarrassed by her other (older) child’s choice of the unpleasant word “raindrops.” She felt that the neighbor’s youngster, knowing that her boy (when leader) always picked unpleasant words, would easily have guessed “raindrops.” It was obvious to her, and therefore doubly humiliating, that he had more or less “given” her little one the glory of winning. The squabbling of the children plus the symbolic distances of both the parental eavesdropping and subsequent commentary, duplicated later in their 3 East_Wind_text .indd 3 1/23/07 11:02:06 PM �own marital squabbles and distances, fascinated her. But the real hold, what carried over to the next day and even the next, was the author’s unequivocal distinction between the sound of rain and the sound of raindrops. Of course it was so, but she had never thought about it. 4 East_Wind_text .indd 4 1/23/07 11:02:06 PM �doves spread their wings East_Wind_text .indd 5 1/23/07 11:02:06 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 6 1/23/07 11:02:06 PM �It was upon comparing the portrait she had once made as a tribute to her dead mother with Nakamura Tsune’s Portrait of His Aged Mother that her insight slowly began to emerge. Whereas her portrait, sketched from an early photograph of her mother, made her mother seem younger and even more beautiful than she actually had been at the time the photograph was taken, Tsune’s, completed while his mother was still alive, had been done in a simple style with dark, cold coloring. His stooped, emaciated woman, seated in profle against a halfwainscoted wall, prayer beads dangling from her wrinkled fngers, probably refected Tsune’s feelings toward his own approaching death. Her painting, on the other hand, done while grieving the loss of her mother, her lover, and their miscarried baby, seemed shallow and self-indulgent by comparison. Which is odd. How can one explain the fact that she, with her triple sorrow, painted a sort of sweet, pretty likeness void of any sense of pain, while Tsune, whose mother yet lived, conveyed his suffering starkly and profoundly? It must be that both of them, choosing as their ostensible subject the aging and death of their mothers, were actually painting self-portraits. Even as she thought this, the memory of her frequent glances in the mirror to check the contours of her face as she painted, rose vividly before her. At the time she had rationalized 7 East_Wind_text .indd 7 1/23/07 11:02:06 PM �this tactic by reminding herself of the strong resemblance she bore to her mother. Her musings brought up the question of the degree to which one’s love for others is, in reality, selflove. In her situation, for example, all three persons mourned were fully alive within her. Her experience of them therefore had to be affected by her everchanging experience of herself. Somehow the part she played, perpetually infusing them with life, had never occurred to her. The two pieces of this that were most disturbing, and suggested that her behavior, to a much larger degree than she cared to admit, had been solipsistically driven, were frst her portrayal of her dead mother as young and beautiful, insisting on this, in fact leaving any trace of death out of the painting altogether, and second the conviction to which she has been quite wedded of having lugged another around in her heart for a quarter of a century, when more accurately the weight she has borne was a split-off part of her self. Refecting on the former, and taking a lesson from Tsune, she couldn’t help but feel that her sole purpose in having created that portraiture was to perpetuate her mother’s function as mirror to the beauty and youth she herself was terrifed of losing. Her mother was dead. If the painting had been about her 8 East_Wind_text .indd 8 1/23/07 11:02:06 PM �mother, it would have had to include something on this subject. But wait. Within the striking image she drew of her young, beautiful mother, an ardent brunette, spunky, feisty—within the glamour and sweet smells, exotic and exciting, did there not lurk a whirlwind of life force expending itself to keep itself alive? One could argue, given her own circumstance of extreme youth at the time of her mother’s death, that this was the side of death with which she was most familiar—the only side in fact that she could have painted with authenticity. Just as a giant red balloon contains within its sheath of air a shriveled knot of rubber that one instinctively tosses (and that this is evident to the eyes of an observer if she will only see it)—metaphorically speaking this explained what was happening to her now. She was beginning to see it. The case of her lover (or “ex-lover”—it was diffcult to call him that since her inner world belied it) was more complex. A part of her perfectly understood that he lived with his wife and three children in a travel-to-able city. But did he infuse her as she infused him with abundant, exuberant life? Did she owe the very transformation she was presently undergoing to the power of his imagination? One wondered. 9 East_Wind_text .indd 9 1/23/07 11:02:06 PM �As in a dream whose various fgures represent various sub-personalities of the dreamer, so in this “relationship” it must be that its various aspects, fashioned though they were on external originals, had nevertheless, over the course of years, quietly melded into the character of their maker. Lovers though they may have been in the past, their hearts had fowed along separate streams of time. The qualities she once admired in him were her qualities now—the “him” she thought of herself as loving, a mental “balloon” infated with devotion that would as surely shrivel the second she withdrew it. 10 East_Wind_text .indd 10 1/23/07 11:02:06 PM �earthworms come out East_Wind_text .indd 11 1/23/07 11:02:06 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 12 1/23/07 11:02:06 PM �Kawabata’s ffty-ninth birthday had been only a month away when the collection of stories written at the end of his career (he had been ill but at the height of his power) was published. That was her age now, she thought, unsure of the import. One story, “This Country, That Country,” had been the title of an article featuring England’s Princess Margaret, who apparently had changed her mind about her betrothal to Group Captain Townsend. Four years previous (while visiting Balmoral) the lovers had hoisted a stone onto a mound of similar stones, publicly acknowledging their feelings. The journalist made the point that while it was impossible to tell which stone the Princess and Group Captain Townsend had added to the pile, since none looked as though the Princess alone could have lifted it, they must have lifted it together. When reading the article, Takako, Kawabata’s heroine, had tried to picture the princess as she would have looked hoisting the stone onto the mound in tandem with the Group Captain, but the image that came was “simply an image.” Whereas the previous day Takako had felt sorry for the princess (who had been forced by church law and royal custom to abandon her beloved), that feeling was now gone. Her empathy itself “seemed like a foreign story.” 13 East_Wind_text .indd 13 1/23/07 11:02:07 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 14 1/23/07 11:02:07 PM �the butcherbird is silent East_Wind_text .indd 15 1/23/07 11:02:07 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 16 1/23/07 11:02:07 PM �“The idea that her kittens might be sacrifced by her mother—that in the hierarchy of values held by her mother the lives of kittens were certainly of less importance than, for example, Frank-san’s slightest whim—must have been alive to the girl before the animals were even born.” Such were her thoughts as she re-read the story by a casual friend of the child’s mother: Indeed, now that I remember the frst conversation I had with her, that strange afternoon inside the shabby cottage, Mariko huddling over the pregnant cat curled up on the tatami and commenting, quite out of the blue, “She’s going to have kittens. Do you want a kitten?” What strikes me most is how the child, ignoring my “Oh really? How nice...I’m sure they’ll all fnd nice homes,” became surprisingly insistent, almost demanding. How could I have failed to notice the anguish and despair arising from her helplessness in the face of (in her mind) certain disaster. By screaming at her mother that most unchildlike, “Why do you always go away with Frank-san? Frank-san pisses like a pig. He’s a pig in a sewer...” she made her analysis of the situation abundantly clear. If Sachiko’s own life was held in abeyance, it would be foolish to expect (and this is what did not escape Mariko’s perspicacity) her own or those of her kittens to be more highly regarded. 17 East_Wind_text .indd 17 1/23/07 11:02:07 PM �There were many occasions when Mariko’s preoccupation (one could almost say obsession) with her kittens, for now there were three, Atsu, Mee-Chan and SujiChan, was in evidence, but by far the most poignant of these was the day of our outing. The outing had been planned to celebrate the imminent departure of Mariko and Sachiko for the home of Sachiko’s uncle. Frank-san for the moment was out of the picture. Sachiko, while procrastinating, giving her uncle a moving date and then doing nothing to prepare so that weeks after the established time she still had not packed a single item, held frm to her intention. She and Mariko would live in her uncle’s spacious house and Mariko would have tutors and private schooling. After all, wasn’t Mariko’s education what she must concern herself with above all else? The outing was designed to be one last day together at our ease. The lift up the mountainside had indeed proven spectacular, the picnic on top and the vistas on our little hikes exceedingly pleasant. Toward evening, after a department-store supper, we strolled through sidestreets in little hurry to reach the fnal tram depot. On one such sidestreet we chanced upon a kujibiki stand. Mariko instantly asked to play, and noticing Sachiko’s reservation, I handed her a coin. Since Mariko appeared to be a child, the stand-keeper instructed her to close her eyes while drawing her ticket and visualize the big furry bear. Mariko: “I don’t want the bear. I want the basket,” 18 East_Wind_text .indd 18 1/23/07 11:02:07 PM �pointing to the back of the stall. The man shrugged. “All right, princess, close your eyes tight and imagine your basket. Ready?” The frst time Mariko’s ticket won a fower pot. The second time she (now it comes back to me clearly) won a pencil. We were about to leave when Mariko pressed to try yet a third time. She seemed so desperate, so single-minded, her emotional intensity so unsuited to the “we-all-know-no-oneever-wins-anything-serious” attitude with which most passers-by play. Mariko, just then, was not a mere passer-by but, for whatever reason, both her mother and I refused to see that. As luck would have it, on her third try Mariko won, not the basket but what the stall-keeper described as a “major prize.” This turned out to be a large wooden box. Made of smooth, unvarnished pine, it was light, like an orange crate, and had two sliding panels of wire gauze. Mariko, thoughtful, inquired, “Couldn’t we carry the kittens in here when we go to Uncle’s? We could put down a rug. I’m sure they’ll be quite comfortable.” Sachiko wasn’t so sure but on refection could picture it working as Mariko described. Several days later, however, Frank-san’s car was back and their plans had changed. They weren’t going to go to America immediately. Frank-san would put Sachiko and Mariko up in Kobe while he went to America to send for them after he 19 East_Wind_text .indd 19 1/23/07 11:02:07 PM �found work. They were leaving tomorrow. Sachiko was quite agitated, throwing essentials into valises, boxes, what-have-you. She kept repeating that she couldn’t take everything. Some things would have to be left behind. She hoped I could use some of the things as they, many of them, were quite valuable. Mariko sat in the corner of the tatami playing with her kittens, expressionless. “Have you decided yet?” she asked abruptly. “We’ll talk about that later,” her mother began when Mariko broke in, “But you said I could keep them” and began to intone to me, “She said I could keep them. She promised I could keep them.” Sachiko turned toward her daughter, spotted the orange crate and yanked a kitten from the tatami, tossing it inside. Mariko was still hugging one of the tiny black kittens to her chest. She said nothing as her mother shut the other two inside the crate. Then she held the kitten out to me. “This is Atsu. Do you want to see him?” Mariko grabbed it away from her yelling, “It is just an animal. Like a rat or a snake. It’s just an animal.” She dropped the creature into the crate and left the cottage. Mariko, still blank-faced, shadowed her. Sachiko headed for the river. First she took one kitten in her hands and tried to drown it by holding it under the water. When after a few minutes it wouldn’t die, she put it back into the box and edged the entire crate into 20 East_Wind_text .indd 20 1/23/07 11:02:07 PM �the river. To prevent it foating, she leaned forward and momentarily held it down. Mariko watched, transfxed, from the top of a slope behind her mother. As the box began to bob its way downstream, it caught in some reeds, was freed by a current and continued its journey. Mariko ran along the bank, stopping to watch the box till only a small corner was visible above the surface. Sachiko, who by now was aware of her daughter’s presence, called to her before turning back to the cottage but her voice was the perfunctory voice of a weary mother doing what is expected of her. She shrugged her shoulders and walked back with the exasperated step of one who has experienced an unwanted delay. I turned in search of Mariko. Toward dusk I found her crouched on a bridge staring into the water. 21 East_Wind_text .indd 21 1/23/07 11:02:07 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 22 1/23/07 11:02:07 PM �the eaglehawk studies and learns East_Wind_text .indd 23 1/23/07 11:02:08 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 24 1/23/07 11:02:08 PM �If the truth be told, though the report of the Master’s retirement game had been serialized in an exhaustive sixty-four installments, we were only now, through more heuristic means, beginning to grasp the momentous nature of this occasion. No one could have been more respectful, more knowledgeable, more observant nor sparing of himself in his reportage than Uragami, whose newspaper, the Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun, had sponsored the match and whose devotion to Honnimbo Shusai had been entire. Yet, having read what he had to say, one feels that the account, focused primarily on externals, served rather to elegize (lament) than to parse (examine closely) the illusive events for posterity. For example we learn that the match itself, lasting fourteen sessions, began in Tokyo on June 26, 1938, and ended, not quite six months later, on December 4, in Ito. The Master died on January 18, 1940. Most certainly the ordeal had taken his life. But such facts tell us little. Their very paucity arouses a strange interest in minutiae, like the very long hair Uragami noticed in the Master’s left eyebrow, as if something ultimate in our understanding hinges on getting these correct. Mr. Uragami himself says that his noticing the hair and writing about it was a trifing matter. The important point was that he had 25 East_Wind_text .indd 25 1/23/07 11:02:08 PM �noticed it at a diffcult moment—that it had come as a sort of rescue. But such thinking is apocryphal and now that we realize it, our inclination is to extrapolate—to posit that hidden within this single feature of the Master’s visage (a sort of metaphysical heirloom/philosopher’s stone) is an elixir with transmutative properties compensatory to our age’s precise shortcomings. Buried in Uragami’s treatment of a day’s session at Hakone was the following brief paragraph: Today I discovered for the frst time a white hair about an inch long in the Master’s eyebrow. Standing out from the swollen-eyed, heavy veined face, it too somehow came as a savior. Several days after this article had appeared (and two days before he died) the Master and his wife had made a trip to Atami to get the Master a shave. Phoning a reliable barber, the Master had told him that he had one very long hair in his left eyebrow, that it was a hair of good luck, a sign of long life and that he, the barber, was not to touch it. Of course the barber agreed. Amazingly the Master had not himself previously noticed the hair. He had only recently read about it in Uragami’s newspaper article. While his wife related this story, the Master remained silent 26 East_Wind_text .indd 26 1/23/07 11:02:08 PM �but, Uragami tells us, a ficker crossed his face “as if it had caught the shadow of a passing bird.” Uragami has refected that more than a decade has passed since the Master’s death and no method has been devised for determining the succession to the title “Master of Go.” Instead, rationalism, with its tedious rules, meticulous point system, and emphasis on winning, had wrung the concepts of dignity and affatus out of the process. “Victory” has become a commercial asset for a competitive person (read “disciple of Go”). The life of a player today, far from lustrative, is consumed by contests, annual title matches, and recitals of strength in fashy championship tournaments. In all three matches played in the last decade of his life, the Master fell ill midway through. After the frst he was bedridden. After the third he died. Each game took inordinately long. It was as if, in these fnal play-offs, an epoch (a complete system of values and aesthetics) virtually embodied in the Master, came grinding to a halt. The last, nimbus of an eon, should, in its own right, have been a masterpiece, but as Uragami says, “By this time the Master could not stand outside the rules of equality.” Witness the contrast between the Master and his opponent, Uragami continues. Once the former, 27 East_Wind_text .indd 27 1/23/07 11:02:08 PM �quiet and nerveless, sank into a game, he did not leave. Otake, on the other hand, frequently excused himself, presumably as a consequence of his habit of drinking copious pots of tea. (Otake’s diffculty, however, did not stop at enuresis. Often he would leave his overskirt behind him in the hallway and his obi as well.) His way of sitting down and getting up were as if readying himself for battle. Typically a long deliberation would be capped in the fnal minute by a hundred or a hundred ffty plays of surging violence—quite unlike the Master’s steadfast immobility, suggestive of one who has lost all consciousness of his own identity. One indeed got the impression that when the Master was seated at the Go board he had the power to quiet his surroundings. This power, the result of long training and discipline, “alchemically” affected the Master’s physical body and was especially noticeable (Uragami reports with some authority, since he took the last photographs) in his dead body where his large, longish face with its bold features, his strong jaw and his disproportionately long trunk seemed exaggerated. Even more pronounced, we read, was the eerie sense one had of his torso disappearing from the waist down. His legs and hips, insubstantial to the extreme, seemed inadequate even for his weight (which we know to be about sixty-fve)—a 28 East_Wind_text .indd 28 1/23/07 11:02:08 PM �child’s weight. His knees (in seiza it was obvious) appeared transparently thin. The Master’s physique confrms what those knowledgeable about the spirit of Go have long suspected—that the intense concentration required will chisel away at a player’s manifest being (it is almost as if concentration itself replaces a player’s body). One would imagine that when in recess the Master would prefer diversions of an altogether different nature, but Uragami explicitly noted that the Master was literally addicted to games—mahjongg, billiards, chess—which he passionately played day and night, even in the interval between a professional session and dinner. Uragami’s description of a glimpse he had one day of the Master walking the hundred or so yards across the garden from the outbuilding of the Naraya Inn to his apartment in the main building bears this out on the one hand, and ironically (that it should come from a mere glimpse) gives us more of an insight than we get anywhere else in the report of the true magnitude of what is before us. Just beyond the gate of the outbuilding was a short slope and the Master, palms lightly clasped behind him, bent forward as he climbed it. His body, held perfectly straight from the hips, made his spindly 29 East_Wind_text .indd 29 1/23/07 11:02:08 PM �legs seem all the more accessory. “The retreating fgure of the Master against the background sound of fowing water carried along with it the retreating fragrance of Go as a graceful and elegant path,” Uragami eulogized. From photographs of the dead body, in which there appears to be only a head, a doll’s head, almost gruesome (as if severed), the Master’s martyrdom (we name it from our present vantage point)—the sacrifce of an invincible life for the sake of an art that is no longer relevant—was all but conclusive. 30 East_Wind_text .indd 30 1/23/07 11:02:08 PM �swallows return East_Wind_text .indd 31 1/23/07 11:02:08 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 32 1/23/07 11:02:08 PM �Nagai Kafu idealized prostitutes and set the scene, no doubt as a statement of mutability, of a story which still haunted her, on the Ginza in “second” Tokyo (which succeeded “frst” Tokyo, destroyed in the Great Earthquake of 1923 and which, in its own turn, disappeared in the American incendiary raids of 1945). Perhaps he envied their cavalier style, their freedom to eschew the social constraints that he, raised in a respectable family, had to suffer. He was certainly aware that their feckless ways were also precarious. Take a waitress, for example. Her livelihood might easily have depended on the generosity (read “loneliness or sexual neediness”) of strangers—customers who dropped into one’s restaurant—or, after-hours, passers-by on the street who responded in kind to a seductive “Hey loverboy, how ’bout a cup of tea?” And of course, as he pointed out, among themselves these people made their own fne distinctions. The combs in one’s hair, the “fying” pattern on one’s kimono, the twill of one’s haori, the embroidery on a sash—if the slightest bit frowsy, mockingly declared one as incult. Or even those between waitress-prostitute, geisha-prostitute and out-and-out prostitute. This nomenclature clearly signaled a level of expertise in the work of giving pleasure that closely affected the bearer and toward which she must have bowed. The bottom line was one’s ability to arouse a fantasy, 33 East_Wind_text .indd 33 1/23/07 11:02:09 PM �the suggestion that anything might be possible, that “with me one might enter the highest realms of the unknown”—which allure, by the way, was the same as that offered by houses of God. From this standpoint Kafu’s attraction to his subject made sense. In fact, now that she refected, she thought her own fascination with this particular story had to do with the loyal nature of the bond between its hero and heroine, held frm despite their obvious character faws and wild vicissitudes in the back alleys of their external lives. One of the most notable features of this world, at least for her what stood out and stayed with her, was the constancy of its ephemerality. While nothing lasted, nothing signifcant appeared to change even over the course of generations. The story began in typical desuetude—the couple, dishabilled from having just awakened, were calculating, what with the New Year approaching and her in her late thirties/early forties, how much longer could they go on living off her earnings? Granted she was still lovely and looked much younger than she actually was but...did they need to begin...at which moment she was called to the phone. Her immediate presence was required at an assignation house. But they were used to this. She wanted to be called as much as possible. Frequently there wasn’t time even for a bowl of rice. She dressed and few off, leaving Jukichi to 34 East_Wind_text .indd 34 1/23/07 11:02:09 PM �eat his soft-boiled egg and warmed leftover milk alone. He tidied up and ran whatever errands. OChiyo could be back tonight or tomorrow some time, possibly tomorrow night, in which case she’d call or have someone call. Other men would resent this eclipsed existence, but the decisive turn toward intimacy in their relationship had happened on the occasion of his letting her know that he “got” the nature of her work (which was not in a bar as she had told him) and that it was okay. So long as she was straight with him, whatever she did was fne. The relief for both of them at this extraordinary conversation—most of it conveyed through gesture and facial expression—left its indelible mark. They became inseparable from that moment. The specifcs shifted. The woman’s house from where originated most of O-Chiyo’s work was raided and they had to evacuate the neighborhood immediately on threat of arrest. Shortly thereafter O-Chiyo, in a crowded street with a new customer, got separated from him and when she ran to catch up, joining hands again, she found herself holding the hand of the wrong person. This man, however, a genial, philandering ex-offcial who had lived down a bribery scandal, whisked her into a cab and in the end set her up in a house of her own choosing as his concubine. Jukichi, being the one with free time, found the house and, in addition, an apartment 35 East_Wind_text .indd 35 1/23/07 11:02:09 PM �several blocks away for himself so they could stay together except for the nights the man came around. These little developments, beginning with his discovery of her working as a prostitute, only served to strengthen Jukichi’s connection to O-Chiyo. The idea that other men found pleasure in her body somehow made her all the more appealing. Unlike O-Chiyo, Jukichi held a university degree. He had tried his hand at writing but his enthusiasm at every employment opportunity trailed off shortly after he was hired. Should he be ashamed of allowing a woman to support him (of battening at her expense) or just resign himself that this was how he was? After all, within its own defnitions, their way of life was honest. O-Chiyo seemed happy. They were neither hypocritical nor materialistic, which was saying a lot in the day’s land of lies. 36 East_Wind_text .indd 36 1/23/07 11:02:09 PM �burrowing beetles wall up their doors with earth East_Wind_text .indd 37 1/23/07 11:02:09 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 38 1/23/07 11:02:09 PM �Gentle, quiet, graceful though Yukiko was, she was (they would never have said so, which—as she became increasingly engrossed—increasingly irked her) an embarrassment to her sisters. The fact that she had passed the marriageable age (she had reached thirty without a husband) was like a thorn in the family’s side, reminding them of the gradual decline in status of the Makioka name and the concomitant need for adjustment in their attitude. It used to be that the willful rejection of an even slightly defcient suitor was in keeping with their prosperity and reputation as members of an old and established household. But extravagance (their father had been an ostentatious spender) and mismanagement had taken their toll. Tatsuo, the eldest sister Tsuruko’s husband, who had become head of the family after their father died, discovered the deceased man’s business to have been heavily in debt. It was Tatsuo ultimately, against “loud” protests from his sisters-in-law, who had taken the decisive step to sell the shop. Worried about his responsibility as family heir, he had chosen what for him would be the safer, more familiar course—to stay in banking. Oddly, it was also Tatsuo, austere, retired, almost timid, who had taken up the cause (apropos the Makioka’s new lowered standards) of fnding Yukiko a husband. 39 East_Wind_text .indd 39 1/23/07 11:02:09 PM �One of the executives in Tatsuo’s bank had acted as the go-between. The candidate was heir to a wealthy family, himself an executive of a bank in a provincial city. Though Tatsuo knew Yukiko was loath to leave Kobe, her wishes on this score were too irrelevant to be taken seriously. (In his opinion, the provinces suited her shy, non-urbane ways.) Since the two banks corresponded, Tatsuo was privy to all the information he needed concerning the man’s character, fnances, and social position, which was, if anything, a little too high for the current standing of the Makiokas. Yukiko, however, had not been predisposed to approve of a choice by the very brother-in-law who, in selling the family’s business, had behaved in a way that violated (she was certain) her dead father’s wishes. What’s more, she had found the man countrifed. Yukiko didn’t need her degree from a ladies’ seminary to spot his lack of breeding. She would be quite unable to respect him. Rather than saying so directly, she hemmed and hawed, giving vague answers that could be taken to mean anything. Tatsuo, conveniently, had taken her reticence to mean that she was not hostile to the proposal. So that when, in the end, she said a fat “No—the fellow lacks an intelligent face,” Tatsuo was stunned. He privately suspected her of deliber40 East_Wind_text .indd 40 1/23/07 11:02:09 PM �ately trying to embarrass him (a grave misreading of Yukiko’s nature). Yukiko was happiest when allowed to live out her life in the household of her second oldest sister, Sachiko. Their Kobe home was modern and casual and Etsuko, her niece, thrived on the exclusive ministerings of her cultured aunt. In some ways Yukiko was closer to Etsuko and a better “mother” to her than Sachiko (which fact Sachiko recognized and was grateful for). Forever useful here, Yukiko dreaded being called to the Main House in Osaka, where her brother-in-law and Tsuruko periodically got it in their heads that she more properly belonged. She also dreaded the increasingly infrequent miai arranged on her behalf by an assortment of matchmakers. She said nothing of course. Silently she participated in one after another. They seemed frequent because of her mortifcation at being paraded before the unappreciative—her delicate, slender, old-world beauty was not what was wanted (therefore placing her in the demeaning position of entertaining rejection by her cultural inferiors) as well as the fact that they jeopardized her present living arrangement, which privately she found most satisfactory. To her credit, Sachiko, determined to fnd a man who preferred, nay, who would downright insist on, a woman of 41 East_Wind_text .indd 41 1/23/07 11:02:09 PM �Yukiko’s calibre, ardently defended her. But as time wore on, a promising candidate weakened even Sachiko’s integrity. Ironically it was Sachiko’s lively presence, her more accessible beauty, that dwarfed Yukiko’s more subdued one. Indeed the younger sister appeared, beside her ever-bright elder, a bit moody. Recently a faint spot, a mere shadow that came and went in cycles, was showing itself over Yukiko’s left eye. Sachiko and Teinosuke were worried it would negatively affect the opinion of a new prospect that had been found through the good offces of Itani, their hairdresser. (Sachiko, knowing Itani’s fondness for arranging marriages, had left Yukiko’s photograph with her.) Itani, it turned out, had sent the picture to a man she’d heard about but hadn’t heard back from for so long, she’d nearly forgotten him. Later she had learned he was busy investigating Yukiko’s background. Itani meanwhile had gleaned the following about the man: 1) He was an offce worker at M.B. Chemical Industries, a French company. 2) He lived with his mother in a small house that he had purchased some time ago by installment. 3) Though he was over forty, he looked younger. 4) He had never been married. (This was the biggest plus. The Makiokas had more or less given up hope of fnding a previously unmarried man. Also that he might 42 East_Wind_text .indd 42 1/23/07 11:02:10 PM �know French was of interest.) 5) His photograph had revealed a plain enough person, a middling offce worker—one could tell at a glance. 6) His income accordingly was moderate—what one might expect. Segoshi had actually managed to spend a few moments alone with Yukiko at the hasty miai that had been conducted. When he later requested a second interview (just with her), she hadn’t refused, which was uncharacteristic of her, nor had she objected to an x-ray and skin examination when at one point the question of the strange mark over her eye had become the focus of attention. Though she revealed by not the slightest quiver her true feelings on the matter, her docility—could this in itself be an indication that even Yukiko was concerned about spinsterhood? How seriously had she taken the old adage “bad luck chases women born in the year of the ram”? Segoshi’s investigations were completed and he was anxious to move forward, but the Main House in Osaka, for some reason, dallied. Itani was relentless and Sachiko in turn grew impatient with the Main House. She watched herself become more and more hopeful that this time the negotiations would succeed. With a little distance and greater objectivity, 43 East_Wind_text .indd 43 1/23/07 11:02:10 PM �however, she realized that their very desire for a match (out of all proportion to what they could reasonably expect) had the perverse effect of dazzling them, heightening their excitement. Was a contract with this man really suitable? The check-andbalance system provided by the two houses, much as she resisted it—the slowness especially—had its advantages. Finally a call had come from Tsuruko. “It’s a good thing we took our time,” she began. “It seems that the mother, whom we were told had palsy, is in fact mentally ill. She doesn’t even recognize her own son.” Sachiko understood. A strain of insanity in Segoshi’s blood posed an insurmountable diffculty. He would have to be refused. “There is nothing to be done, Yukiko,” Sachiko consoled her, gently enough. 44 East_Wind_text .indd 44 1/23/07 11:02:10 PM �the tiger begins to roam East_Wind_text .indd 45 1/23/07 11:02:10 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 46 1/23/07 11:02:10 PM �It is possible that a full understanding of what happened in those few hours on the train to the hot spring would diminish its meaning. And that would be a shame. For Shimamura’s idle life lacked meaning (reading along she knew he knew it—it was some small shred of meaning in search of which he made his solitary trips). It had occurred so unexpectedly, in transit, time usually hazed away. Hindsight, however, and distance had set the incident in bold relief. His frst trip to the snow country had been in the summer. As he left Tokyo, he remembered, his wife had cautioned him that it was egg-laying season for moths. Indeed there were moths—large corncolored ones under the eaves clinging to a decorative lantern. In his dressing room also a queer-looking moth lay motionless, seemingly glued to the screen. Against the crimson glow of the mountain ranges, its gossamer wings futtered in the wind. Transfxed, Shimamura had rubbed his hand vigorously over the inside of the screen. When the moth hadn’t moved, he’d struck the screen with his fst. Sure enough it loosened and, like a leaf, wafted to the ground. On his return (it had been December) he was startled to see the stationmaster’s face stuffed inside a muffer, the faps of his cap turned down over his 47 East_Wind_text .indd 47 1/23/07 11:02:10 PM �ears. As soon as the train pulled up at the signal stop, a girl, who had been sitting on the other side of the car, opened the window in Shimamura’s section and called to him loudly. Shimamura found himself unavoidably involved in their conversation, as if some critical piece of drama whose every nuance pertained to him were being acted out for his beneft. Perhaps it was in part the contrast between her beauty and the desolation of the border range that so entranced him. This region of Japan, which he had chosen both for its remoteness and its hot springs (whose geisha, he reasoned, would protect him from excessive loneliness), was reputed to be the snowiest in the world. Throughout the winter, cold winds from Siberia picked up moisture over the Japan Sea and dropped it as snow when they struck the central mountain range. Frozen blankets spread endlessly over the bleak horizon. With little to relieve the monotony, one’s life, hibernal, seemingly divorced from time, might easily sink into an undifferentiated darkness. What registered with Shimamura after the girl drew herself back from the window was not so much the brightness of her voice as the pathos conveyed by it. Her concern apparently was for her brother who, though hardly more than a boy, was living and 48 East_Wind_text .indd 48 1/23/07 11:02:10 PM �working in this town. The stationmaster seemed to know them both. Possibly because of the cold, he was trying to cut the conversation short, while the girl, sounding urgent, pressed for details of her brother’s welfare. Shimamura couldn’t tell if she was hurt by the stationmaster’s curtness or simply, in her own excitement, hadn’t noticed it. In either case she had struck him as sad. Was it sadness then that attracted him? When she was seated, his view of her, depending as it did on a combination of the shifting light (both inside and outside the train) and the image of her cast by the partially steamed window-glass, was illusive. From her place, across the aisle and one section removed, she would have had no way of guessing that she was being observed. Even had she happened to glance his way, she could not have seen her own refection and would have no reason to question the behavior of a man who appeared to be staring out the window at the countryside. Since she was diagonally opposite to him, Shimamura knew he could just as easily have looked at her directly. A certain quality in her beauty—starkly cool, ferce, unreal—warned him against this. As if her purpose, karmic and foreboding, was to mirror something in himself that he preferred not to see. 49 East_Wind_text .indd 49 1/23/07 11:02:10 PM �Truly odd was his awareness, on the one hand, of the suffering implied by her close connection with her traveling companion, an invalid, someone to whom she seemed mysteriously bound, and on the other, of the fact that his reaction to the two of them was as it would have been to a dreamlike pantomime (the distortion of them produced by the window’s glare indeed lent them an otherworldly quality) rather than as one would expect it to be toward human beings in pain. Her overearnestness—both with the sick man (her constant ministrations—rearranging his scarf and the bottom of his overcoat that slipped open again and again so that even he, Shimamura, grew impatient) as well as earlier with the stationmaster—aroused in his imagination a ritualized fgure from an old romantic tale where powerful feelings were metaphoric rather than an ordinary woman in the throes of anguish. He found it deeply disturbing that this inability (for he had come to consider it a kind of inability, having observed like failures in feeling in himself on numerous previous occasions) was being held up for him to watch. Shimamura continued to peer out the glass. Streaks of red fushed the evening sky casting an eerie shadow over the terrain. Equally eerie and superimposed on his window view of the reddish landscape were the incandescent fgures of the girl and the invalid. The silhouettes, though not motionless, held 50 East_Wind_text .indd 50 1/23/07 11:02:10 PM �their position in the frame created by the window, while the landscape, a kind of unmitigated emotion, droned steadily past them. When he relaxed his gaze, it seemed as if the mountains had been cut off by the outline of the refected forms (progressing around them), but when he made a conscious effort to look, peering into their flmlike shapes, he could see that the vista was actually whizzing through them. It almost stopped his breath, this furtive glimpse of what might be their inner emotional reality. When a light somewhere out in the mountains coruscated in the center of the girl’s face, then moved across her face shooting a single ray through the pupil of her eye, for that moment her eye became a weirdly glowing phosphorescent jewel on a sea of scarlet. Shimamura, mesmerized by the inexpressible beauty of it, came to forget that he was confronting a mirror. The girl’s face and the dim mountains melted together into a symbolic world of opaque coldness. 51 East_Wind_text .indd 51 1/23/07 11:02:11 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 52 1/23/07 11:02:11 PM �magpies nest East_Wind_text .indd 53 1/23/07 11:02:11 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 54 1/23/07 11:02:11 PM �She didn’t know what she felt reading about Yuji Nakamura, whose bum knee kicked in as he ran the second and longest leg of the 130-mile Hakone Ekiden relay. He’d hobbled and grimaced until his coach fnally said, “You’re out!” His entire squad was disqualifed. His teammates, wearing yellow sashes of dishonor, had run their paces to the end. Fifteen 10-member, all-male squads from Japanese universities compete in the grueling New Year’s Day race. Water is permitted once each relay leg, roughly at 10 kilometers (the halfway point). Millions line the asphalt route from downtown Tokyo to the resort town of Hakone. Millions more watch the race from their homes. While there are no superheroes in the ekiden (a superhuman performance by one runner will not guarantee a win), anyone who lets the team down shoulders an overwhelming responsibility. A runner who gets sick, injured or for any reason fails to complete his “leg” often fnds that the race haunts him forever, ruining his career, even his life. Historical failures are dredged up annually on television and in magazines. Nakamura considered suicide. “I was so sad, had so many regrets and was in shock because I’d done 55 East_Wind_text .indd 55 1/23/07 11:02:11 PM �something from which I could never redeem myself,” he’d said. While ekidens are now run all over the world (with races tailored for high schoolers, professional squads and so forth), the Hakone Ekiden, journalists say, borders on the sadistic. One leg is up a paralyzing hill. The next, coming down, is brutal on the knees. Runners battle snow, ice, heavy wind, freezing rain and don’t give up, for there are no substitutions once the race starts. They will kill themselves delivering the tasuki even one second faster. If any runner falls more than 10 minutes behind the leader, the entire team forfeits. A disqualifed team automatically forfeits its berth in the following year’s race. “I must not stop—even if I die,” is the feeling of most runners. Doryoku (effort)—an end in itself—is said to be the ultimate motivation. The philosophy stresses endless training, dedication, team-spirit, obedience and selfsacrifce. Instead of letting athletes quit when they tire, coaches turn up the heat, continuing to drill to the point of exhaustion. “Gambare!” (fght harder) fans scream, cheering runners on. Which ratchets up the pressure. When marathoner Kokichi Tsuburaya won a bronze medal, he apologized for letting his country down. 56 East_Wind_text .indd 56 1/23/07 11:02:11 PM �waters and swamps are thick and hard East_Wind_text .indd 57 1/23/07 11:02:11 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 58 1/23/07 11:02:11 PM �Reading The Sound of the Mountains by the Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata had brought to her attention the fact that she was more impressionable than she’d thought. The degree to which the characters in the book wrestled inside her—for days a part of her consciousness remained absorbed and distracted—was quite alarming. Shingo, for example, age 62, around whom the story revolved, held the image of a girl, now dead, to whom he was attracted in his youth, closer to his heart than the members of the family he had borne by marrying her considerably less handsome sister. As a result of his passivity, the marriages of both his children were fawed. Even now, as head of the family, he ought to intervene on their behalf, yet time goes by and he does nothing. As wanton acts of his grandchildren caused the death or near death of others, his own part in it shocked and immobilized him. The cumulative effect, for example, of his preference for his son, out-and-out favoring him over his disappointingly homely daughter, pointed an accusing fnger toward him, Shingo, in the lunatic behavior of his daughter’s even homelier offspring. This understanding arose not so much as a thought but as a gradual accretion whittling away at his conscience. For days now, like Shingo, she had felt a mounting disparity between her actions and her confdence. 59 East_Wind_text .indd 59 1/23/07 11:02:11 PM �Repercussions of one’s smallest deed, she realized (and can an interchange with another ever be considered small?), reverberate to infnity. There is only one opportunity to exert control, and that is over the initial idea. One must be vigilant about one’s state of mind, and she wondered if she had the energy. “Merely thinking these things does nothing,” she muttered out loud as she straightened the house, fuffng the pillows and emptying the wastebaskets. “That is precisely what Shingo does!” * “The way the human beings carry out each others’ unconscious lives can be staggering,” she mused as she toted a rather light load of groceries home from the grocery store. “Shuichi, for example, newly married to sweet and lovely Kikuko, blatantly goes out on her. Meanwhile, his father, scrupulous even in his dreams about remaining faithful to his homely wife, has longed for her sister, who died at the peak of intense, and, for Shingo, compelling, beauty. It was the sister he had wanted to marry and one supposes that it was the gesture to remain connected with her that after her death he married her less attractive sibling. Even the memories of her that he and Yasuko share Shingo remains silent about. Thus he presents himself as someone who long ago cared, 60 East_Wind_text .indd 60 1/23/07 11:02:11 PM �whereas in truth, the image of Yasuko’s beautiful sister is rarely far from his mind. Was it on the altar of the palpable though well-manicured passion of the father that the son sacrifced the fdelity of his own marriage vows, not really understanding this, not really choosing, and not really being chastised by his father, who on some level ‘got’ that this was an enactment of his own unfnished emotional business, however inept and aborted? Kinu, the other woman, of lower class and education, exacted the greatest authority. Helpless though she was to change the misguided circumstances of her husband’s death, when it came to Shuichi, she was pretty much the master, at times fagrantly so.” * It would be easy to criticize Shingo for his procrastination. His wife certainly did. Yet one sees in her very criticism a shortsightedness that is pitiful. Shingo’s paralysis, indeed sometimes it did seem to take these proportions, objectively was inexcusable, yet he had found himself using this very term, paralysis, regarding his son’s moral and emotional life. Shingo, unable to move forward, was at least the more conscientious. With information surging through him at such a pace, immobility was fortitude. Taking action before one is ready forecloses 61 East_Wind_text .indd 61 1/23/07 11:02:11 PM �and thereby stunts. “It can actually be cowardly,” she was thinking out loud. The connection between action and cowardliness (which heretofore she had associated with inaction) startled her. 62 East_Wind_text .indd 62 1/23/07 11:02:12 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 63 1/23/07 11:02:12 PM �East Wind Melts the Ice & Other Stories was set in Minion, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and frst issued in digital form by Adobe Systems, Mountain View, California, in 1989. Typesetting & production: Claudia Smelser. Printing & binding: Lightning Source, Inc. East_Wind_text .indd 64 1/23/07 11:02:12 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 65 1/23/07 11:02:12 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 66 1/23/07 11:02:12 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 67 1/23/07 11:02:12 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 68 1/23/07 11:02:12 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 69 1/23/07 11:02:12 PM �East_Wind_text .indd 70 1/23/07 11:02:12 PM � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gail Sher Collection Subject The topic of the resource Sher, Gail, 1942- Poetry -- United States Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sher, Gail, 1942- Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-PC011 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Author’s Note East Wind Melts the Ice Doves Spread Their Wings Earthworms Come Out The Butcherbird is Silent The Eaglehawk Studies and Learns Swallows Return Bu rrowing Beetles Wall Up Their Doors with Earth The Tiger Begins to Roam Magpies Nest Waters and Swamps are Thick and Hard Extent The size or duration of the resource. 80 p Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. LIB-PC011 Language A language of the resource eng poetry publications SherPublications https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/d38c970e37f79f798da81aee906cef20.pdf 132b2cdbd115b5eca74075d8edfbcfc5 PDF Text Text though actually it is the same earth �also by gail sher Prose Writing the Fire: Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive • 2006 The Intuitive Writer: Listening to Your Own Voice • 2002 One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers • 1999 From a Baker’s Kitchen • 1984/2004 poetry The Haiku Masters: Four Poetic Diaries • 2008 Who: A Licchavi • 2007 Calliope • 2007 old dri’s lament • 2007 The Coper Pheasant Ceases Its Call • 2007 East Wind Melts the Ice • 2007 Watching Slow Flowers • 2006 DOHA • 2005 RAGA • 2004 Once There Was Grass • 2004 redwind daylong daylong • 2004 Birds of Celtic Twilight: A Novel in Verse • 2004 Look at That Dog All Dressed Out in Plum Blossoms • 2002 Moon of the Swaying Buds • 2001 Lines: The Life of a Laysan Albatross • 2000 Fifty Jigsawed Bones • 1999 Saffron Wings • 1998 One bug . . . one mouth . . . snap! • 1997 Marginalia • 1997 La • 1997 Like a Crane at Night • 1996 Kuklos • 1995 Cops • 1988 Broke Aide • 1985 Rouge to Beak Having Me • 1983 (As) on things which (headpiece) touches the Moslem • 1982 From Another Point of View the Woman Seems to be Resting • 1981 �though actually it is the same earth Gail Sher Q night crane press 2008 �Copyright 2008, Gail Sher All rights reserved. Night Crane Press 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 435 Emeryville, California 94608 No part of this publication my be reproduced or transmitted in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner and publisher. isbn: 978–0-9794721-4-5 �For Brendan ��order of dreams Rat 1 Cow 9 Tiger 19 Hare 27 Dragon 35 Snake 43 Horse 51 Sheep 59 Monkey 67 Bird 75 Dog 87 Pig 95 ��Rat ��Rat Dream An old woman is born. Her hair dries and her mother thinks, I have been her mother again. Might the woman’s nature leave? Rats scurry from baskets, which are old baskets, hexagonal fields. A night bird sleeps. Its dreams are down to its feet. Which you say is the bird’s body before the skill of the bird’s body. Its wings lay flat in the smell of new grass. 3 �Commentary A quality of him, home words say, is the same as the man speaking. I already have that person, I think because his blood is smooth also. My blood is smooth also. A person moves, effortfully or effortlessly, and she thinks, Is this a waste or not? She thinks it is bliss but thinks it is her feeling bliss. 4 �Is filigree air, like in the rats’ playpen? What can hold between a feeling and a queer girl child whose boots tips curl in shame? I am really talking about rifts, what holds between her fear and the rats’ miserable-life fragility. There would be an object connected to my playing, like saying playing, as though words are desire. The likelihood of death browsing itself into my death could occur and I think, O yes. It is death! 5 �Each word has a flower. The times of the flowers converge so that she conflates words and flowers, speaking flowers. Pansies in sun beneath the red breast of a robin, here and there, merge with the robin’s legs. A duck in scattered ripples darkens. Snow falls, resting in a petal’s shell. An infant puts a flower in its mouth. The muscles of its mouth move by the flower’s warmth. 6 �Rats kneel to her and in her mind become true rats. The weight of the snow is heavier than words, heavier than stone, she marvels. Is the Christ child born of air, through holes in the air? For the blood on snow is real transferred blood, alive in the mind of the boy. The beauty of a rat depends from its limbs. Snow folds and the boy becomes its eyes. 7 ��Cow 9 ��Cow Dream A double flower begins in the folds of an infant’s hands. If you see its face, which is the fruition of your knowing, it may be a small, infinitesimal aspect of knowing. The fetus is standing, someone says. She imagines her hands under its armpits. She spreads it on leaves, which look like artist’s hands. Wrapping purple leafy fingers around its bits of unborn life, she climbs a person inside the lark’s mouth. 11 �The fetus shines and she takes it to school. The forest is ill, she says. Anything tall makes my blood quiet. A series of events moves in one direction only, like trees taller than sky. A woman sees a bird and thinks something about its eyes. A clean, fresh feeling becomes that feeling regardless of her initial sense of affection for the bird. Roots are veins ripening in her body though still hot as coal. This is why a bird’s cool blood is the most delightful fowl quality. 12 �Commentary In the ether of white my baby fumigates. The flavor of her skin holding a flower to her nose. Each particle is a bud and inside the bud’s head. Flower and water are protectors, with the net feeling of white, as if a lotus absolves its entire color into her. I made my baby backwards, I say. I am trying to remember if the long lowered arm vibrates. 13 �Trying to recall time, my baby, offing of morning fields. Young rocks sit like cows in sovereign pasture squares. Or you may instantly be the baby’s wisdom mother, the stronghold of you and your baby going somewhere pretty. A spider’s thin web zigzags into sky, whereupon the sky’s dimensions shift. 14 �If you appear, my image of you shifts. Not having readiness for a person shifts the mind in which the potential person exists. Which shifts the language creating that person. I translate you to being in and out of your presence and the translation is like your presence within the boundary of a word. When you appear, the interior land shifts making sounds like stones. A spider’s thin web zigzags into sky, whereupon the sky’s dimensions shift. 15 �Later you say, a spider drowned, juxtaposing your seeing with what you recall. But one imagines tall black trees or a cow that hangs in privy to the cow. If I see the cow with you, but if I see the cow alone, we have to know where it exists. If a cow eats air, the air still exists. 16 �Each and every cow jumps over the moon properly. Meaning is the experience of one cow, before dawn, slowly traversing the earth. A falling star holds up the whole earth, so that its drop is a pin-prick against water or color. It is my mother born from my body, I’m thinking, while at the same time seeing faces of other relatives. 17 ��Tiger 19 ��Tiger Dream Sun from behind the mountain falling on the threshers and reflecting from the lake gains depth from the sound of falling. The sound of water over stones at the lake’s edge is like a darting bird. If she wakes, she couldn’t say the bird disappears, but its breath dissolves, like an undertow at sea. How igneous (fiery) and lucid are the bodies of tigers, she muses. 21 �Commentary Each day the sun slips over the crest of the hill and lights the yellow grass. A cat climbs the hill as though dawn were in its head, entwining pieces (petals in branches). A day-moon slides below low tide. Fall-out from one’s skin protects it from further harm. Tide emits tide as she wanders down the coast, empty as a battered jug. 22 �A woman carries a jug dexterously embroidered on silk. The woman’s skin shines like the interior pink of a river. The dimensions of the jug’s magenta is implicit yet exacting. Out is not a direction but an aspect of conference around the jug’s battered aggregates. Bringing yellow out, where out is a structure of color and light, intensifies out, as if its DNA changes. 23 �There is an hour in which her memory will be there, where light falls in rain on a tiger’s flickering head. A stone woman prays, hearing sun in sun. (She dreams its precise nest.) A magenta flower glows so that I feel free at last. A magenta flower glows, disappearing in its skin. Light jumps back as if she has that person again. 24 �Death is color-added-to-color. Color learns color by touch, like the feel of rain from one’s bed. What if the occurrence of harm refers to the difficulties of offering the harm? In the broad space of an animal, a wound in a woman’s thumb feels like embroidery of jasmine and honeysuckle. The necessity of something and its form is the tiger sleeping, tail to tail, in tandem with something. 25 ��Hare 27 ��Hare Dream An angel glides silently through air to where the child Christ sleeps. He sees her as a crow, wings folded, watching. A blue flower in the wing of a bird hovering near the birth, is not in the bird, since it fluctuates in light, while the bird remains unchanged. In my mind there is a bed where I drop off. Christ and hare both slip through my mind and land where a hare might or where someone needs something. 29 �Commentary The bird whose markings fluctuate remains unchanged independent of its visibility. Yet her girlishness has continuity. Limbs jumbled in the corner are still free limbs, I’m thinking. All the animals are resting. I know them from the inside as if they have said, and their word is a death-rattle. A golden crow or laughter is said to be a paradigm of activity then. 30 �So there are words, then under-words. Black words like a river so that her thoughts, pummeled, are the hard thoughts of stone people. They burn a branch of all their people, then turn to ash. Am I the person? I am the person. I decide I must be the person. 31 �While a glistening star holds night within its skin, a twinkling star has no interior where night can sit. So she lays with the animals whose foreheads quiver. So many ducks and goats being causes, songs where voices are tongues. Sweet air sweeps the ragged flowers. Sweet air sweeps her hair. (Winnowing its hair is also an object.) 32 �The beauty of the straw in the wake of a bird flown away. As if the whole world encased in shadowbrought-to-bear-upon-a-field stops the straw in time. I’m thinking time occurs separate from the straw, beside the straw, and in its looseness is neither created nor destroyed. Seeing something against time, as if time were oldfashioned. A shoe, for example, is eligible to loss. To be dead again, in the simplicity of its skin. I hear a leaf and think it is in the well, so we are together. 33 ��Dragon 35 ��Dragon Dream It is just beyond her body to sleep with him. It is just beyond her body not to sleep with him. This is the moral of a little play. There is a lodge. A young girl is invited into the main room. She is black with very bushy hair, dressed in a silver princess costume, carrying a wand. She comes in and behaves very sweetly to a guest but her parents think she is faking her sweetness and really being sassy so they ask her to leave and come in again, this time being genuinely sweet. So she comes in again behaving slightly differently. Each of the two times signifies a different moral. 37 �Commentary A doll talks and if she’s a tall doll, in dependence on a listener, her presence will not disperse far. Her body covers her life as if it were a cast. Mop-like braids fall to her waist. If I were a Cyclops forging thunderbolts, I too would be being born she posits. A man binds his mind so that it doesn’t scatter. He tucks it between his breasts. How have you left your mind before? someone asks, speaking politely. 38 �After long rain a man leans on a gate. Hair-thin legs race along the rim. A disappearing chirp has appearance, like its body is young yet forever carried in its old mother’s womb. For her presence gives also. Her feet and ears also. She grabs her limb dangling in the breeze like a cocoon. 39 �Cobwebs in sun are strings of pure time dangling in a breeze. Cobwebs in shade land, decrepit before time, cave into time. Part goes up. So that time feels like war. Another portion rolls into air—holding air, lighting day back. 40 �A whoosh of wings feels like an effigy, some sort of charcoal beast fluffing its feathers, eating sky with upturned beak. If what is visible close by is remote, vast visibility, I inhabit my thoughts more fully. Inside is a stage whereas outside is somatic. A great slaughter of beings is contained within their death. As if a holocaust is found, as if future beings trip. Sky washes sky as I watch a dragon fade, wings rubbed by sky’s shadows. 41 ��Snake 43 ��Snake Dream A woman seeing an animal sees it belly-to-earth raised above the earth so that it floats on a small peninsula. A python, like a bladder, coagulates the sludge, eating so much sludge. Light from its eyes shoot out little tails of fire and she wonders why its death seems so friendly. It dies on the highway ’cause it’s slow, someone says, thinking of sand. It vanishes in squares, as if striations of sunlight are old. 45 �Commentary My mother is dead. How could she have forgotten her shoe? (A hazy memory of a dream where I’m a colorful bird’s tail.) She sees the bird hop and its hop disappears into the tail of the bird, into the tails of her children. Here is a whole bird, she thinks, its tail discrete like a discrete word. If one dies, among birds, a red-winged bird is heavier in its body then. 46 �Caught in her own heirloom of light, a woman sleeps in distension of moments that appear to be there. Old birds swarm. Quadrilles of people (fitting the crate around the edges of her body). Immersing herself in a log. Some say she is that thing, as if she hops inside it. Mother, I am blind, I say. Your pink toes reveal nothing any more. 47 �A yellow fowl touches logs contingent with animals who knew the logs as sky. Of previous people drawn on the backs of stooped women. She felt she was that woman. That her yellow earth bloomed in the night oil. Afterwards there are leap years then. Like fields of potatoes. A child hops, square to square, with her own convergent yellowness. 48 �The emotion of yellow, say in meat or chirps. The same level of color in the blank place of sky is like borders in sky mirroring the bottom of her eyes. Is it painted? a child asks. Her sewn face has alterity and depth. Pink is here and you are sure of the color. Before being born, grass is this color. To bring back sky, it pulls the sky so that sky folds comfortably over everybody. 49 ��Horse 51 ��Horse Dream Where is day? someone asks, and I see the twin nature of black, oil of black, mountains stark and wet. Pearls seem brown like the bottom of the sea. I whisper something and the animal’s ear flicks. So she lets her leg give this impression, a pearl in the dark, in the blue of its stomach’s shell. The mare’s perch is illuminated because blood and ecstasy are to birth like an underlying river. 53 �Air rushes in, steadying my mind. Your words are my mother, I’m thinking. Long legs curl around a shriveled coil of knees. An insect wanders off. It’s a baby I see and my heart breaks for its infinite slow old non-knowing of direction. Just get through the line. Get to the yellow snow. To the bridge where you can puke. There. To cut yourself out. 54 �Commentary The sky frames your face and all the different skies. You’re the crow against the sky or quadrants of an insect’s shell from the perspective of sky. The place of you is like the essence of your eyes. So you’re blind, sort of, and another person sees the tension of that space, the acoustic opacity in that space. 55 �She may know a sound but if she turns, it becomes a measure of far and near distance. I wear sound, someone says. (The slimy pearls are the physical sensation of womb.) The woman’s space, lighted by sagebrush, transcends the confines of a life, though it can pull life toward it without abrading its transcendence. She wants it to be white, like space in a word’s world. 56 �Pearls are steam. The lug of its knee or inside the beast’s thigh. She may see blossoms, a sprig, or she may see pearls as old mothers marching. The blue horseman is blue light, though we’re, through it, seeing death. On a bodice is a pony, which drips into me, until things become small, but they still die. 57 �Watching-minds twist to a cumulative suicide. A windhorse flies but it is still still, asking me. My daughter is young. I see her climb inside the windhorse, her long fore-fingernail painted with geese. I determine to seek them, over the hedge, inside the parts where it hurts the most. They only read lips in the blinding darkness, cries a priest from behind a screen. 58 �Sheep 59 ��Sheep Dream I have a memory of green, in a hole, in a moon’s crater called the bottom of the pitcher. A woman fills the hole with crenellated wings. I admire the wings so she cuts off a piece and hands it to me. A man’s voice held anterior to its space makes his presence real. I’m not cold, someone says. Is cold an image like young sea blossoms, purple flowers just above eye level? 61 �Commentary I recall seeing myself in a dream with the sensation of something touching my toe-bottoms. The dream includes a variety of skin sizes. Certain shapes whose edges contain sky, I clearly remember in my hand. The skin of a lamb is irreducible, like the skin of day bound by fleshy rock and sand. A day may not be prior to itself, happening alongside each and every event of breath. 62 �Shells on the cowboy’s coral hat are new surprising shells, shiny, polished, with no sea showing. I forget the boundary of possible seashells while holding the thought of their appearing in my spine. An appearance occurs against an old barn door. All stags as they are burnished beat their heads dry against some tree or other. The parity of their body is the parity of voicelessness. 63 �Flinging off his gossamer, hanging it up to dry, dancing about the pan, drinking the pan. The memory of the color green is tinged with repeated time like little beats with a glove. So I learn green. Whose solemnity is sky (view as, say, sky). I look at green and become an old woman. 64 �I chew green and the rich saliva gifted by him. Is a tenet of color, a primer once left off. As if the person were a taste congealing inside her very own wisdom. I drift within its skin, an opaque membrane of light, allowing pale color to metastasize. 65 ��Monkey 67 ��Monkey Dream A flesh-colored pear is with the heaviness of birth. I look into its head wanting an immaculate black stick. The pear tree has birds arranged in its branches artistically. Here are flowering birds, whose trees spin into air, her feeling for the blossoms, sharp as thaw. Monkeys race, seemingly, though it could be bones rolling and disappearing. 69 �Commentary How the weight of a bird hopping along a fence, a tiny bird new to appearing, not yet carrying the birdness of its mother. The more anchored the mind, the more an appearance weighs nothing. Light is bone. Think recumbent, dead-seeming, like an animal playing but really guarding beings. Fossilized wings show the giant wingspan of an early species. 70 �If a bird eats a worm or if it turns its head, an animal sniffs age, sees age in the pattern of its feathers’ colors. Cells of color leak, wandering over the wing’s rough neck. The flesh of the bird appears in its hop, its last place of hop, what’s possible before lifting off. An animal gauges the belly of the hop trying to determine the feasibility of killing its hop’s dark past. 71 �A young bird stares and something birdlike travels upwards. A mud-colored bird blurs into mud throbbing there in her mind asleep. You could say she wears feathers and the feathers unfold like a resplendent bird catching its reflection in sky. You could say there are rivers, battalions of orange light. A child spears light, ravishing light laid out as in death. 72 �Seeing the feather of the bird through a branch in noon sun, one remains in the bird and is swung, like through an opening in sky. So that there is both the bird, belly like an urn, and the bird so saturated with birdness that it is unseen against its own background. A group of feathers on the same bird, for example, are separate and distinct yet we think of them as the bird’s feathers. The arm of the bird is crooked. In skinniness in sky. Distance is its face in the resting sky. 73 ��Bird 75 ��Bird Dream Three birds move in air as blue as water in a dream. Three branch-colored birds land on a branch in the borderland of the bird’s robe. Behind the songs of birds he fingers a chip. Is it thin? Without the chip’s color? Seeing its form as a bird, first eagerly then angrily, the way beauty through a gap in sky breaks into two whole containers of sky. 77 �Commentary i An ebony feather shines, its blackness steely, like the hard black knuckle of a bird. A discarded feather, arched like a fish, rests on the earth, its magnificent bow gleaming. Sun-black birds hover over sea, so that black is both inside and the holder of itself. Or like sea repairs to sea, wraps bird and sea into something apocryphal. 78 �The time of the bird is ideal, you say, by which you mean supremely excellent time and I think, Are time’s qualities measurable? If it were touchable, the parts of a person might organize around it, like one’s senses congeal around a smell. Bird clouds drift. Sky too seems to be drifting but it is still, I assure myself. I am comforted thinking the sky is still. 79 �Time enters the wing of a bird where the colors break between blue and very dark blue. An animal waits allowing time to sway between its belly and inhabited spot on earth. It limps, she thinks, though it is a genuine limp, with each and every particle of limp belonging to it specifically. In a certain angle of sun she is able to see the limp passing to a future animal at a similar spot on the hill. 80 �Are the birds girls? The impact of sound makes slowness material while its direction is immaterial. Saying it is less like looking than a cloven foot with little clea’s or talons. And maybe she is that or maybe her body is simply the thought of a bird-filled body. Later I dream the three birds are crying. Fingers of hair blow with the wind, my mind observes, referring of course to the talons. 81 �Commentary ii Three bird’s bodies whose bones are like a forest. You know its color from the pure knowledge of color, without seeing its precise color. Lines of light catch the bird. The motility of light critiques the contours of the bird’s beak. Part of the air surrounds a branch where three birds rest. Rays of light touch your back, which, if I touch you then, evaporate. As if the boundary of your back were hidden by your back, but nonetheless yellow, like light in a dream person. 82 �The profile of a bird, in a gold ball rising, shapes a mountain called bird mountain. A crow erupts, turning gold turning curves. I cannot tell a crow from the image of gold feathers somersaulting. The bird’s dream arises from the ground of its own birdness. First moonlight on rushing water, then pink stars like angels, then tree tips in a treacle bar of sky, threading itself through the birds’ raised mouths, beaks pressed apart like lips. A thin sun crawls to earth and is maintained by strong earth, though actually it is the same earth. 83 �How a beaver floats under sky-words. He hears the birds as if gathered together verbally. An end-bird leaves its formation over water. Its blue bowl leaves, rising in sky. Which somehow was known, the way a line is known as beginning here, though, as you say, lines are concepts. How many meanings flow from the bowl into heads that look away? 84 �The robin’s breast is red, you think, yet you are unsure and think maybe it’s a color that contains red but is not red. Caring is present though you cannot find it in the bird’s body. An insect the bird eats enters the bird’s blood. Is its time the same? Likely not, she thinks, since an insect eats and the food slips away. A dragonfly on cloth (conspicuously beautiful) devolves into your eyebrows. 85 ��Dog 87 ��Dog Dream I walk into a meadow and all the dogs’ mouths open. Presences are out who remain unseen and may instantly slip inside. A witch flies out but it is just a stick. Mommy, it’s just a stick! a child cries. A woman tells about her smelling, it being equal to a dog’s when she was pregnant. Crickets chirp in a field of rabid ones. Their intervals are pure, like the pure white flaps that poke from a new bird’s tail. 89 �If a dog is my interior ash force, it romps the hills with butterflies sitting there placidly. If it yawns, behind its tongue are beings sucking flowers, looking like black ghosts. Behind its tongue a world of beings cook. Its unconscious is preserving food, you say, but I think it’s making speech, readying itself for a life. A string of dogs hangs in sky. Daughters of sky gather cobs. Hussies also wear cobs. 90 �Commentary A dog in grass hears a young bird chirp and inches towards it. Hearing, but not seeing, one bird, then a group, early, as if the sky were nothing. Or as if the sky were intelligence, like a presence that the birds knew about, but if you looked there’d be nothing. Another offers food, but I am offering something more gentle, she says. The dog’s belly is in the grass but its ears are inside the hill. 91 �Each day a dog returns to its spot on the hill. Its body rests but its eyes are vagrant. (By vagrant I mean slim—the eyes of a crow on a wire in rain staring at wet grass.) Rain gathers above low hills, like rain in a painting stays mixed here. Like the footprint of the doll, once left in a storm, has neither situation nor destination. Five children laughing pull grass to the river. The air around it blurs, emerging from weather. 92 �A bird and dog move, appropriate to pleatless rivers of air. A bird and dog sit, appropriate to the posture of all birds and dogs, which is genuinely sweet, she guesses. The time of the bird is not the dog’s minute-tominute watching, though the bird hunts from the sides of its eyes. A dog has parts, which each have times, so that a melody of time pervades its movements and posture. 93 �Posture, too, is a way the idea of an act is projected. If it is blue there is a door so you enter the posture, though the light in blue might leave you suddenly. The dimensions of a star are not of a star’s body but are fixed in her, displaced by her movements. She moves and the star achieves its posture. 94 �Pig 95 ��Pig Dream A longshoreman sees night. He looks at his hand. As if night or water or distance were simply depths for the color blue. As if night were still night only very far away. The appearance of the color and its instant of apprehension is nothing more than an action. Before the action the color doesn’t exist. Where does aqua go? she wonders hearing flowers falling, falling where they adhere, into a world of tea. 97 �Commentary I am today again. I fall within time, tall time in a frame of tall pieces of color. A bird’s red wing releases the inside of its color. I look inside. If blue were there, its wing wouldn’t exist. A teapot’s rhythms are cascades of water falling and I imagine that I too am falling, in strands, like a geisha’s hair. Is it the lines or the openings where things recede, emptying themselves out? 98 �Being moved she falls and I’m thinking it’s a young, fluid sort of fall. But air is internal, she thinks. O mother of sky lugging me forward. You break off but I catch you. A voice through fog portends the precise ominous chartreuse where your eyes look out. 99 �When you see blossoms causing a two or three dimensional image to form in space, your eye opens to that space. Space, she thinks, exists, crosses back from where the person was alive. A bloody bird from the beak of a hawk clicks the nature of night. Its cry is her face clothed as a human bird. The blue of a cross pinned to the mountain. 100 �Thoughts divide into lineages of translucency, sun-dazzling corruscancy. I define grow passively. I point to a flower and say, That is a growing flower, unlike its shadow spidering sideways. Now she belongs to an infantry of animals. Packs of pigs form cover near the kraals. For example, a girl thinks the hog, but tells her mother to draw the hog. 101 �����������though actually it is the same earth is set in Minion, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in the spirit of the humanist typefaces of fifteenth-century Venice. Minion was originally issued in digital form by Adobe Systems in 1989. In 1991, Slimbach received the Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale for excellence in type design. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Rat Cow Tiger Hare Dragon Snake Horse Sheep Monkey Bird Dog Pig Extent The size or duration of the resource. 120 p. Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. LIB-PC011 Language A language of the resource eng poetry publications SherPublications https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/a4f18e7039598a914b4a48e3de60bf68.pdf f4d068f9ce22990c1f3cdb735807a184 PDF Text Text D OHA- Doha- (Tibetan): devotional song of experience and realization from the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition of Tibet. Doha-s are meant to “reveal the inner nature of the singer and express her insights and devotion in an uninhibited and unique fashion.” �also by gail sher Prose The Intuitive Writer: Listening to Your Own Voice • 2002 One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers • 1999 From a Baker’s Kitchen • 1984/2004 Poetry RAGA • 2004 Once There Was Grass • 2004 redwind daylong daylong • 2004 Birds of Celtic Twilight: A Novel in Verse • 2004 Look at That Dog All Dressed Out in Plum Blossoms • 2002 Moon of the Swaying Buds • 2002 Lines: The Life of a Laysan Albatross • 2000 Fifty Jigsawed Bones • 1999 Saffron Wings • 1998 One bug . . . one mouth . . . snap! • 1997 Marginalia • 1997 La • 1997 Like a Crane at Night • 1996 Kuklos • 1995 Cops • 1988 Broke Aide • 1985 Rouge to Beak Having Me • 1983 (As) on things which (headpiece) touches the Moslem • 1982 From Another Point of View the Woman Seems to be Resting • 1981 �DOHA GAIL SHER Q night crane press 2005 �Copyright 2005, Gail Sher All rights reserved. Night Crane Press 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 435 Emeryville, California 94608 The text of this book was set in Minion, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach, first issued in digital form by Adobe Systems, Mountain View, California, in 1989. Typesetting and production: Claudia Smelser, Berkeley, California. Printing and binding: Lightning Source, Inc., LaVergne, Tennessee. No part of this publication my be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN: 0–9726115–6–8 �For Brendan ��To My Lama a d z o m pay l o r i n p o c h e For His Unfathomable Kindness Bestow on me your transforming powers To realize quickly the way-things-are. To understand images viewed by the mind Merely as paintings, created by the mind. ��contents Trilogy of Being at Ease 1 At the Snow Mountain of Tö 23 Pigeon of the Mysterious Tree 53 Dawn Mountain 73 Mingling the Threefold Sky 87 a ho a la la ho! Pleasing Playsong I Offer 117 Twelve Kinds of Vajra Laughter 133 ix ��t r i l o g y o f b e i n g at e a s e ��September dawn. I shiver in my blankets. Chamois stems of mustard seed the morning field. Wet earth seethes. Its creatures remain inside. Formations peer through vast bleak space. 3 �Brambles supplicate trees (imbibe their essence). For gods camp in such structures routinely. Each one in its architecture of remittance. Cliffs, clouds, leaves, settle in a pool of haze. 4 �Dawn suggests dawn, other dawns, long past. For time is cavernous at first watch. The hill waits. Birds wait. Gnarly roots accede to delay with grace. My hoya’s waxy flowers fall. Wind gently whisks them away. 5 �A squirrel darts, quivers. What is it sensing? Blue-birds softly moan. The slumbering sky, dead white (pocky). Except for the squirrel, all is still. 6 �* Fruit of the hill (seeding the hill) this ocean morning is vast. Yellow-headed stalks fan the banks of mud. Mist from the night hovers in the trees. I watch sweet dawn get caught. 7 �Of the wind I am jealous. I wish also to swish across the sod. The great plateau, barren and cold, eking its bit of grass. I too want to swallow air, swirl, tumble over each diamond-mind crest. 8 �The seahorse sounds of silver-blue plants. From before-time, its subtle moan. Brambles, reeds, the sad loon’s nightly weeping. Behold! I am everywhere. This makes sense. Every day we do a little bit of wrong. A flower blooms to its full height of beauty, over and over and over. 9 �Hear the conch. Limit not your footsteps. Dazzling reefs, shimmering shells, bedeck and hale their passionate primacy. I offer sweet buttered cheeses, lengths of soft white felt, the skin of a krishnasara antelope. Drifting in this house of froth, my lama reveals yet another treasure. 10 �* Gray-green air soaks the sleepy grass. One dog prowls a narrow chilly street. I and my tablet cozy up by a fire. As I watch the browning dawn fan the nearby hill, a feeling of sadness arises. 11 �For what, I wonder. A forest bird chirps. A bell tolls the hour. Six stern gongs. “Are you attending?” they ask. “It’s important. Pray at once!” 12 �Earth overflows. That’s what day breaks. Do you understand? (Many die confused.) Wandering through the bardo, the endless preserving of fat. I stare at the heavens just now cracked. Where in me is the vision of the great ones? 13 �Centuries ago the sages spoke of decadence. “The pattern has vanished from the skins of tiger heroes,” they said. Now, myrtle, lily, tulips call the guru from afar. Like the reflection of a moon in water, several easily can appear in the same pool. 14 �* Morning buzzes from a dank, cold sky, the sound of dawn, a trilogy. A lone owl hoots. Coo coo coo. Into this huge vault I pour jasmine and pearl (all things white like an ocean of joy). Garlands of rose dangle in the current. 15 �See the underwater fountain-tree plump with fruit, supple and ripe. Whereby my lama smiles. He planted this ancient seed. Within each face he recognizes himself. Swish swish across his vajra throne, his immense white words spill silence. 16 �Take it in. Take it in. Wisdom is but wind swishing through our skull. We humans are special—arise (dissolve) at will. We waft and want from any Pure Land we want. 17 �Ominous clouds suffuse the wooly morning. A robin hovers in a branch, methodically scanning the sea. “It’s inhaling radiant light, exhaling ignorance, as if practicing the Nine Sacred Breaths,” I mutter. I watch for a long time. 18 �* Winter bird. You scurry from your twig. Without a sound. No peeps. No chirps. Freshets are cold. Meadowlands barren. Not one flower shows its laughing face. 19 �Mangy packs nose the refuse. Stillness floats the mind-stream of daybreak’s eternal nostalgia. Later, when the sun is high, heat saturates the void. But as morning opens, this hollow bowl beckons thoughts of former years. 20 �Sky stops. Skimpy air freezes. Mizzle swells the parched wild grass. Pale light seeps through reeds where a Buddha sits under low-lying fronds. Drip drop drip. 21 �Cheer-ip cheer-ip, it says, perkily throbbing the tip of its branch. About to fly, it teeters, stops, then suddenly becomes a cloud. A pack of clouds sail to the west, over the sea, to other dawning days. I am bereft. For a minute I feel quite alone. 22 �at t h e s n o w m o u n ta i n o f t ö ��Flowers quake in the still, cold dawn. Mist, like wool, powders their faces. The sound of day stirs me. (It mauls the silence of night.) Bruised by wind, it reeks the odor of limp, dead bodies. 25 �Dawn divides (day divides). Quickening light bursts through trees. Birds sing and branches become clowns. The hoot of an owl returns me to my mind, which, for a moment, has wandered. Having contact with no one, I practice in pleasant solitudes. 26 �Of myself I make a stupa. I put a life tree in the center, cutting it square, the same way it grew in the wild. On it I write prayers and attach relics (such as I have). Would that I could place dharma wheels at its top. surmounted by a crescent moon and sun like those at the summit of the Great Stupa of Bodhnath. 27 �The face of my mother arises. For weeks she’s been haggard (tired). Suddenly random people remark, “You look so young! Your bronze cheeks shine!” She moves as one who lives alone with the blissgone body of a sugata. 28 �* Day is here, but sun . . . “Where are you sun?” Fog covers the hill, hovering like an umbrella. Birds subdued. Cats, squirrels, deer, all hidden. From upstairs a radio blares. My neighbor yaks away. 29 �Treetops burst. Light droops above the crest. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz purrs the land. Birds seek cover. Gray formations drift. (Cheep cheep cheep from a flatbed of fen.) “What might be the mind of Chöd,” I ask as the sky turns pink. 30 �My hoya sings! (Its sweetness is my lama’s.) We shake minds, laughing (sobbing) hilariously. “Lend me your boots,” I say to it cryptically. “Hum me your sutra,” it replies in a teasing fashion. In summer, when it’s dry, I sweeten my lips with water, knowing that its lips (leaves and flowers) will sip to fruition. 31 �Dregs of night soak into the hill. Green, yellow, blue, they vividly paint the land. “From where does morning arise?” I inquire, peering through the haze. Funny. Sometimes at dawn I am filled with memories. At others (mind relatively passive) strange sensations spread to my heart. 32 �* When Jetsun Mila bends his right ear forward, he attunes to our great agony. Through fingers and toes he breathes. His cotton rags are not precious. His tresses are long. His weathered skin green. What is he doing on this swastika of rushes looking concerned? 33 �Singing, yes. A hundred-thousand verses. They curl like jewels (amulets of thorn). Sifting through clouds, clear-mind of enlightened existence. The Aum of creation (through which we continually regenerate) arises from his astonishing way of knowing. 34 �A wonderland of color wraps desert, valley, plain. Bird-kings by the hords, are gathering, preening, feasting. A coarse jay calls. Ineluctable its grace. Even now, as I remember, I feel joyful. 35 �The swarm, the maze, the miraculous accumulation of voices. “Break the era of ignorance,” they cry. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. They tap the source of His vast ocean-body. Which is our ocean-body, and the ocean-body of our endlessly kind mothers. 36 �* Brilliant sun, high in the sky. It appears to my meditative mind one day at the beginning of spring. I am out on a hill listening to grass. In a cavernous sea, dragon clouds lick one another. 37 �Fiery embers soothed by tongues. (I know that dragons spit hot red flames.) Squawk squawk squawk, my lama shrieks. (He takes the form of a blue-headed jay.) In myself I see my mother’s face. Her eyes peer from these bangs. Her bride-white dress is soiled by time, my time (eons) of endless infinite mothers. 38 �Is she tired? (She is perched aloft a portraiture chair.) “Sit still, lovely.” The cameraman’s head is one black box. A bird chirps. It’s poised to fly away. As when emerging from a narrow gorge onto a high, wide mountain pass, I savor the view of its evenness. 39 �Evergreens with cones, reeds with yellow flowers, all are ripe and cheerful. Yet I, in the day’s auspicious light, feel weary. The ardent limbs of my hoya drop rich purple fruit. A hummingbird pauses (almost tipping itself over). “Hey there, bird!” My hoya bows ever so slightly toward it. 40 �* The air is brisk, sun tinged with orange. One dazzling ray drains across the bluff. Through whose intelligence wraiths of bountifulness speak. “What do they say?” 41 �“We are empty. We rejoice.” (Peels of lightness ring.) Their silence is weighty. Even heady. I chant the hill’s full liturgy, carefully pronouncing each rapturous Sanskrit syllable. Ah ahh, I ii, U u, Ri rii, over and over and over. 42 �Shivering reeds. You have been my mothers, exceedingly kind, protective of me always. Glistening flower, butterfly, bee, waxy petals that fall. A bushy-tailed squirrel surpasses thousands of yojanas. I look out on the bluff. It is brown and quiet. Lama, hear me. Kind root lama. 43 �For faith makes room for magic. “There’s something rolling inside that statue,” I think. Sure enough, when I pry off the metal base, I find a pure white ringsel the size of a large pea. Adamantine glistens on the sides of the Buddha where this beguiling sphere “grows.” 44 �* The echo of the sea slips away. Mother (mother) please don’t go! We will never meet again. This will have been our only meeting. These words slip (slap) over my ears, endlessly. 45 �To excoriate the stars, I scream. To placate clouds, I wail. Clearing my throat, I chant a hundred thousand mantras. In this way my craving dissolves. 46 �The child knows. It wants (it wants) beyond its mother’s understanding. For himself (as he is) in the infinite swirl of motion. What would you like, dear? He can’t be consoled. (She, beside herself with worry.) Finally the child rocks himself to sleep. He dreams. Above a large blue lake soars a royal white eagle. 47 �Longing for her, I listen to a loon. Can its midnight cry be sadder? I (transfixed) under blossoms radiant with dew. In a pleasant ascesis bow and hum the Heart Sutra. 48 �* Again my mother’s face, rotund and gloomy, rises above my dresser. “Daughter,” she says, “are you paying attention to what is important?” I look up. (I had been reading in a chair.) Her floating face does not surprise me. “Sweet one, I wander. I’m continuously tossed among the wiles of the six realms.” 49 �“You disappoint me,” she continues. Her hair, in disarray, shoots from her skull, yellow and moldy. Alarmed, I look more closely. Her skin is mottled. Splotches of rouge smear her cheeks. She wears lipstick as usual, but it’s purple and forms a false (exaggerated) smile. “Have I ever told you how much your mothering means to me?” I wail. 50 �At that moment, a dragon alights on the ground, drinks some water and rises to the sky. We watch in awe. “Extraordinary!” we cry. “I’ve heard the rumbling of the turquoise dragon, but I never thought I’d see it,” she says. “I’ve heard the fame of the Precious Protector, but I never imagined I would meet him,” she repeats. 51 �Next night I dream: Palace of the eight great nagas, Playground of mamos and dakinis, Gathering place of the god who take delight in virtue, Growing place of the Rose-apple Tree. Source of the four great rivers— Here is the turquoise lake, Manasarovar! Excited, I think, “This place is so familiar.” But it vanishes in black-eyed morning. 52 �pigeon of the myster ious tree ��“The sun is warm, the water excellent at Horse Tooth White Rock.” (I am reading The Life of Milarepa.) “The yellow valley is broad and blanketed with flowers,” he says. “Two rivers flow across it softly (softly).” “Green slopes, cool leafy shades—of all secluded places, this is the most pleasant.” 55 �“After about a year, some out-of-luck hunters barge into my cave. ‘It’s a ghost!’ they cry when they see me.” “‘I’m a hermit,’ I yell as they run away.” “They rush back. ‘Where is your food? Give it to us. If you refuse, we’ll kill you.’” “‘I have nothing but nettles. Lift me up and see.’” 56 �“‘What would happen if we tried it?’ one ventures. ‘It might bring a blessing,’ a second suggests.” “One of the hunters who has stood by without hurting me, says, ‘Wait! This man seems to be a real seeker. Even if he were not, you do not prove your manhood by harassing such a bag of bones.’” “He turns to me, ‘Please put me under your protection.’” “‘There are different kinds of protection, believe me,’ remarks the first and bursts out laughing.” 57 �“A year passes. ‘It’s a ghost!’ This time the hunters are laden with game.” “‘There are no ghosts in the daytime,’ one proffers. ‘Take a good look. Is it still there?’” “‘I’m not a ghost. I’m a hermit,’ I explain.” “Though I have no clothes and little nourishment, when I place the scroll my lama has given me on top of my head, my stomach feels full and there is a pleasant taste of food in my mouth.” 58 �* CAW CAW CAW. A jay swoops by. Three white blossoms bend in its wake. I peer through night. Moonless sky hovers over trees. I am aroused (having just finished The Tale of Red Rock Jewel Valley). 59 �“Today’s shabby sky (the heavens are toppled).” “They’re split. (At war.) Sun can’t get through.” “Autumn ends. Seals line the rocks.” “In bitter cold, all the animals hide.” 60 �“Are you a ghost?” “Out of the wool and goat hair cloth my sister weaves I sew a hood for my head, a sleeve for each extremity and a sheath for my penis,” Mila reports. “‘Look at him! My brother has nothing human left!’ Peta screams at the sight.” “Not only is he completely without shame, but he has ruined the cloth that I made with such labor.” 61 �“Father, look at that fantastic thing! A man flying through the air!” “‘It is no great wonder,’ says his father. ‘It’s the son of that wicked woman, White Jewel of Nyang—that cunning, obstinate Mila, wracked by starvation. Don’t let his shadow fall on you.’” “The father keeps moving around, fearful of being touched.” “‘If a man can fly, obstinate or not, there is no greater spectacle than that!’ says the son.” 62 �“‘Look! Look at you!’ my sister shrieks, grabbing my wrists in disgust.” “Are you a ghost? Why is your body so thin?” “‘My form is flame and spouting water,’ I reply.” “But inside I’m thinking, ‘Your affection distracts me. Worldly talk disturbs my patience.’” 63 �For death is now. (You have given me the instruction.) Watch the night-water lily endlessly crushed by snow. As I walk you are on my shoulder, as I speak you are in my throat. “Do not kill the dzomo’s tolbu calf!” (is your evervigilant advice). 64 �* Dawn bleeds night. (A white sky screams.) Tree ghosts line the hilltop. Wet wings birth. Trunks of them in a filigree of hack. Now that you’re dead, the debris of a cold one. 65 �Silver bush, you stalk these headlands. Flaunt your light at the morning’s dowdy sky. Browning growth (like savages) decays. It lacks your brilliant edge. See how the birds flock to your branches, chirping their heads off. 66 �The sun now casts an early-morning shade. Bald, my hill appraises cold. Stunning light converges on its muddy bank. I fill an altar lamp with butter, light it and place it on my head. 67 �A young lady appears in the fashion of Mon. The eastern snow lioness’ milk must be served with a golden ladle—these words emerge eerily. It is the beginning of October. Late afternoon light hugs the yarrowed mead. Lush green meadows are blanketed with flowers, bees, birds, berries, fruits, edible plants, even bamboo. 68 �* Is that a lingam behind your cushion? Greyhounds sniff then melt into breeze. “Look up there!” a herdsman points. An old dove coos its spasms of prayer. “The seminal mind is empty,” I recite. “This wind (this cold) is simply an old habit.” 69 �A falcon descends, considers extending her talons. It dips its head calmly, gulps a bit of gentle rain. It’s startled by your knotted hair, protruding bones, disappearing visage, more vast than the sky, more vast than the view of emptiness. 70 �Sweet morning. You cover the squirrels with your warmth. My hoya too spreads her arms, luxuriating in your spell. Today they touch the earth. (Yesterday they could barely bow.) Petals in three colors, being as delicate as the wings of bees, lay ankle deep at Chuwar. 71 ��d aw n m o u n ta i n ��Brown day emerges from fading-night rain. I shiver from pale dreams. The earth is clogged, the hill a maze of wet. One owl flaps its wings. 75 �Dawn’s avuncular rays roll gently through the tent. They feel momentous as I lie in my cot. “Is that a rodent?” (An animal scurries by.) I walk and drink (in) the fresh morning air. 76 �I reach into my mind. My room of wood is lush and dark. (My home faces south on an embankment that slopes steeply.) From time to time mists wreath its imposing neck like a silver scarf. 77 �Songbirds sing this morning. A single flower flops across the mud. Saltwater spray, kids, bones—a pup dashes forth, turning its head eagerly. As I listen to an owl and spy the ruby sun, I gasp with pleasure. 78 �* Blue and blue (the sober voice of day). The after-rain smells of cucumber, oddly. The stirrings of my sister . . . but she sleeps (which is good). Heather in the field plays little purple-bells. 79 �“It’s been snowing here for weeks. Very unusual at this time of year.” “The first night as I was walking, admiring the trees under inches of drift, I wandered through a cloud of cherry-blossom fragrance.” The cuckoo has come from Monyul; The sky softens the earth with its moisture. Dank sounds meld with murky cold as I nestle in the splendor of my lama. 80 �Sweet showers fall. “They’re pink!” I mutter. Yet the sky, packed with white, assuages the notion of the present. Tender plants drink gratefully. 81 �* My mother is dying (on this day of All Mother’s). I watch her aggregates fall. Eyes, ears, ability to eat, slowly dwindle away. She herself feels revolted by it. 82 �Her wily limbs are edgy and restless. “Fix your hair!” she gratuitously shouts. Drops rattle in the darkness. A dove’s solemn moan exudes (in the night) in oblivion. As the pain of my mothers ripens on me, my load is lightened. 83 �Darkness spreads through my nightmare’s tangled body. Parrots squawk. One is particularly insistent. Swirling pirouettes (an elegant letter’s grace). People are kind, escort me through places unnamable (though painfully familiar). 84 �Light folds, doubles over the day. Blossoms lift their necks. A sparrow on a fence blinks casually. A house on stilts sits quietly in the dusk. Sweet bird, where is your mother? 85 ��mingling the threefold sky ��Today as I was chanting, rosary beads clicking, my voice became a bell from whose echo a strong remembrance arose. I am in a hall with monks and horns high in smoky mountainous air. Daffodils cover the ground. 89 �Still, when it falls, the rain smells sweet. I close my eyes. Imbibe. Crows caw. Jays hawk their cries through the trees. Kids spit pits among the dandelions. 90 �Tsa. Dza. An infant mumbles letters. Could she be singing? (Calling to old friends?) She dreams of a buddha seated on a lotus, the white letter hung burning in his heart. Asters (lavender-blue) shed lustrous shadows across the ravine. 91 �Nimble (agile) her limbs hum a sutra. Thrice she offers tsampa to the Three Precious Jewels. “Look! A flower!” she says to them lovingly, urging her companions to savor it first. Sugatas crouch. They water the earth profusely. 92 �* Low horns wake me. (They roll through mud.) Ducks, rabbits, snakes wander among the grass. Pilgrims circle chortens (undulating tiers melt into sand). Then desert. Masses of sand and sand-flowers. 93 �Thus I age and die and see the luminous white field. “Send me to Sukavati, please.” (I pray hard as the wise ones suggest.) A cycle of teachings is repeated by heart. I hold to my heart. 94 �I eat before noon. Afterwards I sleep. It was written long ago. (The ancients understood.) Under vast dark sky lay vast dark sand—my mind, stretched out. Relaxed. Rest mind. Be poised. 95 �A drum, a gong, a band of gods. Lama, yidam, dakini, its roots. Bliss-gone ones, we remember you always. With gratitude we deflect your kindness. 96 �* It rained during the night. Trees smolder in diamond wet. Fish jump with life. Prayer flags toss. Somehow they remind me of the monk wracked by weakness who, thoroughly consoled, said, “If I die, I will be fulfilling the advice given by the early masters.” 97 �The pulse of the hum. The tilt of the sky. Fragile fingers yawn, paper thin and shiny. Shavings from my gouge trail to the ground. Curlicues pile up. In thinness, absorbed in my ablutions. 98 �I see snow (the pearly ridges of my land). Evil doctrines will spread. People’s minds will be possessed by demons. Had Guru Rinpoche (when he was in Tibet) been able to perform the exorcism thrice (bonding the evil forces) the buddhadharma might have remained for a long time. But he was hindered by wicked ministers and could only perform it two times. 99 �“Oh, Gyalwa Rinpoche! We have all received your blessings.” We are linked in the dharma. (The samaya must be observed.) We climb toward the sun. It rises early in this country. The majestic expanse of meadow and horses. 100 �* “What a magnificent March day!” a woman exclaims. The sound of rain flatlines with her sigh. A boy blows on a weed (perhaps it is a bubble). He doesn’t move. He stares. He thinks. The refuge of water he takes silently. 101 �The decrepitude of watching. (I’ve often wondered at my lack of faith.) “That bird could be a tsar,” I think, the muscles of its thick neck raw. In a ditch a dog lay dead. “Tara. Sweet Tara,” peals from the day-black sky. 102 �“Who is that man?” I ask a friend. (His yoga is meant for only me to see.) Facing east, I watch the water swell. An old woman hiker leans on her cane. She feels the vibrations as an offering from the foothills. Its melody tolls methodically. 103 �For it is written. (Our time will come.) Fire and flood will ease all. The gutted slope displays its roots, throbbing, twisting, dangling in air. I know that I am a mountain (that I will continue to be a mountain) for three incalculable eons. 104 �* The woodlands are quiet this forenoon. Crickets, frogs, all creatures seem subdued. “Is that a mosquito?” It is curled up, looking amazingly comfortable. Nubile women hang clothing in the sun. A deer in dripping silence stares at yellow flowers. 105 �I close my eyes (recall a winter morning). On fire with snow, each brown stone breast. I gaze at a ridge. Boughs roil. One breaks. Then disappears, leaving no tracks. 106 �Om Tare tan swa ha. Om Tare tan swa ha. Softly a syllable drops to the earth. My mind is filled with space. My ears begin to ring. Birds look up. 107 �There is no air. Only sky (rippling sky-facades). Black gates of mind, the spontaneous presence of ultimacy. I kneel. An oasis of green becomes ash. But for the mere names of the places where they happened, nothing at all is left of these marvels. 108 �* The savannah is dull. (It is late afternoon.) A low wind rises as the temperature falls. In the after-rain’s spume, birds are mute. Day turns to night. Without dusk. Not one star comes out. 109 �A candle is lit. (Cold shimmies in the air.) I lay in my cot and see cloud. A vulture on a southerly peak—the angular white outline— from where does she know it. (It bothers her that she can’t tell.) 110 �A master tells his monk: “At a particular place about two day’s walk, a dakini is dying. Make haste and as soon as you find the corpse, chop open the skull and quickly eat whatever you find.” A second disciple, a ngakpa (tantrika), from his sealed cave intuits the passing. He breaks open his door, speeds to the site, severs the head and strolls along munching. Thus he dissolves the three-fold motionlessness. 111 �The votive flame is bright rose-yellow. I rock (gaze) steadily at its pith. Animals eat. I watch them quietly foraging. Red eucalyptus drop berries onto the ground. 112 �* To seize and become fire (twice, thrice). “Ahhhhhhhhhhh,” it seethes through its follicles of earth. To the north, sand rolls high. To the south, blazing columns of light. Ah-ooo-mmmmmmm. Ah-ooo-mmmmmmmm buzzes through my skin. 113 �My unborn mind is a fetus groping. In a liquid orb it swirls by parcels of flesh. Random objects rise. I feel washed by their proximity. Are those hieroglyphs? (I can’t tell.) 114 �The burden of night (its weight on the berries). Branches droop. Children go home. Little red clusters scatter in the bog. They bob. She looks, experiencing bobbing. 115 �The steely hills are darkening. Scrubby land, flocculent and thin. The earth is a closet. (Its echo a pall.) Seeing with my tongue this place of no water. 116 �a ho a la la ho! p l e a s i n g p l ay s o n g i o f f e r ��This morning’s sky is white. Icy mist lingers over the trees. A gong and its echo still reverberate inside me. I look out on the hill. Not one bird screaks. Within a cycle of prayer, everything accumulated is dissolved. 119 �The trees—“They look tortured,” she thought. Pilgrims glide along the ground. Om ah hung. Om ah hung. Om ah hung. Om ah hung. Wooly leaves and, by the road, squirrels. 120 �A girl looks up hollowly. Through the rain the light seems full. Inside my rug, my legs fold perfectly. I watch. The skin of the earth tightens against the frost. 121 �Dawn’s cranberry sky crosses the mountain trail. How many have climbed it? Who wanders through the pass at daybreak today? Rosebuds cover the turf. Tumultuous clouds straddle gray beds. They chew flour. 122 �Look! A flower! It pops through white. The Land of Snow is protected. (It was written.) Lord Buddha said that after his parinirvana, another, greater one, would propagate the teachings. In this way he announced the coming of the LotusBorn. 123 �I was there. I know these people. The man (seeming not to hear) doesn’t alter his stride. Drops splatter on the gulch, the trees, the dirty sandstone’s graffiti. In my dream I’d been admiring a fabric that was covered with animal spirits. 124 �Caw caw caw. Caw caw caw. Molested by rain, all is wet and black. The cull of night oozes through the grass. Somewhere far off a single owl hoots. Pristine, its essential nature untouchable. 125 �Ten thousand reddened lamps burn butter (beyond the drizzle, despite the storm). I stand at the window. The burden of water presses on all beings. Two birds kiss. The land absorbs. Then it too drains (seeps to its world’s edge). 126 �Only I know if an action is a “sky action.” Only I know if its origin is unstained. She glanced at the clock. Flowers stood solemnly, pink with mud in a wetland full of cattails. 127 �I’m beginning my evening prayers. The nectar of peace seeps into my thigh. I dissolve into my song. The cry of a bird, my primordial voice. It feels like a cave. A place of no flowers. 128 �* Lovely one. I sit, listening to rain-having-ended. Its sound pervades my hill. One bird wails. The air absorbs its trace. Throaty dew hovers over the garden. 129 �I mention it, not only to bring its beauty to your attention, but its silence (and penetration) in the just-now-porous earth. Where are you, dear? When I read of teacher and disciple, repeatedly meeting as teacher and disciple . . . When Gyalse Zhenphen Thaye saw his teacher’s home from afar, he got off his horse and cried like a child. 130 �To count the geese . . . “Try. Try, honey.” “I can’t. I see that I can’t do it.” Studying the breeze, the memory comes back. Generated endlessly, they vastly assuage our desuetude. 131 �“Wind holds these words,” she whispered to herself. “Let’s rest. It’s good to rest.” Long-stemmed freesias waved a thousand arms. Lama Khyen! Lama Khyen! A voice rose, then gradually drifted away. 132 �t w e lv e k i n d s o f va j r a l au g h t e r ��It is a day of amber light with the shiver of oncoming winter. I look out. See nothing but barren hill. The sea, its patois smooth, sputters in its bareness. (The dune, I notice, is covered with lavender blossoms.) 135 �A man looks up. His eyes are cold. Fronds tilt toward sea. A ring of moon appears. (Gulls swirl, dive, take off.) Waves snap. Their seething withdrawal makes your skin crawl. 136 �The after-rain smells of cucumber, oddly. My window-shade flaps softly. Stags stalk the yard. Unwieldy horns get tangled in the trees. Tiny birds dash in and out. Their drab feathers fade in the chilly air. 137 �The land lay wet, oozing white water. A lone bird calls from a thicket of reeds. Under oaks (near a river) through the leaves, there are stars. Jonquils pop from the dull dark earth. 138 �* A common day. My hill supine and blue. A fat yellow pussy slouches up the path. “Is that a rodent?” (An animal scurries by.) One owl flaps its wings. 139 �The fog melts quickly. “It’s dry,” a woman says, rolling a carpet into place. Blood trickles in. Squiggles of raw-red prick the stark terrain. Golden ears trail (move out of sight). They prance slowly. 140 �I drift with the wavelets. (Actually I am reading.) The sudden sound of water wakes me from a dream. “What do you want, crow?” (A young throat caws.) Rain shakes the blinds that are clattering noisily. 141 �“Good morning.” (The boy wears shorts.) Birds wrestle in the tall blue grass. They grab the light, suck it in like water. A single palm waves its arms wildly. 142 �* “Honey, do you want some toast?” (Her grandmother’s gruff voice.) “Don’t play with your food, dear.” A man grunts. (He has nothing to say.) A train in the distance forges ahead slowly. 143 �“Can you help me, dear?” (She is on her hands and knees.) The pom-poms on her scuffs press her foot uncomfortably. A baby cries. Bits of water spew onto the blind. “Please, dear.” Your eyes are young.” 144 �“Nevermind, I found it!” She slumps over the rug. Its shags are limp (not clean). “Grandma, you should wash it. Don’t just put it in your eye.” “Nevermind, dear. I found it.” 145 �The sound (of old paper) sighs in the wind. Prayer flags toss in a backyard plot. A basset, alone, dragging its leash. Sniffing, scuffling along in the dark. One bird angles its call north. 146 �Ding! Ding! A single chime in the morning breeze. Daylight seeps across the hill. Fish flop. I look out and see nothing. The motion of the grass—tall, red, easy. 147 �An animal halts, pants, looks around. Could it be a deer? Its ears are like a dog’s. Wet with rain, it sparkles in the light. The sky holds this memory. 148 �Branches of sky. Pulsations of hill. The tilt of the sand, sideways and steep. Yet there are buds. Fierce light hawks little sky spots. Water pours down the little island soberly. 149 �“The sun is showing!” someone yells. Pale light breaks through the screen. The sound of birds, traffic, water—“Is that rain?” The idea of it changed me (the whole day ringing differently). 150 �* Labyrinth of sky. Twill sky of an evening. Red-berried asparagus splatter on the ground. So all around is water and a hump of earth, bland, like a white man. A violet wind blows soberly through the grasses. 151 �“Hurry Greta!” Three girls grab their bags. A trail of blue straggles behind their flip-flops. A shoeless being squats at a curb. Palms cup his face. Is he crying? I can only see his back, which is still, as if he were reading. 152 �A man rises, slouches toward the water, stares for awhile, then fiddles with his radio. Wheat-colored light razes the dusk. Black frost fills the air heady with wind and rattling sunflower stalks. On the shroud of death, inhaling lovely flowers. 153 �Dark red husks empty their world. Whose girdle is tight (pelvic bones protrude). Examining, probing. Even doves lose their voices. A tern flies by. 154 �* The chapel is quiet toward dusk. Uniformed girls play kick-ball in the field. I kneel in the pew relieved to be alone. Loons laugh. Their weird high call. 155 �An old man on a bench awakens slowly. It is early. The sun cool. The man rises. He has nothing to do. Sun cracks through a frond. 156 �His stencil on the earth, triangular and nude. A priest blesses it as it bleeds away, back into the lake. Within the wind, torrents of rain gather. It’s intense (full-on, right away). 157 �It clings and fills, clings, grows fat, clings and fattens beyond the point of bursting. Feathery rain on the edge of a field. Its spray fills one’s face but won’t make one wet. It falls with the weight of water but on landing it dissolves. Sweet rain among the fine-grained greenery. It dribbles down the draw into a shady cow pasture. 158 �A girl from a bridge (her gaze is intent). Gritty sunglasses sag. One dove coos. Coo coo coo. Her imago in the deafening moon. 159 �* Nazareth was a town. It had birds. Flutelike calls lashed the ridge mercilessly. Sticks of myrrh danced. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (their melody stays in my head). 160 �Clinging to my hoya, the moon’s mysterious shadow. Tossing in the morning light, from where did it arise? The ocean cracks against the sand (animals at bay). Your voice keeps moaning in my head as I watch the creepers fall. 161 �The sky is black, indistinguishable from sea. Sea and sky and rain and now, even the sand is coal-colored. A few drops splatter. I pity the poor animal wandering the barren hill. 162 �* I’m aware just now of quiet. Yesterday’s storm has soaked into the trees. Not even the moon moves. Rounding a bend, a tire spins helplessly. 163 �The land lay wet, oozing gray water. Trees droop. Branches crack (hang limply as appendages). A squirrel scurries along the path, starting and stopping nervously. It never once puts anything in its mouth. 164 �A frozen world. Where is the snow? Fog’s somnorific glow subdues the stoney woods. Cats prowl, squirrels linger, birds dart—on an ordinary morning. Today, silence. Everything is broken. 165 �The sun, with a smell of coolness, sinks. A slow drizzle falls. A man dies. But it is not a breach (really). Jasmine and rose follow him everywhere. 166 ���169 �170 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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LIB-PC011 Language A language of the resource eng Buddhism poetry publications SherPublications https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/b1dd208072db781a590059d0c5114207.pdf 00241dcad699c35b20ddac6ec2dc1a40 PDF Text Text The Copper Pheasant Ceases Its Call Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 1 7/1/08 8:43:11 PM �also by gail sher Prose Writing the Fire: Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive • 2006 The Intuitive Writer: Listening to Your Own Voice • 2002 One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers • 1999 From a Baker’s Kitchen • 1984/2004 Poetry East Wind Melts the Ice • 2007 Watching Slow Flowers • 2006 DOHA • 2005 RAGA • 2004 Once There Was Grass • 2004 redwind daylong daylong • 2004 Birds of Celtic Twilight: A Novel in Verse • 2004 Look at That Dog All Dressed Out in Plum Blossoms • 2002 Moon of the Swaying Buds • 2002 Lines: The Life of a Laysan Albatross • 2000 Fifty Jigsawed Bones • 1999 Saffron Wings • 1998 One bug . . . one mouth . . . snap! • 1997 Marginalia • 1997 La • 1997 Like a Crane at Night • 1996 Kuklos • 1995 Cops • 1988 Broke Aide • 1985 Rouge to Beak Having Me • 1983 (As) on things which (headpiece) touches the Moslem • 1982 From Another Point of View the Woman Seems to be Resting • 1981 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 2 7/1/08 8:43:11 PM �The Copper Pheasant Ceases Its Call Gail Sher Q night crane press 2007 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 3 7/1/08 8:43:11 PM �Copyright 2007, Gail Sher All rights reserved. Night Crane Press 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 435 Emeryville, California 94608 No part of this publication my be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner and the publisher. isbn: 0-9726115-8-4 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 4 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �For Brendan Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 5 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 6 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �the copper pheasant ceases its call Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 1 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 2 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �“As we approach spring.” That was all he had said, but inside her, something softened. The memory in her body, was it of air, a certain featheriness, like the way dust doesn’t quite fall but frolics. Or of being awake early, say three or four hours before light. An intense thing happens and then one proceeds into one’s normal day with that intense thing hidden. Others may sense that this person is somehow different, but they wouldn’t be able to say why or even what exactly is different. It dawns on both the person and other people encountering her, gradually. 3 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 3 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �She gazed at the grass, its green breath cheerful. From its roots she heard the sea, frothy waves settling on sand, matted and pressed by the pounding of Christ centuries. Rat-a-tat-tat. Rat-a-tat-tat. Her grandmother’s fst on the brown and yellow oilcloth. Flecks of crust like eggy pellets of bark. Were His feet muddy? They tasted of honey. Knees to earth – the red brown earth – to genufect, to seize His gaze driving like a knife through the hole in her belly. She plucked a blade of grass, sucking sweet life from its tender slenderness. Sweet water dribbled down the side of her chin before it stopped, frozen. 4 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 4 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �Before her child wakes, a mother mentally makes the shift. Her shadow is attuned to the subtle movement of his body. When his shadow sleeps, hers pauses. The stirring of his shadow, like a soft admonishing hand, presses against her stillpoints. Space opens in her skull between two waves where she prepares to cradle her son’s awakeness. 5 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 5 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �Cheep. Cheep. She woke to the smell of spring. A surge of joy – just before the longing for her mother (green and foreign) had vanished in the gush. And so my mother ceased to be my mother. She was something else. Her mother had been fond of telling stories about her past. There’d been one of a child who’d fed a squirrel. Only to be bitten. But the squirrel refused to release the child’s hand. By the time the little girl (might it have been her mother?) dragged herself home (squirrel hanging from her bloody and dismembered fngers) her psyche had been ravaged. “I know someone who sews twelve hours a day,” she’d added randomly. “She sews on paper. She’d sew on wood if she could. She’d sew and have a baby!” 6 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 6 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �She looked more closely at the hill, its jaundiced mud, sickly, too shiny, moments from sliding away from itself. “One more drop could be disaster,” she thought, peering again at the sky. “There it is. There’s the rain.” Her upstairs neighbor banged his window shut. A few drops splashed against the glass. The weatherman said rain and here it was. One bird chirped. A moan almost. 7 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 7 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �One drop and then another grazed her arm. She was leaning over the edge of her porch, admiring a row of lilies. None of them were blooming, but the lively green of their straight-backed leaves was splendid against the russet mulch. To gaze at the hill or shut her eyes and just quietly enjoy the afternoon sun, which suddenly spread, lifted its face and blazed brightly. Shrill wind sounding like a cat. Sheer curtains futtered, then poofed crazily. A moil of birds, peeping, screeching. Sun spilled through the vines. 8 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 8 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �Soft breeze. Mudfats (bowls of mudfats). A sandstone bird bath, overgrown and mossy, yawned a shallow yawn in the yard’s pudgy middle. Screeching chicks, gaping at the crop. Head back. Eyes shut. A few sprigs of white cushioning the gnarls in their quick branches. How many ducks in a row, beneath, in the lake’s sedge? 9 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 9 7/1/08 8:43:12 PM �Mist alive, so fresh on the green lawn. First light as it spread across the patio. Mountains humped the sky, a little like cows all brown and white and loafng. Deer nibbled strawberries toward the echo of daylaborers. 10 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 10 7/1/08 8:43:13 PM �Light was just beginning to glaze her room as she woke from an especially deep sleep. She lay still with her eyes open. A full moon dripped through gray-green dawn. Then the odd leftovers of her dream sprawled under sea, though the sea was housed. Mansions, rolling hills, fowered valleys, slopes. Water-full rooms themselves held aquariums – massive coral fsh with lacey serene bodies. 11 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 11 7/1/08 8:43:13 PM �And now that the fowers were falling, the black earth in the grove’s shadow looked white. So that when she passed through the garden, hours before dawn, the vista was ghostlike. Four small, softly curved petals fared out on the sod. On the fourth foor was a sunny room with plants and women sleeping. On sofas, on rugs, in armchairs, in hammocks. The center provided this space explicitly for rest. Women are tired, they’d said. 12 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 12 7/1/08 8:43:13 PM �A cool breeze sloughed its way through the late August afternoon. It limped along. Not quite ready. A young breeze. Her young nasturtiums likewise were toppling. Once they had sprouted, they shot up strong, a little belligerent, jockeying their way toward the sun. First one fell. Now the other six were cowing. Skinny stems, snappy petals, straggling over the clay pot’s edge. 13 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 13 7/1/08 8:43:13 PM �A deer and then its children – one, two graceful bones out on the glade. The smallest sucked a leaf. (The wandering mother in a moment of reprieve as her offspring fed.) Chewing, nodding, trying a drier bunch, a harderto-reach, greener bunch. A memory arose of her mother’s childlike body, sweet, like a roasted potato. 14 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 14 7/1/08 8:43:13 PM �Creamy sand and ocean-blue water pressed against the sky. So that it too seemed vigorous, its blue weighty. Pulsing and sharp. Hot noon air, singed and crackled, alive over the seaedge. Dusty afternoon turned to limpid night. The mote of the frefy’s silky, neon, beep-beam-beep. The limb of a palm elbowing restful gray. “Hey you!” (A young thing with young gestures.) Peeling, cackling nuts, bark. Fronds on top fan the liquid earth. Lamp posts strut noble and tall like a black tap dancer. 15 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 15 7/1/08 8:43:13 PM �Soft soft shuffe beneath caged birds. The patio’s soft lights refecting the pool’s blue shadows. An announcer in his ocean voice, megaphoned astride the savannah. One of the heads was opening. Sure enough it was blue. Or sort of blue-violet. A cigarette lighter, for example, swaggered in glowing curvatures as its black engraved initials danced hoola-like through the smoke-flled tropical air. 16 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 16 7/1/08 8:43:13 PM �Rich night air, liquid air, but like champagne, bubbly and elegant, not chintzy like soda. It would become morning air soon. The memory of that other air, close-to-morning, but not as close. That other air had stars. So numerous their ring echoed through the mountain valley. Indeed you could smell them. They lay at your feet throbbing. 17 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 17 7/1/08 8:43:13 PM �A single bird. Cheep cheep cheep. Pale-gray-rose fltered through the sky. Bang! A window slammed shut. Her pleasant dream resurged in pleasantness. Woodwinds, violas, bassoons . . . slipping back . . . toward the color of hay. Her urge toward this color, its precise, crisp (nay brittle) mix of yellow, brown, green. 18 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 18 7/1/08 8:43:13 PM �Dawn’s pale light eased over the carpet. Bitter air blew across the hill, puffed the faded jacket of an old Chinese woman. She looked sad. And terribly foreign. Black cap, bangs, but too old for bangs. Too heavy. Her lumbered stride. A dove’s moan lingered, beyond the eaves, above the shrieks of coarser appetites. The buzzing she’d been feeling in the center of her forehead, for days unassailable, now gone. Her dark eyes scanned the horizon, the sea and the bare trunks of trees. Stout birds swinging low, then soaring upwards in the navy light. 19 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 19 7/1/08 8:43:13 PM �Rust, dove-gray or violet-dawn-gray matted then needle-scratched. She imagined the canvas. Its depth and texture of color. 20 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 20 7/1/08 8:43:13 PM �A chasm, a face, nostrils, mouth, a fuffy mane of gray-white hair. A festoon of green wild things but not water. Nothing pure and fresh in this mildewed cement. The color of feathers (a pheasant’s or robin’s)— vibrations of spray piled on to ease. Breath was protection sweeping out the gross nature (a person’s inspiration, another form of breathing). Play was breathing. Wild white fragrant Pinks fowering richly over the meadow. 21 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 21 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �That morning she’d laid on the barn’s lean-to, red maple fngers (like a priest’s), chattering water, prayer. She plucked the feet from the pungent broth (slurped and swallowed its Christlike slenderness). Their crunch and thin flmy marrow. “Are they larks?” Watching them careen the stormy sky, alabaster, hollow. Pink moon covered her otherwise blackened foor. 22 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 22 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �The tawny hill. Such was its fank, the creek mostly dried grass. Rapacious thornless blackberry vines threatened the willows along the creek. Not even birds. They bathe in the rain, in the skinny moon, in skylights, eaves, rooftops or the tippy-tops of trees. 23 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 23 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �Birds madly roosting. Their clamor. In its abrupt absence, her mother’s lazy voice saying, “I don’t know” in answer to a question about her husband’s illness. Her mother, usually an alert, extremely clever woman, over matters that concerned the health of the person about whom she says “When he goes, I go” suddenly went dumb. “I don’t know,” she drawled at any query more complicated than the time and place of his surgery. She was not even sure what organ was being operated on. The peculiar quality of her “I don’t know,” a sleepy yawn – the tone conveying, “It’s too early to tell” superimposed on “Don’t rush me. Come back later.” 24 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 24 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �A lean woman in shabby clothing, though her eyes (steady) carried – not joy exactly, but hope. Wisps of white bloused her frail, gray, waist-length braids. One, bound with a rubber band, fopped over the other, tied in green elastic. A cruel wind blew. (The air was flled with the scent of plants.) Gray fungus, like drooping beards, and creepers recondite in the native forest. A distant shower, its blue slanting streak, far across the horizon. Mist covered the sky set with hard stars. The day was darkening in green shades. 25 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 25 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �The characters in her book (old lovers who had not seen each other for years) were spending a night at an inn. The room they had been assigned had a grove in its garden that shaded an entire wall. Neither of them knew the names of the trees, but gazing at the expansive trunks jutting up against their verandah helped them relax. She imagined the two of them sprawled out in their kimonos, enjoying . . . she pictured redwoods. Gnarly limbs with soft reddish bark. 26 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 26 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �Sweet soft night descended with the roses. Moist air, rose-blossomed and thorny. Soft thorns. Yes. She pulled the peach-colored fower closer, thumbing the thorns, letting them jab her calluses. The vine concealed crossed stems of buds that released their fragrances one at a time. A sheen of rain fell. One bird sang, lowing gently, regretting the oncoming night. Of course it was her own regret she’d heard into the bird. She watched a boy from across the lake walk from his swing to his back porch listlessly. She continued to watch the swing which (was it an evening breeze) kept lazily rocking. Slowly slowly, ever so mildly back and forth, the little wooden seat. Its ropes were knotted, suspended from a tree. The swing jostled (twisted in a sudden gust). 27 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 27 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �Night was coming fast. A red leaf landed in its center, arousing her. Through the darkness she could see the leaf ’s auburn, yellow, gold. Its stem stabbed the air, poking upwards, bullying the neighing breeze. She couldn’t stop looking, peering through the chill black night. No stars. Not even clouds to absorb a shred of the day’s aftermath. Pitch dark in a weary wind, even the dew, settled, tired, collapsed. 28 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 28 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �The rain had stopped. She plumped her pillows and lay back. Not a shred of light in the sky. A wave of anxiety pulsed through her body, then lodged in her abdomen and inner arms. It felt like a short, its after-buzz a limp shivering splattering through her being. A coyote’s throat curved and taut beside the cactus. Once she’d found a pelt. It was warm as if a hunter had recently skinned it. The fur had been cream-colored with beautiful brown spots. Strange. She had pictured coyotes as gray, light wolf-gray. 29 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 29 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �Whiskers was the word that came to mind. (His gray and white scratchy-looking hair.) So that her impression was of rather a gruff person. Yet examining his collection of carved rosewood animals – turtle, snake, rhinoceros, porpoise, rabbit, albatross – buttery and gleaming – something clean flled her chest. Even his wife, Scandinavian probably, seemed wholesome (retained some scent of wholesomeness). 30 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 30 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �“A sun cup,” said the writer, “is in the eveningprimrose family. Sprawled fat on the ground in a rosette of leaves, it is among the earliest spring fowers.” She had been reading the bulletin while standing in a post offce line. A monarch, a swallowtail, a bumblebee and big black beetle hovered around a feather. “Only on the coast from southwest Oregon to San Luis Obispo, and only where soil, sun and moisture mix in perfect sun-cup combination has this fower been able to survive,” the botanist continued. “While its yellow petals glow, its seeds lie buried in a sturdy capsule.” 31 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 31 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �The air was cold and the sun, crystal clear on the sparkling grass. She stepped out on the porch. The cold was steady, reliable. A strong thing. A rushing sound (not rain) wandered through the trees. It ran along the ground, in the shrubs and tilted reeds. It rustled and rattled just above the earth. The hill itself looked drier, harder. Overhead, a bleak wind lashed. 32 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 32 7/1/08 8:43:14 PM �A pair of doves waddled about. Shriveled berries from her neighbor’s hollies rolled around the drive. One sharp nerve (its potency and excess) panting its way over two front lawns. A train whizzed by. A stroke of sun, foundering, anchorless, seemed out of place in the placid winter. 33 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 33 7/1/08 8:43:15 PM �Plain patched with snow (fower-flled meadows, thickets and tree-lined riparian corridors). A virile pinaceous scent, sodden after last night’s storm A fock of birds in the late February sky. She had been gazing out at the bushes. Porcelain pupils in pre-dusk shadows. A Monarch, huge and alone, fapped around a tree. Bunched snow in winter would sit (softly) composed. Did not buckle but melted under fair skies. Restless wings, vomiting themselves out of existence. Like satin to a jittery child (holding a piece in its little sleeping fst), so the end-of-winter sky with its soft, sweet middle. Even for the birds. They bumped heads. 34 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 34 7/1/08 8:43:15 PM �Then sun. Color and smell faded from the hill. The meadow lay wasted. The weather, a negation of weather. Nestled in her robe, scrunching her feet in a woolen throw. Small birds enter a nightly torpor. Some shiver. Some shiver continuously. Some (goldfnches, redpolls) grow more feathers (fuff them out). “Here,” it said. Here she felt none of that. 35 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 35 7/1/08 8:43:15 PM �Spasms of chimes in a powdery wind. The smack of sheet on an upstairs banister whipped then twirled into an argument with itself. Daylight vanished in a swirl of brumous clouds. Through her stained-glass window she watched them cruise, screening the stars, like brooding ghosts. Marsh grass dozed. Sky scudded past. Exhaustion from the day drained with the light and she fell asleep. So soundly. So soundly she dropped into the pit of silence. (A carrion call raged, unspooling her mind.) Gulls. Their raucous laugh unheard though high through the crazy chill. She slept and dreamed of seabirds, rising, falling, mingling in the broken shards of crashing sky-hewn water. A tooled container, half-sunken near a sandbar, bobbed its oily spillage. A sour smell, a soft mysterious rattling, awakened her. 36 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 36 7/1/08 8:43:15 PM �Snow fell softly on the dark curly road. She stood in the doorway, pressed between the room’s warm glow and the street’s empty whiteness. Flanked by sleep, by the still-silent night, she slipped between the stars and sheer hard glass like the frst person on earth. Slip-skating a delicate swoop down the road’s center. Silence warmed. Powdery snow splayed across the world (air-brushing the world) as if to obliterate the previous canvas. She grabbed the sky and shook it. Smudges of cinders. One with a little boot. 37 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 37 7/1/08 8:43:15 PM �A lamp draws to it night. A collection of lamps, night and the smells of night-pushing-towardmorning, light and morning-sounds already pulsing. Making things. Snails and roots. The dug earth exuding, breathing a calliope of themselves. Gushy mud. Slobbery and clay-flled. Had oozed inside, soiling her. Being sleeping in it. Upright, though not at frst. Upright walking and at frst seeming-to-be. 38 Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 38 7/1/08 8:43:15 PM �Copper_Pheasant_text.indd 39 7/1/08 8:43:15 PM �The Copper Pheasant Ceases Its Call was set in Minion, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and frst issued in digital form by Adobe Systems, Mountain View, California, in 1989. Typesetting & production: Claudia Smelser. Printing & binding: Lightning Source, Inc. 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LIB-PC011 Language A language of the resource eng poetry publications SherPublications https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/35d8d01c3dc77ddd5886796d812f3387.pdf fa4265787d0579a1f721429e39e31076 PDF Text Text Calliope Calliope_text.indd 1 8/28/08 5:11:12 PM �also by gail sher Prose Writing the Fire: Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive • 2006 The Intuitive Writer: Listening to Your Own Voice • 2002 One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers • 1999 From a Baker’s Kitchen • 1984/2004 Poetry old dri’s lament • 2007 The Coper Pheasant Ceases Its Call • 2007 East Wind Melts the Ice • 2007 Watching Slow Flowers • 2006 DOHA • 2005 RAGA • 2004 Once There Was Grass • 2004 redwind daylong daylong • 2004 Birds of Celtic Twilight: A Novel in Verse • 2004 Look at That Dog All Dressed Out in Plum Blossoms • 2002 Moon of the Swaying Buds • 2002 Lines: The Life of a Laysan Albatross • 2000 Fifty Jigsawed Bones • 1999 Saffron Wings • 1998 One bug . . . one mouth . . . snap! • 1997 Marginalia • 1997 La • 1997 Like a Crane at Night • 1996 Kuklos • 1995 Cops • 1988 Broke Aide • 1985 Rouge to Beak Having Me • 1983 (As) on things which (headpiece) touches the Moslem • 1982 From Another Point of View the Woman Seems to be Resting • 1981 Calliope_text.indd 2 8/28/08 5:11:12 PM �Calliope Gail Sher Q night crane press 2007 Calliope_text.indd 3 8/28/08 5:11:12 PM �Copyright 2007, Gail Sher All rights reserved. Night Crane Press 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 435 Emeryville, California 94608 No part of this publication my be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner and the publisher. isbn: 978–0–9794721–1–4 Calliope_text.indd 4 8/28/08 5:11:12 PM �For Brendan Calliope_text.indd 5 8/28/08 5:11:12 PM �Calliope_text.indd 6 8/28/08 5:11:12 PM �contents High-on the Name Tag 1 Calliope 49 from times before our very sun 71 Sky Daughter 83 Calliope_text.indd 7 8/28/08 5:11:12 PM �Calliope_text.indd 8 8/28/08 5:11:12 PM �high-on the name tag Calliope_text.indd 1 8/28/08 5:11:12 PM �Calliope_text.indd 2 8/28/08 5:11:12 PM �there are three throats three seeds that say these are the syllables of the cross * a collared one shouted but his collar was black he’s going to die they said * and I too die in the word and I begin swallowing that consciousness * falling to their meaning at the crossing one is left one word missed in the styrofoam � Calliope_text.indd 3 8/28/08 5:11:12 PM �and in its eye a word spilling from the cup a mountain of three skulls the lady danced her curly knife assailing the tongue of the heavy man * the acreage of him bloody and in turmoil from the eyebrows up she said * how from my waist I chop how the word was severed like a blip three baskets full slipping through my toes yojanas below the enchantment � Calliope_text.indd 4 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �she had it in her mind certain colors as they would protrude into her the longing to taste think it to stone * to actually ask go to the door politely * the throat of the poem set serenly adrift telling it in the end as if light existed * my time in this throat plunged in a room of stuff � Calliope_text.indd 5 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �high-on the name tag as he with the school snapping off heads I wade walking over turtles’ necks * who sleep upwards pink from sun pink from the pain of this exposure * yes we derive the burden of fatness from a mold we are stood in a dark wooden box a fruit grabs sun from the shadow of its sisters � Calliope_text.indd 6 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �her tattoo rose as if out of the word itself dropping in plea in relic of lighted waist * her name aloud before the sirens * in a fountain in a circle the she of my face of this entanglement solidly * in the crease of her eye the butter from before that spot in salt where they embalmed my body � Calliope_text.indd 7 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �doves slept there before the snow bringing sound to her her relevance among the trees * repellent of her repellent of all words * her white chin lay there brown as a tongue (twisting in tongue) on prickly sand little tufts of height * she didn’t swallow it immediately placing the bet in her throat � Calliope_text.indd 8 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �from the caution of her throat she perched on a branch then gathered the lawn in her body � Calliope_text.indd 9 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �snow feathers was how the papers described it bowl of bone anchored in desert sand swaddled in cloth (though at sunset, it said, the mirage shifted) * words in the pit in the high pink air in the lace in her Asian play bell * the crust of his word from his downy young chin stealing it from saying itself 10 Calliope_text.indd 10 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �a vowel and I tame its way backwards to their people 11 Calliope_text.indd 11 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �slicing flesh he speaks of eyes thus she disrobed digging holes claiming them with flying stones * climbing from the pond (whose eyeballs leave hollows) columns of cars swallow the morning hill * three stages of dusk streak the child of cement a mother wheels a carriage across a sidewalk crack when I undress it is still there 12 Calliope_text.indd 12 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �I am a cobbler a skeleton in chinks dangles down my back * I am you seated nailed in you resting before you * old head I swallow you whole lick my plate with hairy tongue I feed you agony I feed you my only child * I am so full eating it from behind myself 13 Calliope_text.indd 13 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �China bloodless boy people of mast here are some if we are dumb if we are dumb so puffed and slobbering to themselves * shouting it down the mountain lugging the beast back to his people * over hills, over fields the moon’s condition come to pass come home stars lay down your heads nailed to the earth across the pasture 14 Calliope_text.indd 14 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �on the hull we die in a cauldron of talk lungs grown out give me what you hold * quit it, quit doing it look bitch! (they were in a yard) * how we locked in how we from the beginning face this land of water this conch spiraling right in the yard for a second I see sky 15 Calliope_text.indd 15 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �i my face is sound I dress in puddles of snow the road leads to water says the man and I scoop it up * o woman of meat from today on (from today on) inside your wound from your heart’s deep water * inside her was a quiet place of water the subject of water its private spot in birds 16 Calliope_text.indd 16 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �occasionally in trees one might yelp 17 Calliope_text.indd 17 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �ii she asks and I take this to heart this line and me how far towards head can I breathe in * mutt you are here wearing salt coats in darkening host of trees lay down your pack on invisible land assail the bird iii in the relapse was the bird the tail of the bird lugging its mist 18 Calliope_text.indd 18 8/28/08 5:11:13 PM �watchword come back I want to hold you * the vase tilts the eye of the peacock winks * o loud one she said swallowing they turn upright propped by the door the sky disappeared and I alone pulled downward by my head 19 Calliope_text.indd 19 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �the stars were out so I began again at the temple encampment a bell rings this is soft this is gentle to the touch * cloudscape spilling inside rabbits chewing themselves in my bed keep me whole murmurs the tin child * so as they sat in death here on my pride and again before the tree 20 Calliope_text.indd 20 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �the swimmer and I it took place at my foot under the toe-pad’s soft I woke early to plant new trees universe of flowers before and after rivers * the name of them each with its signature eluding * vowing as if this place in him were empty tendrils of fish drift dangerously close to shore not a colony but a behest to the white man 21 Calliope_text.indd 21 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �once I shed skin like fruit I peeled back I spit seeds who sprout the yellow tree-flowers * I shed eyes contrive my seeing in stones don’t cry stones I will throw the red fish back * I shed breath parting air I lay glowing light in earth rumbles beneath me breathless 22 Calliope_text.indd 22 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �wash your name in bone o my god break the day to pieces your head in pain thankfully on a rosebush * bush to bush the face of the child the skin on him this winter’s seventh month * he whispered up my burning he said that this is a moment of lace to pick a favorite from my skin 23 Calliope_text.indd 23 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �a sanctuary of shards spread like seed all over the land Calliope_text.indd 24 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �my bones are in that mountain in the vale of flowers beyond its southern pass slipped down to me by the sky how long ago * who wander broken a coterie of lambs thought of as a bush * the land was yellow and contained a tree a man tied to a pole looked up he is praying and others too are glancing eastward * 25 Calliope_text.indd 25 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �o house of cans I squat wind blows * to replace its word is why I gather mushrooms in sticky sun I squat peaceful juice spills on my gapping pant-leg finally (finally) the mountain becomes a cloud sloughing south following the man 26 Calliope_text.indd 26 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �having eaten fish I open myself to make them more comfortable I pet the fawn twisting my calves * two fish leap kiss and die * fish, fry here (o my fish) sway grass in coin of rain so far we kill the awl of fishes presides while I walk by covering my head 27 Calliope_text.indd 27 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �you enter the room of his eyes they laugh a person you can’t quite grasp o Timothy, my son, wan one * a head had its eyes lowered * still the view like the shadow of a bird sealing it so that it would belong to her how low can I arrive how much particle can I detect across the border 28 Calliope_text.indd 28 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �1 so she and now the voice from the kitchen wall whose are the shadows falling softly as they dissolve she, mother of the turned corners 2 waist bestowed again susurrus of sound (a rodent sniffs daytime) losing its balance, extending its neck in its rock loose of their call 29 Calliope_text.indd 29 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �3 tablets stand among the lambs sun spills as a tree is from the inside my skin is that tree and I, in my eyes, cannot stop the voices 30 Calliope_text.indd 30 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �north of here is dawn a little pink girl trips and falls laughing she raises her elbow to the brim of her hat the certainty of that moment when her elbow hit her hat * though her laugh was real the image was like her dress * so break so turned upon the pestle we write columns from the moon’s sleeping rabbit in holy pride we lay our bath 31 Calliope_text.indd 31 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �o town of birds circling spires chewing calamitous meat 32 Calliope_text.indd 32 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �a flare I am ark to ark a sparkler belly be full belly be full * whistling a tune my teeth sing tune, be careful * the coming of blue being born then I hear your sound in my far away hill stout verb swinging in air I arrive with wind trailing from my fingers 33 Calliope_text.indd 33 8/28/08 5:11:14 PM �i this land, once a field held a lake that could be read letters for the oracle in the shape of a green man fury red fury green take it all so the oracle left * in my throat in my long green throat he put a straight-backed chair * no one saw the book that lay open on the water ground of cans piled by the wall tell the water tell the lake 34 Calliope_text.indd 34 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �my face before the me of this gold time ii later, emptied of people emptied of all wanderingsof-mind so that the patterns shifted running more to clean rows * a tree fell a branch lay by your side * the carrion of fish pinned the hour to your footprints nosing air a colt limped home be little o one with the coat till you are safe 35 Calliope_text.indd 35 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �headstrong boy but she sees him crawling by lineage stomping his thick foot to bind dawn to your foot your sleeve and that night * from the endless parallel of my swollenness from the cause of me from such acts as the man left on my chair * licking the dog whose maggots are new maggots to see them (from my cry to take me from them) 36 Calliope_text.indd 36 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �touching them with my lips offer myself to the little heads 37 Calliope_text.indd 37 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �why did she care she wondered laying aside the book a dim light could be seen possibly from a cabin reaching in not for the word but for the space which had a time * fat drops driven violently sideways * the man’s mind into which she tossed herself becomes a bird fly away bird fly south where you are needed * 38 Calliope_text.indd 38 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �letters moved (she could barely make them out) the sky moved hanging bluntly a circle swayed toppled to the sea to you, sea, I chant and to the one with ears hearing you into me 39 Calliope_text.indd 39 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �good kalpa when old was ten the deer forgot to graze one became quite lonely a mare lost its footing on the way to feed its colt the toes of a bird ascended like a spire before which she knelt a Friday afternoon on the counter was an egg * the postman slipped the egg upon the roof waiting to burn waiting till he is blindfolded * the bird in its kindness dropped a feather in a rock 40 Calliope_text.indd 40 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �yielding thy worms arising in my mouth I want cow I want butter * the belly in calamity hawks a mere existence we among chimps sanding circles back the land dissolves (the plain becomes a shoulder) I am black my horse is black its colt is black 41 Calliope_text.indd 41 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �he blew her a kiss that night of long sound each year the fat of him in his guest gulping them down just as the sky wants * a heifer in need cuddles its milk in rolling grass guests spill * o monk of size orange and walking I wave do you see or do you simply (chewing meat) on the rug find a broken moment 42 Calliope_text.indd 42 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �in my clothes as though that had appearance sharply I thought of her straggling through snow half of her of bed body of spleen I am the red father * o little girl your Mary Janes are mine your skirt soft and brown I have carried with me everywhere do you remember the exchange that startling light-full dusk perhaps you thought I was dead * here on the wall I dance 43 Calliope_text.indd 43 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �there is a crystal-clean bathroom our plight through the orchard its crocodile flares I am that rolling my eyes 44 Calliope_text.indd 44 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �a raw man blue against the day in closed shirt may he rest older than man older than what is alive * bird woman in a squat she smokes and he, from his hands at the table’s white head * swinging the pipe (it rests on a pillow) dirt prods its bed stoneless in the sky will I cry to feel the pale trees 45 Calliope_text.indd 45 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �i jagged midnight burns covers the veins of this blousy man (I place the lamp on the damask carpet) * the chair at rest of wood beheld on (soft) drop of blood * her foot ’neath a lamp raises (lowers) slowly a baby finds some lace and is sucking on it who is now a deer chewing razor-sharp leaves its cry from the hill in the pale light 46 Calliope_text.indd 46 8/28/08 5:11:15 PM �ii so he edgy I will make you a tourniquet, brother * soldered to dawn her bare voice drops * each thorn tells the breadth holds a column of its bereavement a mountain moves to the right a residue devolves and I too rise with the sun 47 Calliope_text.indd 47 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �Calliope_text.indd 48 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �calliope Calliope_text.indd 49 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �Calliope_text.indd 50 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �calliope grass in chasuble descends towards the sea chafed, the animals in a circle o one of tooth to whose halls perched below that orbit * may I not as the plant scream * o bewildered hotness * is what I’ve heard from the embers is what homunculus no telling how the pieces 51 Calliope_text.indd 51 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �be exact said the floating maroon lady she laughs (entwined with her laugh) sea water sounds tossing fish high hush my love for once in space to wring our necks * so that we fly toward ourselves hand it to others freely being animals the noose dissolves the eel lies within the string hobbled & queer 52 Calliope_text.indd 52 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �astride the toads to the tuft to the tide pool you stand fresh in a girl of nothing * a good deal of sky pours through the roof * rest sky I who rest am the mind of the stone * its precision among me as if she were sleeping in breath 53 Calliope_text.indd 53 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �for the loss of that second when I humbled in my blankets her shoes smoldering as dead as me * click! each chaff to its earth-mate I, fallow, fall below on a tiger rug I sit in you content in you * papa, accept me! allow me to please the earlier saplings a moment appears like a tree I wake in a forest of cedar legs 54 Calliope_text.indd 54 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �I am now a wigwam who started yesterday when I swam I make magic said the man he is old of frail bone and teeth * in my toes I am a poor thing tell me again how to dance * the belly pulse the vale of scattered bread the pending of me from behind the mountain sill these lines that I cross to die near a sharp sharp rose 55 Calliope_text.indd 55 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �my mush is dressed so I rise with dawn brown cow, come (raising eyes, curious) we live under sky yellow, blue dots a paper thing from which blood drips * the cloth of this body the chime of this day bleat for me who need nothing * a Dalmatian eats fruit white food (in white cloth arms) allow us to eat which is done playfully munching bones wrapped in ribbon 56 Calliope_text.indd 56 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �as a tree to make a drawing paint myself black in this soft soft body nudging day begin, day! * a weather patch (the first gray morning) coo coo says the owl sobbing in its hole dawn nuzzles the highway lays the rye straight * o swollen mouse (cream of yard) chewing mouthfuls of earth you crawl between the peas day wanders to its fields (the turnpike grows small) mustard flowers yellow the pale noon 57 Calliope_text.indd 57 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �savagely by the bush she knelt o queen, my death, my live-wire the muzzle of the rock fastens in strength to the crux of our skin * pieces of cloth flounder being of nature porous * I wash flowers I dye weeds making rain if the oracle asks winter is coming winter will be here soon 58 Calliope_text.indd 58 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �be with me daughter borrow my history beyond the crumbling fence in my nest in my hollow living of life pink in the trade of smelling quickly * spring-sweet pink (I stand in wetted silence) * being crawling in it a monk’s three robes throb in air so long your chain (o salad of living threads) 59 Calliope_text.indd 59 8/28/08 5:11:16 PM �the robin awake though the tree is quiet on the brink one eye so shortchanged and breasted blue * splendorous fowl the gawk of you (the gawk of your wake) we are wands we are of your section * shriveling before the stripper her dress her fatherless apron devolve my son in the eyes of the fowl this dusk the dust is broken 60 Calliope_text.indd 60 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �a quail moves quickens in the welling night the bird is I dug into blackness * the dust of the dog having been being having been as its torso * dharmata so pink so many birds equally spaced on the pole 61 Calliope_text.indd 61 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �ask again make the ants talk in calvery in block of dangling feet blood drips is it in your eyes? will you write with your whole body? * breathless ant uphill on the maul where once we stood impaled in a cloud * doors align an empty hall inserting inserting in augury of the palid one to dye the knuckles green sun is caught in my sparkling forehead 62 Calliope_text.indd 62 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �rejoice! singing smokestacks cobblestones walk this dark night o fairest lady of the next frost * in the canal where we used to fight in the hour they held left to their fingers alone * in earth blue in lodging of cold verb the mark of the bird wandering in air to the high tall west * 63 Calliope_text.indd 63 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �I am its lot I am its endlessness the land of cry in the bit of our grain a cardinal sits cocked in chirp my blood in the egg frosty & solid 64 Calliope_text.indd 64 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �to be sky-full once a rag of nods as the tide seeps in the camera of her (wanting numbers to fit) now and again an instant will finish 65 Calliope_text.indd 65 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �white book white endless knot out to my solitude behind this excruciating face far away the sound of prettiness even anyone fled as if countries exist over there 66 Calliope_text.indd 66 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �my city moves sideways till I cry till I am backwards water falls beneath my shadow which I lick with my sour tongue * wanting my hell warmer wanting my own mothers back mirror days down the ridge in pieces at another lunch several years apart * chiseled awake worn again to life the nibbling of me under the nail’s ridge 67 Calliope_text.indd 67 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �concealed in frost I lie abed yellow o windhorse! o mare of my old mothers! 68 Calliope_text.indd 68 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �waving at the train I grin again night has passed into endless lighted stars pushes dawn down its narrow blue ridgeway * o chested ground of hills sky folds in sad flowers birds wail the king’s three notes * the life of its custody she brings meat wrapped in dress 69 Calliope_text.indd 69 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �before the gate the essence of her children daughters in red all animals shorn 70 Calliope_text.indd 70 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �from times before our very sun Calliope_text.indd 71 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �Calliope_text.indd 72 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �from times before our very sun* storms on the sun her day on the sun-ease a yellowjacket lands on the jagged pilgrim wall a child cries seeing it on the hill seated in sun like death * the feeling of calm as they swell into me ground of rain relaxed a white swan curls its neck in the mud *From danger on peaks by Gary Snyder 73 Calliope_text.indd 73 8/28/08 5:11:17 PM �* I cometh on a camel black in silence (ear in dawn) black calf of black curled eye 74 Calliope_text.indd 74 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �the birth of hair that day in the ski one deer falls in shifting autumn light way back (way back) done to words as I lay dying * slipped beneath the nail the bristle of her on ordinary stair step a boy is whipped who becomes a metal leaf by her hair-mitten (by the white elephant god) * bandaged boy carrying fresh milk 75 Calliope_text.indd 75 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �you smell of yesterday’s hemorrhage the yell in the night in memorial of shoes boxes and boxes of the dead man 76 Calliope_text.indd 76 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �his (demon) breakneck no guy (o regent of the brass) that cunt and now war 77 Calliope_text.indd 77 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �to suck the mole (its kid horse) and I, in tow, next to the warming earth bringing the speed dragging it from the hill eeking it from my lonely fingers * o fabulous horse streaming down my back in paw her flames of parrot earth erupts to bring the queen to place * shattered girl your home is lost one penny in child crumpled history lost 78 Calliope_text.indd 78 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �the cornice where you jump driving a stake in the hard-packed dirt 79 Calliope_text.indd 79 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �she carved the line on her scalp clean of hair it reddened in pleasure languishing by the water she (of death) watches her history fall * the cradle where I land for I fall from the tree (the wild sweet orange) in awl (in plum) how we read mice hearing my own mountain sob * to hear (your mind to hearing) 80 Calliope_text.indd 80 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �o lamb of purr the deer lies fallow thrum of rain the sluice before me breaks me one tear falls from the left eye of the statue 81 Calliope_text.indd 81 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �Calliope_text.indd 82 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �sky daughter Calliope_text.indd 83 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �Calliope_text.indd 84 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �birds popped in the coming of yellow lady of ring of flowers rising tall slow-land flocks gathering its wings for the leaves twist prettily in their own quiet * soft face on soft cloth she weeps inside the yellow string left to herself left to the ones on trees * waking at dawn the notion of flowers giving head to a flower 85 Calliope_text.indd 85 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �(o god) calling it by name a word in sedge holds red within itself * a mother cries across a sea-bed rose-o-rose o-robins in their beauty to die on the male a king as you were promised draw it, dear draw me what you see 86 Calliope_text.indd 86 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �the fiction of her dreaming herself alive I dream (in her presence) carved by myself from a tree stigmata, my life a single tree starving to quietly save the calf o mother of six deaths * your old friend calls knowing you are tired who is her in chld who is my alive mother the agony of grass meat of this dinnertime the coziest name churning inside my stomach * 87 Calliope_text.indd 87 8/28/08 5:11:18 PM �o basketry your lathe of wood cometh umbels of maidenflower tremble in a breeze in her vest a polyp of her death why do I cry to see the pale seeds fall 88 Calliope_text.indd 88 8/28/08 5:11:19 PM �our tribe (our lake) feathers from our land o hand, you’ve taken it from our mothers in servitude of kittens toggling one mountain away * stoke the fire so the cat can die quickly by this rose by this young sheep finally vultures atop salmali trees gouge my eyes to suck the fat listen sweet mother of the fallen river! * winged-of-now clocking death 89 Calliope_text.indd 89 8/28/08 5:11:19 PM �iron leaves pierce my flesh day-in-and short my stomach in woolens 90 Calliope_text.indd 90 8/28/08 5:11:19 PM �behold the sky please (I am myself pasting words to sky) a bird-dog watch at Christmas long ago o yellow boy (pup of thin arms) here a topknot repeat after me my short day 91 Calliope_text.indd 91 8/28/08 5:11:19 PM �queer dogs in dawn land of snow farms melting like history o one of head of short (short) ears * cur in snow we are frozen our hearts are tough salt hawk-fawn of the high plateau doggy of the silent lips your notes of grass I lick * the morning teams (sunny, cloudless) I hunt and my dog follows birds sing me quick (sing me up) being wooden me spindle of three gleams 92 Calliope_text.indd 92 8/28/08 5:11:19 PM �raise yourself, Charlie murmured the calf weasel be free breathe well from whose vase sprouts a ruby branch bathing death in the rose-frozen evening air * I lean up buried upright as a narrow fellow my leopard sleeps (on rock of wool) my long waist sobs as I touch you again * dress yourself! she said providing him with cloth the congress of him in homily 93 Calliope_text.indd 93 8/28/08 5:11:19 PM �of his warmth to her I shift in my seat the old man’s paper falls upriver leaves sever the city 94 Calliope_text.indd 94 8/28/08 5:11:19 PM �I’ll sell you, she says standing on her back one sore hand nailed to a cross the filly in her saber coat frees me like a pencil roaring around the hill being eaten in it frankly * to deeply knowing the pencil the sharp back of bread in scree slices in disk crack come dear be eaten tonight together 95 Calliope_text.indd 95 8/28/08 5:11:19 PM �released of name (o gods) the town hall stands in simplicity like a monk-man my golden bone of day in penalty in supreme bigness I sit tall eating off the dead * and now you, mother! and now me of the head watch son, as we die (I watch her watch) the petal of moons the tide of ten swans one yielding fawn creeps away silently 96 Calliope_text.indd 96 8/28/08 5:11:19 PM �contemplative (your sharp sharp rose) started from her as the plum rose is once before death the 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Typesetting & production: Claudia Smelser. Printing & binding: Lightning Source, Inc. Calliope_text.indd 100 8/28/08 5:11:19 PM �Calliope_text.indd 101 8/28/08 5:11:19 PM �Calliope_text.indd 102 8/28/08 5:11:20 PM �Calliope_text.indd 103 8/28/08 5:11:20 PM �Calliope_text.indd 104 8/28/08 5:11:20 PM � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gail Sher Collection Subject The topic of the resource Sher, Gail, 1942- Poetry -- United States Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sher, Gail, 1942- Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-PC011 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Night Crane Press, 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 435 Emeryville, California 94608 www.gailsher.com Cover art: Gail Sher No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN: o-9726n5-1-7 �Birds of Celtic twilight. A fen, a sea, strongwind and her Maggie, rough-hewed, interior, brash. Rocks, her secret Gaelic love. Windiness alone, above all else in bleeding. Pull her nightly to the tall dark cliff. A rain of birds, raptors and the snouts of sea animals. ·· 0 A chilly day. Wind cracks the fog banging on chimes. A lone owl hoots. Gregorian notes crash riotously as the wind howls, bumps against the dirty glass. She stood shivering, gazing at the scrawny hill. There a seal there a gull amidst the tide, slapping the coastline. Full-to-the-brim it tumbles leaving its echo­ roar to disturb or not the flock that just landed. A palish sunrise hacks at the cold day. I �She stalked the edge, the very precipice of the universe. (Such were her thoughts as she walked this dawn, next to the water, singing.) 0 It wasn't clear what kind of day it'd be. Dune flowers relaxed, softly swaying. She faced the sea, its moody blundering. Gradual swelling, then long, windy nothingness. Raw­ ness climbed the cliff. The gulls' slow arcs above the graying clouds like half-dried sheets, soppy, not crisp. Her thoughts fell to the boy who knew now that he loved the girl who, the day before, had married a man she didn't love, had never loved. Her mo~her saw his yearning. She couldn't stop her daughter, she felt, so she tried to stop the boy from making a fool of himself. Facing the moony shore she shook her finger at its whitecaps, which plunged regardless. So much pain, yetpfumph-there they go. Later she stood, backhanding crumbs from around her chin, swishing them from her bodice. Stars shone brilliant above the sleepy sea. She walked out into the night, the full moon reeking, fire flowers flitting through the bountiful air and sky. Crunch crunch 2 �crunch. Her footsteps on the gravely path down to the beachhead. 0 The birds were silent when she woke dizzy with her violent dream. She lay there listening. The slappy sea. Pounding, roaring, lashing out its non-message. She lay awake, sour breath melting salt-sea night. Rain and sea, a hovering mist cycling and enclosing her world. (She felt like an island.) 0 DEAD. This manner of speaking referred now to his father, the man who saw God twice. First God told him to paint. Later God told him to stop. Does anyone do more? She woke into the brilliant morning knowing the answer. 0 A high sun shone. So bright. So bright that its rays struck the coil of a road up the green-capped blindingly­ glistening hill. Cows grazed with their backs toward it. 3 �She stripped her toast of crust and buttered it lavishly. Her hoya 's blossoms twirled along the ledge, gulping the sunny sun. She sipped her coffee, dazed, staring out, comforted by her tangled dream that wrung from her her terror, twisted it out like a wringer twists out dirty soapy water. The room was quiet. The slight jump of the wall-clock's hands. The tippling wind on her outdoor flowers. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. She felt paralyzed. As if the significant click, the one to which her life had for years looked forward, had taken place in the dark, during her dream. The intensity of the brawl still present in her body. 4 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2004 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2016-03-04 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. 2004 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Gail Sher and used with permission. For more information contact the Poetry Collection at lpo-poetry@buffalo.edu. Is Version Of A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation. Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format. 972611517 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-PC011_002 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 6 p. Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. LIB-PC011 Language A language of the resource eng poetry publications SherPublications https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/0bd99f0d99a4a9b8ba3ce3e7ff4cb59d.pdf 28a80693813d01545c584747117dd539 PDF Text Text The Bardo Books �also by gail sher Prose Writing the Fire: Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive • 2006 The Intuitive Writer: Listening to Your Own Voice • 2002 One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers • 1999 From a Baker’s Kitchen • 1984/2004 poetry The Bardo Books • 2011 White Bird • 2010 Mother’s Warm Breath • 2010 The Tethering of Mind to Its Five Permanent Qualities • 2009 though actually it is the same earth • 2008 The Haiku Masters: Four Poetic Diaries • 2008 Who: A Licchavi • 2007 Calliope • 2007 old dri’s lament • 2007 The Copper Pheasant Ceases Its Call • 2007 East Wind Melts the Ice • 2007 Watching Slow Flowers • 2006 DOHA • 2005 RAGA • 2004 Once There Was Grass • 2004 redwind daylong daylong • 2004 Birds of Celtic Twilight: A Novel in Verse • 2004 Look at That Dog All Dressed Out in Plum Blossoms • 2002 Moon of the Swaying Buds • 2001 Lines: The Life of a Laysan Albatross • 2000 Fifty Jigsawed Bones • 1999 Saffron Wings • 1998 One bug . . . one mouth . . . snap! • 1997 Marginalia • 1997 La • 1996 Like a Crane at Night • 1996 Kuklos • 1995 Cops • 1988 Broke Aide • 1985 Rouge to Beak Having Me • 1983 (As) on things which (headpiece) touches the Moslem • 1982 From Another Point of View the Woman Seems to be Resting • 1981 �The Bardo Books Gail Sher night crane press 2011 �Copyright 2011, Gail Sher All rights reserved. Night Crane Press 1500 Park Avenue, Suite 435 Emeryville, California 94608 No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner and publisher. isbn: 978-0-9794721-8-3 �For Brendan ��contents Death 1 Bathing Suit 15 Black 25 Cow 33 Hunt 39 Birth 45 ��Death ��A man breaks fish. The man mentally smoothes its fins so that they don’t stick out. I’m waiting to be black, he’s saying, but it is food he’s uttering. I can see the food grow in his eyes. Though the black diffusion of fish swims away from the horizon, the fish continue endlessly. I see the fish who is my brother. Its time is pink like mine. We flow in the same yard. 3 �Maybe my mother is a former fish whose throat was broken by the man. I offer her a word. I lift the word to the level of my forehead. Where’s my death? she is asking. But I think it’s the clairvoyance of my mother, the instant in her dream wandering around her body parts. Once she saw sun draining down a mountain path, like the ridges of a shell, the beauty of a hump on death. 4 �Before my mother is dead, I begin, but you say, No. ‘before’ is a word. Words are time. Of is its existence. The time of the word, dead (the word), hanging from sky, is an activity that she knows from already having been dead. Time is not skin in which body parts are wrapped, but of ineffable pink flamingo fluff, later, back in the hotel room. 5 �So there is this dream of a mother somewhere in death. Actually she isn’t dead, but merely spaces I shuffle around. As if a cold steel point is inserted in her with the sense that this is correct, this is good to insert this inside you. It’s the dead person, she thinks. Like a Harlem of her lying on either side of me, but someone says, No! Go to school, as if wherever she is is center but not the center of anything. Then I go, Oh, she’s dead! seeing as before, heavy rice-tassels ripening in the fields. 6 �* Low sun from above you on lilies, blue flags. She walks a hill and the cool sun is prescient she feels. Like a garden of animals, caribou, birds, rhinoceros soaking, so that the sun emerges in them darkly. Dusk is like a hen absorbing herself into her chickens, she murmurs. The wrinkles of the sun swell on your back and I’m thinking, There’s the sun, but it’s just one of the five poisons. 7 �A man stands on a hill. Light and birds and leaves dribble from his fingers. Unnnnn, he utters. I am without rivers. I am without a sound that can be replicated. As how light passes through death, like the skin of a bird peeled from its wing. A young bird honks, honk-honk-honk, as if its feathers are a territory, too excavated, almost the whole weather. 8 �A body melts in sun. A herd melts. A melted herd is called downward directness. Because what is isolated is stopped. Air’s inside is caught. Upward directness stopped is like movement’s absolute inside. A hat might exist, in this sun, like snow in sun or a flower pressing sun. The beauty of the hat is because our world is situated at the heart level of Buddha Immense Ocean Vairochana, a person remarks. 9 �Sun slips to sea as if air were sea so that within slipping there is existence. Sea is fact. And each sea avuncular like a family structure. I look out to sea and the green ripples wave and a little boat drifts like a concept I can forget about. The splendor of water admits a line of morning light, which could be light repelling its own limit or light irrespective of her sense of limit. 10 �Somehow a bird slips away from its limits, therefore it exists, like a rainbow or a raindrop. The fusion of a shell touches a current of shells, or like the inside of a wave, if I died, it would be the same as seeing the wave in a mirror. If I look at the sun, slowly, imagining it’s a meadowlark, something is solidified in the tense mind of my hand. A mirror appears to take my hand inside, but I want my hand to be its own inside. 11 �Which is of time, like being fed time. Taste is in her neck, the city of her body. A dead boy leaves a trail in a house toward the bottom of its body. Like if a peach dies and becomes decipherable, like the inside of my food. Daylight in a voice or the skin of sea is a separate gesture cordoned off as if for that you would have to stand in line. 12 �I am now a person touched by sea, the motion of sea inside the horse, harvesting the horse. Maybe the artist drew the horse’s shell after it was a horse. The beauty of a horse is forever, you mutter. The scale of a horse inside a man or a man possessed by a dzo pulling a blazing cart of fire—the lines of thought cannot, like a ‘shippei,’ be grasped tightly in one’s fist. If a horse eats sea, it’s sea’s endless rocking land, the climax of one becoming one again, recycling what has never left. 13 ��Bathing Suit �A woman begins, is the value of space, like a child in a pool, shuffling air in which hard wood is air. She breathes through wood, taking sharp quick breaths. I want the soft cloth of children, she’s saying. Her breath has height and the texture of children swimming, new swim, out and out, yet clearly touching the bottom. The mind of wood may rest itself to completion, she murmurs. Wood and air is swimming there, in the space of air filtered through a dark forgotten memory. 16 �She is complete air. She tucks herself in air, as in the taste of breath, the babysteps of breath. She is anterior to her air and tries to tie air like a ball. Someone gives me a ball and I tie up the ball. I feel certain that I want to tie the ball. She calls it air because it’s there like air, but actually it’s a kind of stupidity. 17 �Swimming is like a captivity in its body. Every minute in a row I am swimming everywhere and wanting to spend my time swimming swimming swimming. Because death, too, is an integer. I say ‘grass’ and it follows me into longevity. The absence of time, like grass without time, or a lizard in its skin but outside time so that its purity lay in its body. The brain of the sky snaps an instant to its purity because everything perceived is Buddha Vairochana. 18 �My mind vanishes then. Inside its skin it has its male and female aspects. A pool of mind is a passage of light, raw light, the membrane between the watery part of light. A person flows through wood and is the breath of a swimmer, like two dead people in love. Air in a heart is the same air resting there. 19 �* A woman walks but she is dead. Her red dress is dead. She is pasted on a page like a paper doll. There is a handbag and hat that can be separately attached, which is how clothing exists if the person is not living. She longs for herself in the stray black bonnet, alone, by the sea, soft as a wave. She takes in sky like a flower sky. If I see you, then see you as if you were an outline, it’s like seeing an avoidance. 20 �An image of a body has the sweet porous colors of body + ideal body, like the image of a bather standing under sky where sky, a haze of pink, traces itself onto the person’s body. Piercing a bather snuggly wrapped in towel, piercing straight through her body. To be a small body on the underside of the color. A housekeeper of color, someone remarks. (A bird swims in time that has already escaped.) I see the bather’s legs, long and clipped, its posture of mind rooting repetitious shadows. 21 �The body is a uniform wearing the person. Color leaks out. A painted bather’s body is how light looks like this color. A bather’s cap and suit mark that person. Blue is the form of the feeling of her standing within boards shaped like a skeleton of sky. Boards in sky have a plethora of sky as if it’s sky that’s being constructed. The mark is interior, like the film of an angel disengaging from its body, wrapping itself around a life, saying I am my own angel. 22 �Opaque light under a bather’s knee, reflecting from its knee, because we’re through the knee, seeing a miasma of lustrous color. As if sky is knee because of the bather and sky’s proximity. A bardo of knee makes time that is a color. (The interval of a knee where red skips to a color.) So a painter paints a shape that is an appearance of time’s color, like a word appears as object and can be the object even in darkened space. 23 �Sky sheds words. The language of its space harkens toward direction, as if each object has its indigenous essential direction and the painter paints that. The interest in a knee wells up from light, like time plucked from myriad pools of time that whisper, I am that time. Roses are pure gold, their presence sartorial, upright. Scent is cast by their shadow. I sleep myself back to a set point of sky, like a ration of sky, raising the mass of doubt. 24 �Black �A black bird’s hair flows in the wind as if instinct pursues forward but forward is inside its body. Because ordinary birds cannot implant as an animating principle the non-direction of breath. A black bird lifts. Direction, not sensed, but being in the time of the bird’s body which the is-ness of its nest matches. I know your breath. The vibration now channels through the black part because black-on-black is how its breath is sheltered. 26 �Sweet water on the bird (the bounteous color of black as a form) dissolves back into its body. High black, like butterflies leaving imprints, in deference to that, which, after disappearance, is what is left. The allure is time, direction underneath itself, falling through wind, gushing through a mountain stream. She stares into a lake. A butterfly drifts on the surface of the water. Its wing is torn and she imagines its life rising briefly above its death before drifting off. 27 �A body dissolves and there is no memory of its having been undissolving. Like a bird whose hair got swallowed of its color. It is sizeless, jigsawing red, as if red is the surrogate of all possible places. A man taps a bird on the window of its head. He can dissolve without passing away, someone says. Then I am in my body but not captive in my body, because the reflection of my body as a “high” black bird got swallowed up. 28 �I describe an ideal of bird, a content of mind, like the sharpening of her hair so that she has little vajras of hair. Don’t suck your hair, her mother yells. An ideal of something ripening, a child’s bird near a nobleman’s. I want to put my bird near his so it will learn to sing with the same beautiful voice, the child explains. Her body has a sound and each limb I trace around my leg. Its breath-imprints paint the space of breath-swept thought. Like crammed flowers in a barrel hold together the heart of the person. 29 �Vajra is extent, no hair the space of being so happy. A mother abides and is in favor of her (as at a baseball game sort of). A wind-stroke of abiding, like the earth on its axis, which as we find out, doesn’t make any difference. To cultivate the awkward eye, the bird’s back eye, under its shoulder sleeping (in the bottom way of a being’s shrill sleep). The circumference of her sleep makes a limit in her body so that she cannot move beyond the elusive space of her body. 30 �The no-hair of her is exact her, so the mother thinks, I am not her. Then the mother fights. I am her also. Somewhere, like the bird, is why I keep one near me also. Slow words are on its belly. If you crawl under the bird, you see script you can decipher. A lexicon of hair (like a ballet of hair) so that repeatedly we converge on the edge of earth. 31 ��Cow �A woman paints cows in the passionate arena of some easiness in her. She relaxes into cow and paints a full and complete rectangle of color from her own memory. Like a wheelbarrow of cow (red squares may faintly vary according to the grass, which the woman doesn’t paint). The woman paints cows but she is actually painting her mind waving a khata for three seconds at death. 34 �Of course there is the painting of a blue girl as if the artist’s mother were dead. I too am in deadland. That quickening sense, as if she were a hall. The animals of a person come out. Once I was pure. Now the casing of kittens unfolds on my bed and my mother’s ignorance spills out. If she cooks I am afraid. If she hears I’m in the dynasty. 35 �Then a bird swoops down, soaring like a vulture. The tail of the bird shines its domino white/red/black. No-cow is cow, cow-time, or the fun of its calf, who is ticklish and laughs. So there’s a double cow, my dead mother’s mind, instead of her having her own. A woman plans her mind but quickly pastes something over it so it is lost. 36 �The milk-white bird lands on a cow’s head. The coils of the bird are like the value of wind suddenly. The cow sits without breath, skin colored like a tree. The moon could be a boat and the cow jumps over the boat only it is sitting and breathless and there is no water. An old cow moos from below itself upwards. In the gaps of the cow, because the light of the moon makes the cow REAL. 37 �A brown and white cow grazes on a hill. A common cow merging with the hill, as if it were a shelf holding all of the hill’s karma. The speed of the hill slows. Its eyes are just beginning, you proffer. A dead person becomes permeable. I’m that buttercup! I’m golden in the cow, a clear gold buttercup blossoming in the cow’s stomach. The tenderness of rushes and sweet voice of birds, a broom and bell till all sounds fluff them out. 38 �Hunt �A songbird steps through sky, absorbs the moor into its shadows. Its woolly bottom carries the number of nights it has been alive. The habit of sky moves in its bones. As how a verb, energetically transcends its sphere of meaning. The chore of it is the meaning. The movement of the land, wet and cold, rubs the man’s limbs. His gun is slack like an intelligence he can’t quite muster. A game bird’s flesh in air absorbs the brother air of his body. As if the bird is hunting his body and knows the use of his body. 40 �The head of a bird glows. Is it day or the bird? (The motility of its edges seeps through day like water.) Pieces of day. A pigeon moves in its body. If you leave air, there is no air, someone says. Sky bathes air like lineage brought from air. I have a pearl between my tail which can’t cross over the threshold. The wing of the bird drains of its flight as if one’s life is sped up so one can die. 41 �The beauty of a kill hangs in fog, which is what the man is seeking. He is married to kill still living there. He is in and out of color. Like he could pet the color, whose correlate is nativity. My stumps have knees but my legs cannot hold them. (Plum light weaves through my idea of the sky’s body.) A bird is brush, its gaze a throb. Its blueblack wings dip and slip. 42 �It feels like decomposition, flesh, rare-pink, a nick in the bird’s wing. The hair of the bird, digested by its mind in the mind of its karmic murderer. Whose bardo may be shot up. I eat sky, then the outcome of its body. (The belly of the bird waddles through flowers.) As if he eats his former mind thus twice-killing the bird and the potential of the bird. A moor fowl in the tentative sense of locale. 43 ��Birth �You are pock-marked like my birth. The wrongdoing of one in a long stream of Indian nobles. As if calamity rode in and no one was there. A war of one or no war being so violent. Like the Church or war-torn hearts afterwards in the alley, the animal’s eyes, dust to what is feral. The press of them, like cups, which is the smell of my birth in them. 46 �You come like a gust and intimately, where intimate is my finger. Touching you, inside a stone, in the hearth of a house there. Your mind is alluvial. If you roam I see the stubble of water pierce through you like an arrow. A bird hums inside its beauty like the inside of a sound heard only by its bird. 47 �If a bird arises from time and then the quick shape of something yellow, its gorgeousness is there. A tin of snow is your gift. The idea of immanence, a decoy of a time. The idea moves into other bodies. Cage-birds chirp in the bedroom of a sick person, making their singing esoteric. I count snow as if one, two, three live in the snow, are part of the snow’s paradisical logic. 48 ��The Bardo Books is set in Minion, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in the spirit of the humanist typefaces of fifteenth-century Venice. Minion was originally issued in digital form by Adobe Systems in 1989. In 1991, Slimbach received the Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale for excellence in type design. ��� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Death 1 Bathing Suit Black Cow Hunt Birth Extent The size or duration of the resource. 60 p. Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. LIB-PC011 Language A language of the resource eng poetry publications SherPublications https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/5a42e28863ce89dfe213599a00078449.pdf d6f6db961b0ac09b39f92a24d0a3790e PDF Text Text Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, 1916-1925 Creator and Transcriber: Mitchell, Anita Repository: State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives Abstract: Transcription of letters from Isabelle Martin to her son, Darwin R. Martin. Contextual notes by the transcriber are included in brackets [ ] at the end of most letters; WWI content is marked in red by the transcriber. Extent: pdf/156 KB Source: Letters, 1916-1925, 12.15, MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Preferred Citation: Mitchell, Anita, trans. Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, [date]. Letters in 12.15, MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Acquisition Information: Anita Mitchell, Darwin D. Martin House docent, gifted her transcription of the letters to University Archives in 2014. Terms of Access: Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, 1916-1925, is open for research. NOTE: Any marks within brackets [ ] are of the transcriber. �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 University of New York, SUNY, University Archives Darwin D. Martin Family Papers 22.6 Box 12 Folder 15 Belle to DRM Correspondence, ND [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Tuesday [November 1916] Son dear: Aunt Polly and I will arrive on Saturday afternoon this week, though we cannot say at what hour. We shall have to take a late train for Boston, as all accommodations are sold on the earlier trains thus getting us into the city at eleven or thereabouts. Please engage rooms at the Graduates House with double bed, from Sat. P.M., to Monday – Do not look for us until we appear, as we are very uncertain as to what train we shall be able to get going to Exeter. We will either go up to Webster and seek you, or telephone you. We are hoping you may arrange to meet us in Boston for Thanksgiving Day, where you know, the Kelloggs, Weavers, Dorothea and Dorothy will be – At least, Mrs. Weaver will be there. I shall see you so soon, I shall write but little. David Mannes and his wife give a musical here on Thursday, which we are anticipating with such pleasure, and only regret you and Sistie may not be here. We shall have about a hundred guests I think. Dearest love, until I see you, which will be in four days and I can just picture how improved your carriage is, with your head and shoulders up! Doing your level best Son? Mother [The diary records that in November 1916 on the 24th “IRM to Boston, Copley Plaza”; 25-26, “to Exeter”; 29th “Dorothy, Darwin and I to Boston”; 30th “Mother gave afternoon tea to Mr and Mrs Chas Kellogg and numerous friends. Darwin to Ex. Eastman, Weavers, Agnes[?] Burshead[?]”. The November entries for 1917-1919 did not seem to fit events mentioned in the letter.] 1 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [Lake Placid Club letterhead] Friday 22.6 folder 12-15 [March 1917] Darwin dear: Aunt Polly and I concluded we would better come right up here, and select our cottage on the spot for next summer, instead of waiting until later, or depend upon an arrangement by mail. So here we are, in the wonderful white snow, with drifts all around us, six to eight feet high, a sun as bright as June, and air as balmy. People are out with sweaters and no hats, and lusty boys like you without overcoats or hats! We have a lovely room in Forest Hall with fireplace and bath, and a lovely sleeping porch. Four windows look out across the lake, now frozen so hard that they are to have a horse race on it tomorrow! Quite different than it was when we left here in Aug.! We have given up the idea of lower Sunnyside, as Dr. Brumstead’s[?] cottage is to be moved just in front of it, thus cutting off even more air. We are looking at Outlook and East Rock, both lovely. Mrs. Barton is going to send Rex and DeWolf here for their Easter vacation. The winter sports have been very wonderful they tell us. Several people are here from Buffalo. Mrs. Davis, one of your grandma’s neighbors is one. Your explanation respecting Copley-Plaza is extremely satisfactory. Don’t you think you would better look into your condition of mind and see what you are thinking? Seems to me you are having a good deal or error come your way for a Christian Science boy, don’t you? Do you read every day a little, and try to live what you read dear? It is not necessary to do a great deal, if you only practice what you do read. James Foster is working along Science lines so wonderfully – and will be such a good man as a result of his great earnestness. Soon you will be with us and how I long to see you! We may stay here several days – it is so lovely. Until the twenty seventh then, I am Your own Mudder [The diary records that IRM was at the Lake Placid Club March 14-28, 1917. Outlook was leased for the season on April 30, 1917.] 2 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [IRM letterhead] 22.6 folder 12-15 Sunday [1916?] [in top margin: Will send eats in your next laundry basket] Though I have written you only a day or two since dear [ ? ], I have the Sunday feeling that it is the day to write to absent children, so I am going to send you a short letter, just to relieve my mind of a few little thoughts. First – if your legitimate expenses are such that they leave you short of money, don’t hesitate one moment to write us, for you may have freely what you require. Do not borrow from anyone – but always be forehanded enough to have plenty on hand for emergencies. Second – please write me frankly of the bad characteristics of the friend about whom you spend – tell me freely what his bad conduct consists of. Do not in any way permit yourself to be snared into, or scared into conduct you will regret. You are a good boy and I love to think of your enduring a test. I am a good deal better – in fact, am feeling quite myself again – and I am contemplating giving a Christian Science tea when the chrysanthemums are in flower. Tomorrow I have charge of a tea at the Guild of Allied Arts, where a friend of Mrs. Ward’s is to speak. She and Mrs. Ward will have luncheon with us, so we look for a busy day. Edward took Reuben’s family into the country for a long drive this afternoon, and, to judge from the length of time they were gone, i.e. – from 12.30 to 9 o’clock this eve- , they must have gone a good many miles. The day has been warm and sunny, so they have a lovely time I know. Your nice long letter was a great surprise this morning, and all of us have enjoyed your detailed account of your days. When does gymnasium open? After Thanksgiving I suppose, when football is over. Wasn’t it good of [ ? ] to go to see you so soon? Did you enjoy his fiancée? I could come up to see you most any time, if you don’t think you will be criticized by the fellows. You needn’t hesitate to ask me, or Father can come, if you are ever troubled about anything. We want you of course, to be manly and self reliant, but sometimes a little advice on the spot is good. We had a big package of Suffrage literature from Miss Gallagher the other day, with a characteristically friendly note. I am glad your algebra is easy, but we don’t mind your having[?] to work over your other things, do we. You expected and wished to you know! You are in my mind and heart all day Laddie dear and I look for nothing but good from you. Mudder [The letter may have been written in October 1916, for the tone of the letter seems to indicate that Darwin hadn’t been in school very long. He entered Exeter October 1, 1916.] 3 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] 22.6 folder 12-15 Thursday [1917?] 7.30 P.M. Dear Son: Your postcard has made a hard day for Father and me, and the heartache is worse than any physical pain. Think of your having been in two rows[?] since entering Exeter, and you, a Christian Science boy, and the son of a gentleman. Would you not class a boy as a rowdy, if you knew of two such escapades in eight months or less? Your having to have tutoring, shows you are shirking your work, for there is no reason in the world why you should not, with honest work and enough of it, get your Latin lessons, as you are back to where you were two years ago. If you had gone into Cicero, as was expected, you would have some excuse. You know you have got to make good sooner or later, and there is no getting out of it. I wonder if you have ever stopped to think how humiliated you would be, if you had to tell the Carter boys you had failed to make good at Exeter? You see, they know you are perfectly capable of doing the work, and would look upon you as a slacker – and a slacker in these times of all others! You have a month in which to redeem yourself. Will you do it for Mother [The reference to Darwin’s being in trouble twice in eight months after entering Exeter seems to indicate the letter was written in 1917.] 4 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [Hotel Brighton, Atlantic City letterhead] Monday [March 1924] 22.6 folder 12-15 My precious Boy: Never have you been so lovingly in my heart and mind as during the past two weeks, and never have I as ardently hoped that you will be led into just the right course for both you and Hilda. Your happiness is not the only side to consider, but her permanent contentment[?] and satisfaction are just as important to us all. I am leaving it all to a power higher than our own desires or ambitions, trying to realize that what blesses you and Hilda, also blesses us, for you are bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh. (That should have been quoted.) Never have I yearned over you so tenderly since you came into our lives, for I wish so earnestly that your future be as happy as we can help to make it. If Hilda is proved to be the person who will most nearly complete your life, I shall do all I can to encourage, love, and help. Frederic Carter’s wife said to Aunt Polly the other day (she is only twenty four) “I do not desire riches, nor that one should strive for too great financial success, but I pray daily for wisdom, that we may know how to live righteously.” I presume you have no time to read nowadays, but you have a great treat in store for you in Prof. Penpin’s [?] book, “From Emigrant to Inventor”. Dorothy and I have gone back to the old classics, and have read some of Balzac’s short stories and Aunt Polly and I are about to read essays on Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aeschylus. We are also about to begin “Out of Doors in the Holy Land”, by Van Dyke. You will wonder how we get time for the Boardwalk but we read in our margins. Sister will have seen Hilda and you by this time and I hope, have met her parents. I am sorry not to have been able to meet them all too, but I shall come to see you in May and shall see the Ericksons then of course. In the meantime, I shall look forward with keenest interest to having Hilda with us in April, and hope you will reiterate the word I sent with Sister, as to her welcome. She understands of course, that I scrawl letters only to you and Father dear who adores you and longs for your happiness as I do. I am much better and weigh a hundred and twenty seven pounds, my normal weight for twenty five years having been one hundred eighteen. Be sure you are regular in getting your meals, have plenty of sleep, and do not yield too easily to pure [ ] [ ? ] for it is very wearing. After this little preachment, I will close, hoping your work is not too badly suffering thro’ this conflicting experience. Excuse this scrawl, knowing it carries all my heart to you, and love to Hilda Devotedly Mother [The diary records that IRM and Dorothy traveled to Atlantic City on March 14, 1924. She returned home with Cora Herrick on April 6th. Darwin phoned to tell of his engagement to Hildegard Erickson on March 9, 1924.] 5 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [125 Jewett Avenue card letterhead] 22.6 folder 12-15 Father is walking home from church, Brother dear, so I have a moment in which to write you a line or two. The Simpsons are coming to dinner, and we may have a little drive afterward, as the sun is shining warm and bright. Wasn’t it a pity you did not know the registrar of M. I. T. – was not there afternoons. I am going to have Father write him in a day or two – tomorrow, if he has time, so you need not write, unless you care to. Aunt Polly is spending this day with Sister and returns to us on the early train tomorrow. Benedict has enlisted, and poor Mrs. Morey is trying to be brave. However, he may not be permitted to leave the ship yard, as they are in such need of skilled labor. Do hurry and get out of Exeter,so you may be prepared to do your bit too. 6 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [The Manor, Asheville, NC letterhead] March 29th [1918] 22.6 folder 12-15 My precious Boy: Your post cards have not yet arrived, but your [ ? ] were just splendid! Father is out horseback riding, and, I suppose, is climbing a mountain with a guide. He went yesterday too, and had a beautiful time. We are within three miles of “Biltmore”, that wonderful estate of a hundred and thirty four thousand acres of George Vanderbilt’s, and yesterday afternoon drove about its immediate grounds, for over two hours – in the door-yard, as it were for the estate comprises many square miles. Thirty four thousand acres are in the vast park surrounding the house, in which are miles and miles of drives, open to the public three afternoons a week. I suppose there are few estates in the world where there is such variety of scenery as there is there, for within the park are two rivers, one lake, a half circle of high mountains, dense forests, fair fields, acres and acres of rhododendrons, mountain laurel and other blossoming shrubs, besides great masses of trees, carefully planted for lovely effects – and hardy perennials of all imaginable varieties. Frederick Law Olmsted did the landscaping, and, I suppose, was the largest estate he ever planned. Incidentally, Mr. Vanderbilt died at fifty four! As Father wrote you – on no account use your motor cycle for we shall accept no excuse whatever. Do not have William buy any more expensive parts either. I wonder if you boys at Exeter realize what a Titanic struggle is going on at the Front! Nothing in history approaches it for cruelty or violence. Do let me beg you to do your best Son, if only to train yourself in doing the most urgent and important duty first. Please govern yourself – don’t be controlled by suggestion or preference. All my love Darling Mother [The diary records for March 20, 1918 “…took train to Asheville, NC where spent remainder of month at The Manor.”] 7 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [125 Jewett Avenue card letterhead] Saturday [1918] 22.6 folder 12-15 Dearest Laddie: You could never guess what I have just been doing! Pruning! I have been out with Father, who is doing the rose bushes, and I did an hibiscus, all by myself – and I am that proud! William is helping Thomas on the lawn, Arthur is picking up Father’s dead wood, and even Reuben has been working around, as we have no extra gardener this year. Aunt P. and I have trowels and we are going to weed gardens and lawn! How is that for patriotism! Mrs. Coatsworth has been with us all the week, leaving this morning, so we have had a busy time of it and I have neglected you in consequence. Luis[?] is just a “bless you Sam”, and “Do your best, earnestly, hour by hour. Your own, Mudder [Thomas Bowring was the gardener in 1918, William Thorpe was the chauffeur and he had a son, Arthur. The “patriotism” indicates WWI.] 8 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Jan. 24th [1918] 22.6 folder 12-15 My dear Sonny: These must be busy days at P.E.A., for even a post card does not come our way. I suppose your mid-years are on, and every minute is devoted to them. How is your coal holding out up there? Everyone in New England seems to be complaining. Our company has been a good deal disturbed by the five days closing law, but no patriot complains about anything these days – he just sacrifices, and keeps his mouth shut. So I hope you are being careful, along with the rest of us, and are not indulging in a single unnecessary thing. I shall be sorry not to send cookies etc. in your laundry, but Dorothy’s was so late in arriving, her oranges were frozen solid, and the fried cakes petrified. Her mid-years are about over, and we hope yours are as successfully accomplished. Father is home for good, and seems pretty tired and thin. They are having their annual meetings at the office, which are always strenuous, so he does not come in to dinner until after seven. The other day, as Mrs. Underhill was putting little Irving, aged four, to bed, he said, “Mother, did God make you?” “Yes Irving, I am sure he did.” “Did he make you to take care of little boys like me?” “Yes, I think that is just what he made Mothers for.” “Well! Did God or Mr. Hoover make Father?” There is no news you would have an interest in dear, except that the Forest Ave. car barns burned last eve with fifty cars in it, and nothing saved. Car service is bitterly complained of as it is, and it is feared this will make another very serious complication. We are still having pretty nearly zero weather most of the time, but new storm windows on the south room keeps it cozy and warm there. Stephen Leacock gave a most amusing lecture on “Frenzied Fiction” Saturday, which you would have greatly enjoyed. The audience just rocked and people’s faces wore a more relaxed expression than I have seen in months. James Foster is on the sea, on his way to France. His mother, father and sister saw him the day before he sailed, in Washington. Remember Dearest Boy, everyone of us has a most important job these days, and a person’s character is known by the way he carries it off. Are you sticking to yours, which is a good scholarship record? You are coming into a fair recognition of your ability which you never expected, along your art and drawing lines. Now show the school what you are capable of when it comes to good student work. I should [want] them [to] consider you had arrived, and be very proud and happy – and quite satisfied with your record at Exeter. A line or two from you soon? Your devoted Mother [According to the diary, January 18, 1918 was DDM’s last day of service in Washington. DDM recorded being very busy at the office and for February 5, 1918 he recorded that the minutes of the annual meeting of the Larkin Co. noted his service in Washington. The war continued.] 9 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Monday [February 1918] 22.6 folder 12-15 Good morning Son dear, I hope it is not as cold in Exeter as it is here! Your letter has just come, and was a bit more cheery than some we have had. When you are older, and can look back on your life at Exeter with a smile, at the laddie who found some things so hard, you will see that Mr. Spooner was pretty fair after all. Of course now he seems to you to be kind of mean, because he doesn’t permit you to do as you wish, but: knowing you as I do, I consider him very wise, and one day you will be thankful, rather than resentful. If you will only see that all you have to do is to prove yourself worthy, that these things will follow as a natural consequence, I am sure you would sacrifice every ambition for the present and go to it for scholarship. I am so sorry you are not mature enough; or wise enough to see it for yourself. Alice Freeman Palmer was the president of Wellesley, and died a few years ago, leaving a husband who adores her memory. She was a very wonderful woman, and her husband, who is a professor at Harvard, is doing all he can to live her ideals and pass on to the younger generation some of her principles. He addressed a graduating class of the Seminary, I think it was Dorothy’s, and made a profound impression. One thing he said has remained with me ever since, and that is “Opportunity waits on preparedness,” and is it not true? Would Father ever have been called to Washington, had he not been prepared through a life of fruitful service, performed without question. There is no doubt at all in my mind, that many a thing which might have come your way at Exeter, has gone to the other fellow, because you have not been prepared to receive it. The managership you speak of is an example, is it not? Mr. Spooner would not have questioned it, had you been well up in your work, in other words, prepared for the opportunity. This ought be a good lesson to you, but you may have to learn through still harder experiences. You have another year ahead of you there, with other opportunities coming your way – and I should manage to have a good record to leave the school with this year, and to begin the next, if I had to shut[?] my violin case, even the Victrola, and cut out every book which came your way. Books are a luxury at all boarding schools, and not to be indulged in too freely. Enough required reading diverts your mind and your spare time ought be spent out of doors, to fit your mind for further study. Do take yourself in hand, and look your propensities in the face, and honestly confess how they control you, instead of your controlling yourself. Father is at the office today for a few hours and we are planning to leave for Summerville S.C. Sunday night. You wouldn’t wish to come here Easter and stay with Aunt Delta, would you? You see, we are to close the house while we are away, to save coal. The maids have a vacation. Your laundry was two weeks on the road, and came last week after wash day, so will be sent [to] you Tuesday. Do not send it home again as there will be no washing done in the house while we are away. It will not be as well done as at home if you send it to a laundry but perhaps you may be able to find a laundress. Remember then, that “Opportunity waits on preparedness”, and that kindness is the greatest thing in the world. Your own Mudder [According to the diary, the Martins left for Washington on February 24 and arrived in Summerville S.C. on February 28, 1918.] 10 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [125 Jewett Avenue card letterhead] Friday eve. [February 1918] 22.6 folder 12-15 Dearest Laddie: I fear I forget to mention our Summerville S. C. address when I wrote you last. It is Pine Forest Inn and I beg you to write so we may have at least a card from you when we arrive there which will be Thursday morning, the twenty eighth. Telegraph the Lafayette so we shall have it on Tuesday morning, or better, send us a night letter, as we do not leave Washington until Tuesday afternoon, so a night letter sent Monday will [2nd card] be lovely to have before we go further south. You needn’t feel Summerville is far away from you as it is only twenty four hours from Buffalo. Poor Nelson Montgomery has got to miss his entire year at Yale Sheffield, as he is not permitted to take his mid-years now. Is it not a pity? He will study English bookkeeping etc here and probably go next year. Father is pretty tired, and I am so glad we are leaving Sunday night. Uncle Teddy is serving the government in Wash. for three months and Auntie Florence goes tonight to be with him a week, so we shall see them. [Edward and Florence Barcalo were close friends. Mr. Barcalo owned the Barcalo Manufacturing Company.] All my love Dear Mother [The diary records that the Martins traveled to Summerville S.C. in late February 1918 and stayed at the Pine Forest Inn.] 11 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Nov. 26th [1917] 22.6 folder 12-15 My dear Son: Tomorrow is dear Aunt Nellie’s birthday. I wish you might have known her, and have had her influence in your life. She was a beautiful woman, with a character that inspired everyone she met, to live their lives on a higher plane. She taught Dorothy her first prayer, while I lay at death’s door with typhoid fever. She would have suffered with you last week, when you so completely lost your self control and spoke to Mrs. Rogers as you did. She would have understood as I do, how thoroughly ashamed and mortified you must have been and must be, to have so far forgotten your chivalry and courtesy to all women. Evil seeks channels through which to express itself in its every aspect, and you were an example that day of one of the ways it works – the Germans are today, examples of it in its most violent form. But it is all the same thing Dear, only in different degrees, that’s all. You can’t do a thing like that and suffer alone you know – for it affects us all – and besides, it helps to form public opinion about you at school. It shows a narrow and self centered individual too, for you forgot the other person, don’t you see? There’s no excuse for it Dear so don’t write any more about it – but I am sure you see the folly and the reaction on you. I wish we might be with you Thanksgiving – but Father is not to be here, so it will not seem so much as if we must have you here to complete our circle. Dorothy has five days, so she is coming home. We shall miss you, but a part of my Thanksgiving prayer will be one of gratitude that you are where you are, where the learning of one of life’s greatest lessons – i.e. that we are one of a great whole – not interested to live a life apart, but to live to contribute our generous share to the world’s best thoughts and deeds – may be more easily learned than in our own home. You are the Hope of the World so keep modest, humble and grateful, looking for good in your fellow men. Your own loving Madder [According to the diary, DDM was in Washington for Thanksgiving in 1917.] 12 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Saturday eve. [1919] 22.6 folder 12-15 Darwin dear: Father has gone to the Community Chorus. Miss Herrick is in Lexington, and I am sitting at my desk in my sitting room, thinking of you. Someone said to me the other day – “Well, Mrs. Martin, I suppose your nice boy is doing fine work at Exeter?” I replied I hoped he was doing his best, but my heart sank a little, for it was the day after I had received your last letter. Don’t humiliate us all dear, by failing in your great undertaking. Mrs. Chamberlain and I went to Mrs. Rumsey’s yesterday, to hear the author of “How Prussia went to Poland” – or rather, “How Prussia came to Poland” – We had read the book some time in the winter, thinking it one of the most thrilling and tragic human documents we had ever read – so I was excited and interested to know Madame ------ was to speak here, and went with keenest anticipation to hear her. She is an American woman whose life resembles that of Mrs. Ivanowski, in that she went abroad to study, met a Polish count, fell desperately in love with him, married him, and went to Poland to live, where she had resided ten years, during which time she had given birth to three children. War came to them like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky, and during seven and a half months after its outbreak, she suffered beyond human imagination. Out of it all, however, she has emerged a saintly woman, her mind and heart bursting with the woe of her adopted country. Her mission, of course, is to appeal to the world for Poland’s aid during the reconstruction period and I have gone on a committee to do all Buffalo can, to send a shipload of clothing, farm utensils, seed, and blankets, for there is nothing left to begin life with. Every child under seven years of age is dead, and the homes of nobles and peasants are alike destroyed. I shall send you the book, or take it with us to Placid, for it is a great revelation of the suffering of a wonderful people. Let me appeal to you in Christ’s name, to do your best where you are, in this awful world calamity. My heart is with you always, my dear son. Mothie [Mention of the reconstruction of Poland after WWI seems to indicate the letter was written in 1919 and Darwin was a student at Exeter in 1919; he graduated in June.] 13 �Transcript: IM to DRM, 1916-1925 [125 Jewett Parkway letterhead] Saturday [1925] 22.6 folder 12-15 Darling Boy: Many a long day has gone by since I have had a line from you. The fact that Father saw you does not seem to make the absence of your letters easier, [ ] [ ]. I know you are absorbed with business by day, and with Margaret by night, but that does not seem to make it easier either. Since Father saw Margaret, your possible marriage seems more immediate, as he brought her personality closer than you have. Of course, he can regard her from a more disinterested point of view than you, and could give us a more complete analysis of her possibilities of a wife. He says he is satisfied, but that she is not educated, and apparently not in the least intellectual. I am not disturbed at all by her lack of social experience, but as I sit at home, trying to picture your future, I can’t help being concerned about the permanence of your interest, when she is put up against the mental qualities of the really educated person. You may say my educational opportunities were very limited – so they were, but my taste for the best literature and my desire to learn have been very strong influences in giving me my place socially and otherwise, and you are well aware of that. Later in life, you are going to demand mental equality in a wife, whether you are willing to see it now or not, and you may be embarrassed by the lack of desire or training in Margaret. If she really wished an education, there are so many university courses a girl may take at Columbia or elsewhere, - so many splendid opportunities to make the most of one’s mind. All this is just to ask that you make haste slowly, and don’t do anything irrevocable until you are separated a little. We had a beautiful experience the other night when Mrs. Wm. A Rogers entertained three hundred people at the Century Club. A wonderful young pianist gave a superb recital, and the people present were the choicest in town, that is, from the stand point of what we term culture. As I looked over the younger women, I had Margaret in mind, and tho’ I knew in appearance she could shine with the best of them, I wondered how she could meet them conversationally - most of them college girls, the remainder best boarding schools, and many educated somewhat abroad. This is your family circle, and you will have to face a good deal of social regret if Margaret does not come up to certain standards. I can hear all your answers to this, but are they perfectly true? Have you seen her in a group of your social and intellectual equals among girls, and would you not better try if you haven’t? My heart is troubled lest you make a mistake. You really haven’t seen her as you should in the midst of your own kind. Please consider without too partial a point of view, all I have said. Add to this the unfortunate part[?], and you have a good bit to meet with [ ]. This is not criticism but only warning. Mudder Destroy at once [According to the Martin’s diary Darwin R. went to New York City March 29, 1925 to learn foreign bonds and exchange. (On November 20, 1925 Darwin R. entered “employ of O’Brian, Potter & Co in Buffalo.) On October 31, 1925 Darwin R, Darwin M, Margaret Wende-Jones and her mother attended the Yale-Army game together. Darwin and Margaret Wende were married on May 3, 1926.] 14 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Darwin D. Martin Family papers Subject The topic of the resource Martin, D. D. (Darwin D.), 1865-1935 ; Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) ; Herrick, Cora ; Martin, Darwin R. (Darwin Reidpath), 1900-1979 ; Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) Description An account of the resource This Digital Collection consists of transcripts and subject indexes of selected diaries and correspondence from the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/archives/ubar_ms0022_6.xml">Darwin D. Martin Family papers</a> held by University Archives. 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Preferred Citation: Mitchell, Anita, trans. Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, [date]. Letters in 12.14, MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Acquisition Information: Anita Mitchell, Darwin D. Martin House docent, gifted her transcription of the letters to University Archives in 2014. Terms of Access: Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, 1917-1923, is open for research. NOTE: Any marks within brackets [ ] are of the transcriber. �Transcript: Letters, IR to DRM, 1917-1923 BOX 12 Folder 14 University at Buffalo, SUNY, University Archives 22.6 Darwin D. Martin Family Papers [125 Jewett Parkway letterhead] [1923] Brother darling: Nothing has ever given me more real joy, than this trip of yours with Father. Give him the time of his life, and do not force your own interests any [ ? ]. Keep him over as long as you can, for it is his one great picnic[?]. Don’t worry about the future – you are very young and Charles Larkin did not begin to write poetry until he was forty eight! Your home, and your wife, will have the same loving part in our lives as Dorothy’s home and life does, and we shall welcome any one you may choose as warmly as we have Jim. We are perfectly safe in saying this now, for your taste[?] is so changed, you are to be absolutely trusted as to your choice. Father will be fair and just, so, again, don’t worry! Don’t forget Lalique, Place Vendome, and give a great deal of love to the Harveys. Don’t get an expensive gift to bring home to any girl. It is not necessary. The most beautiful time in the world to you both. Mother [According to the diary, Darwin D. and Darwin R. sailed for Europe on June 30, 1923. The diary notes, “See trip record.” Dorothy was married to James Foster on June 14, 1923; Darwin R. appears interested in Hope Alling in April 1923.] 1 �Transcript: Letters, IR to DRM, 1917-1923 [Villa Margherita letterhead] 22.6 folder 12-14 March 18th [1918] Dearest Boy: We are all wondering where you are spending this Sabbath day, and hoping it has worked out so you could have your musical feast as you have planned. We have all wished you were here too, with your love for Colonial things, for Charleston is full of lovely old Colonial houses, churches and history, and is unlike any other city in the world. It is[has] had such a struggle for its existence too, for it was practically destroyed in the Revolution, again during the Civil War, and later, by earthquake, followed by a big fire. Through it all, her gallant spirit has risen, and she is today, a rapidly developing town of ninety thousand, half of which is black. When you were with us at Tuskegee, we met the secretary of the institution, who has since become principal of the Vorhees School, fifty miles from here. The other evening, he was at the Pine Forest Inn, with seven of his eight hundred students who sang negro melodies to a very attentive audience. Father has been interested in this school since it was founded, and is going to stop en route to Asheville, to visit it. He has gained five pounds and is feeling much better. There is no organized C. S. church here, but a small thriving C. S. society, which meets in a little building, very simple and plain. There is a beautiful spirit among the people tho’, and at the service this morning I was impressed by the number of soldiers and sailors in the congregation. One of the sailors whom we talked to was from Texas, only twenty, a boy with no father, and whose mother was employed by the government to work among the Indians – He was very shy, and very appealing. Do you know we have not yet heard of the results of your examination, except the English? Did you not have mid-years? You are perfectly incorrigible when it comes to writing. Is a post card so difficult to procure in Exeter? I am going to send you some with little messages written upon them, to send us periodically. While we were at Summerville, we lived in a cottage, just as the plan is at Placid, except, of course, we had only three rooms, instead of a whole house. In the suite opposite ours was a little southern boy, about seven I should say, who used to sit with his governess on the veranda outside our window. One day, he sat with a group of small girls, telling stories, and evidently was drawing upon his imagination quite a bit, for finally his governess, who was very southern, said, “Neddie, When you tell a tale, tell it straight.” I thought that her reproof might be applied to almost everything we do, - i.e. – do it straight – Think straight, and you will be straight. You have heard of Dr. Grenfell have you not? We met them in Summerville, and, as they happened to be coming to Charleston the same day we were, we came up in the train together. (I say they – his wife is with him.) We are going to the noted magnolia gardens together tomorrow, or, rather, Father has invited them to go in our car, as we are planning to motor. Dr. Grenfell may have lectured at Exeter. You remember he is developing the interests of the people of Labrador? We have finally decided to have you and sister go home Easter and Aunt Polly may go home in advance of me, if I can persuade Father to remain at Asheville well into April. You and Sister will be all right there in any event, and if you are alone, the experience will be good for you. Remember to write, and do so in plenty of time, that the car may meet you. Tell the hour of your train and address your letter to Sister who will be there a few days ahead of you. Our address will be - The Manor – Asheville N.C. I hope you will take good care of your new suit, and not wear it every day. Get a cheaper one of your tailor, if you need one for school wear. Please write – but do not trouble to send a long letter. You would be much more comfortable in your mind if you would write just a line or two, twice a week, which would take only five minutes, and I believe, would make you more self respecting. Letter or no letter though, I am always, Your own loving 2 �Transcript: Letters, IR to DRM, 1917-1923 Mothie. [According to the diary, the Martins reached Summerville, S.C. on Feb. 28, 1918 and stayed in Azalea Cottage at Pine Forest Inn. They stayed at Villa Margarita in Charleston, S.C. Mar.16-18. Dr. & Mrs. W. T. Grenfell were their guests on a motor trip to Magnolia Gardens.] 3 �Transcript: Letters, IR to DRM, 1917-1923 [Lake Placid Club letterhead] July 28th [1921] 22.6 folder 12-14 Blessed Boy: I am not at all sure when this will reach you, but I am mailing it to Father to forward, hoping he may have received a future address in today’s mail. You see, by the time we get your letters, it is too late to reach any address you may have enclosed. Your escape was nothing short of miraculous, and I find myself divided between gratitude and apprehension, the latter being a bit the more persistent. I shall say no more, for you have already been a good deal upset naturally, but I am thinking a good deal about the psychology of the “Jinks” you insist is pursuing you. I hope to discuss him or it, with you when you get back. It is too bad that the year you chose to take this trip should have been the hottest in history, but it is no warmer there than here, for the heat is universal. We have suffered here with the rest of the world, but have had the comfort of cool nights. Aunt Winnie must have had a siege during your week there, if she was without maids as usual. Do write her a letter of real appreciation. I shall too. We are so enjoying evening drives up here, am [ ? ] one being the [ ? ] road leading off Wilmington Gorge. You remember it follows a [ ? ], singing little river which widens into deep limpid pools here and there? The other evening, as we drove just at sunset, the glow from the sky made these pools a rosy pink, shading into opalescent colors at the edges. The stream is lined on either side with maples, whose soft low branches almost touch the water’s edge, while the deep woods are dark and mysterious with groups of densest pines, relieved here and there by a stately white birch. A new tea house has been recently built on the Gorge road, just at the turn as it leads towards Jay, where so many accidents have occurred at the b ridge. The front of the little house gives no idea of the beauty at the back, which looks out on the range of mountains very close at hand, with the Au Sable river roaring and foaming almost under the veranda. It is an enchanting spot, and we have twice been there just at sunset, and waiting for the stars to appear. As I sit in our comfortable living room, I plainly hear Madam Sembrick’s[?] pupils having their voice lessons, and occasionally Madam S – herself, sings like an angel. We have been enjoying Mrs. R. N[?] Goede[?] very much indeed, her mind is such a mine of literary jewels. The other day she asked us if we knew what the old English word Welkim meant. We all knew in a vague kind of way and said, “Why yes, you make the Welkim ring”. When we came to define it however, it was found no one could actually do it. Looking it up, we found it to be the blue vault of Heaven. Aunt Polly and I have been going with Mrs. Starks, to read aloud to Mrs. Dewey, who is so broken in health that she is unable to take part in Placid life, and whose eyes are in very bad condition. We sit on their delightful veranda, with a view of the mountains on three sides, and pines and birches in the immediate foreground. We were reading “Mirrors of Downing Street” yesterday, a book of short sketches of the lives of the men most prominent in England’s recent history, with a good analysis of the character of each, when Mrs. Starks was reminded of an interview of some length her son had had with Lord Northcliff, in fact, he had been at his house for luncheon. It was an extremely hot day, and both men were panting with discomfort. Finally Mrs. Starks’ son said, “Lord Northcliff, if I were an American gentleman, alone in my own house, I should remove my coat.” Lord N. returned, “Mr. Starks, if I were an English gentleman, alone in my own home, I should remove my own shoes”. Whereat, both men made themselves at home in their respective ways. It is nearly luncheon time, and I must dress for a trip to Hurricane Lodge, a drive of twenty miles over country roads, where there is a magnificent view, and where tea is served to a limited number every Thursday afternoon (50 c per) by a Mrs. Martin, who has a most charming house and lovely old, interesting furniture. She also takes ten paying guests a season, and is incidentally a highly cultured person, I believe a professor’s wife. By the way, times are so hard in Placid Village, the Methodist minister’s wife is doing our weekly laundry work! I hope the good beginning in sales will continue – I am afraid “Hard up” will be the slogan for most of us this winter. Be as careful therefore as possible. You losses were certainly a most distressing part of your accident. I am so sorry Knowlton lost his glasses. 4 �Transcript: Letters, IR to DRM, 1917-1923 William says, as I wrote, or telegraphed rather, that you are a good driver, but you have a grave fault – no patience to wait for the other person, and not watching the road. He was terribly cut up about your accident. He thinks the lives of young men like you two boys, too precious to take any little risk with. My love to you both, and best wishes for good sales, good weather, and a good time. I am sure your old Jinks was left behind in Chicago. Your own loving Mother [According to the diary, Darwin R. and Knowlton Mixer, Jr. left for California in a new Ford touring car on July 2, 1921. They arrived at Kellogg Spgs. Calif. On Sept. 4th and started home on Sept. 17th, arriving in Chicago on the 22nd and home on the 23rd, “all rail”. IRM and Miss H. traveled to the Lake Placid Club on July 1, 1921, with Darwin D. joining them in August.] 5 �Transcript: Letters, IR to DRM, 1917-1923 [125 Jewett Parkway letterhead] Thursday [fall of 1923] 22.6 folder 12-14 Blessed Boy. Another penciled note is all I can do for you this time, and it will be a brief one at that. My heart and mind are very much away from home these days – but it would be easy enough to trace them to New Haven. Your post cards are from necessity, non committal, but I shall be content with whatever you decide. Don’t have the lonely feeling that if it is not Hope, there is no one else, tho’ there appears no one on your little circumscribed have you at present. Each of us has his world in his own mind – of his own [ ], and limited by his own point of view. Increase your borders, and trust the future to unfold. Don’t hurry, or allow your heart to be burdened with apprehension. Dr. Russell said today that fear is the most destructive agency in the world, as it obstructs the fulfillment of our life purposes, and breeds disease and sin. I believe the practice of strict economy in self indulgence, would do more for you in developing self respect, and self control than anything I can think of. Will you not try it. Do it for Hope, if not for yourself, for you have it to develop, whomever you live with. Think of being the weak kneed self indulgent son of a prosperous father taking a taxi when the street car would save him a dollar and sixty seven cents!! Aren’t you just a bit sheepish about being such a sissy? Brace up old boy, and be a virile man – be brawny, like your good Scotch ancestors. Observe in your Bible study, how invariably, those who followed their finest intuition or conscience, which they called God, were they who prospered, and won the respect of their fellows. Your intuitions are so noble Darling Boy – you are potentially so thoroughly fine. Live up to your best instincts, and win men’s and your own high respect. I wait a letter most anxiously. Can you care for a girl as she should be cared for if she is not well, and will you know enough to keep her love thro’ self restraint and control? It’s easier to win love than to retain it, isn’t it? One single damn or hell might sever all affection of a wife, if [ ] the spirit you showed me when you were home. I look for Thanksgiving with joy. Your own Mudder [According to the diary, Darwin R. entered Yale in New Haven in September 1919 and graduated in June 1924. There is an entry for April 28, 1923, “[IRM and Dorothy] to Atlantic City. Darwin & Hope Alling to A. Cy”. The mention of Thanksgiving indicates the letter was written in the fall of 1923, for in March 1924 Darwin became engaged to Hildegarde Erickson.] 6 �Transcript: Letters, IR to DRM, 1917-1923 [Yosemite Lodge letterhead] May 9th [1922] 22.6 folder 12-14 Darwin dear: Could any father write more tender, solicitous letters about his son, than these I am enclosing from Daddy? He is so anxious you do the very best possible thing for your health, but wishes also that your summer be a profitable one in life’s experiences, to help you thro’ hard places in the future. You must make the vacation count for something besides self gratification, or I could never stand it. Father is so patient with us all, and we have all been so extravagant, burdening him with cares he ought not to have had to assume. I fear his mention of having to lay off employees in the office, means dear old Uncle George must go[?], for he is seventy five and no longer efficient. This means another burden for us, for we shall have to give them a monthly allowance, as they have but a very small income besides Uncle George’s salary. Laura has taken a position as you know, but I am not sure she knows there is a probability of her father’s losing his. They had put the savings of a life time, seven thousand dollars, in the Atlas Crucible Steel, but that is paying, and will pay, no dividends, at least for some time. So, you see how matters stand there. Aunt Delta is sixty five, and ought not to be working so hard, - indeed, she has well earned ease for the remainder of her days. Faithful service to her family has been hers for a long life time. Uncle George adores you, you can tell how much when he comes to say good bye to you, each time you leave home, instead of your paying him that loving [ ]. Anything therefore, you do to ease our expenses for the summer, not only helps your more than precious, generous father, but passes something on to Uncle George’s devotion and affection, for he is so proud of anything you accomplish. What I said about your one day coming into a competency from Father, of course has nothing to do with the present, but that you understand of course. I simply [ ] to give you an ideal for your life of work, so you would not be tempted to write trash, simply to make money, if you made up your mind that this was your chosen vocation. Above all things in your life, aim not to disappoint Father – don’t assume a blasė air respecting drink, smoking or girls. It is a phase of twenty one, but his dear, honest heart does not always understand. He has worried about you a good deal, but save him now, all you can. I have not always been loving and considerate to him, but by Jinks, now that he is meeting a real anxiety, I shall do all I can to make up for my past remissnesses. Can you read that last word? Remissnesses? I do not believe this is the place for you, but Mr. Pillsbury arrives Wed – so I shall have to wait to discuss possibilities with him. I stand firm in the Kellogg experience, but do not expect you to be with him all summer. Have things well thought out if possible, before we return – which will be Sunday or Monday. I will write him of our plans. You certainly could not have mailed Father three letters, for all of ours have been received. Are you sure they are not in your pockets? A one hundred dollar Victrola is entirely out of the question to give when you leave, is it not? Much, much love Son dear. My desire for all that is best for you, is as deep and sincere as Father’s. Your own Mudder [Diary entry for August 8, 1927, “George Barton’s eightieth birthday” so in May, 1922 he was 74. The diary records that Delta was born in November 1859, so she was 62 in May, 1922. Perhaps IRM didn’t know the exact ages when she wrote? Darwin was ill in early 1922. In March DDM, IRM, DRM, and CH traveled West. DDM and DRM met the Kelloggs in California. On March 28th Darwin entered Stanford U. at Palo Alto, on June 18th he arrived in So. Dakota from Palo 7 �Transcript: Letters, IR to DRM, 1917-1923 Alto and in July he was at a camp in the Black Hills. Darwin was also ill in early 1923. That summer he and his father traveled to Europe, so I think it more likely this letter was written in 1922.] 8 �Transcript: Letters, IR to DRM, 1917-1923 [125 Jewett Parkway letterhead] July 16th [1923] 22.6 folder 12-14 Dearest Boys: Once, a long time ago, I wrote Darwin a letter at college, which he chose to call melodramatic, not understanding the real heart break back of it. I am writing today with a good deal of the same sense of desperate regret that he has so misused life. The enclosed report is an expression of time so ill spent, that it makes me weep to think of a mind like his – capable of anything, wasting itself in self-indulgence and, I fear, rather fast living. If he were dull, and were forced to struggle against mental incapacity I should feel nothing but sympathy, but to have to stand by, and see the results of the lack of moral will, is very sad. I believe the greatest temptation he has had to combat, is motoring, and I have reason to think such indulgence has been excessive. I believe any young man with a reasonable amount of intelligence, could have, even with Darwin’s handicap of illness, get thro’, with devoted, conscientious application, get thro’ in four and a half years. That it will take longer than five is almost unpardonable. I repeat – if it were a case of mental dullness I should have only the deepest sympathy, and most loving understanding. The extravagance of his expenditures of money, have been nothing, compared to the extravagance of his time and youth. Will you not, Son, turn over a new leaf this coming year, and be like the rest of us, earnest, self controlled, and studious? If you are not willing to begin now, ask yourself, “When am I”? It is my desire that Darwin be home by the twenty third of Sept., so he may be with us a few days before going to New Haven, and in order to begin college life on a more earnest basis than ever before. Don’t rush home and into college without time for preparation, and the appearance of at least settling to finish your work with credit to yourself and your Alma Mater. My pronouns are all mixed up, but I am in such deadly, sorrowful earnest. I know what you will say about psychology pulling you down and getting poor credit from your prof – but the case still remains bad, does it not? I suppose if you were not our only son, we should not set such store by you, but by Jinks, when a boy is adored as you are, and has such possibilities, it is tough! Now I feel better – and I didn’t wish this to shadow your trip. Leave little Darwin in the old world, and come back a new Darwin, manly, virile, and a son of your dear father. Mary’s baby is not here yet. Every body is well and weather continues cool. Isn’t London fierce! I hope you escape the heat. Devotedly, and so lovingly, Mother Last week’s average 133.18 Year’s ¨ 133.23 [on back of last page: F. J. Fox, Nottingham] [The reference to the heat in London indicates Darwin is in Europe, which was in 1923. According to the Martin’s diary, on September 28, 1923 “Darwin landed in N.Y. ex Aquitania” and on October 26 Darwin home, 27th back to Yale”.] 9 �Transcript: Letters, IR to DRM, 1917-1923 [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Monday [ 1921??] 22.6 folder 12-14 That was a good letter of yours Boy dear, but we were so sorry you are to lose your nice friend. Never mind, there is someone who is looking for a chum just as longingly as you, and you will be sure to find each other. I am glad you spoke to Stuart Walker, but you say nothing about having invited him to dinner with Mr. French. You know I said I would meet that expense for you. Don’t be afraid to ask him, he will enjoy it if he has time. Did you mention Mrs. Ward? By the way – her beloved eldest son died a couple of weeks ago. Very sad. We are having another winter with heavy frosts, and temperature down to freezing. Thomas has planted five peach trees, twelve years old, trained to grow on a wire support like grapes, also two plums and a cherry, trained the same way. We shall also plant a winter and a summer apple, and winter and summer pears, but all these latter are to be regular upright trees. We have the garden all bordered with currants and raspberries, and are planting a row of Normandy poplars between us and the Johnson’s from the gardener’s cottage to the greenhouse. These poplars are the tall slender kind, which we all love. Very picturesque. Grandma returns Thursday, but I fear it will be pretty cold for her. Our house progresses slowly, hardly seems as if they had accomplished a thing since you left, but of course they have. Have you seen the little volume of verse called “New Poetry” by Harriet Mourse[?], editor of the “New Poetry Magazine”? In it is such a precious little poem, called “Cologne Cathedral” and runs something like this – “The little white prayers of Elspeth Fog Float up thro’ the arches Into the sky. A blackbird in the belfry high Pecks at the prayers As they go by.” Are you getting out among the fellows more? You may have to use all the will power you have, and exert all your moral courage, but it must be done. And have you called on Mr. French? Do it at once, and let me hear of it. We are glad to hear the Graphic is publishing some of your pictures, and shall be knowing you will get all. Don’t selfishly follow your own self centered inclinations, you know it is a Martin and Reidpath characteristic and must be fought just as an inherited taste for liquor would have to be fought and overcome. Sister has had it to do, and so have I, and we have won out. Go to all class and college functions where you will be seen to have a vivid interest in the well-being of your Alma Mater. With all my love, and hoping you will not consider these suggestions preaching or criticism. I am – Your very own Mother [According to Jack Quinan’s book, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House, in 1920 DDM hired Andrew Willatzen to make some changes to the house. IRM may be referring to that work. Since there is a reference to Grandma’s return when it may still be too cold for her, I assume the letter was written in early spring, especially as there is mention of Thomas’ planting trees. The last sentence seems to hint of DRM’s not having been at Yale long, though he entered in September 1919. My guess is that the letter was written in the spring of 1921, but I could not find any definite verification for that date.] 10 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Darwin D. Martin Family papers Subject The topic of the resource Martin, D. D. (Darwin D.), 1865-1935 ; Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) ; Herrick, Cora ; Martin, Darwin R. (Darwin Reidpath), 1900-1979 ; Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) Description An account of the resource This Digital Collection consists of transcripts and subject indexes of selected diaries and correspondence from the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/archives/ubar_ms0022_6.xml">Darwin D. Martin Family papers</a> held by University Archives. Created by Anita Mitchell, Darwin Martin House docent, these resources provide unparalleled access to Martin, his wife Isabelle, family friend Cora Herrick, and Darwin R. Martin. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-UA042 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, 1917-1923 Description An account of the resource Transcription of letters from Isabelle Martin to her son, Darwin R. Martin. Contextual notes by the transcriber are included in brackets [ ] at the end of most letters. Subject The topic of the resource transcriptions (documents) correspondence Martin, Darwin R. (Darwin Reidpath), 1900-1979 Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2016-06-08 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS22.6_12_14_Transcription_1917_1923 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Darwin D. Martin Family papers (LIB-UA042) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives Language A language of the resource en-US Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Darwin D. Martin Family papers (MS 22.6) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 161 KB Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mitchell, Anita Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) Martin, Darwin R. 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University Archives Abstract: Transcription of letters from Isabelle Martin to her son, Darwin R. Martin. Contextual notes by the transcriber are included in brackets [ ] at the end of most letters; WWI content is marked in red by the transcriber. Extent: pdf/124 KB Source: Letters, 1917-1918, 12.14, MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Preferred Citation: Mitchell, Anita, trans. Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, [date]. Letters in 12.14, MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Acquisition Information: Anita Mitchell, Darwin D. Martin House docent, gifted her transcription of the letters to University Archives in 2014. Terms of Access: Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, 1917-1918, is open for research. NOTE: Any marks within brackets [ ] are of the transcriber. �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1918 University of New York, SUNY, University Archives Darwin D. Martin Family Papers 22.6 Box 12 Folder 12-14 Belle to DRM Correspondence, ND re: WWI [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] [in corner, “Send cash acc’t”] Monday. [Jan. or Feb. 1918] My dear Boy:Your letter has just been received, and I am hurrying to answer, so Aunt Polly may take it down town at two o’clock, in order to catch an early evening train. You may thus receive it tomorrow, and will be glad to know Father has or will, deposit one hundred dollars to your account, Peoples’ Bank. This does not mean you are to be extravagant, or any less careful of your expenses, but it will relieve your mind. We are so sorry to hear of your discomfort, but never mind, I shall let Miss Hagarty[?] know at once and you’ll be all right. Don’t fear anything, just reason the thing out for yourself – that if God made the world, He didn’t make a power which could spoil his plans, that would have been silly would it not? So the thing which is not good or harmonious which may talk to you, is only something which is trying to make you believe in it, and the bigger the lie, the harder this counterfeit tries to make its self seem true. Someone has said, that the most important thing in the world is to think straight. That is now becoming a slogan and everyone is testing himself to see if he is really thinking straight, to whether he is twisting his thought to fit circumstances. When is your Easter vacation? Please answer this at once, so we may make our plans for a little trip accordingly. Father is very tired, and has been quite miserable, so Mr. Larkin has persuaded him to take a rest for a few weeks, and he has consented to go south or to California, as soon as he can get his affairs in shape to leave. Isn’t this the saddest winter ever? As I write, the temperature is six below, and the house is cold. This is always a hard time of year at schools and colleges, and everyone finds it a little hard to get through February, especially after such a long siege as we have had this year, but don’t be discouraged, “keep a jumpin’,” as the frog said. When Father was in Wash. Mr. Rosenwald said that [when]he and his wife a few years since, saw their first mummy, I believe in Egypt, and as he looked at it, he remarked to Mrs. R, “Mother, we’ll be a long time dead, let’s have a good time now,” so I think that made an impression on Father, for he is quite calm about leaving for a few weeks, and is happy in anticipation. I shall go with him, of course. Sister had a lovely time in Cambridge, but did not see Eastman nor Rex – Eastman being in a hospital, having had his appendix removed, and Rex, not knowing how to spell Pray, had looked for Prey – and could not find it to telephone book. She telephoned him just as she was leaving and he was quite cut up. Business is pretty poor, but we will get along with economy. Father bought Russian bonds, but they are hardly worth paper they are printed on. [ ] will come up some day again, so we shall not worry. I will write you again in a day or two and in the meantime, don’t think you are going to have Liberty measles or anything else. How are the studies? I am glad Mrs. Benton liked her bag. Did you? We thought it lovely. Please remember to find out about your vacation and let us know at once. Your own loving Mother [The Martins’ diary recorded DDM’s illnesses in January and February 1918 and that IRM and DDM traveled to Washington on Feb. 24, 1918, then on to Summerville, SC on Feb. 28 and on to Charleston, to the Villa Margarita (another letter from there). They returned to Buffalo on April 6, 1918.] 1 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1918 [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] April 28th [1918] My precious Boy:This is a warm summer evening, quite a change from the past week! We have dined with the dear Northrups, who were so cordial and hospitable. Mrs. Parmelee was their guest too, and told us proudly of Foster’s splendid work at Williams. I do want to be proud of my son’s work too, dear, and tell what a good standing you have at school. Your[ P ?] work will soon be over, and then comes the proof of your scholarship, does it not? You have a good deal to make up in the remaining month!! Your cold must be better? Did I tell you James Foster is at Governor’s Island, waiting for his discharge? He has been there nearly two weeks. The wheels of the government move slowly. Has Stedman gone into a Fraternity yet ? Our dear Mr. Berry is very ill, and is not expected to recover – Too bad, isn’t it? Marg Penny has asked Bob Merriam to Glee Club dance at Smith, so I suppose Dorothy saw him and Rex yesterday, who was invited by Virginia, his cousin. None of the girls in Sister’s house had gentlemen guests. Friday evening twelve of us went to the Star Theatre to see the Bonstell company in “Fanny’s First Play”. It was a special Liberty Bond night so we went for the experience and had a tremendously exciting and inspiring time. The audience raised twenty thousand dollars in small sums, and I found myself taking bond after bond, whenever there was a lull, and things went slowly. I finally had to stop, as I had no more money in my purse with which to make a two dollar deposit, and came home at twelve o’clock, having pledged myself for five hundred dollars and mercy knows where it is to come from, for I have mortgaged my future with Y.M.C.A. pledges, Red Cross subscriptions, and Y.W.C.A. donations. I have already had a gift from Father for my birthday, of a generous Liberty Bond, so do not feel like calling upon him for anything, even if he could afford to take any more, so I shall have to get it saved out of my allowance, so look out for an economical household when you get home, especially as to table! Picture me working in the garden all the spring, doing part of a man’s work, and glorying in it. Your man’s work now, is to pass, and you’ll do it! Grandma and Marmy not yet returned, but leave next Saturday I think. Just a postcard send Dear – never mind a letter. These are busy days for us all – The Red Cross claims much of my time so if letters are brief, lay it to patriotism. Sister’s last term at college is very happy – and she writes with spirit and cheer. Isn’t she a brick? My best and dearest love, To my beloved boy. Mother [The diary records that Rev. Berry died on May 12, 1918. The references to the Liberty Bonds and the Red Cross indicate the letter was written during WWI. Also, Dorothy Martin graduated in June 1918.] 2 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1918 [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] [note in corner, “Tear this up”] Wednesday [May 1918] Dear Boy:You have wondered, no doubt, why you have not heard from me for some days. Well, the fact is, I have been away on business! I have been to New York with Mrs. Morey, where we met Mr. Kirby, and another Larkin buyer, and where we four selected all the women’s gowns for the fall catalogue. I had been dissatisfied always, with their women’s garments, and told Mr. Kirby so, whereupon he asked me if I would go to New York with him the next time he went to buy, and I said I certainly would. We were engaged the better part of one day, inspecting gowns, which were brought to the Larkin offices for our approval, and really had a most interesting and pleasant experience. Mr. Morey happened to be inspecting banks there at the same time, and Benedict came for over Sunday, from Wilmington Del., where he is engaged in the shipyards. We were not looking for him and had all gone to the McKenzies in Brooklyn to spend Sunday, and when we returned at nine in the evening, found he had been waiting at our hotel since twelve o’clock. He had sent us a night letter which had not been delivered until after we departed. He is awaiting his exam for enlistment in naval aviation. We were in New York the day of the great Red Cross parade, but were not fortunate enough to have a place in a window, so saw only fragments of it from the street, which was so crowded with masses from fourteenth to eightieth streets, that it was a physical impossibility for a rather short person to see above the heads of the people who stood eight and ten deep on the sidewalks for sixty six (66) blocks. The parade lasted from two thirty in the afternoon, to half past six, and it is said seventy thousand people marched those sixty six blocks! One section was inspiring which we happened to see – the nurses ready to go overseas, dressed in black suits, dark hats, tan shoes, and carrying satchels with a red cross on each. Hundreds of them it seemed, and all so earnest and serious. On the corner of Fifth Ave and 35th Sts, Allman’s wonderful store stands, really occupying a full square, a structure architecturally finer than any building for its purpose, in New York. It is nine stories high, of very simple, elegant lines, and is built of a beautiful cream colored stone. In the center of the front of this building, with a margin of stone the same depth all around, was a red cross, on a white cloth framed, five stories square, and a large American flag in each of the four corners, evidently sewn on to the white background. This enormous Red Cross flag, was drawn perfectly tight, so it almost appeared to be painted on the building, it was so perfectly adjusted to its place. One evening, I think it was Saturday, we happened to be standing opposite it, and looking up, saw a brilliant moon shining upon it from a cloudless sky, glorifying it, and all the hundreds of smaller flags along the street below. These are great days Son, and one must live greatly, in order to justify their existence. Monday evening, while at the theatre with Mrs. Morey, before taking the half past eleven o’clock train for Buffalo, we were interested in the conversation of two men back of us, before the curtain rose, and between the [ ? ]. One was quite an elderly gentleman, evidently a man of power, and the other, a young southern soldier of good breeding and culture. He listened with the greatest respect to his elderly friend, who, in the course of their conversation, said this – “I always say to all young men, what I have said to my own son – You are making a supreme sacrifice, a sacrifice noble, worthy and inspiring – but let me beg you not to spoil this most gallant sacrifice with immorality or vicious habits, but come out of it all, more greatly ennobled, and more worthy of the women who await you all at home.” Keep yourself pure, my Son. Fight your battle with the temptation which besets all boys your age, and be worthy of the sweet woman who some where awaits your coming some day, too. I repeat my [ ? ] in my last letter – tutor all you need to, to get thro’ but do your best as far as you can to save all you can. You will get thro’ you know, for you are only reflecting the only intelligence there is – but you must try to be conscious of this too. 3 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1918 Your own, Mudder [The diary records that IRM and Mrs. Morey were in New York May 16-21, 1918. On the 17th they selected dresses for the Larkin Co.] 4 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1918 [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Jan. 14th [1917] Your letter, Son dear, was very welcome, and we were delighted to learn you had so comfortably gotten to Exeter. Your curtains must make your room cosy and home-like, and I am glad you have them. The transom cover is ready and will go in your next laundry. Granddma and Marmy have safely reached St. Petersburg, and, tho’ they started out with Pullman reservations to Baltimore only, they were very fortunate to have their entire journey comfortably made in sleepers and parlor cars, and are happily settled in the sunny south. We have been visited with the worst gale Buffalo has ever known, the wind having raged from sixty to eighty miles an hour, with zero temperature, for two days and nights. Aunt Delta’s family ate in the kitchen, as the rest of the house was impossible to heat. We had the Underhills and Baileys to dinner Sunday, and ate in a temperature of sixty two, but were able to heat south room with fire place going hard, and curtains drawn. Our storm sash, unfortunately, are not yet finished. Be careful about expenditures, as I telephoned Mr. Kirby about Larkin business this morning, and he said it was fifty percent lower than last year at this time!! This is not for publication. Joseph left us Wed – no, last Monday. Without a moment’s warning, but I didn’t know it until Wednesday. He is working at Pierce plant. Father hasn’t been home over week-end, and may not return until Feb. first – then he will be back for good. That is a lovely plan you and Mr. Benton have, and I hope it may be carried out. Be mindful of our financial stringency however, and spend as little as possible. You needn’t get the best sets at Symphony, and Mr. Benton will respect your move if you don’t. Mrs. Benton’s bag is finished, and I will send it to you tomorrow. I hope you will like it, and she too. If you don’t get your over shoes at once, buy others, and don’t run any risks. The Fosters have gone to bid James good bye, as he is expecting to leave Washington today, for France. Of course, this order may not be final. Study – study – study – and with my blessing, I am, Your own Mudder [The diary records that on January 3, 1917 Grandma and Marmy traveled to Florida, to Daytona.] 5 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1918 [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Wednesday – [1917?] 9.30 P.M. Darwin dear:This has been a long, busy day, as the Allied Bazaar opened this evening at seven, and we have been very active in the French booth preparations. Wasn’t that a good little talk over the ‘phone last evening? I had a long conversation with Mrs. Robillard tonight, who says she wrote you, but has had no reply. Write her at once dear, if you received her letter, and if you haven’t, drop me a postcard today. Your reply to her need not be long, but manly and straight forward, without frills. I told her of your dislike for the French teacher and she said, as I did, that he is God’s gift to you today, to fill a present need and if the gift has ugly and unattractive wrappings, never mind, just look at the gift, which is to help you on your way today. Just so is it with anything or anyone, who comes into our lives temporarily or permanently, who are of service to us, be glad and grateful of the service, and be big enough to show modest appreciation, and that is done best by good lessons or good nature. Do you know dear, that it is a daily struggle with me to do the thing I ought to do, at the time it should be done? I don’t mean all things of course, but certain things, and I have to fight with procrastination as hard as you do. Just remember that, and when you are thinking you will put off doing the thing you ought do now until a little later, that Mother at home, is making herself do the next thing next. For instance, I dislike to write letters, because it is hard on my eyes – but I insist upon doing it when it is the next duty. So, Darling, we are fighting our common enemy together and let’s see if we can each help the other by our good example, and by doing as God has planned for us – each thing well done in its own time. I shall be in Exeter a few hours in ten days or so – perhaps a week from Sunday. I am not sure Father will be with me. Mrs. Robillard is working for you so earnestly. Don’t worry – just work, and b e happy – Your own, Mudder [Since the Bazaar was opening, it was probably 1917.] 6 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Darwin D. Martin Family papers Subject The topic of the resource Martin, D. D. (Darwin D.), 1865-1935 ; Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) ; Herrick, Cora ; Martin, Darwin R. (Darwin Reidpath), 1900-1979 ; Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) Description An account of the resource This Digital Collection consists of transcripts and subject indexes of selected diaries and correspondence from the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/archives/ubar_ms0022_6.xml">Darwin D. Martin Family papers</a> held by University Archives. Created by Anita Mitchell, Darwin Martin House docent, these resources provide unparalleled access to Martin, his wife Isabelle, family friend Cora Herrick, and Darwin R. Martin. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-UA042 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, 1917-1918, regarding WWI Description An account of the resource Transcription of letters from Isabelle Martin to her son, Darwin R. Martin. Contextual notes by the transcriber are included in brackets [ ] at the end of most letters WWI content is marked in red by the transcriber. Subject The topic of the resource transcriptions (documents) correspondence Martin, Darwin R. (Darwin Reidpath), 1900-1979 Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) World War, 1914-1918--Correspondence Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2016-06-08 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS22.6_12_14_Transcription_1917_1918 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Darwin D. Martin Family papers (LIB-UA042) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives Language A language of the resource en-US Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Darwin D. 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Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Preferred Citation: Mitchell, Anita, trans. Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, [date]. Letters in 12.13, MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Acquisition Information: Anita Mitchell, Darwin D. Martin House docent, gifted her transcription of the letters to University Archives in 2014. Terms of Access: Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, 1917-1921, undated, is open for research. NOTE: Any marks within brackets [ ] are of the transcriber. �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated University at Buffalo, SUNY, University Archives 22.6 Darwin D. Martin Family Papers BOX 12 Folder 12.13 Belle to DRM, correspondence N.D. [Lake Placid Club letterhead] Aug. 18th [1921] Beloved Boy:This is Grandma’s birthday, her seventy sixth – and how I wish we were all with her to celebrate it! Isn’t she a wonderful person, with her active little body, loving nature, and kindly outlook on life! Bless her dear heart. I hope we shall have her in good many years longer. She adores you – never seeing a fault, and always excusing your sometimes neglect of her. She looks forward to a future of such usefulness for her only grandson, and hopes she may be here to see your success – A letter from Sister today, says she and Father can’t hand much to Montreal, but I am sure they will feel very different about quaint, old Quebec, where they expect to land this evening. They will do the town all day tomorrow, leaving there Saturday, and coming back to Placid via Isle La Motte . Father will leave here Sunday evening, and Sister will be here with us for a few days, when we shall all start for home by motor. The Lake Placid School for boys, has been sold to a Smith woman, Miss Ryan, who has opened a school for girls. Yesterday, we spent a pleasant hour there for tea, and congratulated the girl who was fortunate enough to live in such a beautiful environment. In the evening, Polly, Mrs. Ingham, Mrs. Van Bergen[?] and I had a game of Bridge, which put P- and me on our mettle, as Mrs. V.B. is an excellent player. I think you may see a little improvement in my game when we see you in Sept. [ ] Panama Canal trip sounds good, but positions, or jobs rather, on boats are as hard to obtain as any other , are they not? And what about getting back by the middle of Sept., if you do secure a berth? [ ] throat must be attended to you know. Your grandchildren will hear some hair raising stories, will they not? Leave the road maker’s blasphemy behind you please. You have a large enough vocabulary of your own already. I should love to have been behind a stump when you made that coffee cake. Where did you get the recipe? I am so glad you are not here tonight, instead of where you are. The annual big masquerade is on, and all the young dudes are getting into their togs I presume, while you may be about to cram into your tent under a starry sky. Do be grateful enough for the privilege of this great experience. Robert Reidpath’s wife was buried Sunday, and dear old Mr. Moderwell died last week. I am taking lessons of a very wonderful physical culture teacher from New York whom we heard lecture here a couple of weeks ago. I am going to be made over, and Sister is enthusiastically interesting Father whom we shall teach. You too, must learn thro’ us, and we shall extend our class to the Bartons and Auntie Margaret. Dearest love to Knowlton and your precious self. From, Your own Mudder [According to the obituaries for Mrs. Reidpath that were published in the Buffalo Evening News and the Buffalo CourierExpress on June 9, 1937, Katherine Danner Reidpath was born in Brooklyn on August 18, 1845. Therefore, if my math is 1 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated correct, her 76th birthday would have been in 1921. Also, according to the Martins’ diary, they were at the Lake Placid Club in August, 1921.] 2 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [Lake Placid letterhead] March 19th [1917] Good morning Son dear, and what is the temperature in Exeter this morning? Ours is four above, and there seems little prospect of its going very much higher today. The sun is shining brilliantly, and the sky is radiantly blue, but the snow creaks under your feet, and it is pretty cool in the shade. We walked for an hour among the pines and birches, and same [?] in all aglow. Do you remember a cottage called “Outlook”, on a high knoll just opposite Forrest Hall? We are considering taking that, and I am only waiting to hear from Father before closing the deal. It is pretty expensive, and it really goes against my conscience to even consider it, but if Father feels he can afford it, we can ask people to visit us, and thus square our consciences. I should ask those who otherwise might have no vacation, so perhaps it would be all right. Everything worthwhile has already been engaged, and the demand seems greater than ever. The mountains are so beautiful, standing so silent and white against the sky. They are very different than in summer, even more impressive I think in their solemn dignity and strength. They make all our little petty desires and ambitions seem very trivial and small, and create a longing to be bigger and better. I am writing this note principally to ask the date you leave Exeter, so I may plan accordingly. I wish to return either the day you do or the day before. Please answer this question at once, addressing your letter here. I shall be here until Thursday probably. Are you keeping your thought clean and honest Boy dear? You are always in my heart and mind. Mudder [According to the Martin’s diary, “Outlook” was leased on April 30, 1917.] 3 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Monday It is ten o’clock Son, your diary has just been read, but before I go to bed, I must write you of the deep sense of disappointment with which I shall close the day. I had believed you would warmly respond to the deep sense of economy which is being so universally felt, and be showing by now, a definite development in your character, which would be shown by the way you spend your money. Instead – I find you are gratifying as usual, all your desires for electrical supplies, your fondness for candy and sundaes, and by your habit of getting up late, spending extra money for breakfast. I note that your breakfast on train was over a dollar and a half. Do you know that neither your father nor mother ever spent as much on a breakfast as that? Then your trips to Boston. I can’t believe they are necessary or good for you. Darwin, - we have all got to economize – and I am going to tell you one of the reasons why. Father came home this evening, and said on one product alone, the company is losing over a thousand dollars a day, and seemed very much troubled. He wouldn’t have me tell you, for it is against his principles to discuss business with one as young as you, but I feel he makes a big mistake to have you children labor under the belief that all is smooth and calm in financial ways. We are planning all sorts of economies in the house, and will do all we can to keep you children from care and worry during your education, but you must wake to the fact that it is now[end of sheet] level best – and your best has always been divided between the thing you ought to do, and the thing you like to, has it not? But we beg you to be seriously earnest in all you do, these most tragic of days. Mother I do want to be proud of you dear.” [Darwin entered Exeter in October 1916 and graduated in June 1919. With the reference to “sense of economy being universally felt” and “these most tragic of days” the letter may have been written after WWI began in April 1917, but it may just have been a reflection of bad economic times.] 4 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Friday One o’clock Dearest Boy:We are to have a lecture here this afternoon, on “Suffrage, as related to the high cost of living”, but have had an early luncheon, so have a few minutes in which to write you, before I have to dress. Aunt Polly has gone downtown, and Edward is driving the car for the last time, as he leaves us Today. William, the new chauffeur, comes Monday. Do you read the newspapers at all? If you do, you must be impressed, as we all are, with the appeals to humanity to economize along all lines, to put down all desire to indulge any selfish [ ? ] and to live nobly. Mrs. Barrell telephoned a few minutes ago, and said she was not going away as usual this year – had given up her carefully made summer plans and was going to remain on the job. She says she would never be contented to be just having a good time, so will devote her summer to civic work. Everyone feels the same way – and I am beginning to feel we are selfish and extravagant to go to Placid, and see no way to justify our life there, unless we all work along same line or other while there. We have proposed starting a Junior Red Cross branch at “Outlook” if we go, and Father suggests you go to work on the farm for Dr. Dewey. Of course, we are obligated to some extent, to keep to our contract, but could sublet. The greatest thing you can do during your spring term to increase your efficiency is to be out of doors all you can, do your gym training religiously, eat regularly and sanely, even if the food is not to your liking – masticate slowly, and practice a restrained, abstemious habit respecting the soda fountain and candy counter. You would be surprised to see how we are cutting down expenses in the household, so you must do your share. This is the world’s greatest and most historic period, and it is a privilege to be here, and working in its problems, so be worthy Darling, and rise with us all. We are beginning to use corn[coon?] bread instead of white, cut down on meat rations, and have simple meals all around. Our Literary Club gave three hundred dollars to Miss DeLong – wasn’t that good? We are having twenty five ladies meet here every Monday afternoon to sew for the French section of Allied Bazaar of which I am a sub-chairman. Everyone is so busy – and the spirit of good fellowship is wonderful. “Lydia of the Pines” is a dear little story, and I don’t wonder you loved it. We are not through it yet, but enjoy it very much. Thank you for it dear. Ever all my love Mudder How are the lessons?” [Obviously this letter was written after war was declared on April 6, 1917. Also, the April 3, 1917 minutes of the Highland Park Literary Club record a donation of $300 being given to Miss DeLong for the Pine Mountain Settlement School which the Martins supported.] 5 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Sunday [1917] My dear Darwin:All this week, there has been with me a keen sense of our former ingratitude, and now, as a nation, and, as individuals, we have had so little appreciation of our blessing of peace. Then there came to me, a sense of shame, that right in our own home, we had so little gratitude for its peace, and how thoughtless we were of our successful and prosperous lives. Here, in our own lovely home, with everything to make us happy and supremely contented, we have found fault with trifles - become impatient because we couldn’t do exactly as we chose, and did not see the richness of God’s loving care all about us. Then I thought of my impatience with Father’s small peculiarities – dear Father, who is so generous, forgiving, and kind – and my heart smote me for all the unhappiness I had caused him for unimportant trifles. I thought of my worry and heartache over you children, over the passing phases of character development, and how I had suffered so unnecessarily, because I hadn’t had the faith to trust God to guide and direct, but wished to do it all myself – All the past seemed a series of ungrateful memories – the building of mountains out of molehills, instead of gratefully seeing my blessings. So I thought I would tell you all about it, so that you may save yourself the regret I am suffering, by gratefully and thankfully accepting every experience as a blessing and not rebelling against the little things which seem hard now. Improve your present opportunities Boy dear – and thank God for every one sent into your life to help you along the way – and you will see how life will change for you. Tutor for your exams as much as you like in French & Latin Mrs. Parmelee has been here for dinner, and says Foster has been, and is, tutoring two boys three hours a day, drills eighteen hours a week, waits on table, and collects all laundry and laundry bills for the Fraternity laundress (for which he has his washing done free,) and with all this, stands well in his classes. His care for his mother is wonderful – and she adores and worships him, and is so proud. I am so happy for her – for her life has been hard. She goes out to Dakota to see her older son graduate, who is now twenty six, having been seven years in working his way thro’ a mining college – and who hasn’t seen his mother in that time. Of course , he has had to stop and work a while, then go to it again, until he has finally achieved. Father says you may work on Placid Club farm for half of each day, and do your part for your country that way and in the afternoon, study wireless or radio control with an instructor, whom we may be able to secure at University of Vermont in Burlington. You could go there twice a week, or bring him to Placid. Do you like it? Do be earnest Dear One, if you have never been before. And your English is coming up too? I hope you have written Mrs. Nobillard – You must be grateful there Dear. Father will see you next Sunday for a few hours, and I will come to you late in the week. We shall be in Boston Saturday P.M. for our Association, so Father cannot leave until Sun. A.M. for Exeter, but I shall wait until Aunt Polly comes to Boston because I wish to stay overnight I think. Father leaves Sun. eve for home, when Polly comes. Don’t be discouraged – and don’t let fear enter your mind – for it is the greatest obstruction we have to contend with. Just know hourly that every word you study will remain with you as it is Divine Intelligence which you express, and not brain power, nor mortal mind. Good bye, and do your best, for the sake of your country, yourself, and Your own loving, Mother 6 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [Lake Placid letterhead] Sept. 28th [1917] Beloved Son:You have been constantly in my mind since you left, and especially since we came here, as every corner of the house, and every turn of the road, has you associated with it. I have been thinking of the great debt you owe to those brave fellows who have gone and are going into battle, perhaps to lose their lives, that you and all other boys may, in your future, enjoy freedom from German domination. We women can show our gratitude for their noble sacrifice, by bringing up our boys to live lives worthy of such dreadful sacrifice, and our boys must, of themselves, make every day count for decided conscientious effort toward a higher standard of manhood than they have ever before dreamed of. You can repay these noble fellows best, by being loyal and faithful to the trust they have left you and that is, to be sure our coming generations of men are as fine as those who have gone to be slain. Your life here tofore has been one of self indulgence especially in respect to your yielding to the impulse of the moment, and not in doing at its own right time, every duty in its turn. Sister has, each term, started out with a definite idea of correcting one grave fault, so can you not positively make up your mind thro’ your great growth in character, will, this term, be the overcoming of the temptations to do the pleasant thing first? Be faithful to the trust your teachers have in you, and redeem your last year’s poor impression. Do you remember our lovely talk up here one evening, on the little seat in the moonlight, and how we agreed that criticism and intelligence were simply evidences of self righteousness and narrowness? We said too, that by such characteristics we closed the channels for good which might be open to us? There is no reason why an honest, earnest boy cannot be respected and liked by everyone, even all his teachers. Don’t disappoint your blessed father dear – he is looking for much joy through you, you know. I’m glad you like your roommate, and I am sorry to disappoint you about the Victrola, but you know it was not because I did not wish to have our little one go out of the home that I refused to let you take it with you, but because I did not think it would be a good thing for you at present, as it is so diverting. Besides, it encourages too many boys to visit your room, and you simply cannot be diverted from your work this year. You may dispose of it any way you choose and after Christmas, if your marks are good, I will allow you to have our little one – but you must dispose of this at once. Do not go to see the osteopath until I see you, which will be in a couple of weeks, as we are going to motor from here to Exeter and Northampton. We don’t want to go to Boston oftener than necessary, do we dear, as it is pretty expensive, by the time you have paid your fare, had a meal or two, and gone to a picture show. We shall leave here the 15th and I shall write you date of our arrival. In the meantime, I am, Your own Mudder [at top of last page is note, “Read this twice please”] [small slip of paper that may belong to the letter reads, “Can’t you so bring up the standard of your conduct and marks that Mr. S – may say, “Well, I didn’t think last year it was in you; but you have proved yourself a fine fellow after all”!] [The reference to last year’s poor impression and the patriotic sentiment seem to indicate 1917. According to the Martins’ diary, IRM and CMH traveled from the Lake Placid Club to Exeter on October 10-12, 1917 and on to Northampton on the 14th. That doesn’t jibe with the note’s, “leave here the 15th” though.] 7 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Thursday [1917] My blessed Boy:If your mother could take off her head, and throw it away, you would hear from her oftener. This week has seen me laid out again, so letter writing had to be abandoned. You are so much in my mind, that it is a real trial to be unable to talk to you on paper – especially when I have thoughts I wish to share with you. The other day James Foster was pretty sure he wouldn’t have to go into training, but he received definite orders today, to go to Camp Dix next week, so has given up his position at the Curtis plant, and is making all preparations to leave for a long time. It may be forever – who knows! His parents are nobly trying to meet the sacrifice as Christian Scientists and brave patriots should, but Mumdee looks strained and anxious, and Mr. Foster’s cheer is a little forced. James’ life has been clean and fine, and all his pure manhood will help him thro’ many a temptation and keep him healthy in body and spirit. He is facing the experience like a good American, and is ready to go with the rest. Almost as soon as this reaches you, you will have Eleanor with you, and I am depending upon you to keep your head, and not go to extremes in any particular. Treat her as you would expect another fellow to treat Dorothy, and don’t be over attentive. A girl doesn’t like that either you know. Be sure to pay Mrs. Benton[?] for her care and insist upon just remuneration. Don’t be silly in a way you will regret, but keep the middle path – it’s the safest. Mr. Bacock[?] gave an address before the women of the Century Club a week ago, which was most helpful and inspiring. He has read C.S. – I am sure, for he urged upon us all to do constructive thinking, saying that we unconsciously store up thoughts and draw upon them as the occasion require. For example, he said if we are tempted to think thoughts of anger, jealousy, envy, criticism, hatred or ill will of any sort, we should immediately say no, that is destructive building, and put in their place thoughts of kindness, courtesy, tolerance, charity, gratitude and good cheer, so that we have a fund of good upon which we unconsciously draw, which sustains and helps not only ourselves, but everyone whom we come in contact with. On the other hand, if we yield to all these dark and evil suggestions a listening ear and mind, we shall store up a fund of gloom and disappointment, which will always menace our happiness, and be felt by those with whom we live. There is there, the difference between a happy and inspiring presence, and a gloomy and depressing one. So here is for right thinking, and a happy influence! You will now settle down to a long winter of earnest work will you not, dear Son? You have had almost everything you have wished for this fall – so now for hard labor. Have you read the book I sent you, and have you passed it to one of the faculty? Most time for your marks isn’t it? I am so interested – These are terrible times Darling – and a great work awaits you, so go to it, young America, go to it. You are the hope of the world! God bless and keep you a strong good boy, my precious Son. Your own, Mother [Since IRM asks Darwin to “settle down to a long winter of earnest work”, it must be 1917. Later letters show that James Foster was in the Army before the fall of 1918.] 8 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated 9 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead card] Tuesday [1917] Boy dear:This is a little note to reach you Thanksgiving day to tell you we are sending you a box of candy as a special dispensation, as you are to be away from us on that day for the first time in your life. We shall all have you in our most loving hearts, and know the day will be well spent, where ever you are. James Foster has leave of absence for one day and will be with his family Thursday. The Negro contingent left the same night James did, and were given a banquet by their colored sisters. Aunt Polly and I took a basket of flowers to St. Stephens Hall, where their supper was being served, with a little note of encouragement and cheer, and were received by the good, respectable colored women who were in charge, with great warmth and appreciation. It was an unusual experience. As a last word Darwin, your spelling grows worse & worse! Nevertheless I love you – we all do. Write again soon please. Mudder 10 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [Lake Placid Club letterhead] Sunday [1918] Dearest Boy:You have been a little rebellious about the Victrola I am pretty sure, but I am also sure I can depend upon your sense of justice and honesty, and that by this time, you have found a way to dispose of the instrument. That is a very small sacrifice to have had to make, isn’t it dear compared with what you will gain. Grandma sent me word a day or two ago, that dear Mrs. Burns had passed away, soon after our leaving home. When I think of what she did for me, and how she actually saved your life, I wonder that I could have had the heart to have let so long a time go by without having gone to see her. Certainly, somewhere, there must be compensation for such a life of unselfish patient service and self-sacrifice. Ever since I have known her, there has been nothing but hard work, anxiety as to how to meet each month’s expense for their simple home needs, and a body tortured with quiet suffering, but never a single complaint with it all. Compare our lives with hers dear, and think of all that is being done for you – education in one of the best schools, beautiful home surroundings, lovely summer experiences, and a father who is a high ideal to live up to. So, for her sake, who is responsible for our having you today, and for the sake of that dear father, begin each day with a loving resolve to do your duty first, as they did – and give up the little boy practice of following your inclination. All you need to do dear, is to be as fine a fellow as you know how to be, one day at a time – to do your work each hour the best you know how, to be as manly as you can in your attitude toward your teachers and the fellows, to be honest with your self and to abide by the principle of right thinking. Put aside your boyish ways, and face all your [ ] with the nobler and broader view of a gentleman. Be a credit to Exeter. Military training will help your physique, and Father says you have no where near attained your full stature but you will continue to grow until you are twenty. So cheer up! This is what one college president has said to the students, “The greatest gift which this year has in store for you, is in the opportunity to prepare for your highest service for the future, and nothing that you can do today is so valuable as your earnest, faithful, persistent, intelligent use of that opportunity.” Your life work awaits you, Son dear, and every day counts now with every loyal son of America. The quicker you are thro’ school and college, the sooner you may take the place left you by an older brother who has been sacrificed. God bless you. Mother [According to the Martins’ diary, Darwin R. attended New England College Officers Training Camp from June 22 to August 15, 1918] 11 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Sunday. [1917] Dearest Boy:Although Father is at home, and the sun is shining brightly, and Grandma and Auntie Margaret are coming out to dinner, I am very lonely as I sit here listening to the singing in the little church opposite, because I miss you children so. I have been in bed all the week again, so have had a good deal of time to think about you both. I looked daily for a letter from you until Friday, when your first one came. I miss you more than I do Sister, and think of you more, as she has proved herself you see, having gone successfully thro’ school and college, while you are in the most critical period of your life. I shall try not to be anxious, and will endeavor to keep my thought as lovingly confident as I can. If you do not pass your French, it will be another proof of what is necessary to attain success – will it not? We find such earnestness among our friends: every one is dropping all thought of self and what they prefer and is doing what they can to supply the world’s needs. Women are going without new clothes, and I am having but one cloth dress as my winter’s wardrobe. Where did you stay in Boston, and led you go to Dr. Wheeler’s? Who paid theatre bills etc? When does military training begin at school? Whose classes are you in? Please take pains to answer these questions. Address letters, until further notice, to ‘Outlook,’ L.P.C. – as we shall leave for Adirondacks tomorrow if I am well enough and I am sure I shall be. Remember dear, to win respect of the fellows, you have got to display manly qualities, not kid, and be sincere in your work and ideals for your school. Be economical. Father is so dear – and is working so hard. Everyone thinks he is so splendid – and he is. We must all try to be worthy of him, and keep up with him as far as we can by making our lives fine and high too. Dearest love and confidence – in a precious lad. Mother [DDM was in Washington from May 25, 1917 until January 18, 1918, coming home for weekends. I suspect this was one of those weekends. “Outlook” was leased for 1917; there was no mention in the diary of going to the Lake Placid Club in 1918.] 12 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Sunday – [Nov. 4, 1917] Dearest Boy:This has been a long week, and I have hoped each day to be able to write you, but another headache took possession of me, and down I went again. As a result, you, Father and Sister have been without letters. First, I shall reply to your questions about draping for your windows. I am very certain dear, that you planned those curtains without reflection, for I am very sure you would have seen how inconsistent your desire is, with the way all the world has begun to live. We must cut our luxuries and certainly those extra touches, while attractive, are self indulgences, and you are sure to be criticized. When you consider it a bit more, you will not really wish them. Thirty dollars wouldn’t cover the cost, but I don’t believe you realized that either, so let’s call it off. I have been forced to neglect a good many things this week – among them your pictures and records, but they will come along in due time. Father isn’t home this week end, nor will he be the next but he will be here on Tuesday to vote for suffrage and a decent[?] mayor. Just for that day however. The other evening I was called to the phone, and who should it be but Donald Jenkins, on his way to Saranac, where he has been sent by his physicians, for what is probably tuberculosis, altho’ he didn’t say so. He wrote me briefly after his arrival and said they wouldn’t take him in the sanitorium there, as his case had been of too long standing. Poor lad – I felt so sorry for him as he said good bye, for he was so forlorn and lonely, going up there all alone, sick and miserable, and that dreadful night train, with a change at Lake Clear at six next A.M. I thought of you, with such love and care always in the heart and minds of your family – your good home, [ ] indulgent father and lovely sister, and hoped you would try to realize more each day how blessed you are. You have taken a good deal of responsibility upon your self haven’t you, in undertaking to do so much on these various [ ]? Of course, it’s all right and the experience is good, but you are to remember the thing of supreme importance is to keep up a high standard in your actual school work. This you will do I know, for you are aware of its great importance. The Barcalos have rented a house on W. Ferry St., not far from Elmwood –(east) where they will live until June. The Seth Spencers have lived there but as Mr. Spencer was called to Washington, now had to give it up for a year at least and are willing to sell. It is too expensive for the B’s, but they may come to it finally. Mr. Simpson was here a long time this afternoon, having had dinner in the neighborhood, his wife being in Washington. He was dreadfully depressed over the war situation, and said he believed we had not the slightest conception[?] of the sacrifices and sorrow ahead of us, that it would be three or four years at least before it is over, and that America would be crucified as cruelly as her allies. So your little beginnings in depriving yourself of your accustomed pleasures, will help you to make the larger and nobler sacrifices we are all [C d] to have to meet. But it is all character making Boy dear, and you and I and all the world which survives will be better men and women and better fitted to serve than we might have been, had this tragic experience not been ours. The last time Father was here I asked him how business was, and he replied ‘Pretty poor’ so be careful dear, in every little way, won’t you? This is a pretty good story. After a hard battle, an English private went to an officer, who had told him to assist in burying the dead, and said in a respectful, diffident manner, “There is a German here Sir, who says he isn’t dead, and refuses to be buried. What shall I do?” The officer thought a moment, then said “Bury him just the same; these Germans are such liars, you can’t believe a word they say!!” We shall look with loving hope and interest for your next marks, and have confidence that as America’s hope, you are living up to your best. Your very own Mudder [Mr. Martin records in the diary that he was in Buffalo to vote on November 6, 1917.] 13 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Saturday Son dear:Your telegram has just been received, and we are, of course, very greatly pleased to have you off pro. This, of course, you and I understand, does not mean any relaxation of effort, but rather, a renewed ambition to do even better than your past best. So many people say, “Well, and how is Darwin getting on now?” You are very wise to go back to first principles in Latin, as you are now sure your foundation will be good. Too bad you were careless in geometry, by lettering your problems wrong, but I rejoice in every mistake that brings you a step higher in your moral growth. We rise upon the things we put under our feet dear, so you, with your constant effort to overcome temperamental weaknesses, are building a strong, honorable, courageous man, whom your city, state, and country will honor. The Bible tells us to pray without ceasing, and Mrs. Eddy says – “The constant desire to be always good, is unceasing prayer.” Every little earnest step in the right direction aids in the making of a man whom Exeter graduates with her blessing. Your shirts, violin, necktie, and a few handkerchiefs go to you today, and Father, whom I have telephoned, says he will do all he can to hurry the viola case. We miss you terribly Boy dear and your room is so forlornly tidy all the time, but we are daily thankful that you are where you are, “where boys are made men.” Mr. Tuffts trusts you, and so do I, and so does Father. Most lovingly, Mudder 14 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [The Red Lion Inn letterhead] Saturday. [June 1917] Darling Boy:There is little to write you, but I am sure a letter in your box is pleasant, even if there is nothing in it. The country about here is beautiful beyond description, with all its tender foliage, and lovely blossoming trees. We have been here usually in the autumn when the hills are gorgeous with their gold and scarlet dresses – now the world is a green one, green in every shade and tender tone. Tuesday morning, early, as I lay in my cosy bed, a group of young men passed by our window, coming from the registration office, where they had gone to sign for draft. Their voices could be clearly heard in the still morning air, and I heard one say, “I am one hundred and seventeen”, and I have wondered many times since, how that number will affect his future life. His voice was clear, and full of courage, and I knew he would be a good soldier if he were called. You have been called dear, to do a soldier’s duty where you are – are you doing it bravely? Be a good one – and don’t fail in your every little duty. Lovingly, always Mother [The Martins’ diary records that IRM and CH were at the Red Lion Inn in June, 1917. They arrived on the 4th.] 15 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead] Dec. 10th [1917] My dear Sonny:You ought to see Buffalo! We are simply buried in snow – for it is piled higher than I have ever seen it at this time of year! Two storms met in this unlucky city, and for two long days and a night, we were in their grip. We have had no newspapers, and up to three o’clock today no milk. Trains are hours behind time, and automobiles are stuck on all the side streets. One had to b e shoveled out in front of our house this morning. Freda was in Rochester over Sunday, and was from nine thirty last evening, to five thirty this morning, getting home. Leonard Bailey was on the train from five in the evening, to late the next morning, coming from Detroit. He is with his parents at present, and is writing every one he knows in Washington to secure a non-combative position. He is willing to go abroad, but does not wish to fight. James Foster has unexpectedly been called to Camp Miegs in Wash -, to prepare for going to France very soon to take a place in the new aeroplane and automobile repair shops, now being erected back of the firing lines. His parents are greatly relieved, as I should be, if you had suddenly been taken from Camp Dix and made ready for a less dangerous future. I hear no plans for Christmas festivities and everyone is working day and night at knitting and Red Cross. The men’s clubs have been giving an evening to Red Cross work, and the other night the Saturn Club did ten thousand surgical dressings in response to a call for two hundred thousand lately made by the government. These must be ready in three weeks from time of order, so it means Buffalo has to turn itself inside out to accomplish it all. How are you managing about coal at school? There is some talk of closing public schools here during January and Feb - , and extending the summer term proportionately – coal is so scarce here. We are getting sugar in small quantities again, but are very careful in our use of it. Uncle James [in England] writes that they are permitted half a pound per week, per person. I am sorry you have given up your declamation, as you needed it very badly. I base my opinion on the fact that you lost your head, whereas you found your feet! Your marks should come up now, with no extras to distract you. It would seem to me, with the thought of how everyone is so earnestly striving to save where they can, and with a conscientious resolve to do your best, that you could get along without tutoring. Don’t be satisfied to drift along dear, allowing the other fellow to lift you over hard places. Where you get yourself over alone, it is a great victory. America will win this war, only as her younger generation rise to their finest heights – and you know it. We all love you, and are sure you will be faithful. Your own, Mudder 16 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated 125 Jewett Avenue letterhead Destroy Thursday eve. [1917] 7 o’clock Son dear:I am about to leave for Northampton, but must drop you a line or two before I go. We are rather dreading to start out, as it has been snowing and blowing all day, and is very cold. Exeter and Northampton may have less snow, but we are not looking for summer temperatures at either place. I wonder why you yielded to the temptation to even try to smoke – I can’t seem to realize that our boy could go even that far, when he has been so firm and so fine in that respect always. Thank you for telling us though dear, and you will tell me the rest when I come. Resisting one kind of temptation, helps to resist all others, for yielding weakens the will so, when a severe test comes, and has not quite the resistive power one might have had, if they had saved all their moral courage. Never mind – it is another experience toward manhood – but always remember how you respect and honor the clean, courageous lad. The average is not high among boys because the standard has to be maintained by a few fine ones always. Your father has the respect and honor of all Buffalo. See that his son is not one to cast the first shadow on his fair name. Courage, courage to keep your thought clean. We will discuss having a girl when I see you. Do you daily pray to have it become clearer to you that God is all the mind and the intelligence there is, and you reflect this one all knowing mind? You can therefore see how much easier all your work would be if you would daily try to realize that God works in you, and that He is making all things clear. Please tear up this badly written letter, but read it twice first. Remember – you are proving to the Nichols School, your own school, and many people in Buffalo, the kind of stuff you are – So sacrifice all your petty little outside interests and make good. And you always have the devoted love of Mother [The Martins’ diary records that on May 29, 1917 IRM and DDM traveled to Northampton, then to Exeter on June 6th. I guess there has been snow in May; the mention of not expecting summer temperatures could indicate that it was May. Unfortunately, the diary doesn’t mention snow. Since Darwin entered Exeter in October 1916 and Dorothy graduated in June 1918, this trip has to have been between those dates.] 17 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [125 Jewett Avenue letterhead on card] Friday eve. [1917] Son dear:Thank you for your long interesting letter, following your lovely visit to Concord. Father will write Stedman’s father but does not know either his given name, nor address. Please send both to his office address in Wash - spelling all correctly, as soon as you receive this. Be sure If you will read Father’s letter again, relating to the rug expense[?] you will, I am sure, agree to all he has said. The test you may always bring to any experience, is to ask yourself – “Would I wish my son to see this from this point of view” – will, I think, aid you in deciding where you will take your stand. You are going to raise a son yourself some day, and you won’t know how to do it so well, if you are not willing now, to exact of yourself the tolerance and charity you expect others to show you. This is the day of supreme sacrifice my Son, and one can’t afford to build up an indulged self. Don’t fall behind the boys and young men of your day – but be big, generous, kind – doing your level best hour by hour – without criticism or faultfinding – “loving one another” as the Bible says. You are a good boy, let the good be the prevailing and ruling characteristic. I will see about cards. Love always, Mother [DDM’s being in Washington indicates the letter was written in 1917.] 18 �Transcript: Letters, IM to DRM, 1917-1921, undated [card note in another’s handwriting – DDM’s?] Tuesday Dear Darwin – no laundry has come from you for three weeks and if ever you see fit to forward any we will send back some records in basket. We congratulate you on game and await eagerly your letter telling of your week-end with Eleanor. Why are you such an “it” as to make ten mistakes in spelling and bring down your Eng. so low. Don’t be too cocksure – son – you can be easily flunked out yet. “Isn’t this a wonderful description of a Japanese print? A curve for the shore, A line for the lee, A tint for the sky, Where the sun set will be. A stroke for the gull, A sweep for the main. The skill to do more, But the will to refrain” 19 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Darwin D. Martin Family papers Subject The topic of the resource Martin, D. D. (Darwin D.), 1865-1935 ; Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) ; Herrick, Cora ; Martin, Darwin R. (Darwin Reidpath), 1900-1979 ; Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) Description An account of the resource This Digital Collection consists of transcripts and subject indexes of selected diaries and correspondence from the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/archives/ubar_ms0022_6.xml">Darwin D. Martin Family papers</a> held by University Archives. Created by Anita Mitchell, Darwin Martin House docent, these resources provide unparalleled access to Martin, his wife Isabelle, family friend Cora Herrick, and Darwin R. Martin. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-UA042 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transcription of Letters from Isabelle Martin to Darwin R. Martin, 1917-1921, undated Description An account of the resource Transcription of letters from Isabelle Martin to her son, Darwin R. Martin. Contextual notes by the transcriber are included in brackets [ ] at the end of most letters WWI content is marked in red by the transcriber. Subject The topic of the resource transcriptions (documents) correspondence Martin, Darwin R. (Darwin Reidpath), 1900-1979 Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) World War, 1914-1918--Correspondence Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2016-06-08 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS22.6_12_13_Transcription Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Darwin D. Martin Family papers (LIB-UA042) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives Language A language of the resource en-US Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Darwin D. Martin Family papers (MS 22.6) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 179 KB Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mitchell, Anita Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) Martin, Darwin R. (Darwin Reidpath), 1900-1979 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/CNE/1.0/">COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED</a>. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. This digital collection is made available for research and educational purposes. 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Transcript of A Line a Day Diary, Cora Herrick, 1916, 1922, 1946. [Entry description and dates]. Diary in 3.5, MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Acquisition Information: Anita Mitchell, Darwin D. Martin House docent, gifted her transcription of the diary to University Archives in 2014. Terms of Access: Transcription of A Line a Day Diary, Cora Herrick, 1916, 1922, 1946 is open for research. NOTE: Any marks within brackets [ ] are of the transcriber. �Table of Contents A Line a Day Diary, Cora Herrick, 1916, 1922, 1946 ...................................................................................................3 1916 ...........................................................................................................................................................................3 1922 ...........................................................................................................................................................................4 1946 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Contextual Notes Regarding Charles Kellogg (April 18, May 1, May 15-16, 1922) .................................................. 12 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1916, 1922, 1946 State University at Buffalo Archives Martin Papers, Box 3, Item 5 A Line a Day Diary, 1916, 1922, 1946 (Cora Herrick) 1916 [NO ENTRIES UNTIL APRIL 5, 1916] April 5 – “D. left for college – Taking Darwin to N.Y. to meet his father for few days. Morning with Mrs Ogden on pier.” Apr 6 – “Lakewood beautiful - but hotel too large. Lovely drive – pines everywhere. Reading Robert Herrick’s ‘Healer’” Apr 7 – “Spent few hours N.Y. en route from Lakewood to Hamp. but didn’t find Father & Darwin.” Apr 8 – “Baker-McElwain project abandoned. Called on Mrs Houghton. Hartford for night where I found Florence Pearce.” Apr 9 – “Left Hartford at 11 and went out to Ruby’s for dinner & heard of their plans for moving house etc. Northampton at 7.” Apr 10 – “Luncheon Faith & D. at Lonesome Pine. Miss McElwain dined with us & we nearly lost our train for home this evening.” Apr 11 – “Stopped in Rochester for day, and are safe home once more.” Apr 12 – “Munder’s birthday. Out for tea. Church this eve. then went to Cent. Club for last Chr. Club meeting. Orchestra played!” Apr 13 – “Quiet a day as possible resting between ‘bats’.” Apr 14 – “Isabelle, Darwin & I at Hotel Statler to-night with our dear Kelloggs to see their last performance.” Apr 15 – “Luncheon at The Graselle’s with Kelloggs & rest of day with them in theatre.” Apr 16 – “Hunted up Chubb and his family – found he had two lovely little girls – 8 & 10 – named Grace & Dorothy. Home this eve.” Apr 17 – “Much house-cleaning going on from now on.” Apr 18 Apr 19 blank blank Apr 20 – “Working hard on C.S. thro’ ‘Aunt Saadi’s’ help & inspiration” Apr 21 – “Good Friday, got plants & bouquets distribution.” Apr 22 – “Mrs Barrell & Mrs Hillman out for luncheon. Last meeting of Drama League.” 3 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1916, 1922, 1946 Apr 23 – “Easter Sunday – cold 32°! Same knee kept me home. Simpsons out for dinner. Mrs S. gave thrilling acc’t of D .S. meeting in N.Y. on ‘Justice’.” Apr 24 – “Cleaned my room & saw Dr Russell about my knee which was easily adjusted.” Apr 25 – “Thekla out for luncheon. Open meeting of Lit. Club at College Club. Mrs Prentiss giving program of Elizabethan Songs & [ ] of WCT. 6.” Apr 26 – “Isabelle in bed and I had a busy day catching up letters and personal things.” Apr 27 – “Isabelle in bed still & I finished reading The Cloister and got ahead on Red Cross work.” Apr 28 – “Lovely recital by Mrs Peacock at Franklin School this afternoon. Reidpaths returned from southern trip this evening. Here for night.” Apr 29 – “Visited with Reidpaths all the morning. Mrs Morey over for waffle- luncheon. Took Rs home and did errands.” Apr 30 – “Lafayette Church to hear Mrs Peacock sing. B. and her family with Mrs P. out for music and tea this afternoon.” May 1 – “Carried May-basket to Alice Rges[?] who is soon to be married. Nice long call on Munder with Isabelle. Began this eve. ‘A Portrait of A Lady’”. May 2 – “Morning of bills, etc. Mrs Nuians[?] & May Staples out for tea.” [NO OTHER ENTRIES FOR 1916] 1922 [NO ENTRIES BEFORE JANUARY 20] January 20 – “Lovely luncheon at Mrs Crosby with Florence, Mrs Holloway & Eames” Jan 21 – “Our first real big bridge party at Mrs Crates this eve.” Jan 22 – “Coonleys with Mrs Ward spent day with us. See remaining. Our first acquaintance with ‘Stuart’ who is ‘a rock’!” Jan 23 – “Mrs W. and Arthur out for luncheon. Coonleys with us for afternoon. Bridge this evening with girls.” Jan 24 blank Jan 25 – “Luncheon at Club for Mrs. Hubbard given by Mrs. Heath. Stopped at Lenox to say goodby to Stuart & Louise. Charles Williams Carter borne at ‘Dobbs’” Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 blank blank blank 4 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1916, 1922, 1946 Jan 29 blank Jan 30 – “Waffle luncheon & bridge at May Martin’s”. Jan 31 blank February 1 blank Feb 2 – “Luncheon and bridge at. Carrie Putnam’s. Tea at Club for Miss Mary Euring[?] C.S. Lecturer. Father reading Edward Bok’s life.” Feb 3 blank Feb 4 – “Luncheon at Club for Miss McConnell. Lovely program followed at Chro. Club. Darwin arrived this A. M. for throat operations.” Feb 5 – “Darwin pretty sick all day. James & Fred Stevens out for supper, James bringing lovely pictures of Mary & the baby.” Feb 6 Feb 7 blank blank Feb 8 – “Interesting at Club by Miss Slattery on [ evening.” Feb 9 ] Chinese & Indian women - our duty to them. Bridge at Eda’s this blank Feb 10 – “Awfully worried about Betty who was operated on for abscess in her breast. Miss Mary very ill again also. Darwin still in bed.” Feb 11 blank Feb 12 –“Sunday vespers at First Church where Margaret Slattery gave inspiring address on ‘The Triumphant Way’. Dorothea out for supper talking Europe.” Feb 13 – “Heard Margaret Slattery at Mrs. Van B’s this aft. Took Isabelle to Guild Al A meeting at Miss Hauenstein’s and heard ‘Katie’ read Di Bartola’s paper on Dante.” Feb 14 – “Wright Simpsons paper on Edith Wharton. Called on Thekla, whose brother died in Los Angeles, and was charmed by her niece Katharine. Spent a long time with Darwin who is so depressed.” Feb 15 – “Musicale at The Club this A.M. Katherine Adam out for tea to talk Leland Stanford. Kay Norton for night.” Feb 16 Feb 17 also out blank blank Feb 18 – “Mrs Chamberlain guest at Club in honor of Mrs Stevens. Chromatic Club later & errands.” Feb 19 – “Mrs Martin all in as well as Darwin. Dorothea, Jack Putnam & Tom Buell for supper.” 5 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1916, 1922, 1946 Feb 20 – “Mrs Montgomery’s guests at Club. Her cousin Mrs Hooper a friend of Fred Bancroft. Tea at Mrs Bairds for Mrs Frank Vanderlifs[?].” Feb 21 – “Luncheon for Harriet Chalmers Adams, Mrs Osgood, Mrs Chamberlain, Mrs Stevens-Weber-Essle. Cornelia Spear buried.” Feb 22 Feb 23 blank blank Feb 24 – “Beautiful ‘blue’ South American luncheon for Reading Club at Mrs Rogers” Feb 25 – “Mrs Montgomery, Mrs Hooper, Mrs Bartlett, and Florence here for luncheon.” Feb 26 – “Usual letter-writing. Heard Miss Brooks (New Thought) this afternoon. Wilders & Bartletts for supper & eve of music.” Feb 27 – “Decisions final to-night to go to California.” Feb 28 blank March 1 – “Dentistry morning – mouth X-rayed etc. Bartons & Jim Herrick for dinner & evening.” Mar 2 blank Mar 3 – “Darwin’s tonsils out. ” Mar 4 Mar 5 Mar 6 Mar 7 Mar 8 Mar 9 Mar 10 Mar 11 Mar 12 Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank Mar 17 – “Leaving for California to-night rather reluctantly for neither Darwin nor Isabelle seem equal to it.” Mar 18 – “Mr Coonley met us & took us home with him for breakfast. Met Mrs Root & had a lovely two hrs. with them all. Stupid ride across Kansas.” Mar 19 – “Kansas City (St. Regis Hotel) is a beautiful city. Took aft. drive. Had long visit from Constance Churchyard. Leave in morning for Grand Canyon.” Mar 20 blank 6 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1916, 1922, 1946 Mar 21 blank Mar 22 – “Grand Canyon beyond anything one can imagine! Alt. 7000 ft. snow everywhere but hot in sun. Took Rim drive this aft. Trees add so much to beauty.” Mar 23 blank Mar 24 – “Arrived San Bernardino 1.30 & were met by ‘Andy’ & the Cadillac & driven to Mission Inn. Everything lovelier than I could have dreamed of.” Mar 25 – “Wonder drive up Jack-rabbit Trail to Palm Springs – the desert a riot of wild verbena & genista! Luncheon up Palm Canyon. Heavenly snow capped peaks in Alpine glow on way home.” Mar 26 – “Wrote all the morning, walked with Darwin. Organ recitals in chapel 3 times a day. This is a fascinating Museum Inn!” Mar 27 – “Darwin left this noon for Stanford. We drove to Redlands this P.M. & were joined by a Miss Carey from Dublin & Miss Smith formerly of Buffalo.” Mar 28 – “4 days trip to Coronado via Santa Ana Canyon to Capistrano. 42 miles on the shore wonderful. Lingered at San Luis Rey because of Brother Giles, also at La Jolla!” Mar 29 – “Drove an hr. or so about C. this A.M. Heavenly drive out to Pt. Louise this aft, returning to Balboa Park in time to hear organ recital & see Exposition Building.” Mar 30 – “Visited house in San D. where Ramorc[?] was married & The Mission. Father left at two for Palo Alto. Rested this aft. visiting charming Jap. Tea Garden.” Mar 31 – “Left Coronado at 9- with luncheon. Stopped at Hanlon[?] for straw flowers & along the way to marvel at the beauty of sea & earth! San Luis Rey Canyon a mass of wild lilacs.” Memoranda – “The chief interests at San Luis Rey Mission were Indian mural decoration & the illuminated parchment music book dating back to the beginning of the mission.” April 1 – “Drove up Mt Rubidoux & saw preparations for Easter Service. Spent rest of day quietly, reading ‘Ramona’ & shopping a bit.” Apr 2 – “Much impressed by the flag of all nation collected by Mr Miller & placed in Cong. Ch. Visited cactus garden. Charming eve. service.” April 3 – “Left with many regrets but are perfectly delighted with Hotel Darby. Row of tallest palms in S. A. seen from our windows.” Apr 4 – “Engaged Stud. & chauffeur from Cold Spring! Fascinated by beautiful homes” Apr 5 – “Mrs Norton for luncheon. Pardee took us La Canada drive, to her bung. At Medwick Club for tea.” Apr 6 Apr 7 blank blank 7 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1916, 1922, 1946 Apr 8 – “Called on Miss Stroels[?] – lovely & homesick for B. Afternoon around Pasadena. Lady Jane tea-room charming.” Apr 9 – “Howards took us to call on The Riselays[?] on Ventura Blvd – wonderful mts! Dined with Hes. & spent eve.” Apr 10 – “Heavenly experience at San Fernando – Schwinger marmalade & Frey freesias.” Apr 11 – “Left S. A. at 2.30 & are at El Mirasole Santa Barbara this eve. in an adorable bungalow. Hotel formerly the Hertes[?] home & is most artistic hostelry ever in.” Apr 12 – “Visited Mission this A. M. & met an adorable Spaniard Del Guerra family. Drove to Hope Ranch & by Cliff Drive went to Montecito, Miramar etc.” Apr 13 – “Stanley Young took us to Ojai Valley. We visited Thacher School, Foothills Hotel, & had luncheon on hillside covered with poppies & lupines.” Apr 14 – “Left El Mirasole with such regret at 11.30 – interesting but long ride by day to San Jose, which we reached at 9.15. Hotel Vendome not too promising.” Apr 15 – “Darwin looking better - had luncheon with us & after his return we came to Saadi’s for 24 hrs. Such suffering she shows & C. overwhelming tendernies[?]” Apr 16 – “Easter. Morning with C. looking over K. Springs and Mrs Achilles house. Dr. Dallenis family at dinner. C & [?] drove us home. Darwin blew in a [mir ]” Apr 17 – “Spent morning at Harper’s & afternoon sleeping. San Jose looks more possible to us.” Apr 18 – “Kelloggs came down for day. Took us to see Mrs Lube’s[?] garden – to Alum Park, came here for dinner.” Apr 19 blank Apr 20 – “Went up to Stanford & saw University with Darwin. lunch took part of La Honda Drive – saw our first big rec. Went up to Frisco for 2 days.” Apr 21 – “Mural painting by Albert Herter in the dining-room at St Franois Hotel lovely. Wild flower exhibition here & saw a beautiful pageant of little children.” Apr 22 – “Spent morning in Chinatown. After luncheon spent an hour or more with Rasso who was exhibiting in hotel cameos, pearls etc. Returned San Jose at 5.” Apr 23 – “Sunday – quiet day in hotel until evening when we went to Savins for supper & to church.” Apr 24 Apr 25 Apr 26 Apr 27 Apr 28 blank blank blank blank blank Apr 29 – “Transpose with 30th – Sunday. Isabelle under the weather so were quiet all day.” 8 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1916, 1922, 1946 Apr 30 – “Left Peb. B. at one & came over to Del Monte again. Went down to Pop Emestr[?] for Abalone luncheon, and came back to San Jose for few days.” May 1 – “Luncheon with Darwin at Palo Alto. Read his play & discussed his going abroad with Ansley. Mrs Achilles & Ks spent eve. with us. Saadi going east.” May 2 – “Very hot weather came on suddenly. Neither of us very fit, so remained quiet & finished Vandermark’s ‘Folly’.” May 3 May 4 May 5 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank May 13 – “Sunrise at Mirror Lake & drive up to Inspiration Point. Very warm and fatiguing, quiet rest of day.” May 14 – “Left Yosemite 7 a.m. Frightful heat 96 in train. Arrived S.F. at 7. May 15 – “Shopped. Drove in p.m. Pacific Heights, Presidio, Golden Gate Park. Wonderful pansies & rhododendrons. Supped at Louis with C. K.” May16 – “Big Basin trip with Charles K. Met Mr Andrew P. Hill to whom the world owes the preservation of the oldest forest (craters, virgin soil) in the world.” . May 17 – “Hair shampooed this A.M., shopped rest of day.” May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 24 May 25 blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank May 26 – “Terribly exhausted by trip & low altitude so had to go to bed for two hrs. D. Timmy & Beau called on me in aft. and we left for home at 5.” May 27 – “Buffalo never looked more lovely. Upper veranda balcony enlarged as ‘surprise.’ Mr. Hill pleasant companion on train last night.” May 28 May 29 May 30 blank blank blank 9 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1916, 1922, 1946 May 31 blank Memoranda – “Terribly troubled to find Thekla’s & Mrs Holloway’s condition!” June 1 Jun 2 Jun 3 Jun 4 blank blank blank blank June 5 – “Dorothy left for Montreal to sail with Dorothea, Miss Jauch & Anna Russell.” Jun 6-30 blank Memoranda – “Pleasant luncheon for friends who are going abroad, Mrs Goodyear & Mrs Choate, Mrs Chamberlain & Eda Morey.” July 1-23 blank Jul 24 – “Took Mrs Root to East Aurora for luncheon – had a beautiful day.” Jul 25 – “Surprise call from Lyon & Ruth this A.M. Took Mrs Root to Ehop[?] and luncheon at the Club. Pelagia & K. out for lawn supper. James came out to hear D’s letters & talked with me until midnight.” Jul 26 – “Lovely luncheon at Idlewood. Mesdames Cook, Marcy and Sykes hostesses.” Jul 27 Jul 28 blank blank Jul 29 – “Bacon[?] but Toad Hollow. Fosters, Florence Pray, Bartons & ourselves.” Jul 30 – “Sunday. Dinner at Mrs Harveys with Mr Morey & Mrs Stevens. Called on Fosters.” July 31 blank August 1 blank Aug 2 – “Luncheon & bridge given at Hunt Club by Mrs Crate.” Aug 3 – “Luncheon at Florence’s at Idlewood with Mrs Montgomery, Mrs Crosby & Helen – the latter just returned from Lymrica[?]” Aug 4 – “Terrace supper for soldiers from Gov’t Hospital – lovely eve. Luncheon at Mrs Northrups in honor of her friend Mrs Ward from Y.M.C.A. in Clima[?].” Aug 5 – “Picnic with Fosters on Grand Island at Mr Harsh’s – Toledo family.” . Aug 6 – “Sunday at Wyoming. 35 at dinner. Louise Stalling sang most beautifully. Mrs Gillen recovered from operation. Laura went with us.” Aug 7 – “Mrs Chamberlain (just back from Paris) Mrs Northrup & Mrs Ward over for luncheon. Rained too hard rest of day to go out. Letter from Lee – not well.” 10 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1916, 1922, 1946 Aug 8 – “Luncheon & bridge at Mrs Berry’s with ‘Amelia’. Letter from Molly saying that Auntie Mia died the 4th! Cold – very! Temp 58-64.” [NO ENTRIES BETWEEN AUGUST 8, 1922 AND OCTOBER 14, 1922] October 14 – “Arrived at 9. Went to Sloans & settled rugs. Dorothy arrived at noon from Hartford & we decided her silver in the afternoon!” Oct 15 – “Went to Hartford for night at eleven – Herrick moving to N.Y. as soon as he can.” Oct 16 – “Charlie away all day & H. & I had good visit. Came back to New York at five.” Oct 17 – “John S. Brown’s for linen this morning. Dorothy’s fur coat & my scarf this afternoon & I bought also black velvet dress at Franklin Simons” Oct 18 – “Bath towels & blankets order of the day. Mr Wright came in for tea yesterday & I could see his charm for the first time. Leaving for Buffalo 8 P.M.” Oct 19 – “Arrived at seven. Worked all day to finish D.R.Ms bed-spread. Jim out in the evening & ‘they’ became engaged. Munder came at 11 o’clock!” Oct 20 –“Marketed & shopped most of day. Dinner at Munders.” Oct 21 – “DeNolfe[?] Barton surprised us with a call this A.M. Bacou bat [?] at Parker Farm. Indians entertained us after dinner.” [NO MORE ENTRIES FOR 1922] 1946 [VERY SHAKY, ZIGZAGGY, DIFFICULT TO DECIPHER WRITING; THE FOLLOWING ARE THE ONLY ENTRIES] November 8 – “Said goodby to [B ]this a.m. Fred met me at Yonkers station & [ ] & Betty spent eve.” Nov 9 – “Dinner & supper in Irvington. B. & P. drove me back in eve. Pleased with everything here.” Nov 10 – “Lovely [ ] weather – out in sun most day getting acquainted with [ ].” December 21 - “Herrick & [D ke] spent evening with me.” 11 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1916, 1922, 1946 Note re Charles Kellogg (April 18, May 1, May 15-16, 1922) Charles Kellogg (1868-1949) was an American vaudeville performer who imitated bird songs and later campaigned to protect the redwood forests in California. He constructed a mobile home, called the “Travel Log” out of a redwood tree and drove it around the country to raise awareness of the endangered redwood forests. In his diary Darwin D. Martin mentions several visits with the Charles Kelloggs after they met in 1915, both in the Martin’s Jewett Parkway home and elsewhere (University at Buffalo Archives, MS 22.6, Martin Family Papers, Box 3, Item 1). There are also photographs of Charles Kellogg with Darwin Martin and the Martin’s grandchildren at Graycliff taken in 1934 ( Digital Library, University at Buffalo Archives, MS 22.5, Photo 812, 813, 814, 428 and MS 22.3, Photo 233). The University Archives also has some correspondence between Darwin D. Martin and Charles Kellogg. 12 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Darwin D. Martin Family papers Subject The topic of the resource Martin, D. D. (Darwin D.), 1865-1935 ; Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) ; Herrick, Cora ; Martin, Darwin R. (Darwin Reidpath), 1900-1979 ; Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) Description An account of the resource This Digital Collection consists of transcripts and subject indexes of selected diaries and correspondence from the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/archives/ubar_ms0022_6.xml">Darwin D. Martin Family papers</a> held by University Archives. Created by Anita Mitchell, Darwin Martin House docent, these resources provide unparalleled access to Martin, his wife Isabelle, family friend Cora Herrick, and Darwin R. Martin. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-UA042 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transcription of A Line a Day Diary, Cora Herrick, 1916, 1922, 1946 Description An account of the resource Transcription of diary kept by Cora Herrick. Contextual notes regarding the diary are included as an appendix at the end of this transcription. Subject The topic of the resource transcriptions (documents) diaries Herrick, Cora Martin, D. D. (Darwin D.), 1865-1935 Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 16-06-08 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS22.6_3_5_Transcription Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Darwin D. Martin Family papers (LIB-UA042) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives Language A language of the resource en-US Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Darwin D. Martin Family papers (MS 22.6) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 93 KB Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mitchell, Anita Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Herrick, Cora Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/CNE/1.0/">COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED</a>. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. 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Transcript of A Line a Day Diary, Cora Herrick, 1911-1915. [Entry description and dates]. Diary in 3.4, MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Acquisition Information: Anita Mitchell, Darwin D. Martin House docent, gifted her transcription of the diary to University Archives in 2014. Terms of Access: Transcription of A Line a Day Diary, Cora Herrick, 1911-1915 is open for research. NOTE: Any marks within brackets [ ] are of the transcriber. �Table of Contents A Line a Day Diary, Cora Herrick, 1911-1915 ........................................................................... 3 1911 ............................................................................................................................................. 3 1912 ........................................................................................................................................... 23 1913 ........................................................................................................................................... 42 1914 ........................................................................................................................................... 61 1915 ........................................................................................................................................... 78 MEMORANDA ....................................................................................................................... 94 MEMORANDA at end of diary ............................................................................................. 95 Appendix: Contextual Notes Regarding Entries in Cora Herrick’s Diary ........................... 97 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 State University at Buffalo Archives Martin Papers, Box 3, Item 4 A Line a Day Diary, 1911-1915 (Cora Herrick) 1911 January 1 – “Westville. Come[?]. Rain all day. Anna wretchedly ill with grip. Wrote letters in morning. Massage from ‘Miss Lucy’ – interesting Russian. Pleasant talk with Dr Skiff.” Jan 2 – “Still light rain and fog. Anna better. Came back to Hartford at five o-clock. Found lovely presents from Jenny Simpson and letter from Dorothy!” Jan 3 – “Rain continues. Hattie grippy and went to bed about noon. Tom and Herrick went back to college this evening. Wrote some letters and worked for Dorothy’s chest in evening.” Jan 4 – “Clearing and colder at last. Shopped this morning with Mrs K. for Young Women’s Society. Letters written this afternoon. The King family called this evening. Hattie in bed.” Jan 5 – “Hattie has temperature again to-day. Went down town this morning. Nice call from Miss Vanderbeck this afternoon. Evening with Lyon working on Dorothy’s towels.” Jan 6 – “Clear. Morning at church sewing. Dr Case here at noon – Hattie still so wretched. Afternoon went out to Miss Warren’s to meeting of Y.W.M.O. C.L. and F. all at Y.M.C.A. for supper.” Jan 7 – “Will and Ida sailing to-day. Lovely clear skies. Called on Buffalo Kimballs this afternoon. Fixed Lyon’s sweater this evening. Hattie sat up a little while to-day.” Jan 8 – “Sunday. Wrote Beau and Dorothy in morning after housework. Hattie down for dinner. Got the supper and went to evening service at Trinity.” Jan 9 – “Sewed in my sunny room all the morning ‘for the poor’. Made calls this afternoon. Play ‘500’ after tea and read Maeterlincks ‘Mary Magdaline’ – so wonderful in his portrayal of Christ.” Jan 10 – “Hattie improves. Received lovely letter from Beau – who has won the Rhodes Scholarship!” Jan 11 – “Down town this morning shopping for Young Women’s Society. Poured tea at Missionary Meeting this afternoon at which Miss Esther Henry talked upon Cyrus Hamlin. ‘500’ in evening.” Jan 12 – “Down town shopping this morning. Afternoon at home sewing and writing letters. Bouci[?] recital this evening.” Jan 13 – “Went to library to collect books to carry to Peekskill, and spent the rest of day in packing.” Jan 14 – “Left at 9.40. Spent day in unsuccessful shopping in New York and came up to Peekskill at 4.02. Percy Hazen spent evening with us. The most frightful fog all day ever saw.” Jan 15 – “Sunday. Peekskill. At home all day as weather is still damp and disagreeable. Lovely music with Bertha – wrote letters – Percy Hazen with us in the evening.” 3 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jan 16 – “Odd jobs for Bertha all this morning. Called on Mrs Hazen Simpson in afternoon and her adorable baby. Terrific drop in temperature with high wind. Looked for Emma all evening.” Jan 17 – “Freezing cold weather. Sewed all the morning. Emma spent afternoon with us – Percy the evening.” Jan 18 – “Bertha in New York all day so I had housework and Miss Miller to look after. A long call from Mr Frost in the afternoon.” Jan 19 – “New York all day. Shopped – called upon Mrs Young Fulton – and the Misses Lewison, 43 Fifth Ave. Emma and Mr Bostelmann here in the evening. Lovely music!” Jan 20 – “Beautiful day. Called upon Mr Lent[?] in the morning. Received call from Madge Preston and got a lot of Buffalo news. Evening spent upon 136 articles!” Jan 21 – “Rain again. A bustling day in the sewing-room. Too tired to go with the others to Hazen’s for Bridge.” Jan 22 – “Sunday Peekskill – a quiet home day with dinner ‘across the street’. Bertha went off calling and I had a lovely time with Percy.” Jan 23 – “Preparations for Get Together Club which met here this evening. Major and Mrs Waters were among the guests. Nice talk with Mr Bucher who gave me valuable ideas on ‘The Dervishes’.” Jan 24 – “B. in New York hearing Sembrich – brought back lovely songs! Dinner & supper with Percy. Old[?] Alice here in afternoon – killing!” Jan 25 – “Sewed all day. Called on Dr Knight with Bertha in evening. Mrs [L ] died today – Mary’s birthday.” Jan 26 – “2nd letter from Mrs D. telling of Dorothy’s hard grippe! Gertrude and Hazen for night dinner and Bridge.” Jan 27 – “Warm wet weather continues. Mr Lent[?] here in the evening for ‘Hearts’.” Jan 28 – “Sewed all the morning. Out with Percy in the afternoon doing errands and at Gertrude’s. A quiet evening sewing with Bertha. Jan 29 – “Sunday. John and Constance came at eleven. Dinner at 1.30 at Harriet Stabbs. Music in the evening with Emma & Mr Bosalmann[?] during which Jenny surprised us.” Jan 30 – “Clearing. John and Constance left on eight o’clock train. Finished all my ‘chores’ for Bertha. A quiet evening before the fire with a warming wind outside.” Jan 31 – “Morning paying bills for Bertha and in the attic looking over my trunk. B. & I dined at Hazens. Decided to go straight home in the morning.” February 1 – “Left at 9.35 with beautiful memories surely of three weeks in Peekskill! Found Hattie entertaining various Pansy Circles” Feb 2 – “Rested hard all day. Ernest Nichols[?] spent evening with us.” 4 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Feb 3 – “Wrote letters this morning. Down town this afternoon. Spent evening darning gold thread into yoke of blue voile dress.” Feb 4 – “Rain – freezing as soon as it falls. Bertha sailed at 6 A.M. on this ‘Arabic’ Cruise. Charlie ‘all in’ with a sore throat. Ripped poplin dress of Ruth’s.” Feb 5 – “Sunday – Hartford. Church in the morning. At home rest of day writing letters and music.” Feb 6 – “A hard snow – the first of the season really amounting to any thing. Hattie in C. Falls. Charlie away all day at Ministers Meeting. Spent day finishing gold threat in voile dress.” Feb 7 – “Snow continued – no school. Much letter- writing – cards and music all day.” Feb 8 – “Wrote Bertha long steamer letter, also wrote Jenny and several other people. Young Women’s Society had a sociable at the church which was a great success.” Feb 9 – “Spent morning at Miss Wheeler’s school having been summoned unnessarily. Called on Mrs Kaufman in the afternoon and got my book on The Dervishes at Seminary Library.” Feb 10 – “Edith Hutchinson here for dinner. Young Women’s Society at Miss Robertson’s.” Feb 11 – “Edith’s friends, Miss Dow and Mr Becker, were married here at noon – with Miss Gay and the Samuel Huntingtons witnesses. Received telephone from Anna asking us to New Haven! Herrick home.” Feb 12 – “Sunday. Saw Mrs Willard Brown off with sick little Sarah Emily – also the bridal party. Took Mabel’s class in Sunday School. Edith Hutchinson here for supper.” Feb 13 – “Most of morning with Dr Case. Mrs Brownell and Mabel here for afternoon tea. ‘500’ in the evening. Mr Lymon in Chicago over Sunday – yesterday.” Feb 14 – “Snow. Pleasant valentines from Gracy and Molly. Evening played ‘500’ until 11.15!” Feb 15 – “Beautiful day but hoarseness kept us in all day and I decided not to go to Anna at present.” Feb 16 – “Beautiful sunshine! Spent morning talking Dorothy with Hattie after reading her long letter. Entertained Mrs Hunt and her sister and Fred Emery[?] this afternoon.” Feb 17 – “Knocked out all day by Dr Case’s remedy – though cold has disappeared.” Feb 18 – “Some better to-day – but no great shakes yet.” Feb 19 – “Sunday. Took Miss Vanderbeek’s class.” Feb 20 – “Beautiful snow-storm. Ames spent afternoon and evening with us quite unexpectedly. Brought us lovely carnations.” Feb 21 – “Word of Eliza Bayley’s death yesterday. Hattie not well to-day. Wedding-party at noon. Tom came at two for the holiday. Called on Mrs Thayer this morning and Misses Osborne & Henry this afternoon.” Feb 22 – “Beautiful day. Made crepe shirt waist. Call from Miss Wheeler in the afternoon. Dinner 6.30 at the Kimballs.” 5 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Feb 23 – “Tired – and rested all day. Roger came for a week-end and John went home after ‘The Birthday’.” Feb 24 – “Y.W.M.S. met with Miss Hunt. Came home early to meet Ames, Miss Mary, and Miss Foote at afternoon tea. Plans made for their going south. Rec’d letter from Mrs Ogden offering me position.” Feb 25 – “Morning shopping – mostly for a box! Afternoon sewed on yoke and sleeves for brown waist.” Feb 26 – “Very warm Sunday – temperature over 50 degrees. Pleasant call from Paul in the afternoon.” Feb 27 – “Visited box factory this morning. Afternoon given to committee meeting to prepare program on ‘Latin Lands’. Had to miss Dr Dresser at The Goodwin!” Feb 28 – “Hattie’s fiftheth birthday. Phone rec’d from Katherine about ten asking me to come to Milbrook. Left at 12.26 for Peekskill where I spent night with Jenny.” March 1 – “Left Peekskill at 9.19 and arrived at Millbrook at 11.09. An interesting day at The Bennett School which I left late afternoon and reached Hartford at eight-forty.” Mar 2 – “Packed all the morning for Chicopee where I arrived at six. Supper at Ruby’s then down here at Miss Mary’s for a month. Forgot to check my trunk!” Mar 3 – “Mrs Thornton’s birthday. They all left for Phila at about eleven. Raymond celebrated by smashing the car! Taught Ilsa ‘Rum’ in the evening and we thought up Mother Goose.” Mar 4 – “Much telephoning about Raymond. Grace here in the morning. Heard from Munder about the lovely Easter plan in Boston! Got trunk all right. Charlie dining at White House.” Mar 5 – “Sunday – Chicopee Falls. Read ‘The Blue Bird’ with Ilsa this morning. Started out to S.S. with her and called on Grace and upon Alice Thomas. Evening choral practice.” Mar 6 – “Mame’s[?] birthday – a blizzard day. Good start upon The Dervishers. Called this afternoon upon Jenny Warner[?], Nell, and Mrs Stillwell.” Mar 7 – “Worked on paper all the morning. Called upon the Joe Herricks in the afternoon and did a few errands. Played ‘Rum’ with Ilsa all the evening. Wm Loomis married to-day!” Mar 8 – “Lovely winter’s day. Wrote all the morning. Into Springfield for shampoo in the afternoon. Worked on Dorothys bag in the evening.” Mar 9 – “Nell and Grace called this A.M. ’Fessed in long letter to Ames this afternoon and called on Mrs Towne[?].” Mar 10 – “Went to Hartford at noon. After Miss Osborne’s funeral we prepared chapel for entertaining the young people to-night which went off most beautifully. Fifty were present.” Mar 11 – “Took Ilsa for a walk this morning. Went down town after my nap and finished Dorothy’s party-bag. Ilsa & Frederic went to Pole’s.” Mar 12 – “Sunday. Hartford. Took Ilsa & Frederic to Trinity. Then went down to Park S.S. Finished paper on The Dervishes in the afternoon. Back to C.F. at 6.3o. Didn’t find Annie so took refuge at Grace’s.” 6 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Mar 13 – “Walked down to school with Ilsa and came home by way of Nell’s. She came here later to read the ‘Lesson’. Rest of the day quiet for writing four long letters.” Mar 14 – “Due in Hartford to read paper on ‘The Dervishes’ but telephoned I couldn’t come because of my head and such diabolical indigestion.” Mar 15 – “A lovely birthday letter from Dorothy made this day for me all right! ‘Special’ from Dr Case. Calls from Laura [D ] and Alice Thomas.” Mar 16 – “Feeling much better. Drop of 36° and high winds made us spend afternoon at ‘198’ for warmth before an open fire.” Mar 17 – “Morning shopping in ‘Springfield’. Afternoon sewing! Ilsa at sociable in the evening.” Mar 18 – “Sewing and calls from Perkins Smith and Nell filled this day with ‘Rum’ in the evening.” Mar 19 – “Sunday – miserable, raw day ending in a snow-storm. Called on George Page and his wife in the afternoon.” Mar 20 – “Clear – went up to Nelli this morning. Grace with us this afternoon – read ‘On The Branch’ – and for tea.” Mar 21 – “Finished taking ‘Reports’ around and stopped in with my sewing at Aunt Sarah’s. This afternoon walked to the Chicopee Library.” Mar 22 – “Unseasonably warm – 60 degrees at 6 P.M! Afternoon in Springfield at Openings again. Bought Boston Guide.” Mar 23 – “Another drop of 40°! Called on Mr Hadley and [ writing, and playing ‘Rum’.” ] Warner this morning. Rest of day at home sewing, Mar 24 – “Bitter winds but walked to Chicopee bringing home Hutton’s ‘Landmarks of Rome’ & Victor Hugo’s Letters which I enjoyed reading in the evening.” Mar 25 – “Lovely day! Morning busy doing ‘chores’. Left at 1.40 for Amherst via Holyoke – a beautiful ride! Called on Percy and Madeleine. At the latter’s met Prof. Grosvernor and wife. Home via Hamp.” Mar 26 – “Sunday. Quiet morning until Ilsa returned from Springfield. Took a long walk alone when she went to S.S. Called with Grace upon Mrs Stillwell in the afternoon. Slept all the evening.” Mar 27 – “Talked over Mrs Foster’s letter with Nell and decided to give up Boston as too great a stunt conducting ten people.” Mar 28 – “Nell spent morning with us. Rested this afternoon for dinner at Mabel Page’s to-night. Ed’s 43rd birthday – for which Mabel had prepared a cake with candles etc” Mar 29 – “Discovered that Uncle Heman[?] Cooley – Grace Lyon’s great-uncle - married mother’s sister Ruth. Lyon came this afternoon while I was in Springfield shopping.” Mar 30 – “Called on Nell with Lyon and took him up East Street. Drove to Cemetery in afternoon also to call on Dr. Fay. Raymond Griggs here for ‘500’. Cards, singing & dancing to-night.” 7 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Mar 31 – “Lyon drove me up to see Alice Thomas who is sick with grip – then we had a lovely drive before he left for Hartford. Ilsa spent night in Chicopee. Telegram and letter from Ruby telling of Ames’ illness.” April 1 – “Day made very happy by a letter from Mrs Foster whom I shall see after all in Boston. Grace came in this afternoon. Went down town to-night – the moon & Venus!!” Apr 2 – “Bitterly cold Sunday. Walked down for mail and found nothing from Washington. Played for Nell at rehearsal in the evening.” Apr 3 – “Went into Springfield for errands and to dine at Mrs. Herrick’s. Came home at six with Ilsa to find telegram stating arrival of family at 10.40. A hustling evening!” Apr 4 – “Busy day making calls, packing and getting ready to depart. Hard snow came about five.” Apr 5 – “Very stormy day – and Miss Mary so miserable that I decided not to go. Ames in various times during the day.” Apr 6 – “Back to Hartford at 11.47. found interesting letters from Ruth and Bertha. Miss Hotchkiss here with her postals for tea. Much ‘spring ice’ here than in C.F.” Apr 7 – “Down town this morning making unsuccessful attempts for a hat. Mission Circle at Mrs Avery’s in the afternoon calling upon Miss May on the way home.” Apr 8 – “Sewed and cleaned clothes all day for Lexington and Boston.” Apr 9 – “Sunday. Church – Sunday School. Miss Brooks here for supper and music in the evening. Another [do ] from Dr Case.” Apr 10 – “Appointment with Miss Wheeler at noon with reference to a position next year. Called on Mrs St John in afternoon.” Apr 11 – “Ames’ birthday – busy day for me getting ready for Six. Attended Miss Muting[?] at Seminary Building where pictures were shown relating to Hattie’s and Mrs St. J’s papers.” Apr 12 – “Left Hartford at 10.45. Boston at 2.51 for Lexington. Miss T. met me remembering that ‘in 1871 such a train got her to Salem about this time and nothing changes much in New Eng.’ Supper and evening with them.” Apr 13 – “Beautiful day in Lexington with calls upon Miss Bacheller, Mrs Prince, Brown Goodwin, Emily Martin, and Mrs [ ] where I lunched. In afternoon called at the Tiltons & the Thorntons. Clarabel spent eve. here.” Apr 14 – “Lexington. A quiet morning with drive with E.T.T. and luncheon. Left and 2.05 for Boston. Found Mrs Pray with the Fosters who stayed all night.” Apr 15 – “[He way] Chambers. Boston. Children arrived at 10.40. Spent afternoon sight-seeing. An evening with Munder. Letter from Miss Bennett.” Apr 16 – “Easter Sunday. Mother Church service. Had table alone with the children including Fargo Balliet[?] Afternoon and supper with Edith. Evening of music from the children & talk with Munder.” Apr 17 – “Families left early for Wellesley. I shopped a bit and came home at 12. Ran out for an hour with Miss Mary and had a visit at store with Ames. Saw Ruby and Ilsa at train – 5.22.” 8 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Apr 18 – “Hartford once more. H. & C. left at 10.45 for Lex. Telephoned Anna who came at six and spent night with me.” Apr 19 – “Down to see Anna off at 9.40 and to shop. Ames came at six for tea and the evening with us.” Apr 20 – “Cold, rainy day. Busy with sewing and other preparations for Millbrook. Charming letter from Constance!” Apr 21 – “Shopping this morning. Charlie returned at three from Lexington reporting a beautiful time.” Apr 22 – “Sewed this morning. Calls this afternoon upon Mesdames Dixon, Grier, Camp and Weaver.” Apr 23 – “Sunday – last in Hartford I expect for some time! Sunday School. ‘Sam Bushnell’ here for tea and the night.” Apr 24 – “Called on Wiley, Howard, James Hotchkiss, Bradley – Plimptons and Miss Awen[?].” Apr 25 blank Apr 26 – “Bought rain coat and sewed rest of day until time for supper at Miss Henry’s with Mary Paige.” Apr 27 – “Hattie returned to-day. Began packing.” Apr 28 Apr 29 Apr 30 blank blank blank May 1 – “A family united once more.” May 2 – “Busy day doing last things – fitted to glasses etc.” May 3 – “Left Hartford at 12.45. Mrs Thayer coming to see us off with a bunch of violets. Arrived at Millbrook for seven o’clock dinner and free evening.” May 4 – “Millbrook and a stiff day’s work with most satisfactory talks with Miss Fisk. Dr. Frizzel and singers from Hampton gave the ‘program.’” May 5 – “Walked with Miss Green and Marva Hills in the morning – then free time until I served for Miss G. at four o’clock. Night for House Mothers meetings as evening was free.” May 6 – “Free morning. Chaperoned five girls to Poughkeepsie for shopping. Luncheon at five at Vassar Inn followed by a perfect ride home. ‘A Rainbow [ ]’ by Fifth Form in the evening.” May 7 – “No church on account of scarlet fever. Beautiful day. Music at Miss Suttlehaler[?] with Katherine at 4.30. Miss Burnett returned for chapel in the evening. Walked on campus with Dorothy M.” May 8 – “Very warm day. Inspected for Miss Green – also poured for her at tea. Took Miss Jenkin’s table for several days. Pleasant talk with Mrs. Merrill under apple-tree. Miss Comstock’s [ ] was this evening.” May 9 – “Room inspections for Miss Green and a day.” 9 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 May 10 – “Assisted Mrs Foot all day [ and picnic supper at the old mill.” ] slips for May Dances. Poured for K. at four. Chaperoned at five a hay-ride May 11 – “Boiling hot! Sewed all the A.M. Afternoon tea out of doors in front of the White House (Faculty Tea). Ball game between Third Form and Faculty won by latter. Moon – out of doors while Miss B. read aloud.” May 12 – “Aunt Sarah’s 80th birthday. Chaperoned with Mrs Stearns fifty girls to Tyrrell Lake for picnic supper. Storm drove us home early but it was averted & we drove longer.” May 13 – “At the school all day. Walked to the village in the afternoon. Fourth Form Indian Play given under the trees in the evening. Took Miss Green’s place temporarily.” May 14 – “Sunday – Millbrook.[NJ] Perfect day. Dinner with Ames and the Benton’s at Moores Mills. Vespers condensed by Mr Gilbert. Walked in the evening with Miss (Agnes) O’Neil – later with Louise Davis.” May 15 – “Regular programs – beginning with 7.20 inspection. Mr Charles Rann Kennedy and Edward Rickett guests for a few days. Miscellaneous programs given by them in the evening.” May 16 – “May Day! Ames with Bentons and “Miss Susan” my guests. Henrietta Bishop the most adorable “Spring”. Margery Baines the Queen. Fourth Form Play repeated in the evening.” May 17 – “’The Servant in the House’ read at intervals during the day by Mr Kennedy. Faculty Base ball game. Banquet given to the Seniors by Third From in front of White House.” May 18 – “A free day for me with nothing of special interest.” May 19 – “Feeling wretchedly from intestinal indigestion. Very hot weather with occasional showers. Miss Jenkins with us in the evening.” May 20 – “In bed all day – receiving delightful and devoted care from Miss Durkee. Cloths wrung[?] from alcohol and put over intestines with hot water bag on top a great relief, and a tonic [ ].” May 21 – “Better, despite the frightful hot and humidity. A nice call from Miss Green in the morning. Got up for Vespers. – Dr Gilbert talking upon ‘Ye are the salt of the earth’.” May 22 – “Took Miss Green’s day for her. My room 88° all day and the same this evening. Worst heat in May since 1880. Miss Comstock’s protégé, Clara Weiss, gave musical evening – charming.” May 23 – “Much cooler during day until we reached a drop of 20 degrees. Morning with Mrs Foots putting away costumes. Walked with Mrs Stearns in the evening.” May 24 – “A lovely day! Morning with Katherine before her fire. Luncheon with Miss O’Neil. Great game between Faculty and Fifth Form. Received walking ticket from Miss Bennett. Evening full of lovely calls.” May 25 – “Katherine’s work for her all day. Lovely evening with Miss Fisk.” May 26 – “Perfectly wretched day.” May 27 – “Morning in my room. Afternoon in living-room receiving and serving tea. Taught Ella Downs ‘Rum’. Dinner & evening with Miss O’Neil until playing for dancing.” 10 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 May 28 – “Sunday. Millbrook. Chaperoned to Dutch Reform with Mrs Stearns. Seniors entertained school in the evening with harp concert by Mrs David given before the White House.” May 29 blank May 30 – “Made costumes for Margaret Walker in ‘The Sands of Heart’s Desire’. Rec’d ‘bid’ from Miss Bennett to remain thro’ Commencement.” May 31 – “Drove to Moore’s Mills for to-night chaperoning Katherine Houk, Eleanor Taylor, Ruth Millikens, Helen Balfs, Louise Davis, and Elizabeth Warner.” June 1 – “Faculty Dinner – nearly froze! 7 P.M. Beautiful drive back to the school which we reached at 8.30. Served for Miss Green this afternoon. Senior elections to-night – making Katherine Pres. and Eleanor Vice-pres.!!” Jun 2 blank Jun 3 – “Morning spent in decorating living-room and library yellow lilies and yellow roses. Afternoon free – in my room. Evening Glee Club Concert in living-room which I heard with Miss Durfee. Miss Lillian Littlehaler a guest, also Miss Amy Murray.” Jun 4 – “Chaperoned at church with Mrs Steans. Dinner with Miss Green. Coffee at two-forty-five. Music by Miss Littlehaler, cellist, & Mr Rickett. Chapel at 6.30. Mr Gilbert giving Bacca -- Lovely walk with Mrs Merrill. Jun 5 – “Field Day – presentation of cups most thrilling experiences ever had! Saw a lot of Miss Murray who charmed with her Gaelic Songs in the evening and burning of peat. Miss O’Neils play a great success. Henrietta danced – Mrs Kennedy recited ‘Butterflies’ and Mr Browning. Mr K. read Blind Man.” Jun 6 – “Arranged peonies and iris. Musicals at 11 o’clock. Bispham[?] the star soloist. Commencment at 2.30. Dr Slicer, speaker. After diplomas Mrs Kennedy read from Servant in the House before planting the Ivy.” Jun 7 – “Packed all the morning and left Millbrook in pouring rain at four o’clock for Moores Mills where I am spending the night with Friend Susan” Jun 8 – “Left Miss Susan’s at 4.06 and arrived at Peekskill at six o’clock finding Jen in New York. It has cleared beautifully and is very hot.” Jun 9 – “Rode down to Nerplanchi[?] this A.M with Gertrude to find Old Alice. Gertrude with us all day. Went to Miss Miller’s this evening.” Jun 10 – “Boiling hot day. Jen in New York and I have given day to getting Bertha’s house in order. Jenny Rumsey Chase a guest at Jen’s. Nice veranda call from Mr Frost.” Jun 11 – “John and Constance up for Sunday – a lovely day with them! Bertha delayed.” Jun 12 – “Finished the house before B’s arrival at 3.08. Spent night with her – everything seeming quite as if she hadn’t been away except for the display upon Ruth’s bed.” Jun 13 – “Rainy day and a quiet one with Bertha except for a few callers in the afternoon, so heard all about her trip.” 11 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jun 14 – “Left at 11.03 for Burlington. Delayed an hour and twenty minutes at Garrison. Molly met us with Henry’s family who also greeted a guest – Miss Reler[?].” Jun 15 – “Burlington Unpacked and settled this A.M. Mrs Wales[?] called this afternoon and plans are under way for a tea to-morrow.” Jun 16 – “Veranda tea given for Sara & Miss Peeler[?] the event of the day. The Underwoods, May, Fanny, Helen, Hallis, Julia, Harriet Richardson, Mrs Wales[?], Mary Benedict and Jane Wheeler came. Saw Charlotte later.” Jun 17 – “At home until after nap, then called on Hallie, Fanny Shaw, Mrs Benedict and Mrs Wheeler. Walked with Molly to see sunset!” Jun 18 – “Sunday – church and communion at College Street. H.F.W.[?] at dinner. Drive to Malletts Bay with Mrs. H. Alice and Molly. H.F.W. for veranda supper. Ada spent evening talking Goon Camp Bldgs.” Jun 19 – “Much domestic storming in Hagar household resulting in Lizzie’s giving notice. Mrs. Wexter gave us a luncheon – May, Lucy and Mrs. Wales other guests. Picnic supper with Henry and his motor out to Williston.” Jun 20 – “Morning calls on H.F.W. and Mrs Pease. Started with Molly at 4.40 for The Barber Farm. Charming Chicago guests here – Michler and Parkers – Misses Harvig and Carleton. Tom graduates.” Jun 21 – “Williston. Showery and cold so that open fires and Mrs Wilkins companionship are attractive.” Jun 22 – “Rain and cold continues and we are still lazy. Read Percy MacKaye’s ‘Anti-Matrimony’.” Jun 23 – “Dorothy rec’d her ring this A.M. Morning and afternoon both over in the woods to escape cool winds and enjoy brilliant sun. Walk in fern pasture wonderful! Evening on Mrs G’s veranda and down-stairs being ‘entertained’.” Jun 24 – “Morning in woods. Afternoon on Molly’s bed until time to drive her to station. Evening on veranda alone with Mt Mansfield until dusk drove me in to write letters. Powells here for dinner.” Jun 25 – “D. made ‘Sig.[?]’ sister to-night. Mrs Folsom’s 85th. Baccalaureate Sunday UVM. Quiet Sunday at Barber Farm writing letters all day. Evening at Mrs Scriburns cottage enjoying her charming old prints, furniture, quilts, etc. and Miss Harvig’s music.” Jun 26 – “Dorothy’s engagement was announced at Sig Tea. Burlington again this A.M. Ivy exercises, tea at Grass Mount and at Sigma Phi. Call from Evelyn Benedict before we went to Senior Prom which was most depressing.” Jun 27 – “Very hot day. Call from Dorothy this A.M. who showed me her ring, etc. Called on May & Mrs Slocum in the afternoon. Bed early to-night having tried to call on H.F.W & Lucy.” Jun 28 – “Commencement Day – saw procession with Harriet R, Helen & Molly. Pleasant greeting from ‘Benny’. Bed all the afternoon. Reception in the evening most delightful! ‘Ever fast friends’.” Jun 29 – “Errands this A.M. Call from George & Grenville, and upon Mrs Wales. Left for Greensboro at 4.50, met J. & H. at East Hardwick, and found Lyon here.” Jun 30 – “Greensboro Vt. House delightfully clean! Busy day settling. Long call from Mrs Ayer this afternoon. Evening alone – spent partly in sentimental musings in fire-light & candle-light while D. & others met Beau & East H.” 12 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 July 1 – “Hot day and to-night sees us fairly settled and in running order. Mrs Howes came and we spent part of evening on her veranda and at the Dewhurst.” Jul 2 – “Hottest July 2nd in 33 yrs. Spent most of day preparing for veranda supper for the Lyman House Party. The girls stayed over night sleeping out.” Jul 3 – “97° here today breaks all records. Dewhurst girls remained all the morning. Kenneth spent evening with Frederic not arriving until 10.45 owing to lateness of trains.” Jul 4 – “Too hot to move. A long visit from Helen this morning. One also from Mrs Howes in the evening thus we went to the Demings for fire-works.” Jul 5 – “Same blistering heat - 92° in house. Paddled to village – Herrick, Louise & F.D.C. and heard concert on way home. Charlie, Hattie and Mr Howes came this evening.” Jul 6 – “Day of adjustments. Supper on veranda with just C. & H.” Jul 7 – “Cool, lovely day! Gathered fir balsam for Constance’s pillow – Dorothy finding me in the woods. First music of the summer at Mrs Howes. Evening with the Lawrences.” Jul 8 – “Called on Eliot this morning and on Snyder sisters and Mrs Lukins in the afternoon with Mrs Howes. Wonderful moonlight – on water with C. & H. and the Howes, Mrs singing.” Jul 9 – “Warm again. Service out doors down at the Snyder Camp. Lovely evening on the water with C. H. and Lyon. Louise spends night with me.” Jul 10 – “Dr and Mrs Salter guests at the Howes. Frightful heat. Charlie took me to village this evening – water like opals in brilliant coloring. Thunderhead changed into a pink poppy.” Jul 11 – “Too hot to do more than exist. Dorothy and Louise watched sunset here indulging in charming cloud fantasies.” Jul 12 – “Mrs Salter, Mrs Howes, Helen & Louise here this morning. Four hour nap this afternoon. Victor Concert with C.H. and F.D.C.” Jul 13 – “20° cooler in living-room to-day a blessing! C & I at Mrs Howes a few minutes before tea hearing ‘The [ ry’]! C. left for Hartford this evening. Music at Mrs Howes, Helen playing so beautifully.” Jul 14 – “Morning with Mary Bliss & her postals. Young crowd went up Barr Hill this afternoon. Lovely evening on water and opposite rocky shore with Anna & Miss Bliss. Dorothy spent night with me.” Jul 15 – “Delightful music this A.M. in absence of the [ ] on Barr Hill, with Dorothy and Mrs S. & Mrs H. ‘The Salutation of the Dawn’ wonderful! Paddled across to library in evening with Hattie, Tom & Lyon.” Jul 16 – “Sunday – late breakfast. Service at Mrs Mac’s conducted by ‘P.M’ perfectly lovely. It was followed by quite a musical program in which both the Salters took part. Louise here for veranda supper.” Jul 17 – “Got breakfast & much housework on a Monday morning. Hard rain both afternoon and evening.” Jul 18 – “Morning began picking peas – then had a lovely time with Mrs Howes first in our boat-house afterward in the [ ]. Beach supper at Allen Camp with Anna & Miss Bliss. Music at the Bungalow.” 13 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jul 19 – “Last morning with Mrs Salter. ‘The Lake’ the loveliest composition of all I think. Made pillow for Daisy Hagar. Pasture walk with Louise Avery. Evening looking at Mrs Mac’s house plans.” Jul 20 – “Tom’s 22nd birthday. Salters departed in the rain. Cleared this afternoon. Helen and Louise came up to take my picture. Johnson Concert with A.L.S. crowd.” Jul 21 – “Mended most of morning. Louise left at four for home. D. joined me on Mrs H’s veranda and later we went to sit on ‘Pilleas[sic] and Milisands[sic] seat’. Rowed to Allen Camp in evening. Robinsons called here.” Jul 22 – “Heavenly day! Golf Club gone to Burlington – breakfast with Mrs. Howes on her veranda. Library in evening and played for dancing at Mrs. Howes.” Jul 23 – “Beautiful day with soft fleecy clouds. ‘Sing’ at the Demings cottage. Got things ready for mailing for Constance’s birthday.” Jul 24 – “Not much doing to-day. Spent evening with the two Julias.” Jul 25 – “Mrs Howes called this morning to Cleveland. Called this afternoon with H. D. on the Robinsons – had tea. Spent the evening with Hattie at the Ayer’s dance. ‘Peet’ came for a week.” Jul 26 – “Constance’s birthday. Village this morning with Julia Deming. Village this afternoon with F. D. C. This evening at the Howes playing for Ralph.” Jul 27 – “Accompanied Ralph this A.M. Walked to the Landons this P.M. stopping at A.S.L’s[?] to plan for Allen supper. Rowed to their camp in evening. [B y] dance – much orchestra.” Jul 28 – “Called on Julia Bitting this A.M. Rained rest of day. ‘500’ in the evening.” Jul 29 – “Much of this day given to entertaining the Allen Camp at Anna’s this evening./ Great success!!” Jul 30 – “Sing at the Mass conducted by Mr Lord – Three sources of permanent happiness. ‘In tune with the Infinite’ – loving one’s neighbor, and loving nature. Late call from Dorothy on the veranda.” Jul 31 – “Warm, muggy day. Charlie came this evening – but without Ilsa.” August 1 – “Very humid. Called on Mrs Gillespie and Katherine this afternoon. Went to village this evening with Herrick and Mr Howe.” Aug 2 – “Lovely weather. Mr H. & Mr D. Cleveland this morning. Practiced with C. two hours this afternoon – new music! Evening alone but for a short hammock call from Julia D.” Aug 3 – “First full meal of 2nd planting of peas. Tried to get to Hardwick! Practice two hours. Walked over to Johnson recital and back with Charlie, Hattie and Mac Farland cat.” Aug 4 – “Played for Ralph an hour this A.M. Helen Mac here for dinner. Long nap this afternoon. Evening with Julia Demming talking girls schools in Hali’s ‘bower’.” Aug 5 – “Worked busily all day getting ready for Ames & Ilsa who came this evening. Julia with me on our veranda early in evening bringing sweet peas.” 14 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Aug 6 – “Miss Thornton’s birthday. C. preached in village. Sing at the Demming’s. small attendance on account of rain. Tea about the fire – Mrs Dewhurst came in later.” Aug 7 – “Morning on veranda with various callers. Social Service Symposium at Snyder Camp in afternoon. A part of the evening with Julia on her back veranda – the rest on our’s in moonlight.” Aug 8 – “Morning in the woods with Ames. Finished Constance’s afghan this afternoon. Frederic and Ilsa gave hay-ride. C. drove. Moonlight was heavenly – and everybody voted it ‘the nicest hay-ride’.” Aug 9 – “Morning with Ames and Ilsa in Hathaway pasture. Afternoon went over to woods on other side of lake with Mrs D., Beau, And Dorothy for picnic. Most wonderful moonlight night.” Aug 10 – “Morning with Ames fixing my tea arrangements. Drove in afternoon around lake. Johnson recital with him finishing with moon-light walk.” Aug 11 – “Rain – morning before fire, cards – knitting etc. Made calls with Ames later in day. Mrs Dewhurst played ‘500’ with us in evening. Golf Club went to Barre Brig’s[?] machine had accident.” Aug 12 - “Mrs Howes birthday. Drove to East H. with Ames & Ilsa to see them off this morning for Littleton. Took hood to Florence Waterinan[?] in the afternoon and saw A.L.F’s Peter Pan addition. Evening at the Demmings.” Aug 13 – “Beau & Dorothy spending Sunday in B. Carried cucumber thro’ camp. Read Rising Generations articles with Julia D. Sing at Mrs Ayer’s, conducted by Franklyn. Played with C. this evening.” Aug 14 – “Warmer again. Edith has come. House-warming at The Lukin’s[?].” Aug 15 – “Spent most of day embroidering shirt waist. Rainy evening spent in music at Mrs Howes.” Aug 16 – “Cut waist for Hattie. Mrs Johnson & Mrs Dewhurst [ concert.” ] all the evening while Mr J. and C. practiced for Aug 17 – “Beautiful drive around Elligo to Hardwick this A.M. Afternoon spent in ‘bower’ sewing for Edith. Concert in the evening for most people. Julia and astronomy my pleasure.” Aug 18 – “Day spent largely in finishing shirt waist for H. who left this evening with C. for a week at Woodstock. Aquatic sport prize won by Lyon!” Aug 19 – “Rainy morning. Afternoon spent at Mrs Dewhurst’s listening to an acc’t of her work. Read ‘A Gentle Heritage’ to Edith this evening.” Aug 20 – “Sunday. Read ‘Lesson’ with Edith in ‘the bower’ this morning. Tom led the sing at Mrs Ayer’s.” Aug 21 – “Busy house-work day. Mrs. Luken’s[?] in the evening to hear Franklyn on ‘English Ballads’.” Aug 22 – “Team in [ ] [ ] to-day and won. Charlie returned from Woodstock this evening with them. ‘An unmarried ladies party’ this evening teaching Edith and Mrs D. ‘500’.” Aug 23 – “Mrs Dixon at Barton Fair all day so there has been much house work. Walked with C. Prof. and Mrs Howes in Hathaway woods. Wonderful sunset which we saw from canoe in the bay. ‘500’ later.” 15 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Aug 24 – “Bunch berry walk with Edith this morning. Mrs Howes composed ‘cello Opus No 1’ which C. tried this afternoon. Johnson concert with C., Edith and Mrs Dewhurst.” Aug 25 – “Edith’s last day. Finished ‘The Bluebird’ with her – and had another ‘500’ séance.” Aug 26 – “Got up at five to get Edith off this morning. Bed all the afternoon. Mrs Howes entertained this evening ‘for the birthdays’ and her mother’s wedding anniversary. Hattie returned at 9.” Aug 27 – “Charlie led sing at Mrs Howes. Mrs Dewhurst here for supper. Howes and Carters went later to the Farm to give them some music. Tom brought ‘Ellen’ over this afternoon.” Aug 28 – “Rainy day. Played with C. awhile after supper. Kissed my daughter good-night this last night of my year, called at the Demings, and hours to play ‘500’. Mrs Dewhurst here.” Aug 29 – “Found gladioli on veranda from Julia. Dorothy went gardening with me. Supper at the Dewhursts – music at the Howes – short because of Miller corn roast – and ‘500’ here. Mantel so beautiful with viburnae.” Aug 30 – “Old Folk’s Concert at the village this evening perfectly killing – ‘A memory’ worth the price!” Aug 31 – “Mrs Dixon’s last day – nothing of interest happened.” September 1 – “Our own Bridget to-day. Charlie and Hattie went to Burlington for over Sunday. At Mrs D’s a while in the evening while she made wreath.” Sep 2 – “Got Tom off on early train – then went to see Mrs Dewhurst off. In bed all the afternoon until time for short call on Blanche Brigham. Julia, Mary, and Mr and Mrs Howes on the veranda watching moon-light.” Sep 3 – “Sing at the Demings. Lovely moonlight night spent with Julia walking and on our veranda.” Sep 4 – “H. & C. returned from Burlington about noon. Drove to Hardwick with C. eating our supper en route and returning by moon-light.” Sep 5 – “Weather still cold. Came down with Esther to Mary Ward’s for a five days visit – finding her in bed.” Sep 6 blank Sep 7 – “Down town all this morning. Slept all the afternoon. Music and ‘500’ with the girls this evening. Reading ‘The Bluebird’ aloud.” Sep 8 – “Lovely walk with Esther out Summit St to Cannon’s[?] etc. Molly’s this afternoon and for supper. Mrs Ward very weak and ill.” Sep 9 – “Rain. ‘500’ with the girls after breakfast. Call from Molly who brought us grapes. Esther and I came back to Camp at 4.30.” Sep 10 – “Warm & bright again. Worked quite a bit towards closing the house. ‘Sing’ at Julia’s. Lyon and Herrick took us canoeing. Eliots left.” Sep 11– “House nearly closed to-night. Eleven cases of typhoid reported in the village!” 16 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Sep 12 – “Family off this morning. Helen D’s birthday – took dinner with her & Eleanor. Lovely day with Julia. Left at 5.11 for Mary Ward’s again – this lovely quiet house!” Sep 13 – “Morning with Mary. Afternoon shopping and having hair washed. Beau and Dorothy here this evening. Terribly cold weather!” Sep 14 – “Took present down to Auntie Mia[?] . Called at the Voteys[?] with Anna. A simply perfect day!” Sep 15 – “Dorothy with me until I left by The Flyer. So late that lost connections and conductor stopped the train here for me. J. & C. here. (Peekskill)” Sep 16 – “Peekskill. errands this morning. Tennis tea this afternoon. Bridge this evening – Helen, Stabbs [?] and the Simpsons.” Sep 17 – “Sunday – Peekskill. Quiet morning. Fine duck dinner with Simpsons here. Long walk with Bertha. Evening singing oratorios.” Sep 18 – “Spent morning helping Constance with grapes after going first to Miss Miller’s and deciding clothes.” Sep 19 – “Bertha in New York all day. Hazen & Gertrude here for dinner – alone rest of day on acc’t of jellying going on at Gertrudes.” Sep 20 – “John and Constance at Gertrude’s all day. Slept all the afternoon. Mr. Sut[?] here this evening for Hurts[?]” Sep 21 – Mr. Suet’s[?] engagement announced today. Julia back to B. M. today. Spent morning stitching baby-blankets for Constance. Afternoon at Reading Club where Mrs. Post from Conia[?] (Harvey’s sister) talk interestingly on Turkish conditions.” Sep 22 – “Worked on dress for the baby.” Sep 23 – “Lovely talk with Constance! Library, and tennis tea in the afternoon. ‘Auctions’ this evening.” Sep 24 – “Sunday – went to cemetery with Hazen & Gertrude and drove twenty miles afternoon. John & Constance went back to New York at six – a lovely evening without them.” Sep 25 – “Very oppressive day – heat and humidity. Miss Miller here – much clothes. Dorothy leaving for Chicago I suppose.” Sep 26 – “Sharp thundershower early this morning kept us from New York. Clearing and cooler to-night – thank fortune!” Sep 27 – “Morning shopping in New York. Afternoon with John and Constance at their apartment. Beautiful Victrola records they have!” Sep 28 – “Sewing – sewing – sewing” Sep 29 – “Sewing – sewing – and more sewing.” Sep 30 – “Sewed all day until four when I went down for tea at the tennis courts and to the Library.” 17 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 October 1 – “Sunday. Mr Edwin Sanborn – one of Bertha’s ‘Arabica bachellors’ here for dinner. Helen Husted brought her foreign photos late in the afternoon.” Oct 2 – “Another day with Miss Miller here. Got my white dress together. Evening went to The Get Together Club at Mrs Bakers.” Oct 3 – “Busy day doing last things with a lovely evening at the Fronts[?] enjoying Hal’s ‘Victrola’.” Oct 4 – “Breakfast at ‘The Raleigh’ and after a day’s shopping Bertha and I left New York at four o’clock – she getting off at New Haven.” Oct 5 – “Hartford Downtown with fur coat and hat-hunting twice to-day.” Oct 6 – “Dressed doll for the Fair. Made over furs. Finished brown house dress. Called on Mrs Hayden.” Oct 7 blank Oct 8 – “Sunday in Hartford and at home all day. Much ‘Iron Woman’ about.” Oct 9 – “Finished errands & articles for the Fair and fixing my violet gown.” Oct 10 – “Packed this A.M. for Buffalo. Went to the church & saw articles for the Fair before taking train with Charlie for C.F. Supper at Ruby’s with birthday cake. Lovely telescope experience – ride in with Ames.” Oct 11 – “Ida’s birthday and I’m in Buffalo. Buffalo at last! Drove around town all the morning. Chesters[?] here for the night. Mrs Foster and Mrs Martin called this afternoon. Oct 12 – “Visited ‘Plum Daffy’ this afternoon. Thekla & Jessie called this evening – much, much gossip and a lovely time! ‘Her flames never go out’” Oct 13 – “Motored all the morning with Will, Madame C. and her nurse. Slept all the afternoon and had a quiet evening – only Mr Good calling.” Oct 14 – “Down town all the morning – calling on Jessie a bit. Family went to the theatre and I slept – wrote Dorothy & Julia and called upon Miss Falkner and Miss Hoag.” Oct 15 “First Sunday in Buffalo. Service very lovely! Ed Tanner sang to Schubert’s ‘Adieu’ ‘O Lamb of God.’ Thekla walked hours with us as formerly. Jessie called in the afternoon. Supper at Thekla’s.” Oct 16 – “Heavenly day. Motored down the river – beautiful foliage. Music all the evening with Margaret.” Oct 17 – “Rain all day. Elizabeth Gusterie[?] called. Musical evening with Margaret again.” Oct 18 – “Lovely visit with Mams[?] this morning. Luncheon at Mrs Martins with Ida and Munder. Drive with the family thro’ Amherst Estates & Humboldt Park. Church in evening with Fosters. American [B ]” Oct 19 – “Called on Mrs Clifton this A.M. Tea at Plum Daffy – Mrs Martin taking out her sister, Mrs. Dold, Mrs Foster and Mrs Armstrong.” 18 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Oct 20 – “Plum Daffy this morning to clean up after yesterday’s spree. Made and received calls this afternoon. A lovely evening – dinner – at Mame’s and Bertha’s.” Oct 21 – “Anne Sim’s[?] 13th birthday. Anna came at tea – motored rest of morning. Bad day for Madame C. Afternoon most of it with Jessie. Played for Margaret this evening.” Oct 22 – “Service this morning – Anna, Ida, and I. Rained rest of day outside and in.” Oct 23 – “House morning with a few errands during which saw Constance C. Drove to Clarence Center in the afternoon – frightful wind.” Oct 24 – “Most interesting two hours at Franklin School this morning – and a lovely visit with Mams knitting on her jacket. Drove to South Park in the afternoon. Cards this evening.” Oct 25 – “Packed to go to Mrs Foster’s. Rest of morning with Thekla. Accompanied Margaret at Memorial Chapel this afternoon. Dinner with Munder and church - Ida with us. Haydn.” Oct 26 – “Down town this morning. Calls on Mrs Frink and Mrs Colson this afternoon.” Oct 27 – “Errands this A.M. after hearing the concert at the Lafayette School where we met Mrs Leming[?]. Afternoon at home. Evening with Anna at Miss Falkner’s – a glimpse later of Masquerade at the Seminary.” Oct 28 – “Morning at ‘29’. Thekla gave us a tea and read ‘The Happy Prince’ Miss Nrissor[?] accompanying – perfectly heavenly performance! Mary gave a Kgri[?] dinner at 6.30. Roger P. John R. Louise & Catherine.” Oct 29 – “James 16th birthday. Early service. Westminster a bit also and then up to Thekla’s for music. Afternoon with Jessie, and early to bed to-night.” Oct 30 – “At Ida’s nearly all day. Accompanied Margaret during lesson.” Oct 31 – “Dark and rainy day. Luncheon with Mrs White at Mrs Roger’s. Thekla here for dinner and Mr and Mrs Tanner in the evening.” November 1 – “Luncheon at Mame’s. Down town afterwards, then out to Idas. Too tired for church this evening – wrote letters, then to bed when I found the ground white with snow.” Nov 2 – “Mrs Martin came at eleven & took us to her house where Mrs F. joined us for luncheon. Later called on Fanny Wilkes, Mrs Neill, and Mrs Ogden whom we didn’t find. Home evening.” Nov 3 – “Mrs Rogers took us out to the Nichols School this afternoon. Heard Aldius[?] violin lesson then saw the school. Tea later at Mame’s where I found Mrs Eppendorf and the Kents.” Nov 4 – “Down town this morning. Lafayette & Nichols game this afternoon 6 to 0. Met Joe and his wife – also the Albrights.” Nov 5 – “Early service. Came home and wrote letters. Miss Crawford here for dinner. Evening at Thekla’s hearing ‘Bergliot.” Nov 6 – “Went over to Ida’s and Mrs F. telephoned for me to bring her home for luncheon. Called on Katherine Ogden late in the afternoon and bade her good-by for her Cal. winter.” 19 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Nov 7 – “Down town – bought cross-stitching materials. Went home with Jessie to luncheon and stayed until Constance Churchyard telephoned she would come to call on me.” Nov 8 – “Morning at house. Alison Mann’s coming out reception at four with Ida. Church in the evening. Mrs Martin was here for luncheon.” Nov 9 – “Home all day finishing white dress. Dinner at Thekla’s. Mrs. [M ] sang in the evening.” Nov 10 – “At Mrs Armstrong’s this morning. Luncheon at Ida’s – with Plum Daffy immediately following. Dinner at the Parkers with Martins and Fosters.” Nov 11 – “Very warm – 76° . Dorothy spent day with us. Motor ride along Ellicott Creek and Niagara River. Many calls in the afternoon.” Nov 12 – “Great day of wind and rain. Used up from yesterday’s ride and called off ‘Buff’s’ dinner. Ida and Anna spent the morning with us. Worked on Angelico paper.” Nov 13 – “Mrs White’s 80th birthday. Busy with her tea all day. Very cold- mercury having dropped more than 50 degrees in twenty-four hours.” Nov 14 “Thekla’s birthday. Came here to Mrs Neill’s for a few days.” Nov 15 – “Went to 20th Cent. Club at 11. Heard Mrs Lucia Ames Mead speak on the Peace Movement. Mrs Will invited Mrs Mynter and Miss Williams to lunch with us. Thekla spent evening.” Nov 16 – “Talked with Mrs Neill all of the morning. Mrs Knowlton and Mrs Lemming unable to come so returned to 29 Colonial Circle again in the afternoon.” Nov 17 – “Finished Fra Angelico this A.M. ‘Assisted’ Mrs Martin at her chrysanthemum reception this afternoon. – a beautiful occasion in every way.” Nov 18 – “Day of squalls. Stayed at home all of the morning. Made calls upon Mrs Steven and her friend Miss O’Connell, Mrs. Jos Allen and Mrs Heath.” Nov 19 – “Early service at C.S. Eleven o’clock at St. Paul’s. Dinner at Mrs Tanner’s. Five o’clock musical service at First Church. Evening at home and early to bed.” Nov 20 – “Constance C. spent morning with me. Mrs Fitch called. Spent two hours with Mame this afternoon then got Mrs White from Sewing Circle home, thus Mrs. F. from Dante Class. Snow was wonderful thro’ the Parks.” Nov 21 – “Shopping at Peter Paul’s. Met Mrs Neill and visited Seminary. Luncheon at Ida’s – Mr and Mrs Caleb there. Made four calls later and found no one at home.” Nov 22 – “Beautiful day. Luncheon at Mrs Martins. On the way home Mrs F. told me of Mrs Martin’s offer to me! Service this evening very lovely. Mr F. at Jury. Ida, Mrs F. and I went alone.” Nov 23 – “Home this A.M. Took the old ladies out to Ingleride. Lovely calls from Miss Mann and Mrs Will Allen.” 20 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Nov 24 – “Heard Violet play at Thekla’s. Luncheon at Westminster Linen Sale with Mrs Neil. ‘Heart to heart’ with Mrs Martin, then a short call on Mrs Armstrong.” Nov 25 – “Frightful blizzard. Chromatic Club where Thekla did ‘Bergliot’. Tea afterward with Mrs Knowlton and Mrs Leming. Dinner at Thekla’s.” Nov 26 – “Early service. Call on Constance who gave me breakfast. Home the rest of the day. Mrs Foster read charming Clovelly[?] story in the evening ‘The Revenge’ by Mary Shipman Andrews.” Nov 27 – “Packing and last things before going east. Mrs Martin called right after luncheon. Pleasant call upon the Parkers in the evening – nice talk with Mr Breed upon Burlington.” Nov 28 – “Terrible rain – but we did 20 streets[?] all the same. My nicest was calling on Clara Allen. Violets and pleasant telephone messages from Mrs Martin. Left at 9.45 P.M.” Nov 29 – “Shampoo & errands after breakfast at ‘The Massasoit’ - then letters – before going to Miss Marys. Walk this afternoon with Ilsa seeing Grace & Ilsa.” Nov 30 – “Thanksgiving Day Chicopee Falls. Miss Mary taken suddenly ill this noon broke up the day effectually for me. Charlie is spending the night with me though Miss Mary’s mind is now clear.” December 1 – “Much nursing and consultation to-day. Dr Warren found nothing wrong with Miss Mary’s heart.” Dec 2 – “Miss Mary doesn’t seem to improve. Ames came out and took us in to Springfield for an hour’s ‘rest’, and shopping this afternoon.” Dec 3 – “Sunday. Miss Mary very weak to-day. Ames took us to Forest Park this afternoon and we have had a lovely evening together. Miss Mary better to-night.” Dec 4 – “Installed nurse here this morning and left for Hartford at 5.22 having tea first with Ames & Ruby. Found wonderful letter from Mrs Martin!” Dec 5 – “Definite decision made to go to Mrs Martin’s January 1st. At home all day unpacking and planning for Xmas. Mrs Willard Brown and Sarah Emily called.” Dec 6 – “Down town all the morning Xmas shopping – home the rest of day working busily.” Dec 7 – “At home all day working like a beaver – nice call from Mrs Thayer late this afternoon.” Dec 8 – “Morning Circle met with our neighbor, Mrs Kaufmann. We put up lace curtains in the parlor which add a ‘spiffy’ touch. Mrs Burton & her sister called.” Dec 9 – “Wretched day – but accomplished letter-writing and sewing.” Dec 10 – “In bed nearly all day. Charming evening with Miss Vanderbeck here – also Mrs Howard and Miss Cons[?].” Dec 11 – “Final word from Mrs Martin. Very sad news of Mrs Prince’s condition. Missionary meeting – 45 in attendance this afternoon. Errands after it. Did up Xmas gifts this evening.” 21 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Dec 12 – This day should be transposed with the preceding. At home all day scrubbing corset – finishing cross-stitching etc. Constance’s baby girl born to-day, never breathed.” Dec 13 – “Much sewing and writing.” Dec 14 – “Down town shopping. Lyon home for the night. Went to prayer meeting.” Dec 15 – “Finished Hattie’s lovely wisteria hangings! Young Woman’s Circle here this afternoon (13) and Miss Esther and Miss Abby here for supper.” Dec 16 – “Rain all day. Massage this A.M. from Miss Calion[?] - in bed all the afternoon.” Dec 17 – “Sunday. At home all day. Read ‘The Healer’. Trios this afternoon and Miss Vanderbeck and Miss Wheeler were here for supper.” Dec 18 – “Massage this morning. Called with Hattie upon Miss Lvonier[?] Mrs Wells and Mrs Haydon.” Dec 19 – “Much Xmas all day and finishing the down-stairs curtains.” Dec 20 – “Mrs Prince making marvelous recovery. Massage this morning. Herrick and Lyon home for the vacation.” Dec 21 – “Went down town this morning and had heart examined by Dr Abrams. O. K. Spent rest of day doing up packages. Had a lovely letter from Dorothy Martin.” Dec 22 – “Gasolined dresses this A. M. and mended. Rain most of the day but when it let up a bit went down town.” Dec 23 – “Massage. Mrs Prince died at 7.45. Got off rest of presence. Ames came at four and stayed for supper.” Dec 24 – “Xmas Sunday. Hartford. Church followed by Manger Service in the chapel. Had our presents this evening, Tom acting as Santa Claus.” Dec 25 – “Hattie and Charlie left for Lex. at 2.30. Wrote eleven Xmas acknowledgements! Rec’d boxes from Fosters and Martins.” Dec 26 – “Housework all the morning. Shopping for suit in the afternoon. Mr and Mrs Benj. Swift called. Mrs Prince buried today.” Dec 27 – “Fitting nine o’clock Sage Allen’s. Herrick left for Yonkers 9.40 to visit Miss Francis. C & H. returned from Lex. at 3. – reporting not very good news of Mrs Thornton.” Dec 28 – “Lyon went to Lex. for rest of vacation this morning. Shopped all the morning for waist and hat. Fitting this afternoon. Roger came for over Sunday.” Dec 29 – “Influenza – worse luck! In house all day. Made flannel waist.” Dec 30 – “Saw Venus at 5 A.M. Wonderful star! Sewed all the morning. A long call from Miss Vanderbeck this afternoon, who brought us duets. Frederick entertaining this evening. Ilsa here.” Dec 31 – “Sunday – Hartford. Packed all day. Left at 8.05 for Buffalo – Ames and Ruby waiting with me in Springfield.” 22 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 1912 January 1 – “Buffalo at two this morning! Mrs Martin and Dorothy met me and we went right to the Fosters, thus ‘Home’. Rested all afternoon. Dined at the LaFayette – Martins – Fosters- Barcalos & Reidpaths.” Jan 2 – “Breakfast in bed. Downtown. Unpacked & settled. ‘Munder’ here for tea with other callers.” Jan 3 – “Not up per order I.R.M. until after luncheon. Ida spend afternoon with us and I poured tea. First evening of duets with Dorothy.” Jan 4 – “These are wonderful days of rest and friendship! Nice ride thro’ the Park in the snowstorm to see the scenery with I.R.M. and Thekla. Mr Barow[?] called which gave me evening with Dorothy.” Jan 5 – “Up at ten & down town with I.R.M. and Mrs Bailey. Luncheon alone with Darwin. John overcome by coal gas just before dinner. A wonderful evening before the fire with [Eur ous]. Very cold.” Jan 6 – “Explosion of Northrup garage - accident to firemen whom I.R.M. cared for in office. Chromatic Club this afternoon with Dorothy.” Jan 7 – “Sunday! Lovely morning with Darwin. James, Mary, Esther here for supper. Mrs Reidpath and Auntie Margaret started for Cal. Read Hymn 171.” Jan 8 – “Shopped this morning for the luncheon given for Mrs. Balliet[?]. Home rest of day.” Jan 9 –“Morning at home. Luncheon at Mames. New York Phil concert this evening with Schvinus[?] as soloist. Malted milk luncheon before the fire!” Jan 10 – “Morning at home reading. Early luncheon before taking I.R.M. to train for East Aurora. Brought Mame out. Dorothy sang for her father tonight.” Jan 11- “Morning alone. Read ‘The Playboy of the Western World’. Called on Munder and Ida before hearing Beatrice Forbes Robertson lecture on ‘The Drama as a Social Force’” Jan 12 “Gave I.R.M. resume´ of lecture this morning. Had Munder alone for luncheon before the fire and a long visit later. Evening alone with the children.” Jan 13 – “Errands down town. Began I.R.M’s jacket. Nice call from Margaret C. before the fire until 6. Miss Heald here for dinner. Young people in for the evening. Florence Ralph played.” Jan 14 – “Communion Service at C.S. Church. Miss Crawford here to dinner. Took D. down to First Church recital and there was none on acc’t of the cold. Call at Thekla’s.” Jan 15 – “Home morning. Read article on Dickens. Mrs Barton & Mrs Morey for luncheon. Called on Mrs Clifton, Mame and Ida this afternoon. Mrs Simpson here for dinner.” Jan 16 – “Parkside Literary Club this A.M. Dr Bush speaking on Modern Research. Lecture this afternoon at School of Allied Arts by Miss Parshall on Norwegian tapestry. Miss P. spent the night here.” 23 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jan 17 – “Shampoo this A.M. after taking Miss Parshall home. At home this P.M. from choice, the others seeing Tillic in Nightenari[??]” Jan 18 – “Read ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ to I.R.M. Called on Bertha Keyes and Mrs Neill this afternoon.” Jan 19 – “Read all the morning. Nice visit with Katherine while Darwin was at dancing school. Thekla here for dinner. Wonderful tuck-in from I.R.M. offering me singing lessons etc.” Jan 20 – “Started Darwin on music. Walk and call upon Mrs. Simpson with I.R.M. Beautiful Russian program at the Chromatic Club. Read Lesson with I.R.M. Guests in the evening, the Severances.” Jan 21 - “Lovely service on ‘Life’. No guests at dinner but Jessie called in the afternoon.” Jan 22 – “Read Literary Digest. Practiced accompaniments for Mrs Edmons to sing who came in later from Dante Class with Mrs Foster.” Jan 23 – “Luncheon at Munder’s to-day. Accompanied Mrs Edmonsvn[?] and Mrs Crandall read ‘The Selfish Giant.’ Walked across LaFayette to Main to take car home.” Jan 24 – “Down town all the morning. Ida for luncheon and rest of day.” Jan 25 – “Read ‘The Sand of Heart’s Desire’. A serious talk after luncheon – later called on Clara Allen and Miss [Ma ]. Much discipline at dinner and more ‘talk’ at bed-time. Very cold.” Jan 26 – “Read and made bag for Darwin this A.M. Took him dancing-school, then went with I.R.M. to Larkin’s office – later to Miss Crawford’s where I left her for dinner and ‘Little Women.’” Jan 27 –“ Heard Thekla read ‘The Lady of Shalott’ at Mrs. Stockton’s this afternoon – also ‘The Selfish Giant’ and ‘Papillons’[?]. Went with Fosters to select Mary’s piano. Dinner there with Dorothy.” Jan 28 – “Sunday. Morning with Ida. Madame C. much worn. Mrs Monrey[?] & B. for dinner. Saw pictures of this house in the evening.” Jan 29 – “Rain all day. Morning with I.R.M. Long afternoon with Ida. Wally came at five.” Jan 30 – “Madame C. rallying wonderfully. My usual day ending suddenly at dinner with an attack of indigestion which kept me at home from Boston Symphony concert.” Jan 31 – “Distressed to hear today of Beau’s illness. Mrs Martin away nearly all day. Called on Mrs Barton. Wrote letters all this evening after looking over eight books of drama IRM bought.” February 1 – “Beautiful sunny day. Read ‘Mrs Palnns’[?] & ‘Mary Magdaline’. Called on Ida & Wally and did errands. James & Mary here for supper which we got ourselves. Mr. M. read to us.” Feb 2 – “Madame C. died this afternoon. Dorothy went with me to get Darwin to the dancing school and then to hear [ and a Victrola.” ] Feb 3 – “Heard ‘The Blue Bird’ with IRM. Mrs Barcalo and fifteen children. Stopped after it Ida’s and saw Betty and James. Mr Martin at ‘B.B’ this evening. I.R.M. a lovely C.S. talk on my bed.” 24 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Feb 4 – “Sunday & stayed at home and wrote Anna and Wally. Went Madame C.’s funeral this afternoon and heard Centenary Festival program at First Church. Quiet evening before the fire, Mr. M. reading.” Feb 5 – “Wonderful morning. The lesson on ‘Spirit’ first, then talking until we finally got to Tours and Switzerland, - ‘a Mother, little girl, and a friend.’ Down town in the afternoon and out at Ida’s. Fosters here at dinner. Feb 6 – “Read ‘The Riders of the Sea’ this morning. An interesting call from Mrs Bull this afternoon with reference to the school. Walk with Dorothy. Baileys here this evening.” Feb 7 – “Down town this morning. Alone this afternoon and evening. Pitiful time after church with I.R.M.” Feb 8 – “Read ‘The Workhouse Ward.’ Heard Prof Baker lecture on ‘The Irish Players’ this afternoon. George Hamlin recital this evening.” Feb 9 – “Afternoon at Munder’s. Dinner at Ida’s. Coldest day in 24 years. Mrs. Thornton ill with pneumonia.” Feb 10 “Morning reading. Thekla’s musicale this afternoon at which Mrs Adams made me happy by remarking about I.R.M’s condition.” Feb 11 – “Church - sat with Ida and Miss Crawford. Supper at the Baileys. Fosters start south.” Feb 12 – “Spent part of morning with Mrs Severance. Ida here rest of day. Read ‘Mary Magdaline.” Feb 13 – “Day of the Birdsall golden wedding reception. Knitted fast on IRM’s jacket for a valentine. The Tates came on Empire for a few days. Struggle begun with Darwin at table.” Feb 14 – “Down town with Mrs Tate and Mrs Birdsall. Valentine of orchids and white sweet peas from I.R.M. with Bible [ ]” Feb 15 – “Alone this morning and wrote letters. I.R.M. spent afternoon in my room. Dold wedding and reception this evening.” Feb 16 – “Down to the station to see the Tates off. Home and spent most of morning in talking over problems. Called on Mrs. Will Allen while Darwin was at dancing-school.” Feb 17 – “Home all the morning. College Play at Mrs. Albright’s this afternoon. Valentine, from H.F.M. via Hartford.” Feb 18 – “Sunday – walk with I.R.M. after church. Duets with Dorothy after dinner. Supper at Theklas. Holcombs are going away!” Feb 19 – “I.R.M. in bed this morning. Luncheon together in sitting-room. Mrs. Haret’s[?] funeral this afternoon at three – call on Constance. Lecture by Prof Holmes on Montessori method.” Feb 20 – “Down town this morning. Lovely luncheon here! Mary Foster 14 yrs old to-day. Too tired to hear Baden Powell to-night.” Feb 21 – “Very cold again. Storms – wind - no [ ] so much reading aloud before lovely fire.” Feb 22 – “Walking impossible. Thekla couldn’t get out for D’s lesson.” 25 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Feb 23 – “Isabel Kahle here with Mary for the night. Read aloud ‘The Courage of the Commonplace’. Took Frances Conary [?] with me while Darwin danced. Col. Eliot and daughter here for dinner.” Feb 24 – “Finished ‘The Doll’s House.’ Saw exhibition of Mr Barone’s[?] pictures & called on Mrs Holcomb with IRM.” Feb 25 – “Church – walked home with Thekla. Vespers with I.R.M. at little church across the way. Began Pickwick Papers this evening.” Feb 26 – “Began siege at Dr. Fay’s” Feb 27 – “Literary Club this morning. May Staples had paper on Out Door Prisons[?]. Mrs Mowsrey on Boy Scouts.” Feb 28 – “Luncheon with Ida - calling first with her on Munder. Miss Stone’s[?] lecture on Crete this afternoon.” Feb 29 – “Read this morning. Called with I.R.M. upon Mrs Wilkes and upon Mrs Foster this afternoon. Read this evening.” March 1 – “Finished The Breath of the Gods – Dancing-school and dentist this afternoon. Dorothy entertain this evening. Saw Woodberry pictures at Gallery this morning. Noon at St. Pauls” Mar 2 – “IRM in bed all day. Did errands for her before going to the Chromatic Club with Thekla. ‘The Blessed Damogel’ perfectly lovely!” Mar 3 – “At home to-day. The Barton’s here for dinner. Mr Barons here for supper after which he sang delightfully.” Mar 4 – “At home all day. Read ‘An Habitation Enforced’ and one of the Pelleas and Ettarre stories. Munder came in after Dante[?] Class for tea and Mrs Mowrey was here for ham dinner.” Mar 5- “Beautiful sunny day. Morning down town looking up steamer. Violently ill to-night with indigestion.” Mar 6 – “In bed all day. Dr Rochester out this afternoon was a comfort!” Mar 7 - “Down for dinner to-night. Dorothy played delightfully to us.” Mar 8 – “Up all day – but feeling pretty rocky.” Mar 9 – “Mrs. Adam, Thekla, & ‘Fanny’ here for the afternoon. Mame and Bertha also came out for ‘tea’.” Mar 10 – “At home all day. Mr and Mrs Will here for dinner and the rest of the day until eleven o’clock.” Mar 11 – “Dr R’s office this morning and Dr Fay’s this afternoon. Lovely evening with I.R.M. before fire reading Pelias and Etarre – then in my room by candle-light! We sail May 28th!” Mar 12 – “Long morning of reading. Tea at Mrs. Will’s to meet Rose Clark. Spread in Dorothy’s room this evening.” Mar 13 – “Read ‘Monna Vanna’ I.R.M. in bed. Called on Reuben’s family and Mrs Bailey. Started regular evening work with Darwin.” Mar 14 – “A domestic day. Worked on Dorothy’s green dress - wrote letters - luncheon alone -down town - evening with children.” 26 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Mar 15 – “Lovely time this morning arranging house for Thekla and Miss Windsor’s ‘evening’. Nap this afternoon. 20 guests this evening – lovely time.” Mar 16 – “Wretched day with ulcerated throat. In bed nearly all day.” Mar 17 – “Table decorations in honor of St. Pat – perfectly killing! No church for us to-day. Miss Sackett [?] and Miss Parshall here for supper.” Mar 18 – “Read all this morning. Afternoon at dentist’s.” Mar 19 – “I.R.M. away all day. Took flowers to Mrs. Clifton, mushrooms to Mame. Lunched at Ida’s & brought her home with me for the afternoon.” Mar 20 – “Morning in car with I.R.M. Afternoon musicale at Mrs. Baileys. Evening alone with children.” Mar 21 – “Luncheon at Munders with I.R.M. Miss Weisner and Mrs. Van ----[scribbled line]. Errands later. Evening spent in looking up Cathedral route to Lake District.” Mar 22 Mar 23 blank blank Mar 24 – “Went to early service then called on Will for a serious talk. Bartons here for luncheon. Mildred Windsor called. Walked at sunset with the children. Read Science literature this eve to I.R.M.” Mar 25 – “Miss Mueller here taking I.R.M’s pictures this morning. Had front crown put on at Dr Fay’s this afternoon.” Mar 26 – “I.R.M. in Rochester. Luncheon with Munder. Shopped for European clothes. Had hair shampooed. Mr Mowrey[?] and Benedict here for dinner.” Mar 27 – “[clur first ]: Read this morning. Luncheon at Ida’s who went with us later to have my suit fitted. Saw Miss Beal’s picture later at Gallery with her and I.R.M. ‘Clarkie’ and Mary here for dinner.” Mar 28 – “Down town selecting I.R.M.’s suit. Read ‘A Summer on a Doge’s Farm’, then had a nice nap. Quiet home evening.” Mar 29 – “Down town this morning. Rested all afternoon both of us for Parkside Club ‘Evening’ here at which Thekla read.” Mar 30 – “I.R.M. and Dorothy in Rochester all day. Proofs of I.R.M’s pictures a great joy! Grieg afternoon at Chromatic Club. Two new men at office dined here.” Mar 31 – “Mr McKenzie from Cambridge over night. Children and I dined at Fosters. Vespers – Stabat Mater at First Church. Evening at home.” April 1 – “I.R.M. in bed all morning. Met her with car at Mrs Simpsons at four and went and selected her suit.” Apr 2 – “At home alone all day until 3. Met I.R.M. downtown & did errands. Evening given to the children’s lessons.” Apr 3 – “Saw I.R.M. off for R. this morning train late and read to her. Suit fitted. Called on Betty C., Mrs Clifton & S. out this afternoon. Met I.R.M. on Empire. Bartons here this [sic] for dinner.” 27 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Apr 4 – “Luncheon at Thekla’s with Mary Larned.” Apr 5 – “Selected plants most of the morning in greenhouse for Easter giving. Crawfords and Mrs Parmelee out this afternoon. C.S. lecture to-night. Dorothy in my room sewing on birthday gifts.” Apr 6 – “Miss Mueller’s last morning here. Margaret C. telephoned me at 2:30 of her father’s death. Spent rest of day with Ida.” Apr 7 – “Easter Sunday – morning with Ida. Lovely thoughtful things were done for us by Isabelle all day. Supper at the Bartons.” Apr 8 – “Carried lilies from the greenhouse to Ida and did errands. Service at three conducted by Mr Foster. Ball at the Larkins this evening. Isabelle so lovely in her Japanese coat just fresh from Japan!” Apr 9 – I.R.M’s birthday – morning with her. Afternoon with Dorothy before the fire sewing. Lovely evening with Darwin on his mother’s coat-of-arms. Saw Mr. Lord today – taught Mary [A ].” Apr 10 – “F.D.C’s birthday. At Ida’s again. Tea with Mame and Bertha hearing about their trip.” Apr 11 – “Dorothy responsive to ‘Dorothy Wordsworth’ in a charming manner.” Apr 12 – “Munder’s birthday. I.R.M. & D. in Rochester to-day so got Ida and brought her out for luncheon. Mary here for the night.” Apr 13 – “Down town shopping and marketing. Saw ‘Pomander Walk’ with Dorothy this afternoon.” Apr 14 – “Early service - call on Ida. Mr Bailey and Leonard here for dinner. Afternoon in our rooms writing letters, Isabelle and I” Apr 15 – “Dentist. Mrs Martin and Mrs Mourey[?] took us down to attend Anna Allen’s[?] wedding. First hint to-night of ‘Titanic’ disaster.” Apr 16 – “Visited ‘Seminary’ and Ida this A.M. also shopped.” Apr 17 – “Took this day easily as my head is on a strike” Apr 18 – “Minds too full of ‘Titanic’ to do anything. Dined at Sarah Clifton’s this evening with Bertha (her birthday!) Mame and Frances.” Apr 19 – “Visited Mrs Will for the first time. Luncheon at Mrs Mourey’s. Dentist. Mr Burdette here for dinner and the evening. “The worst feared for ‘Titanic’ realized from arrival of Carpathia.” Apr 20 – “Waited all morning to read ‘Justice.’ The Wills right after luncheon followed by a long ride down the river. Early dinner and to bed. Mr Martin dining down town. Mr. Tate here over Sun.” Apr 21 – “Early service. Mrs Foster much disturbed over our ‘going’ so walked in Park with Isabelle at noon for hour or more. Had tea with Thekla. The Simpsons here. Isabelle ‘talked’ with Mr M. to-night.” Apr 22 – “Another nerve exposed and killed to-day. Rain prevented much shopping between treatment and dentistry.” 28 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Apr 23 – “Mrs Mourey for luncheon and shopped with us this afternoon.” Apr 24 – “Wonderful concert this evening given by London Symphony conducted by Nikisch. Tschaikowsky’s ‘Pathique and Siegfried Idyl were so wonderful!” Apr 25 – “Rather tired after last night’s feast so we have taken the day easily without Mr Martin’s being at home this evening.” Apr 26 – “Visited with Ida quite awhile at Mrs Will’s thus saw Bertha about Darwin and went to Dr Fay’s. Mr Wessells dined with us this evening.” Apr 27 – “Isabelle and Dorothy down town most of day. ‘Lena Kirby’ and her mother called this afternoon. Mr Martin not at home this evening – read before fire while Kahle children were here.” Apr 28 – “Early service – sitting with Ida & Mrs Foster. Home and found Isabelle had not gone to church – read Mr J’s poems to her. Mr Wessells dined here.” Apr 29 – “Morning reading Agnes Repplier’s ‘Points of View’. Long afternoon at dentist’s. First concert of the Festival this evening with Mr and Mrs M.” Apr 30 – “”Isabelle saw Dr Stearns this A.M. and we spent rest of morning in Park. Afternoon resting for this evening’s concert at which I took Dorothy. The Ninth Symphony the feature!” May 1 – “Down town. Munder here for luncheon. Made calls this afternoon. Alone this evening with Isabelle and didn’t go to church.” May 2 – “Wretched headache all day.” May 3 – “Mrs Schibel’s [?] this morning and last visit at Dr Fay’s in afternoon, meeting Isabelle at Mrs. Wills at 4.30. Called on Grandma White on the way home. Evening alone with Isabelle before fire.” May 4 – “Sewed all the morning. Made seven calls this afternoon. Mr Wessells here for dinner and the evening.” May 5 – “Service with Thekla. Walk on Meadow at noon. Drive in the afternoon with Mr Martin and family – stopping at the Fosters. Mr & Mrs McKenzie of B. here for supper.” May 6 – “Down town. Luncheon at Mrs Wills. Dr Stearns here to see Isabelle at four. Evening reading – and quite a solemn time over I’s condition.” May 7 – “An ordinary day of shopping – reading etc.” May 8 – “Heavenly day! Errands and calls this morning. Drove to Lancaster with Isabelle and Mrs Simpson to see Mrs Davis’ wonderful garden! !! The S’s dined with us here at seven.” May 9 – “First call to packing this A.M. while Isabelle was down town. Mrs Schiebel’s and Mrs Will’s this afternoon. Very cold and rain. Alone with children tonight - D. entertaining .” May 10 – “Busy day of last things. Bartons, Mrs Howard and the Fosters in this evening.” 29 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 May 11 – “Last day in Buffalo. Church – sat between Isabelle and Munder. Calls and telephone calls this afternoon. Dorothy got the supper and all the family came down to see me off at nine o’clock.” May 12 – “Springfield at 7.50. Breakfast at ‘The Massaoit’. Called on Lester, Aunt Sarah, Nell, Ruby. Grace and Miss Mary where I had luncheon. Arrived in Hartford at 4.40” May 13 –“Unpacked from Buffalo and packed for Greensboro this morning. Last missionary for the season at Mrs Thayer. Worked on shirt waists this evening.” May 14- “Sewed all day.” May 15 – “Same program of sewing. Spent evening with the Thayers seeing maps, postals, and books on Brittany.” May 16 – “All but F. and I. dining with the Wells and Bartons this evening. To-days sewing being varied by much shopping for my wrapper.” May 17 – “Mrs Hueghblais[?] here all day [ Isabelle.” ]2 per. – not much good. Got passport and trunk today. Heard from May 18 – “Rushing day on shirt waists with the housework. Hattie home at 3 P.M. and I left for Westville at 6.59.” May 19 – “Sunday. Westville. Arranged lilies of the valley while Anna finished breakfast work then we heard the Clark’s victrola. Lay down all afternoon. Home at 9.40 withTom.” May 20 – “Saw Dr. Abrams this A.M. Eyes all right but must wear glasses all the time. Sewed this afternoon. ‘Canfield’with H. tonight.” May 21 – blank May 22 – “Work progressing well. Took an evening off and went down to hear the rehearsal of ‘Hiawatha’ (Taylor) given by the High School.” May 23 – “White wisteria and the Japanese azaleas are so beautiful.” May 24 – “Finished sewing. Shampoo this afternoon. Ames here for supper and after repeatedly losing trains – for the night.” May 25 – “Finishing last things.” May 26 – “Too tired for church. Finished packing – trunk off at 2.58. Charles left Greensboro at six. Hattie and I spent evening with the Thayers who walked home with us.” May 27 – “Saw Dr Abrams again and found Ames had brought Ilsa down for luncheon. Left at 2.58 and arrived at Hoboken at 6.45. Evening on board with Martins and Bournaus[?] perfectly lovely! Then we got settled!” May 28 – “’Kaiser Wilhelm II’ sailed at 10.15 with playing of German songs by bands on board and on the dock. Read our letters, telegrams, etc. Meals on deck. Everything most auspicious.” May 29 – “Run 504 miles to 10 A.M. Was discovered by Fanny Hadley Kimball and all her family! Weather perfect. Moderate sea. Music good – but my companions dearest of anything!” 30 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 May 30- “Wonderfully blue sea all day. Run to 10 A.M. 520 miles. Afternoon in stateroom napping – reading ‘Mother’ and having tea. Most wonderful moon-light night I ever knew. Sat on deck reciting poetry & singing.” May 31 – “Perfect day again. Long talk with Fanny this morning. Afternoon in our stateroom finishing ‘Mother’. First appearance at dinner. Run 539 m.” June 1 – “Run 543 miles. Colder & northerly swell which is discomforting. In my berth since eleven. Isabel fresh as a lark.” Jun 2 - blank Jun 3 – “Landed Plymouth – a beautiful harbor – at four, and at Cherbourg at 10 P.M. Night at Hotel du Casino – run by North German Lloyd people – Mrs Callander and Louise also here.” Jun 4 – “A comfortable morning – rain – before our open fire. Bayeux this afternoon to see tapestry. Fire this evening – cards etc. Most comfortable hotel! Normandy picturesque with gray houses, red tiled roofs, yellow robes[?]” Jun 5 – “Left for Pontorson[?] at 8.40. Luncheon (very poor) at The Bretagne. Drove to Mont St. Michel gathered poppies, which we enjoyed this rainy evening, in the candle and fire light, in my room.” Jun 6 – “Wonderful Mont St. Michel! Spent morning going over Abbey etc. Rested 4 hrs after luncheon, then took guide and walked round the Mont at sunset. Valerian covers the fortifications at intervals, gorgeous crimson.” Jun 7 – “Left the Mont at 8.40 and arrived at Vitre[?] for luncheon. Took Victoria and drove to Chateau des Roches. Left Vitre[?] for night at Le Mans. Picked yellow roses at the Chateau.” Jun 8 – “Left Le Mans, after seeing cathedral, at noon and arrived at Tours at 3. Lunch at Potur’s[?], arrangements made for limousine at $100 for eight days – 100 miles per day. Comfortably located at Villa La Pierre.” Jun 9 – “Tours – Sunday. Breakfast in our rooms – then read aloud the Lesson. Wrote letters until luncheon. Afterward napped and read ‘The Terrible Week.’ Tea at 4.30 then a lovely two hours motor trip. Dined at T. evening in our rooms before fires.” Jun 10 – “Delay in starting but finally had a beautiful day visiting Amboine and Chenonceau. Napped upon our return, dined, read from Renaissance Chateaux. Perfect weather, but dust very fine & disagreeable.” June 11 – “Down in the shops all the morning. After a three hours rest started for Langeais. A hard shower while we were in the Chateau made the ride home by Azay le Rideau very beautiful. Stopped at pottery.” Jun 12 – “Saw the sights in Tours to-day with Isabelle alone this morning.. and with both this afternoon. Wonderful trees at Marmontier. Nearly finished reading ‘The Pigeon’ this evening. Hot to-day.” Jun 13 – “Cooler, perfect day for Blois and Chambord – the latter tremendous in size but disappointing. Jun 14 – “Saw Loches to-day – the bloodiest of all the chateaux. Home about four and did more errands. Isabelle and I dined in our rooms.” Jun 15 – “Lovely morning at Vouvray visiting a wine press, rock house and vineyard from which we had a beautiful view. Saw wedding afterward in the church. Potuis[?] this afternoon and drive later to Luynes[?].” 31 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jun 16 – “Our last day in this blessed Tours! Packed this morning, and this afternoon went to see Chaumont - the loveliest of all the chateaus to me. Read the Lesson this evening then to bed.” Jun 17 – “Left Tours at 8.45 – arrived Paris 12.05. The Dysart does not impress us so favorably as formerly and Paris in summer seems impossible. Had shampoo this afternoon – tea – and window shopping.” Jun 18 – “Morning at 11 Rue Scribs[?] and at Liberty’s 3 rue des Capencines[?]. After Mrs Edetröne’s call on Isabelle we went to the Bon Marchi.” Jun 19 – “Shopped this morning at Galleris Lafayette. This afternoon’s shower tempered the heat so that tea at Mr Edetröne’s studio was a pleasure.” Jun 20 – “Morning sight-seeing in the Latin Quarter. Rested this afternoon, then had an hour in the Louvre. At five went for tea at ‘Valentine’s’ 20 rue des Belles Feuilles. Edetrönes here this evening/” Jun 21 – “Drove in the Bois then did some shopping. Packed.” Jun 22 – “Left Paris this noon. Very hot ride to Calais. Smooth crossing. Locked into trains so we had to go thro’ to Canterbury and give up Canterbury. The Dysart full and located at The Russell Hotel.” Jun 23 – “London is country compared with Paris. Rested this morning and about three started on a lovely motor ride to Stoke Poges. Sunday.” Jun 24 – “Shopped at Peter Robinson’s[?] nearly all day. Music here in the hotel very enjoyable.” Jun 25 – “In Hotel this morning. After luncheon went to the Temple, and had my choicest experience of all London. Shopped a bit afterward at Jaegers[?].” Jun 26 – “I.R.M’s wedding anniversary – 1889. Left via Midland R.R. at 9.30 and arrived at Ambleside via Lakeside at 7.15. A lovely restful day on trains, though long.” Jun 27 – “D.R.M’s 16th birthday – rain all day. Shopped for books and got letter of introduction to Miss Arnold. Isabelle ‘all in’ with sick headache, so we had a fire and read ‘The Vicar of Wakefield.’” Jun 28 – “Motor trip up to ‘wishing-gate’ first then thro’ Grasmere up the west side of Thirlmere to Kenwick. Home by Druid’s Circle and east side of Thirlmere. Evensong in church at Grasmere. I.R.M. with us in evening. Anniversary” Jun 29 – “This must be transposed with 28th. I.R.M. got up after luncheon and we drove to Grasmere, visiting Dove Cottage. Sat on rock-seat at Rydal. Walked up to Stock Ghyll Falls on our return.” Jun 30 – “Sunday – Ambleside. Church – then walked along the Rothay and sat and read Wordsworth.” July 1 – “Our Coniston Day! The visit at ‘Brantwood’, Ruskin’s house, very satisfactory. Luncheon on a real, live moor. Hours by the Langdales, and saw Mrs Humphrey Ward’s house ‘Robui Glyle’[?].” Jul 2 – “At house this morning. This afternoon drove to ‘Fox How’, & were most hospitably and kindly received by Miss Arnold thro’ the courtesy of Mr Banks.” 32 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jul 3 – “Furness Abbey Day! Stopping en route at The Priory at Cartrüel. Windy and disagreeable, and less interesting scenery than other days until we reached the ruin.” Jul 4 – “Wrote all this morning. Disappointed in our trip this afternoon with Mrs Banks – her daughter so we went down by the Rothay and read ‘The Vicar of Wakefield’ which we finished this evening.” Jul 5 – “At house working over Wordsworth selections this morning. Started at 1.30 for Borrowdale, Stopping at Dove Cottage again and the church. Wonderful terrace drive on the way back to Keswick. Visited Pencil Factory. Dinner at Thirlspot. home 8.30” Jul 6 – “Letters, errands, etc this morning. Drove to Skelwith Bridge this afternoon and had tea on the grass near the Hotel. Visited the waterfall and read aloud.” Jul 7 – “Sunday – and still we remain in this lovely Ambleside. Started about ten for the Langdale Place in Victoria. Stopped at little church – and in a grove of trees to read. Luncheon, nap, Dungeon Ghyll, home at seven.” Jul 8 – “Mr William’s wife died in the night so we took Victoria again. Drove to Coniston via Tarn Howe, having wonderful moor experience en route. Luncheon, nap etc at Crown Hotel – home at 6.30.” Jul 9 – “Somewhat used up with my side so we stayed at home this morning. Drove to Grasmere, service again, visited nursery garden. Read ‘Parsifal’ from Mr Dewhurst this evening. I.R.M. with us later.” Jul 10 – “Started Dorothy knitting this rainy day and read ‘Everyman’. Cleared a little while this afternoon and we drove to Father Faber’s Church – picked harebells in the churchyard.” Jul 11 – “Walked over Red Banks – to Grasmere. Luncheon at Red Lion wretched, but forgotten by most successful shopping! Walked on the high road back from G. to Rydal – Wordsworth’s walk. Evening in out sitting room.” Jul 12 – “Over Kirkstone Pass to Ullswater and around thro’ St John’s Vale home – a wonderful day! Tea again at the dear little Inn at Thirlspot.” Jul 13 – “At home this morning doing last things. This afternoon took the Borrowdale drive again, having tea at Rosthwaite in the garden. Wonderful talk with Isabelle tonight.” Jul 14 – “Our last Sunday – and at The Langdales hearing a bit of the service in the little church on ‘Friendship’. Day very hot. Stopped at Brathay church on way home, the most beautifully situated of all!” Jul 15 – “Hot still. Left by coach – rode inside – and were driven by a Pickwickian to Windermere where we took the train for Liverpool. Adelphia Hotel cool and attractive. Have had a pleasant drive in Sefton Park this evening.” Jul 16 – “Heat & humidity great! Visited Walker Gallery this morning and were more than charmed by ‘Danri[?] and the Rossetti’s. Left at 6.20 for Chester where we are comfortably located to-night at The Grosvenor.” Jul 17 – “’Dear & quaint’ indeed is Chester! Service at Cathedral this morning and glimpses into the shops along the Rows. A nap after luncheon, and then we drove to Eaton Hall.” Jul 18 – “Our funny glimpse of Wales is a 17 mile drive to Loggerhead Inn where we couldn’t get dinner! First however we visited Hawarden – Carth[?] and Church which are lovely!” 33 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jul 19 – “Very cold still. Shopped with Isabelle and read ‘Major Vigoureux’. Drove about Chester this afternoon, and read aloud this evening.” Jul 20 – “Service with D. this morning – then a rush to do last errands, pack, and take 11.50 train for Liverpool. Luncheon at The Adelphi, left at 3.30 for ‘Caronia’[?] which embarked at five. Early to bed.” Jul 21 – “Sunday – at sea. Anchored at Queenstown, after a very calm night, about 7.30. Attended service with D. in the Salon at 10.30. Run up to twelve this noon 312 miles. Distance to N.Y. from Queenstown 2949.” Jul 22 – “Showery, windy, most disagreeable day, making us all feel ‘unhappy in our interiors’. Run 467 miles to noon. Came into sunshine about five and calmer seas make us hope for a good day.” Jul 23 – “Clouds, and wind still, but a smooth sea, so that I could read ‘Major Vigoureux’ and be up and out all day with comfort. Run 460.” Jul 24 – “Warmer to-day, with miserable fogs. 451 miles only which precludes our docking Sat. night. Fog lifted about seven and we are in for a windy night with some rain.” Jul 25 – “Heavy seas with much pitching. Humidity less. In stateroom most of day. Run 384 miles up to noon. Wonderful cloud effects in the moonlight to-night! Sat out on lower deck with Isabelle.” Jul 26 – “Worst cyclone from five to eight this morning the Captain ever was in! Run 415 miles. 703 miles from Ambrose Light. Sunny skies followed with wonderful color on water. Rough again to-night, early to bed.” Jul 27 – “A perfect day, calm sea, fresh, salty air delicious to breathe. Sports this afternoon. Nantucket Lightship passed about two. Quarantine to-night.” Jul 28 – “Docked at 8.30. Mr Martin met us. Luncheon at the Belmont. Train for Boston with Dorothy at three where we are spending the night at Hotel Westminster.” Jul 29 – “Met the girls South Station at 9.15 and saw them off for Camp at 2.45 at Brownfield. St. J. at 6.35 where I met Hattie and Margaret on G train. Camp at 9.30. Quite a day’s travel!” July 30 – “Busy day settling. Calls from Mrs Bowers, May, Mrs Votey, Mrs Eliot, Mrs Woodruff and Mrs Ayer, and Mrs Dewhurst. Cold and disagreeable weather.” July 31 – “Wrote letters this morning. Dined at May Slocum’s with Hattie. Miss Wheeler, A.L.L’s guest, came in for afternoon tea. Charles arrived this evening from Paris, Maine.” August 1 – “Finished settling this morning – wrote Isabelle - got ferns etc from the woods. Long nap this afternoon, called on Mrs Maier and Mrs Gillespie, read ‘The Street Called Straight’. Johnson concert this evening. Walked.” Aug 2 – “C. left this morning for Barre and Montpelier golf. Have enjoyed crocheting on Harriet’s afghan.” Aug 3 – “Awfully cold and showers every other minute. Mrs Bowers here for luncheon. Frederic and Charlie came this evening.” Aug 4 – “First Sunday in Camp. Sing conducted by Prof Woodruff at Mrs Serkins. Played later with Charlie at the Farm. Mrs Dewhurst here this evening for supper.” 34 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Aug 5 – “Rain & cold continues. A nice call from Elsa Allen late this afternoon. The Serkins and Snyder aunts here this evening to look at my postals.” Aug 6 – “Actually sunny and warm enough to sit on veranda! Beau and Dorothy came about two – nice call on them over the tea-cups later.” Aug 7 – “Wrote letters to Miss Mary who is going to lose[?] Annie – and to Munder.” Aug 8 – “Worked hard to finish my part on Harriet’s afghan. Finished also ‘The Street called Straight’. Long calls from Mrs Bowers and Mrs Gillespie.” Aug 9 – “Walked to village with Hattie this morning. Long nap in consequence. At home this evening with no callers for a wonder!” Aug 10 – “Beau and Dorothy made a long call this morning. Drove to village this afternoon & walked home. Finished S. C. Jewett’s letters at one sitting!” Aug 11 – “Sunday. C. & H. went to Hardwick this morning to preach./ Sing at Mrs Ayer’s. Supper at Mrs. Dewhurst’s – evening of Beau’s pictures.” Aug 12 – “Second picking of spinach. Went to village with Frederic. Paddled this evening with Dorothy, Beau, and ‘Fred’ in the new canoe. Music later at Mrs Ayer’s.” Aug 13 – “Boiling hot day - crocheted and read most of day. First real starlight-night since we came.” Aug 14 – “Hot day ending in most severe rain, hail, and thunder-storms about five, spoiling picnic with Dewhurst family who came here for veranda supper. My postals shown.” Aug 15 – “C. H. F. and Mrs D. gone to St. J pageant. A lovely quiet day doing a heap of things.” Aug 16 – “Called on Winifred and Florence Waterman this morning – The Maiers – Mr & Mrs here for supper.” Aug 17 – “Crocheted most of morning. Walked to village this afternoon and call on Mrs Lord thro whom I heard of Anna Diller. Tom came tonight. Charlie gone to Woodstock for Sunday.” Aug 18 – “Rainy Sunday – service at Mrs Robinson’s conducted by Mr Lord. Mary Eliot and her guest Frances Richardson here for supper!” Aug 19 – “Charlie returned about two. Nice calls from Dr Houghton and Mr Bancroft. H. and I made calls after it.” Aug 20 – “Beautiful day! Mrs Ayers – her mother, and two aunts here for afternoon tea. Moon and Jupiter wonderful tonight – walked up to Young’s – nice letter from Munder on return.” Aug 21 – “Very quiet day.” Aug 22 – “Lyon came to-day. A fine concert this evening at the Johnsons. Victrola assisted by male quartet.” Aug 23 – “Rainy day as usual. A few of us listened to Mr. Snyder read ‘Christianity & the Social Question’ at Mrs Hickoks[?]. Played with C. awhile this evening.” 35 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Aug 24 – “Worked on floor. Helen came about eleven from Indianapolis. Walked to village this afternoon. C. & H. to Burlington for over Sunday. Grace & Mary giving dance to-night. Herrick came this A.M.” Aug 25 – “Day of many showers and much humidity. Sing at Mrs Ayer’s led by Mr Maier. Beautiful moon-light row with Lyon!” Aug 26 – “Rainy day and doing nothing outside our home.” Aug 27 – “Cold. Hattie and Charlie returned from Burlington about noon nearly frozen.” Aug 28 – “Bag-party for Miss Cheney[?] at Mrs Luken’s this afternoon a great success. Played trios at Grace’s this evening.” Aug 29 – “Uneventful day - the chief pleasure a long talk with Dorothy this afternoon over her tea-cups and the row to the village for my express package from Buffalo.” Aug 30 – “42° this morning! Bitter all day and I haven’t left the fire. Wrote six letters. Eighteen have already left Camp.” Aug 31 – “Warmer. The Fred Whitings here for summer. Beautiful evening. Walked to Millers with Mrs. D. – saw wonderful meteor!” September 1 – “Sunday – rain – stripped fir balsam all day. Trios with Helen this evening.” Sep 2 – “Packed. Received and made calls.” Sep 3 – “Left E. Hardwick at 7.41 A.M. leaving luggage to be forwarded – it seeming to be not my day for travel, BUT came down with Mrs. D. in Mr. Vail’s car! Great trip!” Sep 4 – “Meals with Tom at 17 Beach St. Humidity 97% makes house-cleaning a bit difficult!” Sep 5 – “Heat & humidity continues – also getting house to rights” Sep 6 – “At home working all day. Charlie arrived with Margaret - and Edith also has come for a week-end.” Sep 7 – “Showed Edith at intervals European treasures. Mrs Howard took us for a drive thro’ Elizabeth and Keeney Parks.” Sep 8 – “Sunday – a little less warm. Let Margaret have the day, so have been busy myself all day – though accompanied Charlie quite a bit.” Sep 9 – “Edith went to Boston at 11.08. Have done a bit of sewing and of shopping to-day.” Sep 10 – “Heat perfectly terrible still.” Sep 11 – “Woman here all day cleaning floors. Rugs brought back at four and are down! Showers broke the heat record at last.” Sep 12 – “Unsuccessful search for clothes this morning. Preparatory lecture this evening. 30 degrees cooler to-day.” Sep 13 – “Marketing and sewing on drawers seem to have filled my day pretty well.” 36 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Sep 14 – “Market again this morning. Hattie arrived from Greensboro after four. Lyon back for over Sunday.” Sep 15 – “Wretched day – rheumatism much stirred up from massage last night! Very hot and humid again.” Sep 16 – “Much excited over Isabelle’s proposition to meet her in Boston the 30th and to have three weeks in the mountains with her. Morning in dark attic hunting up books.” Sep 17 – “Bought dress at Jerome Sage’s [?] and got waist started at Mrs H’s. Wrote letters & sewed on drawers.” Sep 18 – “Harriet’s and Lester’s little girl born this morning. Sewed all day.” Sep 19 – “Down town twice to-day. Heat & humidity worse than ever!” Sep 20 – “Cooler to-day. Made grape jelly this morning. Called on Mrs Kimball and Alice this afternoon.” Sep 21 – “Final fitting at Fox’s this morning.” Sep 22 – “Church this morning. Christine Newton here for supper.” Sep 23 – “Went to Springfield at eight this A.M. Bought hat, then called on Aunt Sarah, Grace & Miss Mary. Luncheon at Nell’s. Ames took me in to see ‘Barbara’. Home at 6” Sep 24 – “Miserable cold weather after so much heat. Sewed nearly all day.” Sep 25 – “Wretched day with digestive upset.” Sep 26 – “Another quiet day trying to get straightened out.” Sep 27 – “Down town this morning and this afternoon. Nice talk with Dr. Abrams.” Sep 28 – “Busy day packing to go to Boston.” Sep 29 – “Sunday. Left at 10.20 for Boston. Had an hour’s wait in Springfield and a visit from Grace. Found the Martins delightfully located at the new Copley Plaza and here I am in Boston!!” Sep 30 – “Left late this morning for luncheon with Laura & her friends at Wellesley Inn. Loved the Chapel and A.F.P. Memorial! Home about six and dined in our room – two weary ladies.” October 1 – “A long hour in Trinity ending at noon with the first service of the year. Visited Shreve[? ] Crump[?] and Louis. Lunched at The Bellevue. Read ‘My Robin’ aloud in Lauriat while it rained – call from Edith this eve” Oct 2 – Left Boston at 11.30 this morning. On arriving at Pittsfield at four - found train had been taken off, so we had tea at The Wendell and walked about & bought Xmas cards until six.” Oct 3 – “Darwin’s 12th birthday and our first day in Stockbridge. Had a lovely walk this A.M. sitting out at Heaton Hall, and drive this afternoon to The Bowl. Fire to-night in our ‘Franklin’ and lovely poetry on this locality” Oct 4 – “Drove to Lee[?] for a hat for I.R.M this morning and home thro’ some of the beautiful Lenox estates. Picked fringed gentaurs ! Read Frothingham’s article on Maeterlinck this evening.” 37 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Oct 5 – “Read Matthew Arnold’s ‘Wordsworth’ this A.M. in cemetery. Wonderful drive to Lenox itself – tea Tally ho Inn – and home at sunset, crown of drive I am sure. Began Jane Addam’s “A New Conscience’” Oct 6 – “( Ruth’s baby born six this evening) Sunday. Stockbridge, very warm. Spent morning in rooms. 30 cars of people extra for dinner. Afternoon in cemetery reading Science article by Mr Dixon. Tried to go to St. Paul’s this eve. – no service.” Oct 7 – “Wrote letters all the morning and drove to Great Barrington this afternoon. Coming back by the river - Glendale Drive – thro’ Housatoui[?] was very beautiful. Talked down-stairs a little with our friends Mrs Evans and Mrs Butler.” Oct 8 – “Much colder to-day. Drove this morning for chestnuts. Wrote letters and napped this afternoon. Read aloud all the evening Jane Addam’s book.” Oct 9 – “Cloudy day and moderating for rain. Finished ‘Jane’ and read Crother’s ‘The [Co this evening.” ]of Rome Shampoo Oct 10 – “Beautiful drive to Tyringham! Home thro’Fernside – stopping at Crow’s Nest for tea.” Oct 11 – “Rained off and on all day. Shaker Ladies with their wares here. Walk at sunset. Began ‘The Street Called Straight’ this evening.” Oct 12 – “No voice for reading most distressing! Drove to Lenox, visited observatory on ‘The Aspinwall’ – tea at The Tally-ho.” . Oct 13 – “Sunday. Lovely walk on Laurel Hill this morning. Read ‘Lesson’in the Cemetery again.” Oct 14 – “Drove to Pittsfield – pleased with The Maplewood but decided to remain here. Home late – very cold.” Oct 15 – “Wretched day of suffering for Isabelle. Read ‘The Street Called Straight.’” Oct 16 – “Finished ‘Street Called Straight’. Hattie & Charlie here for luncheon, guests of the Haydens. Drove over Bear Mountain.” Oct 17 – “Read outdoors and in to-day. Worked on Dorothy’s sewing-bag. Mrs Evans in our room for a while this evening.” Oct 18 – “Perfect day. Drove by Daniel French’s house at Glendale to Long Pond. Walked a long distance high ridge road – wonderful pines above boulders against blue sky.” Oct 19 – “Rainy day. Read Progressive Platform articles – and ‘Milestones’ by Arnold Bennett, a disappointing play.” Oct 20 – “Sunday – lovely day. Walked this morning, and spent afternoon reading in the cemetery.” Oct 21 – “Took our last drive in The Berkshires this afternoon. West Stockbridge etc. This morning walked up to Mr Choate’s place.” Oct 22 – “Charming experience to-day at The Crafts in Sheffield.” Oct 23 – “Pouring rain all day – and our last day! Tried to read Ellen Key’s ‘Love and Marriage’ but with little interest.” 38 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Oct 24 – “Left Stockbridge at 1.22. Got on wrong train at Pittsfield but were able to change at Chathany and get to Albany promptly. Most comfortably located at Ten Eyck.” Oct 25 – “Shopped this morning – saw lovely ring. Pouring rain to Kingston with not much let up until we arrived at Phoenicia. Cold here and feather beds look good!” Oct 26 – “Met Mr Martin at station 8.20. Mr. Spink [?] also. Drove to ‘Fork’ where Darwin met us, thence to the new buildings in the Woodland Valley and on to Roxmore.” Oct 27 – “Sunday - bright sunshine. Had Lesson together on side veranda then walked about grounds. Left at 5 for Kingston. Supper Hotel Stuyvesant. Home by miserable West Shore.” Oct 28 – “Dorothy met us at station. Got settled this AM. Anna came this afternoon helped me on claim question, then we had tea with ‘bunch’ from Virgil class. Our ‘work’ seems to be Joseph.” Oct 29 – “Met Dr Stearns and State Inspector at Joseph’s and arrangements are made for carrying his wife to Hospital.” Oct 30 – “Saw Polish priest this morning and made attempts to get out to Chictowaga[Cheektowaga].. Luncheon at Munder’s – Ida & Anna there also. Errands later, then home.” Oct 31 – “Morning at Superintendent of the Poor Office and children are committed to St Vincent’s. Delivered flowers first and saw Mrs. Hughes.” November 1 – “Miserable rainy, blowy day. Shopped for Joseph’s children and carried them to St Vincent’s this afternoon.” Nov 2 – “Marketing – nice call on Jessie and this afternoon one on Anna. Bartons here for dinner.” Nov 3 – “First Sunday back in Buffalo, early service with Ida. Walked home with her. The Simpsons here for dinner. The Fosters and Wills called in the afternoon.” Nov 4 – “Mrs Schiebel’s luncheon down town, shopping. Home for tea with Munder, Ida and Anna, who goes to-night. Played Pedro this evening Isabelle joining us!” Nov 5 - blank Nov 6 – “Decorated with chrysanthemums for tea given for the Old Ladies Home. Thirty came and we are happy over the success of it.” Nov 7 – “Rain – treatment (hair) this morning and errands. Call upon Mrs Kennedy this afternoon.” Nov 8 – “Call on Miss Angell, then to Munder’s for luncheon. Call at the Reidpaths, then home for dinner. Read Virgil this evening.” Nov 9 – blank Nov 10 – “Sunday. Early church. Marion Tanner and Esther here for dinner. Supper at Thekla’s.” 39 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Nov 11 – “Isabelle in bed this morning. Had ‘hair treatment’ this afternoon. Mrs Mowrey and Benedict here for dinner. Evening - victrola etc.” Nov 12 – “Down town in first bus this A.M. Read ‘A Listener in Babel’, napped, then went for tea at Mrs Spears. Alone this evening with Isabelle.” Nov 13 – “Isabelle in Rochester. Luncheon with Mame. Various calls today. Rain and warm.” Nov 14 – “Quiet, rather used-up-day for both of us.” Nov 15 – “Munder here for luncheon.” Nov 16 – “Down town with Dorothy all the morning. Agnes Repplier and Chromatic Club this afternoon.” Nov 17 – “Heard Pres Burton at First Church. Mr & Mrs M. & D. Miss Nardrops[?] here for dinner and long afternoon. Quiet evening and early to bed.” Nov 18 – “Spent morning giving Isabelle a résumé of Marion Harland’s ‘Autobiography.’ Hair treatment this afternoon, and an evening alone. D. and her mother hearing Schleiman Heinck[?].” Nov 19 – “Club morning – paper by May Staples. Decorated after luncheon for dinner given for ‘Marion Harland’, her daughter, and Mr. Wessells. A charming home-atmosphere evening!!” Nov 20 – “A wonderful day at the Falls - warm – brilliant sunshine – wind and mist just right for perfection of detail. A day to be remembered by Isabelle and me as well as by Christine & her mother.” Nov 21 – “Quiet day recovering until four when we took Mrs Terhune to the Twentieth Century Club for tea – Mrs Northrup’s guests.” Nov 22 – “Errands this morning – Mrs Morey & Mrs Barton. Tea guests - Mrs Mosher & Mdms Severance. Isabelle and Mr M. dining at Grandma’s to-night. ‘Clarkie’ with Dorothy.” Nov 23 – “Somewhat discouraging diagnosis from Dr Russell this morning.” Nov 24 – “Sunday, morning at home quietly with Isabelle. Terhune, Herrick, Wessells combination here for dinner.” Nov 25 – “Quiet home day – music, reading etc.” Nov 26 – “Preparations for to-morrow’s dinner – marketing meant being out in our first real snow-storm and gale.” Nov 27 – “First osteopathic treatment. Tea at Jane Mead Welsh’s. Clayton Miller, a Cornell student, arrived this evening for Thanksgiving.” Nov 28 – “Thanksgiving Day. The Fosters, the Reidpaths, and Mr Miller swelled our family to twelve. Isabelle & I too tired for Gadski-Kreisler recital so we enjoyed Victrola records of theirs.” Nov 29 – “Down town this morning. Mr. Miller left at three & Isabelle and I took long naps to rest up for Laurence Binyon’s lecture to-night at the Art Gallery.” 40 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Nov 30 – “Made four calls this morning and delivered cucumbers with Isabelle. Chromatic Club followed by a tea in the Club Rooms for Miss McComsell[?] by Mrs Deming. Called on Mrs Clifton.” December 1 – “Early service. Mrs Morey and Benedict here for dinner - also Mr Wessells . Callers this afternoon making the usual busy Sunday.” Dec 2 – “Rain & wind – at home all day . Cross-stitched Helen D’s afghan. Mrs Morey & B. in for dinner.” Dec 3 – “Papers on Lake Country and Wordsworth at Club. Mrs Pray & Munder for luncheon. Dr Russells with Dorothy - down town. Kennedy dinner left D. & me alone.” Dec 4 – “Morning at home. Luncheon at Munder’s (twelve guests in honor Mrs Pray) Dr Russell’s at four – then down town.” Dec 5 blank Dec 6 blank Dec 7 – “Dr Russell’s and home for Isabelle seems all in with a cold.” Dec 8 – “Dull day, and an anxious one for me with Isabelle in bed - high temperature, chills, ear-ache etc.” Dec 9 – “Gale 74 miles an hour continues. Quiet day with Isabelle down on the south room sofa, pretty full of grippe to the square inch.” Dec 10 – “Still blowing. Fourth treatment at Dr Russells. Mr Martin out for dinner.” Dec 11 – blank Dec 12 – “Errands. Munder here with Isabelle – bringing Church Committee etc. Dorothy wretched with grippe.” Dec 13 – “Very cold. Mrs.Morey out with I. this morning and here for luncheon. Rest of day given to doing up Xmas presents.” Dec 14 – “Musicale at Thekla’s this morning – poor Dorothy a wreck. Eighteen errands this afternoon!” Dec 15 – “Early church. Home with Munder who later brought me out here. Rest of day did up Xmas presents. Isabelle entirely well apparently, but Dorothy worse from yesterday’s strain.” Dec 16 – “Played cribbage with D. nearly all day. Took flowers late this afternoon to Ida’s who with M. returns to-night. Got ring from D’s!” Dec 17 – “Call at Ida’s - shopping this morning. Dr. Russells for both Isabelle and me this afternoon.” Dec 18 – “Wonderful weather – sun and really hot! Down town this A.M. Isabelle lunching at Munder’s- much vacuum cleaning etc at home.” Dec 19 blank Dec 20 – “In bed with grip. Dr Russell came out & gave me relief from dizziness. Mrs Van Houn[?] here with much [ ]” 41 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Dec 21 – “In bed except for having luncheon with Isabelle in the sitting-room. Darwin arrived this morning fat and happy. Mrs. Terhune’s 82nd birthday.” Dec 22 – “Xmas Sunday. Better but not able to go to church. Enjoyed however the carols played on corner by Salvation Army Band. Drove over to see Ida at noon & carried our gifts.” Dec 23 – “Busy day spent in the last doing up.” Dec 24 – “Spent all day practically in delivering gifts. Mrs R. and Margaret here for dinner after which we trimmed tree.” Dec 25 – “Wonderful Day! Began with stockings before the fire which Dorothy had filled with jokes -then the tree. Delivered a couple of gifts, stopped at Fosters, and under pine-tree! 18 here in evening.” Dec 26 – “Errands down town - bringing home Joseph’s children to luncheon. Reuben took them to see their mother, and Isabelle and I rested until dinner.” Dec 27 – “Treatment this morning from Dr R. Nice call from Ida this afternoon. . Left at 9.45 for a week in Hartford.” Dec 28 – “Arrived in Hartford 9.30 having ridden down from Sp. with Prof Perkins of Burlington. Found Edith here for the day.” Dec 29 – “Sunday. Hartford. Slept until late – practically all day. Went down and joined the carol-singing at Bushnell Park this evening thus heard F.D.C. play the organ.” Dec 30 – “Pouring rain – shopped all over Hartford for clothes and found nothing. Helen Dewhurst’s baby born yesterday. Edward Rieman Lewis, Jr.” Dec 31 – “The last day of this wonderful year! None can exceed it for happiness. A letter and ‘indulgence’ from I. Mr and Mrs. Willard of Lexington here for dinner.” 1913 January 1 – “Hartford. Beautiful day. Called on Aunt Iris with Hattie this A.M. Thayers here for afternoon tea. Dorothy having her first box at The Charity Ball to-night.” Jan 2 – “Sorry not to have felt able to go to Peekskill to-day. Visited Dr Case and had a very quiet day.” Jan 3 – “The Young Woman’s Society met this afternoon. 18 members present. Talked a bit on my ‘travels’. Fearful wind storm sweeping the Atlantic board - and us!” Jan 4 – “Went to Springfield this morning and bought a hat and shopped down town this afternoon.” Jan 5 – “Sunday – wretched day but am leaving just the same for Buffalo to-night. Gave up C. Falls this afternoon & expect to see Ames & Ruby in Sp. at train.” Jan 6 – “Arrived a half hour late – 10.30. Isabelle met me looking very white & tired so we visited hard the rest of day on the bed.” 42 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jan 7 – “Hyatt Smith gave Ruskin paper at P.S. Club this morning and we had Mesdames Simpson, Morey, Staples, Bugbee and Merrill for luncheon.” Jan 8 – “A wonderful ice-world to-day which has shut us in away from everybody all day. Read Alice Meynell, Lanier and rested a lot. This evening put English postals in album.” Jan 9 – “Wretched cold. Osteopathic treatment this morning. Wonderful ride at sunset thro’ the Park. Flonzahy Concert but didn’t go. Mrs M. Dorothy, Una Martin and Mr M., Thekla using ticket.” Jan 10 – “Quiet day not able to read yet, but some better.” Jan 11 – “Busy day preparing for dinner-guests the Boards, Windsors[?] and Prentices, a lovely evening!” Jan 12 – “Sunday – very cold. Boards left early. Quiet day. Read ‘The Hound of Heaven’, which seemed so wonderful at last to end our day.” Jan 13 – “Warmer. Dress-maker & treatment this morning. Munder here for luncheon. Did errands this afternoon and brought Jessie up to her home.” Jan 14 – “Down town this morning buying black velvet dress etc. Ida out for tea this afternoon. Finished Helen Dewhurst’s afghan this evening.” Jan 15 – “Scandavian[sic] pictures at Gallery this morning! Saw ‘Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm’ with Isabelle and Dorothy this afternoon – then stopped at Mrs. Prentice’s tea on way home.” Jan 16 – “Cloudy day – home morning. New York Symphony Orchestra concert – Wagner Program – this afternoon. Mrs Larkin’s this evening to hear an address – ‘Paul at Athens’ before Arch. Society.” Jan 17 – “Treatment this morning and fitting at Miss Sellien’s. Called on Mrs Clifton this afternoon – dined at Munder’s – saw Basket Ball at Sem. Mr M. gone to visit Darwin over Sunday.” Jan 18 – “Sunday – lovely morning with victrola, the ‘Lesson’ and walk to our pines in the Park. Mrs Parmelee and Fosters here for dinner.” Jan 19 – “[This should be transposed with the 18th!] Scandanavian pictures again and with Munder and Mary. Home rest of day. Read Laurence Binyon. Coat came but returned it for alterations.” Jan 20 – “Shopped a lot with Dorothy. Made error for whole week! -- see the 26th.” Jan 21 – “Home most of day. Called on Thekla this evening during the wedding rehearsal.” Jan 22 – “Pouring rain. Genevieve Board married at four. Felt too wretched to go despite the attractiveness of my chumchild[?] as bridesmaid!” Jan 23 – “Home this morning reading Mr Lord’s paper on Eucken. Isabelle heard Pres. Richmond’s lecture this afternoon. I visited down town meanwhile. Gave up Mrs Goodyear’s musicale for evening au famille.” Jan 24 – “Down town this morning – market – Tripi’s etc. Jessie and Agnes out for tea. Mrs Albright came in the midst of it bringing us letter of introduction to Mr Freer!” 43 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jan 25 – “Sunday – much laryngitis and had treatment while family were at church. Ida troubled over Anna. Detroit looks doubtful for Isabelle and me at present.” Jan 26 – “October weather! Voice better than yesterday but do not feel well just the same. Shopped with Dorothy this afternoon and had fitting on spring suit.” Jan 27 blank Jan 28 –“Down with Dorothy again planning shirt waists, etc.” Jan 29 – “Wonderful day but alas not in Detroit!! Spent it quietly at home - Mrs Dayton consuming most of the latter end of it.” Jan 30 – “Spent morning preparing for the open meeting of the P.S. Club here. Mrs. Prentiss gave entire program.” Jan 31 – “Quiet day in my room until time to meet Isabelle at 20th Cent. Club and go to Anti-Suffrage Meeting addressed by Mrs Kilinamis [?] –( Gayard[?] Taylor’s daughter)” February 1 – “Heard Dr Rudolph Eucken lecture this afternoon, then went to tea given by Mrs Letchworth. The Bartons here for dinner. Pedro later. Detroit postponed until Mr Freer returns from South.” Feb 2 – “Our first big storm this winter. Didn’t go to church. Miss Frink and children called this afternoon.” Feb 3 – “Errands all the morning – slept all the afternoon. Read all of Sudermann’s ‘Magda’ to Isabelle this evening.” Feb 4 – “Mrs Simpson gave very fine paper at Club this morning. Munder guest for nearly all day. Mr Martin went to Church Meeting alone this evening.” Feb 5 – “Five above zero! Down town selected paper for sitting room. Mrs Morey with us – for luncheon also. Late in afternoon called at Mrs Barcalo’s with Isabelle - tea – victrola etc.” Feb 6 – “Very cold. Home this morning – both open fires going – home full of daffodils and sunshine – lovely!” Feb 7 – “Went down to see Detroit Electric this morning. Called upon Mrs Dold and Mrs Parker this afternoon.” Feb 8 “Mrs Hauenstein Here this afternoon – read her poems, gave us volumes of them and related her experiences most generously. Munder, May, Mrs Morey, Mrs Merrill and Mrs Spear here.” Feb 9 – “Lovely day and I got up and went to early service. Walked with Isabelle at noon. Bartons dined here. Isabelle and I attempted Choral Service at First Church.” Feb 10 – “Took Ida for errands and brought her home for luncheon. Got Isabelle after Class and we called upon Mrs. Albright, Mrs. Barrel, and I upon Sarah and Mrs Gilbert.” Feb 11 – “Treatment this morning. Luncheon at Mame’s. Brought Bertha out with us for tea and a Smith séance with Isabelle.” Feb 12 – “Very cold. Shopped all the morning. Spent afternoon settling sitting-room which is lovely with its new paper and foreign photos. Church night and I’m alone before fire writing etc.” 44 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Feb 13 – “Dress-maker appointment. Luncheon with Isabelle at Munder’s. Heard Dr Talcott Williams speak on The Changing Stage.” Feb 14 – “Valentine of nighties smothered in sweet peas, orchids and maiden hair. Luncheon with Clara Allen – interesting time talking Florence! Heard Mrs Glenny speak on ‘Vocational Guidance’ this evening.” Feb 15 – “Home morning – early luncheon and did our errands before we went to Chromatic Club where Cleveland women gave charming program. Bartons here for evening of ‘Pedro.’” Feb 16 – “Sunday – early service. Quiet day.” Feb 17 – “Isabelle in bed all day, practically, with headache. Mr Martin not home for dinner to-night so we’ve had a cosy evening in the South Room.” Feb 18 – “Club morning. Tennyson & Lanier, latter paper by May Staples. Mrs Morey here for luncheon. Home this evening, though election of Readers took place and Elena Gerhardt Recital.” Feb 19 – “Mrs Prentiss here for luncheon and rest of day until six o’clock singing.” Feb 20 – “Wonderful day – 52 degrees temp. Errands this morning, luncheon at Munders, a long call upon Ida later. Fosters here an hour or more this evening. Detroit Electric ordered!” Feb 21 – “Home morning. Read ‘Uncle Vanya’, one of a volume of dramas by Tchekoff[sic]. Bartons here for dinner. Addressed envelopes this evening for ‘Neighborhood Tea’.” Feb 22 – “Pouring rain! No vestige of snow. Mrs Van Hoesen here, a busy day.” Feb 23 – “Sunday – a blizzard early this morning so stayed at home. Mary, Esther, and Genevieve Goodrich here for dinner. Supper at Thekla’s.” Feb 24 – “Lovely home morning. Margaret C. with me this afternoon singing, etc. Munder and Ida came in from Class for tea.” Feb 25 – “Treatment this morning. Went out to Pierce Factory with Mr Trautman to decide color etc for car. Church this evening to elect First Reader. Left there at nine and heard Culp and Clement Concert then returned to church.” Feb 26 – “Isabelle and I both wretched with influenza.” Feb 27 – “Home all day – not feeling able to go to-night with Isabelle and Mr Martin to Mrs Prentice’s.” Feb 28 – “Influenza still with me. Got Isabelle’s tea invitations out – made her chiffon scarf. Called on Mrs Wilkes, Mary Clark, and did errands.” March 1 – “Mrs Hubbell’s guests at Twentieth Century Club to meet Miss Fisk of Bennett School. Chromatic Club later lovely! Ball-Gould Trio, Mrs Prentice and Thekla. Tea at Allied Arts. Evening Pedro with Bartons.” March 2 – “Very cold wintry day. Isabelle and I did not go to church – roads almost impassable from drifts.” 45 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Mar 3 – “Weather conditions slightly bettered. Had Miss Fisk Out for tea – a lovely afternoon. Mrs. Morey and Benedict here for dinner.” Mar 4 – “Finished ‘The Journey of Jesus’ and greatly enjoyed Mrs Goodyear’s visit with us this afternoon.” Mar 5 – “Munder came out and spent afternoon to talk Bennett School. Clara Allen and Miss Mann called. We are reading Sakuntala.” Mar 6 – “Roads rough and we remained at home until evening when we went to Mrs Goodyear’s for a musical given by Mrs Barrell and Mrs Hillman. – lovely!” Mar 7 – “Zero weather. Home lovely with narcissus, daffodils and streptacolour[?]. Received between 40 and 50 neighbors at tea.” Mar 8 – “Down town and Dr R’s – where I received a dismissal to every two or three weeks. Tea at Miss May Martins. Bartons here for dinner and Pedro.” Mar 9 – “A soft day and welcome change after zero weather. Early service. No one here all day. Read Rann Kennedy’s last drama ‘The Necessary Evil’.” Mar 10 – “Out all day – “ Mar 11 – “Morning out delivering plants, etc. Dress-makers this afternoon. Read ‘The Faith Healer’ this evening.” Mar 12 – “Shampoo and shopping this morning for myself. Calls this afternoon on Bernice, Mary Clark, etc. Evening with Dorothy who is passing thro a phase of ‘imagining.’” Mar 13 – “Wrote letters all the morning. Mrs Barton and Mrs Morey here for luncheon. Tea at Mrs Estey’s – a charming hostess in a charming house! Bonci & Rhadeska concert this evening. Milo Benedict accompanying his wife.” Mar 14 – “Maximum temperature to-day 71. The Simpsons here for dinner and Mrs. S. read ‘The Necessary Evil’. Terrible electric storm late this evening.” Mar 15 – “Cooler. Home morning. Thekla here for luncheon and I went home with her for dinner.” Mar 16 – “Early church. Read ‘The Next Religion’ to Isabelle. Fosters all out for supper.” Mar 17 – “Attended luncheon given at Iroquois for Mrs Catt and heard speak on Suffrage. Heard later charming recital given by David Mannes and his wife.” Mar 18 – “Day given over to millinery openings, tailors, etc. Had dinner at Ida’s.” Mar 19 – “Down town and Dr Russell’s this morning.” Mar 20 – “Dentist’s and dress-maker’s this morning. Too tired to-night to go to hear Godowsky.” Mar 21 – “Good Friday. Attended part of three hour service at Trinity with Isabelle. Lorna Doons evening.” Mar 22 – “Busy morning with plants for Easter and preparing for the Salters whom I brought out about four to spend a few days with us. Surprised to find Mrs S. once a member of Mr Waith’s[?] choir” 46 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Mar 23 – “So I took her to service this Easter Morning at First Church. Heard Mr S’s recital this afternoon at Convention Hall. The Prentiss’s here for supper and we had a wonderful musical evening.” Mar 24 – “Took Salters to see Reid, Twachturam[?] and Chinese exhibits at Gallery this morning. Rested this afternoon for this evening’s entertaining – Waith[?] Holmes Prentisses and Thekla. [ ] disaster!” Mar 25 – “Salters left at 10:35 this morning. Isabelle took to her bed at noon and remained rest of day. Another unsuccessful Church meeting this evening. Tina[?] [L ] recital.” Mar 26 – “Home recovering straightening out. Tea at Munder’s meeting Telly Meisaur[?] and her sister – ‘Bud Sears’ and Miss James. Brought Miss Crawford home for dinner and the night.” Mar 27 – “Miss Crawford shopped with us this morning and we left her at her Mother’s for luncheon. Rested all afternoon. Lorna Doons evening.” Mar 28 – “Luncheon for Dorothy - twenty-two present, all representing books. Went later to milliner’s and dressmakers.” Mar 29 – “Market etc this morning. Called with Isabelle this afternoon upon Mrs Merrill and Mrs Deming. Home evening.” Mar 30 – “Sunday, early service. Rest of day given to planning another summer in England. Larkin boy ill so Darwin did not return this evening.” Mar 31 – “Errands – steamers – etc. Served tea to Betty, Margaret, and two of their Vassar friends this afternoon. Went to station with Darwin this evening. Junior Spread discovered by Senior but ‘kept all our eats[?]’.” April 1 – “Called on Goodrich girls and discussed plans for Bernice.” April 2 – “Spent morning on English pictures while Isabelle cleaned house. Down town this afternoon with Mrs Morey and Isabelle.” Apr 3 –“Dr R’s this morning and quite done for the rest of day.” Apr 4 – “Day devoted to Schools! Saw at Franklin this morning the Dalcroze method illustrated. Junior Play at ‘Sem’ this afternoon. Mr Martin has gone to Chicago this evening.” Apr 5 – “Went to Ida’s and saw Miss Brook at Chrom. Club this afternoon with Mrs Russell give demonstration of Dalcroze method. Miss Sackett here for dinner. Engaged our staterooms.” Apr 6 – “Sunday - trolley strike - no church for me. Bartons and Mr Burdett here for dinner.” Apr 7 – “Home day. Strike assuming large proportions. Dinner at Mrs Stevens for Miss McConnell.” Apr 8 – “Dr Russell’s this morning. Call at the Halls before going to Mrs Guthries for dinner.” Apr 9 – “A lovely birthday day! Munder here for luncheon. Electric car came out about four and Dorothy took us for a ride. ‘Party’ at night – just ourselves and pedro evening.” Apr 10 – “Militia out 2300. Dinner at Mame’s and she and Bertha helped a lot on my itinerary.” 47 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Apr 11 – “Bad head and went to bed this afternoon for rest of day.” Apr 12 – “Better and got up at noon. Mrs Van H. came at 4.00 and consumed remainder of day.” Apr 13 –“Sunday. Dined at Ida’s with Mr Lord, the Bradfords, and Miss Almsted[?] . Dorothy and Isabelle came for me & we called at Thekla’s. Munder and Mr Foster came out this evening.” Apr 14 – “Errands this morning. Had eyes examined. Drove down for D. this afternoon and went to Dr R’s. Went to Miss Almsted[?]’s this evening for Mr Lord’s Reading with Ida and Isabelle.” Apr 15 – “Last call on dress-making this morning. Home rest of day reading.” Apr 16 – “Beautiful day and Isabelle and I had a lovely walk in the Park. Miss Angell here for luncheon.” Apr 17 – “Took D. to Warren & Ruttiman for her dress which is darling! after spending afternoon at Katherine Ogden’s reading ‘The Necessary Evil’.” Apr 18 – “Steamer investigations again in order that Dorothy may be in the Play June 3rd if possible. Franklin School dance this evening very delightful. Bertha’s birthday.” Apr 19 – “Isabelle had Bernice examined this A.M. with not encouraging results. Drove Detroit this afternoon for errands. Read Highways & Byways of W. Wales this evening.” Apr 20 – “Early service. Home with Ida for dinner. Saw Besnard Collection at Gallery where we met Isabelle & Mrs. Morey. Heard part of Ysaye[?] recital this evening.” Apr 21 – “Home this morning busy with flowers. Dentist’s this afternoon. Went with Isabelle to Church Meeting – 7th and ‘no election’.” Apr 22 – “Home morning. Dress-maker this afternoon. Read ‘Gallant Little Wales’ this evening.” Apr 23 – “Dentist. Mary to dinner with D. and they took us down to see Thekla who is ill.” Apr 24 – “Temperature 80 to-day. Down town this A.M. Made four calls this afternoon.” Apr 25 – “Excessively hot day. Finished dentistry this afternoon. Evening alone with Dorothy – cards – lemonade etc” Apr 26 – “Much colder! I. & D. in Rochester all day & I had Jessie out for luncheon and afternoon. Late dinner - pedro.” Apr 27 – “Stiff neck and a wretched Sunday. Read ‘Daffodil Fields’ this evening which is a-plenty of Masefield for me.” Apr 28 – “Morning at home and called with Isabelle this afternoon upon Mrs Goodyear and Mrs Dann.” Apr 29 – “Busy morning getting ready to go home. Luncheon at Ida’s with Isabelle, called later.” Apr 30 – Morning in the garden – the season three weeks in advance of most Buffalo springs. Luncheon at Mrs Morey’s after which we went to Williamsville and Clarence Center for trilliums etc.” May 1 – “Decorated all the morning for our dinner to-night – Parkers, Wills, and Ida guests. Lunched with Munder and called after it.” 48 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 May 2 – “Home morning. Luncheon at Mrs Bailey’s followed by neighborhood calls. This Reidpaths returned this evening.” May 3 – “Dr Russell’s this morning. Called on Mrs McLeod this afternoon in Bernice’s interest and also upon Bertha. Very hot day. Northrops here this evening.” May 4 – “Church this morning – and rest of day was a quiet veranda one with Benedict here for supper.” May 5 – “Larkins this morning. Mr Johnston here for luncheon bringing the loveliest poem – ‘The Daffodils’ which he had written for Isabelle.” May 6 – “Busy packing. Nice call from Munder at five. Left for Hartford at 9.45 – my second winter over most happily.” May 7 – “Two hours late. An opportunity to see the country which never looked so heavenly lovely as it does this spring. Arrived home about noon.” May 8 – “Down town with H. shopping for her. Prayer-meeting this evening. And oh, a wonderful drive in Kensy Park this afternoon with C. Such dogwood I never saw, nor such rhodora[sic]” May 9 – “Letters galore written about our plans for Lexington etc. Hair shampooed this afternoon. Cards this evening.” May 10 – “Went down to Westville at 2.58, was met by Anna and am spending night with her.” May 11 – “Sunday. Mother’s Day. Came home at eleven and went to see Dr Case. Rest of day wrote letters and rested.” May 12 – “Went to C. Falls at 9.40. Called on Aunt Sarah who is enjoying her 82nd birthday. Found Nell in poor shape. Lunched at Miss Mary’s, came home at 5.22.” May 13 – “Attended Missionary Meeting at Mrs Hunt’s – read Mrs Woolley’s[?] paper.” May 14 – “Left for Lexington with Hattie at eleven – got off at Back[?] Bay to see ‘Cubist’ Exhibition and to call on Edith Russell. Home at six – called after dinner upon Miss Bacheller and Mrs Goodwin.” May 15 – “Nearly all day at Miss Thornton’s. At five went to Emily Martins where I found Laura Dunklee[?] was soon to arrive so stayed for supper. Called at Miss B’s on way home. Visit from Mrs Wilkins.” May 16 – “Three hours with Miss Clarabel this morning. Nap after luncheon. Walked to Mr Woods for flowers which I sent to Miss B. and carried to Mrs Thornton. Hattie & Miss Whitaker dined with me.” May 17 – “A few calls this morning and left Lex. on 11.30 trolley for 19 Ware St. Cambridge where I had luncheon with Mrs Folsom and Anna. Home on ‘Twilight Express’.” May 18 – “Full day at home. Lyon here until evening. Mr Marshall arrived from St. G. to take horse up to-morrow.” May 19 – “Busy day getting everything ready for Vermont trip up in freight car – luncheon, errands for European trip etc” May 20 – “Charles left to-day for night ‘in High Street’ then for St. G. where he meets Harrie from Boston. Reading many interesting things on trip. K. L. Bates From Gretna[?] Green to Land’s End.” 49 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 May 21 – “Sewing going on more easily than last year leaving plenty of time for reading – to-day Alice Brown’s ‘By Oak & Thorn’.” May 22 – “Frederic all in with a cold and kept him at home to-day – play much Canfield etc” May 23 – “Rain and humidity continues. Frederic better and gone to C. Falls for over Sunday.” May 24 – “Rain. Worked over house all the morning preparatory to entertaining ‘Peter Miles’[?] over Sunday, who stayed at the Willards!” May 25 – “Sunday. Alone practically all day and spent time on Mrs Stowells Motor trips in Wales. Nice call from Paul Herrick who told me about seeing Herrick ancestral home at Inorn[?] Eng.” May 26 – “Ames came down this afternoon and stayed to dinner and spent evening. H. & C. returned from Vt. at 7.30.” May 27 – “At home all day finishing up odd jobs. Rec’d lovely photo of Dorothy also of Barbara Herrick. Massage this evening.” May 28 – “Rain – rain. Down town twice for glasses.” May 29 – “Left Hartford 12.37 and arrived at Peekskill about six. Ruth, the baby, and Bertha met me at the station.” May 30 – “Memorial Day procession in which Douglas rode. Afternoon down on tennis courts with Ruth & baby.” May 31 – “Lovely veranda weather at last. Miss Jenny & Percy so much[?] who are trolleying to Boston!” June 1 – “Sunday, at home all day. Mr Front made two hour call on us this morning.” Jun 2 – “Busy morning. Calls from Helen & Emma - packed for England again. Bertha went with me to West Point where I met the Martins coming down from Phoenicia. Spent night on boat.” Jun 3 – “Sailed on ‘Kronprinz Wilhelm’ with Isabelle & Dorothy. The Fosters with Mr Martin saw us off. Ship much steadier than ‘Kaiser W. II’ and expect to enjoy passage.” Jun 4 – “Lovely day – sunny and calm. Run only 494 miles losing time from 10 hrs ‘reduced speed’ during night because of fog.” Jun 5 – “In the trough of the waves and hot but up and out all day just the same. Run 524 miles.” Jun 6 – “Rain – wretched day so warm and humid until night. Run 513 miles. Just at sunset a sudden change to north – and a gale set in for all night evidently.” Jun 7 – “Ten hour gale kept us awake all night so slept this morning. Run 538 miles. Calm seas by noon – fresh northerly wind – out all afternoon with Dorothy on sun deck.” Jun 8 – “Sunday – and Plymouth begins to look near as our last little flag is out. Run 513 miles.” Jun 9 – “Wretched rolling sea all night. Landed at noon – 1:30 before we reached Grand Hotel on The Hoe. Rested. Went down town with Isabelle for errands – engaged motor. etc.” 50 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jun 10 – “Rain, but we started at 11 for Totnes. Lunched at Seven Stars. Saw Brutus Stone, Guildhall, Church etc. Returned via Dean Prior, seeing Robert Herrick tablet, also via Plympton seeing Joshua Reynolds tablet.” Jun 11 – “Devoted to-day to seeing Plymouth, re-packing of trunks and did final arrangement for our 5 week motor trip thro Cornwall, Devon, Warwickshire & Wales. Weather cold, highest temperature 59.” Jun 12 – “Left P. at 10.30. Cornwall wonderfully rolling, beautiful country! ‘Lanes’ of foxglove & valerian. Lunched at Fowney Hotel – where we looked down into ‘I’s’ garden. Are at Truro for night midst old silver & mahogany.” Jun 13 – “Visited the modern Cathedral before leaving Truro. On way to Penzance visited the ruins at Redruth. Arrived at P. at 1 o’clock. At four ran out to Land’s End. Evening by fire (yellow iris) listening to music outside & reading.” Jun 14 – “Visited studio at Newlyn this morning before starting for Marazion (old Jewish colony in time of Phoenicians) the place for rowing over to Mt. St. M. Lunched at Tregenna Castle. Mt. St. Ives and are to-night at Tintagel.” Jun 15 – “The most marvelous sunset last night ever saw – Isabelle & I watching glow until ten! Quiet Sunday – writing letters etc. luncheon of Lobster at Boscastle. Dined there also coming home via Camelford.” Jun 16 – “Ill turn this morning & remained in bed until eleven. Left at twelve lunching at The Grenville in Bude – near & fine hotel. Reached [ ] about four. Children’s Day & much singing.” Jun 17 – “Cloudy Day! Sailed this morning with ‘Lyman Abbott’. Took Hobby Drive this afternoon – too foggy for views. Tea in garden near library. Evening cool and read ‘Ship of Stars’ expecting house to tumble down.” Jun 18 – “Left C. at 11.30. Lunched at Ridsford & saw town. – had forgotten Armada Guns[?]. Came directly to Lynton arriving about four. Tea with Isabelle at Greenhouse Rooms & found E.J.J’s silversmith – Blackford.” Jun 19 – “Landan[?] & pair up to Malmsmead Farm where we had to walk up Doons Valley. Wonderful day for trip. Drove back thro’ Oars[?], visiting church. Tea in Lynmouth. Back by Cliff Railway.” Jun 20 – “Run to Bath 88 miles. Luncheon at Bridgwater stopping at Nether Stowey to see where ‘Ancient Mariner’ was written. In afternoon visited Glastonbury and Wells - both far lovelier than my memory of them.” Jun 21 – “Pulteney[?] Hotel very comfortable and quiet. Shopped some this morning. In bed all afternoon – concert at Sidney Gardens this evening.” Jun 22 – “Sunday. Went to Wells for service this morning. This afternoon attended C. S. service at Assembly Rooms and were delightfully received by our country-woman Lady Menendez[?]. Wrote rest of day & drove.” Jun 23 – “Shampoos this morning and did the streets of Bath – visiting Roman baths – Pump Room, etc.” Jun 24 – “Left Bath about 11. Luncheon at Gloucester. Saw cathedral & had part of Evensong there. Came thro’ Tewesbury & saw Abbey. Arrived at Lygon Hotel, Broadway, a large English edition of Russell House, Lexington.” Jun 25 – “Walked entire length of the street this morning admiring the very quaint homes and ending with Mary Anderson’s villa. Left Broadway for Stratford about four putting up at Shakespeare Hotel – rooms A Winter’s Tale & Comedy.” Jun 26 – “Did the regular Stratford sight-seeing to-day ending with Evensong at Holy Trinity. Had drawing-room entirely to ourselves this evening for reading. There was never more beautiful river than the Avon.” 51 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jun 27 – “Lovely ride on the Avon in a punt this morning before leaving Stratford. Settled ourselves at Leamington at noon and glad are we of its comforts! Took D. to Kenilworth about four. Evening reading – cards etc.” . Jun 28 – “I. R. M with us this morning. A lovely afternoon at Rugby, shown around by a lad from Toronto. Beautiful Burne Jones window in the Chapel.” Jun 29 – “Drove to Birmingham via Coventry and returned via Warwick. Heard part of service at St. Michael’s in C. Lunched in R. & spent afternoon with the wonderful Burne Jones tapestries & paintings.” Jun 30 – “Morning at Warwick returning via Guy’s Cliff & Kenilworth. Saw Dr Hicks with Isabelle at two and we drove to Coventry again seeing Lady Godiva’s statue.” July 1 – “Started north, lunching at Nuneaton. Visited Beau Manor Park and were served tea!!!! Spent night at Nottingham. Beau Manor is between Inorn[?] and Woodhouse.” July 2 – “Left out a day – Beau Manor experience was to-day! (Recorded on preceding day)” July 3 – “The next two records should be pushed back one day.” July 4 – “Wretched noisy night made us glad to get out of N. Reached Mansfield at noon and started after lunch for The Dakeries[?] drive. Byron’s place closed – everything disappointing but Sherwood Forest (old).” July 5 – “Left Mansfield about 11 and lunched at Matlock. Then drove to Haddon Hall which is the loveliest of all lovely places. Tea at Bakewell. Drive to Buxton is perfectly beautiful. Old Hall Hotel delightful.” July 6 – “Rainy cold Sunday. Chester. In all day. A wonderful day’s run yesterday across Derbyshire Peaks in the mist, stopping at Knutsford for tea at the Angel.” July 7 – “House this morning after an unsuccessful attempt at shopping. A very happy afternoon at Llangollen visiting Plas Newydd which [has] a Druid Circle on the front lawn.” July 8 – “Left Chester this morning – lunched at Rhyl. Went on to Llandudno and settled at ‘Imperial’ – very fine. Took Marine Drive around Great Arms about five. Perfectly beautiful.” July 9 – “Rain. Heard part of concert with D. in Happy Valley. Clearing at noon started us off for Conway visiting Castle of Iuay[?] etc. and six o’clock found us settled at the Waterloo in Bettws y eseil[?]” July 10 – “Lovely ride thro Llanberis Pass to fort of Snowdon where we stopped and asked fearpirt[?] to play. Thus on to Carnarvon – crossed Menai to ‘Llanfair P. G” – on to Bangor – thro Nant Ffrancon Pass back to Bettws.” July 11 – “Beautiful experiences at Beddgelert! Lunched at Mrs. Howells. Came thro Aberglaslyn Pass thro Vale of Maentwrog up to Bluewan Ffestiniog home. Started Brown off for Plymouth to-night.” July 12 – “No driving to-day which is a relief. This afternoon walked to old church across river by the stepping stones. (Sad sides of life in little cottage beyond!) back to Hotel. Read a lot in Aylwin.” July 13 – “Sunday. Read this morning. Started with horse at 1.30 visiting Conwy Falls where we saw Ceiulys[?] Thomas – a darling baby, and Fairy Glen. Wonderful sky reflection in pool! Welsh services at six.” 52 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 July 14 – “Lovely day. Visited Jack Jones on our way to Swallow Falls – Lake Aywn[?] etc. July 15 – “Did Llanberis Pass a second time – this time by carriage. Lunched at Llanberis. Had pleasant talk with our landlady Mrs McCulloch. July 16 – “House day. Discovered the Manns at luncheon and we had luncheon and drives with them.” July 17 – “Our longest run – thro Beddgelert to Barmouth – back thro Dollgelly. Bala Cerrig y Drudion, about 20 miles.” July 18 – “With million regrets we left dear Bettws at 2.20 and arrived at Chester about 5.” July 19 – “Were to have gone to Edinboro to-day but I had too much influenza, so have been in bed nearly all day.” July 20 – “In all day until about three when we took a short drive. In spite of the sun it was wretchedly cold. Chester is no place for a week-end stop, it is so noisy.” July 21 – “Left Chester at 11.45 and came via Crews to Edinburgh where we arrived at six. Are comfortably located at Mrs Ayton’s 12 Grosvenor Street. Found Cedric tickets here!” July 22 – “Beautiful skies for our background in this our first day in the grey city. Took Queen’s Drive and saw Grey friars – the noted monuments etc.” July 23 – “Drove to Castle this morning – no parade, soldiers in Camp. Saw old Edinburgh. John Knox’s house etc.” July 24 – “Still feeling wretched – so spent morning on the bed and bought steamer-rugs with Isabelle later in day. A very pleasant evening with our companions in our common parlor.” July 25 – “’Drab’ weather and I did not go to Melrose with Isabelle. Of course it turned warm and pleasant later! However I did much shopping.” July 26 – “Finished shopping this morning and had our heads shampooed this afternoon in the tiniest little shop. Should have seen city by night according to Stevenson – but difficult to get cab & we tired.” July 27 – “Drove to Firth of Forth bridge this morning. Saw man playing hymns on a series of revolving pipes he had invented. Attended suffragist meeting on The Meadow this afternoon. Cathedral service 7.” July 28 – “Left Trossachs[?] Hotel by coach and spent day at Stronachlacker[?] Hotel (30th)” July 29 – “Left on early boat – cloudy, but no rain, very cold. Arrived Glasgow at noon – Windsor Hotel. Shopped unsuccessfully this afternoon. (Should be July 31st)” July 30 July 31 blank blank August 1 – “Glad to shake Glasgow dust from our feet. Reached Ayr about six and could find no accommodation. Dined at ‘Green Lodge’. Drove to Burns home & left for Kilmarnoch at 9.30 for night.” Aug 2 – “Left Kilmarnock at 9.56 and via Harwich where we had lunch reached Ambleside at four. Mr B. sent in card in few minutes telling of Gras. Rush. bearing[?], & with Mr N. taking Norah also, we saw it!” 53 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Aug 3 – “Started at 10.30 for Langdales! Heard sermon on Romans 14. Lovely day – most perfect sky seen at all in English Lakes. Mrs Chapman so glad to see us.” Aug 4 – “Restful morning running about in the little shops near. Left at four with Mr Williams for Borrowdale, having both tea and nice duck dinner at Thirlspot. Pleasant call at Hazel Bank.” Aug 5 – “Errands and struggles with luggage this morning. Took Jame Hows [?]drive! Had dinner at Comiton[?] – drive home not comfortable because it was too dark.” Aug 6 – “Started at ten o’clock for Buttermere Round, arriving at Nart Water[?] seven – a run of 102 miles. Spending night at Allouby Hotel – Strand.” Aug 7 – “Left Strand at 10.30 coming via Cockermouth to Bassenthwaite where we had luncheon. Tea at Thirlspot, home at six. Read ‘Six Trees’ this evening. Wonderful weather continues.” Aug 8 – “House morning – photos taken by Mr B. Isabelle and I took Red Banks[?] drive and went to service at Grasmere which we had entirely alone for more than half! Wonderful afternoon for us.” Aug 9 – “Took Wray Castle drive this afternoon – stopping at Ferry Hotel on Windermere for tea. Hotel charming in its violet and green decoration!” August10 – “Sunday. Took pair this afternoon and drove around Little Langdale to Mrs C’s for a chicken dinner at 6. Blea Tarn a wonder! Dorothy picnicked with Banks children at Farn Hown[?].” Aug 11 – “Called at Fox How this afternoon. Miss Arnold show great appreciation of Stockbridge portals. Later had tea with Mrs Hird – quite a society afternoon!” Aug 12 – “Wretched day with tonsillitis and a busy one packing for the steamer.” Aug 13 – “Mr Williams took us down to Winderman and saw us off with fatherly solicitude. Mr B. gave us lovely flowers – yellow roses & red sweet peas. Hard trip for me tho’ throat much better. Adelphi quarters more restful.” Aug 14 – “A few errands this morning with a quiet leave taking at 5 on the ‘Cedric’ in a fine wet ‘mist.’ Found a good deal of mail aboard which was pleasant as Isabelle is all in with a headache.” Aug 15 – “We do not enjoy Cedric vibrations – none of us had a good night. It has been a lovely bright day. Anchored at I. at 9.00 for hour or more. Isabelle wretched with headache still. Run counted from I.” Aug 16 – “We are simply pitching our way over to America! Run 411 miles.” Aug 17 – “Sunday. Service at 10.30 in the dining saloon very impressive indeed. Met Mr & Mrs Dorsey of Missouri and Mr and Miss Fisher of New York – the latter Dorothy enjoys. Run 406” Aug 18 – “Most perfect day I have ever known at sea. Isabelle and I spent morning watching sports. Log 414.” Aug 19 – “Frightfully humid day – great suffering. Stoker died at his post and is buried to-night. Run 393.” Aug 20 – “Dorothy very happy and well. Cooler to-day. Run 383.” 54 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Aug 21 – “Wonderfully blue day with north wind which makes a rolling sea but dispels all fog. Isabelle sat for a long time out in the bow after luncheon with us and we chose ‘our hymns’. Run 413. Dorothy play tennis tournament.” Aug 22 – “Our last day at sea grew hotter every minute. Docked at 5.20 and were met by Mr Martin. I got thro’ Customs very easily and caught 6.35 train for Peekskill. Met by D. & R.” Aug 23 – “Bertha off on motor trip to Newport[?]. Re. adjusted trunks and rested a lot as I haven’t my ‘land legs’. Calls this evening from Helen and the Prestons.” Aug 24 – “Went early to Dr Knights for a blood test and spent day with Jenny, Douglas and Ruth joining us for supper.” Aug 25 – “Quiet day – very hot.” Aug 26 – “Busy day preparing for Greensboro and resting as much as possible in between times.” Aug 27 – “Left Peekskill at 10.46. A very hot day. Arrived at Molly’s about seven – and found them alone without a maid. Nice calls from Eloise and May.” Aug 28 – “Calls received & paid this morning. Luncheon on roof at Van Ness[?] with Molly. Left at 4.50 for Greensboro. Found Howes Dorothy. Beau and Mrs. Dewhurst here. Charlie met me.” Aug 29 – “Greensboro as lovely as ever. Calls this morning. Unpacked and settled. Mrs Howes entertained this evening in honor of the birthdays and her parents anniversary.” Aug 30 – “Tom came while I was helping Mrs Howes and Mrs Ayer make bouquets which they are selling for the benefit of ‘library’ having motored from St. G.” Aug 31 – “Sunday. Call from Fred Whitings before dinner. Service at 5. Mrs Howes – led by Franklyn. Mrs Dewhurst here for supper. Howes spent evening with us.” September 1 – “Labor Day. Luncheon on the Links with Howes family. Later in the afternoon went to tea given on the Point by Constance for her Mother.” Sep 2 – “Hot! 84. Dance at the Ayers which I watched a short time. Lyon came from his camp to-night.” Sep 3 – “Another very warm day. Spent most of afternoon at Mrs Howes looking at her photos. Heavy shower. Herrick came and Tom left.” Sep 4 – “Cooler – very fine day. Walked to village with Frederic this afternoon and back.” Sep 5 – “Surveying Party down at the Snyder Camp the event of the day – the occasion being Franklyn’s and Winifred’s lot given by the Aunties. Sent Isabelle to-night box of ladies tresses.” Sep 6 – “Morning given to garden and vegetables. Beau and Dorothy spent afternoon with me on veranda – Mrs Howes came later to talk Margorie’s clothes. Mary Eliot here this evening.” Sep 7 – “C. in Gt. G. over Sunday. C’s service. Lovely evening with Dorothy.” Sep 8 – blank 55 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Sep 9 – “Dorothy, Beau and Mrs D. left to-day. Very windy and cold.” Sep 10 – “Had our neighbors – Miller, Hutchinson, Cate. Smith – in for tea with our camp ladies this afternoon. – the men stopping in from golf. First front last night. Howes garden ruined.” Sep 11 – “Received box of ‘Rocky Fords’ from Isabelle. Much interested in reading ‘A Montessori Mother’ by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.” Sep 12 – “Charlie & Christine gone to-day. Walked up to Mrs Miller’s with H. and called to-day. Division of household labor begins to-day.” Sep 13 – “Rained most of day. Got the dinner with Herrick – wrote lots of letters. Mrs Kimball’s birthday.” Sep 14 – “Bitterly cold all day and fairly sat on the fire to keep warm. Heavy frosts for two nights. Brig. drove Lyon and B. Sibley to St. G. to take night train.” Sep 15 – “Left this cold roost at 10.27 this morning – arriving at Hartford about 8. – a long day’s jaunt. A hot bath and warm bed are inviting indeed.” Sep 16 – “Hartford’s heat for once is most attractive! Down town this morning – called upon Mrs Wiley and Mrs Thayer this afternoon.” Sep 17 – “Hair shampooed this morning. Spent couple of hours with Mrs Kimball this afternoon.” Sep 18 – “Went to Chicopee Falls this afternoon stopping first for dinner in Springfield with Lester and Harriet. Ames came in for me bringing me out to Miss Mary’s about nine.” Sep 19 – “Spent most of day with Grace Lyon. Called late this afternoon on Aunt Sarah.” Sep 20 – “Spent morning with Nell and Miss Mary and I had rest of day at Ruby’s – an interesting Sunday though very humid and rainy.” Sep 21 – “Rain, so gave up Springfield shopping and came to Hartford at noon. Hattie and Herrick here from Greensboro.” Sep 22 – “Osteopathic treatment this A.M. and ordered coat at Pratts. Rested remainder of day.” Sep 23 Sep 24 Sep 25 Sep 26 blank blank blank blank Sep 27 – “Much interested in The Squirrel Cage!” Sep 28 – “Sunday - slept all day - neuritis somewhat improved.” Sep 29 – “Letter from Isabelle this A.M. set me busy with plans to start on our college trip.” Sep 30 blank 56 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 October 1 – “Not well. Read ‘Four Feathers’ which inspired me to commit Kipling’s ‘Recessional’” Oct 2 – “Felt so badly had Dr Case come to the house to-day. Neuritis has stopped but indigestion continues.” Oct 3 – “Telegram that Mr Martin is ‘indisposed’ knocks out our college plans temporarily as Isabelle expected to leave to-night. Eyes examined by Dr Abrams & prescription changed.” Oct 4 – “Telegram that Mr Martin is better relieves my mind and we shall carry out our plans Monday. Glad to have two more days myself in which to recover!” Oct 5 – “Sunday – very warm. Sat out with C. & H. a long time after dinner on veranda.” Oct 6 Oct 7 Oct 8 Oct 9 blank blank blank blank Oct 10 – “Fearful heat and humidity but seventeen turned out to our Young Woman Meeting.” Oct 11 –“ Left Hartford to join Isabelle and the girls at ‘The [C tly] Pleasure’. James took latter to the game and they went to the theatre in the evening. I spent that time with Edith” Oct 12 – “Sunday. Church where we saw Edith. James at dinner with us. Girls left at 4.50 and Isabelle and I had a cosy evening making plans.” Oct 13 – “Breakfast in our rooms and a lazy day as everything closed for Columbus celebration. Came to Hotel Bellevue late in afternoon for rest of time.” Oct 14 – “Rain – snow – and everything that could happen as to weather! Shopped all day more or less and this evening read Intensive Living.” Oct 15 – “Left at 12.40 with Isabelle, visiting cottages along North Shore in pouring rain from Mrs Camp’s to the Sherburn at Marblehead.” Oct 16 – “Furious rain all day. Spent most of morning in Coug.[?] Book Store. Edith dined with us. Am reading ‘On the Branch’ to Isabelle.” Oct 17 – “Left Boston this A.M. and arrived at Stockbridge at four o’clock. Few people here but among them Mrs Butler and Mrs Evans. Sunny. Foliage a disappointment all the way.” Oct 18 – “Up early and at station to meet Mr Martin. Wrote this morning while they walked. Drove to Great Barrington this afternoon.” Oct 19 – “Sunday. Drove all the morning thro the Estates. Gray and rainy the rest of day.” Oct 20 – “Rain, but warm and we started in motor for Northampton. Luncheon at Westfield where Mr M. had business. Plymouth Inn for the night after a satisfactory at Smith.” Oct 21 – “Very cold and clear. Called at The Burnham while others went to Chapel. Reached Stockbridge in time for dinner. Mr Martin went back this evening.” 57 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Oct 22 – “Bitterly cold night – ice forming even. Thermometer at 40 all day. Sun bright however and we have walked a good deal. Read from ‘Modern Philanthropy’ (Dr Allen’s)” Oct 23 – “Slept this morning after a miserable night. Drove this afternoon to Echo Lake bringing home ground pine. Miss Lavery spent evening shampooing, manicuring etc” Oct 24 – “Clouds again and heavy. Looked at rooms and 6. Or one over it 37 would be our choice for another year. Miss Lavery here another evening.” Oct 25 – “Miserable weather and we decided to leave Stockbridge at noon and go to New York to be located at The Collingwood 45 West 35th Street.” Oct 26 – “Sunday. New York. Slept very late this morning. Mrs Peckham dined with us at noon. Late in afternoon we called upon Terhunes.” Oct 27 – “Shopped Altmans and Swinos[?] this morning. Holcombes had luncheon with us. Dined with Terhunes this evening.” Oct 28 – “Shopped at Gimbel’s this morning. Bertha, Ruth and Baby, at the Collingwood guests of ‘Maggie’s’ for the afternoon. Very hot 74 degrees on 9th floor! Dined at Mrs Peckham’s this evening.” Oct 29 – “Shopped for linen all day, stopping on our way from Fried Mendelson’s (221 Fourth Av near 18th) at Suffrage Headquarters. Lunch, Waldorf. Finished ‘On The Branch’ this evening.” Oct 30 – “Wretched day with poor circulation and stayed in our room until time to leave this evening for home.” Oct 31 – “Arrived Buffalo this morning. Munder spent couple of hours with us and this afternoon Ida and Anna came out for tea. Very cold with light fall of snow this morning.” November 1 – “Met Charlie at 7.45 this A.M. and brought him out for breakfast. Had to leave at 10.45! Marketed with Isabelle after leaving station. Afternoon tea at Ida’s for Anna. Mrs Spear in this evening.” Nov 2 – “Sunday. Buffalo. Church with I.R.M. my first in new Church. Dinner with Thekla. Called later on Anna who returns to-night. Quiet evening at home.” Nov 3 – “Morning given to unpacking and to Miss Sellien’s. Home this afternoon and evening. Munder coming in for tea.” Nov 4 – “Club morning. Mrs. Camchl[?] and Mrs Spear papers on Ruskin. Munder’s guests this afternoon at Tuesday Club to hear Hyatt Smith read paper on Carlyle at Mrs Lautz’s. Sad election!” Nov 5 – “Home this morning with walk at noon in Park. Ida here for luncheon. Called with Isabelle at four to talk Smith with Bertha and Mame.” Nov 6 – “Took girls to Sem. Luncheon with Isabelle at Munder’s. Her guests at 20th Cent. to hear Mrs MacDowell on Peterboro Pageant. Spending night also at Munder’s.” Nov 7 – “Took ‘Jim’ down to Office and kept out this wonderful Indian Summer Day all of morning. Sewed on Edinburgh napkins and came home about five. Evening alone with Isabelle recounting talks of the day.” 58 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Nov 8 – “Rain – market morning. Began ‘The Squirrel Cage’ and read most of day.” Nov 9 – “Sunday. cloudy with some rain. Church this morning – no guests and enjoyed much reading.” Nov 10 – “Wretchedly cold - six inches of snow fell – regular winter. The Parkers were ‘game’ just the same and came here for dinner giving us a delightful evening.” Nov 11 – “Luncheon with Isabelle and others with Mrs Bugbee. Five o’clock heard at Mrs Rumseys one of the series of trio recitals given by Ethel Newcomb and the Hambourgs” Nov 12 – “Busy morning at home – flowers, putting away summer clothes etc. Heard one of the Bible Class series conducted by Mrs Goodyear.” Nov 13 – “Down town this morning giving Xmas orders etc. Heard Mrs Alice Stebbins Wells give her experiences as the first woman policeman.” Nov 14 – “Down town morning with Mrs Morey with us. Long nap this afternoon, followed by a late visit to Nichols School.” Nov 15 – “Miss Sellien’s this morning. Jessie spent afternoon with me while family saw ‘The Poor Little Rich Girl.’” Nov 16 – “Slept late – then made a noon call upon Thekla. Miss Hagarty here for dinner. We all went to supper at the Barcalos.” Nov 17 – “Mrs Barton with me this morning and for luncheon. Out to Buffalo Pottery and other errands this afternoon.” Nov 18 Nov 19 Nov 20 Nov 21 blank blank blank blank Nov 22 – “Wakened with a temperature & other grip symptoms, so left the party & came home. Harvard won so didn’t miss so much – but of course Isabelle & Dorothy were disappointed.” Nov 23 Nov 24 Nov 25 Nov 26 blank blank blank blank Nov 27 – “Thanksgiving Day with my nephew and my nieces a pleasant experience! Ruth, Douglas & the baby arrived last night.” Nov 28 – “Drove around thro’Garden City and made a call with Constance & Bertha where we had tea. Leaving this evening.” Nov 29 – “Arrived two hours late this morning. Unpacked and settled down for all winter I hope!” Nov 30 – “Didn’t go to church this morning. Mary here for dinner and I took the girls down to hear ‘Elijah’ at First Church. Perfectly beautiful!” 59 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 December 1 – “Day given to quiet pleasures at home and to preparations for Mr Graham’s lecture here on Browning’s Attitude towards The Renaissance.” Dec 2 – “Rested part of morning. then Isabelle ran down to utter a few complaints to Miss Angell while I did a few errands. Called on Mrs Dann to read letter about scholarships.” Dec 3 – “Took flowers to Mr Martins Lillian who is ill, then later drove down the River Road for pussy willows to be forced for the Xmas giving of begonias. Mrs Merrill’s guests for tea at Church of G. [ ].” Dec 4 – “Down town by my lone nearly all day, shampoo etc. Ordered Beau Manor Park books and did a lot towards Xmas.” Dec 5- “Wonderful weather! Drove out Williamsville ‘way’ taking with us Mrs Morey, Mrs Staples, and Mrs Merrill. Got out and walked and had a lovely time.” Dec 6 – “Long morning down town Xmas shopping. Bertha and Mame here for dinner.” Dec 7 – “Home all day – quiet Sunday until night when Mrs Coonley Ward appeared with her train to whom we served tea. Mr Martin returned from Utica.” Dec 8 – “Busy morning at home. Spent hour at Franklin School watching Dalcroze dancing and tried later to hear Mrs Richard Cabot but there were no seats.” Dec 9 – “At home all day catching up.” Dec 10 – “Home all morning. Luncheon at Mrs Barton’s. Started at four to motor to Elma where we all had supper with the Boards” Dec 11 – “Very cold indeed. Made five neighborhood calls. Thekla here for dinner.” Dec 12 – “Home morning. Tea at Mrs Reidpaths at four. Last trio music at Mrs Mortons. Sat in library from where we could watch sunset, with poplars swaying to the rhythm of music!” Dec 13 – “Down town this morning. Nice call on Jessie. Visited Joseph’s children this afternoon. Called on Madame Severance. Did up Xmas presents until 11 P.M.” Dec 14 – “Walked to church with Thekla this morning. Bartons here for goose dinner. Mrs Morey and Benedict here for supper.” Dec 15 – “Mrs Morey away until Friday because of a death, and Benedict is with us.” Dec 16 – “Pre-Raphaelite morning at the Club very enjoyable. Wedding call on Violet Heath pleasurable to me because of her mother!” Dec 17 blank Dec 18 – “Much Xmassing! Heard Florence Ralph’s recital.” Dec 19 Dec 20 blank blank 60 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Dec 21 – “Sunday. Isabelle all in this morning and remained at home with her. Xmas vesper service at First Church. Bartons, Billy Van Arnim[?] here for supper.” Dec 22 – “Well ahead on Xmas schedule. Dorothy had a small dance this evening.” Dec 23 – “Selection of plants for Xmas giving. Mrs. Hurlburt’s basket distribution of gifts filled day.” Dec 24 – “Took around last of gifts this morning. Municipal tree in Lafayette Square this evening.” Dec 25 – “Quiet day beginning with jokes in our Xmas stockings, then real gifts from the tree. Ralph, Barton, Barcalo, Morey, Foster, Prentiss, & Simpson families with Thekla for supper. Carol singing ending with Wassail Song.” Dec 26 – “Took Reidpaths home this morning and rested remainder of day, calling late in afternoon on Mrs Merrill, May S. and Mrs Spear.” Dec 27 – “At home until 4.30, calls from Mrs Bailey and Mrs Goodyear. Made calls finding no one in but Miss Falkner. Our first taste of Tagore’s writings!!!” Dec 28 – “Sunday, slept late, went to Central Church. Sermon ‘Eternity in the Heart’. Called on Mrs Simpson after dinner. Wills here for supper.” Dec 29 Dec 30 blank blank Dec 31 – “Busy day preparing for Dorothy’s dinner to-morrow. Isabelle and I have enjoyed Victrola music this evening and Mrs Browning. We burned our bayberry candle and welcomed the New Year.” 1914 January 1 –“ Buffalo – lovely New Year’s Day. Decorated for Dorothy’s dinner – 40 guests. Attended William Rogers and Margaret Townsend’s wedding – beautiful beyond anything I ever saw.” Jan 2 – “Nice walk with Isabelle this morning. Went to Art Gallery to See Bakst Exhibition and incidentally Mlle Pavlowa. Bakst designs all her costumes and settings.” Jan 3 – “Isabelle ill with severe headache and cold – grippe I’m afraid. Gave up Pavlowa.” Jan 4 – “Sunday. Barton’s here for dinner, but ran up to Mrs Simpson’s for a few minutes with flowers having heard of Dr Busch’s death. Darwin went to-night. I had supper at Lenox with Ida and Betty.” Jan 5 – “Cosy day in guest room with fire for first time, reading aloud ‘Sadhana’ and The Browning Letters. Mrs. Morey in for tea – Isabelle better of course.” Jan 6 – “Tuesday Study Club met here which means that in less than two weeks we have entertained 125 people. Dr Smith read paper on Ruskin.” Jan 7 – “Down town this morning. Mrs and Miss Mann out for tea.” Jan 8 – “Home morning. Heard N.Y. Sym. Orchestra this afternoon, also Alfred Mayes[?] lecture.” 61 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jan 9 – “Home all day. Dined at Jessie’s to-night.” Jan 10 – “German Club for luncheon. Chromatic Club this afternoon – charmed with Madame Aucken[?].” Jan 11 – “Sunday – communion. Went with Thekla and had dinner with her.” Jan 12 – “Zero weather and gales. Munder and Miss Misner here for luncheon. Read Tagore. Evening cards – table-cloth humming T. B . Aldrich Letters.” Jan 13 – “Eight degrees below zero enforced a quiet day at home.” Jan 14 blank Jan 15 – “No voice at all and had Mrs Will come out for long talk and treatment.” Jan 16 – “In my room all day – voice some better.” Jan 17 – “Luncheon - guests being Mrs Foster, Mrs Dold, Mrs Will and Ida. Calls from some of the girls late in the afternoon filled our day. Dorothy entertained this evening.” Jan 18 – “Sunday, girls out and we got dinner by ourselves. Evening spent in the Flat where Dorothy served us our supper.” Jan 19 – “In all day reading and looking over bills etc. Mrs Dann here for luncheon.” Jan 20 – “Literary Club morning on Morris. Down for errands in the afternoon. Mr Martin returned from Chicago – made trustee of the church this evening.” Jan 21 – “Miss Gibran here all day. Went at 4.30 to Mrs Heath’s reception to introduce her daughter Violet Townsend Heath.” Jan 22 – “Beautiful morning – walked over to May Staples. Drove from there down and ordered our suits at Clements. Called this afternoon on Mrs Townsend, Mrs Bugbee, Munder, and Ida.” Jan 23 – “Out this morning. Mrs Steven’s tea this afternoon in honor of Miss McConnell.” Jan 24 – “At home all day. Mrs Simpson and Mr Foster here for dinner.” Jan 25 – “Sunday - church with Thekla. Walked with I.R.M. after service in Park. Lovely winter’s day.” Jan 26 – “Down town. Clement’s etc. Saw Stratford-on-Avon Players, those we wished to see in the Memorial Theatre this summer – give The Taming of The Shrew. Box a satisfactory experiment.” Jan 27 – “Heard Mr F. R. Benson – leader of Stratford Players lecture on Shakespeare at The Seminary. Mrs Prentiss gave program at open meeting of H.P.S.C. this morning. Mrs Simpson and Mrs Morey.” Jan 28 – “Walked both morning and afternoon a mile or more. Mrs Esty out for tea.” 62 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jan 29 – “Very warm – temperature nearly 60. Luncheon at Mrs Simpson’s with Ida & Mrs Underhill & Isabelle. Tea at Mrs Heath’s. Kept Thekla for dinner from music lesson.” Jan 30 – “Looked out for Mrs Curtis this morning. Ida & Margaret came out at ten and talked Europe, staying for luncheon. Tetrazzini – Ruff’s concert this evening.” Jan 31 – “Storming again and much colder. Luncheon with Clara Allen. Dr Russell out to see Mrs Curtis.” February 1 – “Sunday. Frida in bed all day, so was at home all day. Sad outlook at the Curtises.” Feb 2 – “More illness! Eliza down in bed. Day practically given over to Mrs Curtis. Consultation of doctor proving her healing of cancer. Mental derangement coming from weak nerves.” Feb 3 – “At home for John cannot leave his wife.” Feb 4 – “Dinner to-night and a pleasant evening with Sarah and Mrs Clifton.” Feb 5 – “John took his wife to Canada to-day. Called with Isabelle upon Mrs. Northrup where we met May Martin and later we spent an hour with Mrs Bailey.” Feb 6 – “Mrs Barcalo here for afternoon - took her car and made unsuccessful attempt to find a cook in Eliza’s place.” Feb 7 – “Dreadful day of blizzards. Lunched at The Women’s Exchange with D. & I. and did errands until four o’clock.” Feb 8 – “Sunday, at home all day helping Frida until evening when we went to Mrs Bartons for supper.” Feb 9 – “Read hard at ‘The Nest of Linnets’ after housework. Afternoon at Mrs.Moreys with other neighbors. Mrs Simpson here for dinner planning for lecture given here by Mrs John Freeman Knox on our schools.” Feb 10 – “Delightful luncheon at Mrs John Morris[?] with Mame, Clara Allen and Isabelle, after which we attended meeting of Simplicity League.” Feb 11 – “Temperature still below zero – but we were out this morning for errands & heard Dr. Goldthwaite this afternoon on ‘Posture and its Relation to Health.’ Feb 12 – “Called on Ida – my last glimpse of their house – and Clara Allen while Isabelle was at Seminary. Home rest of day.” Feb 13 – “Miss Angell here for luncheon. Miss Sackett brought an English – New York architect, Mr Balletude[?] out for tea, and to study the house.” Feb 14 – “Errands – Mrs Simpson with us. Luncheon for Dorothy & Dorothea with Misses Jauch, Wright and Miss Newcomb as guests. After they left we distributed plants.” Feb 15 – “Sunday’s paper reports of worst blizzard since 1888 makes me glad I have delayed going home. Sunny & bright here but very cold still.” Feb 16 – “Lecture by Mrs. John Knox Freeman here on public schools well attended. A great day with Mr. Wright – architect of this house. Heard Yeat’s lecture this evening at Club.” 63 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Feb 17 – “Mrs Spear’s paper on Wm Morris at Club. Mrs Merrill gave luncheon at The Statler – 15 guests. Called on Mrs Mann who sent us to Mrs Bull’s to see Marsden Hartley’s pictures.” Feb 18 – “Luncheon at Mrs Nichols with May Staples & Sarah Clifton. Afterwards looked up Grafonola for Municipal Hospital. Eve. called on Mrs Haydon at Lenox.” Feb 19 – “Ida here for luncheon. Leaves to-night for ten months abroad. Saw exhibition of pottery – Persian blues – at Cent. Club – perfectly beautiful.” Feb 20 – “Hair shampooed and errands. Ordered Grafonola and records for Municipal Hospital.” Feb 21 – “Bad neck from cold water put on my head yesterday. Dorothy gave a sleigh-ride to-night which was a great success.” Feb 22 – “In bed all day with exhaustion, neuritis, etc.” Feb 23 – “Some better – visited Dr R. again however.” Feb 24 – “Busy day getting ready to go home for few days. Much better from a few visits to Dr Russell.” Feb 25 – “Thawed out engine at intervals all night – and five hours late in consequence. Arrived Hartford just before meeting of Smith Club. Hurriedly arranged flowers brought from B. and enjoyed afternoon very much.” Feb 26 – “Such beautiful winter weather in Hartford! Visited hard all day.” Feb 27 – “Down town this morning and went this afternoon with Hattie to Young Womens Club which met with Mrs Allen.” Feb 28 – “Ruth Sherburne, Mary Parsons, and Lyon here for luncheon, and they with Tom, Hattie and I saw ‘The School for Scandal’ delightfully given by Annie Russell and her company.” March 1 – “Sunday. Hartford. Fearful rain. Herrick and Lilian here for dinner – my first glimpse of the latter and a very pleasant one.” Mar 2 – “Yesterday’s storm wrought havoc in New York. At home all day except for vespers at Trinity. Com. met here this evening to discuss Farmington Ave. Church proposition and we served them cocoa.” Mar 3 – “Beautiful day. Temperature 60 on Miss Mary’s veranda. Made the usual round of calls – lunched with Miss Mary and dined at Ruby’s – returning to Hartford at 9.25.” Mar 4 – “Hattie in bed with terrible cold.” Mar 5 Mar 6 Mar 7 blank blank blank March 8 – “Sunday, packed and rushed down to hear Charlie once more in Park Church. Left at 3.10 for NY and are happily located with Isabelle at ‘The Bonta[?] – Broadway and 94th.” Mar 9 – “Five hours with Miss Telz to-day ending with dinner in our room.” 64 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Mar 10 – “Lunched and dined at The Marsailles – Broadway & 103rd – very nice” Mar 11 – “Lunched at the little Patisserie. Miss Telz spending only a short time with Isabelle this morning. Went to four o’clock service at St John the Divine and heard violin & organ together first time.” Mar 12 – “Read ‘Lecture’ by Mr McCracken then we went down to Metropolitan Art Gallery just for catalogues. Home remainder of day.” Mar 13 – “Visited Grant’s tomb and was surprised to note its resemblance to Napoleon’s!” Mar 14 – “Very cold still in New York, and snow is consequently not disappearing fast. Made a discovery in Alice Mayward’s[?] shop on Broadway and 85th.” Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 19 blank blank blank blank blank Mar 20 – “Spent morning at Miss Gilmans Parlors at 72nd & Broadway.” Mar 21 blank Mar 22 – “Miss Telz went to station with us & saw us off for Boston. Walked to Church of the Advent for evening service. Pleasant to return to Bellevue.” Mar 23 – “Shopped at intervals - visited Mr Dill’s office. Heavy snow squalls. Dined alone with Edith.” Mar 24 – “Met Mabel Rhoades just as I was leaving Hotel! Spent afternoon at South Shore beginning with Bulrush Farm at North Scituate and ending with Stewarts Jerusalem Road North Cohasset! Lovely experience.” Mar 25 – “Read in ‘The Prince of the House of David’ which we cannot let alone! Early luncheon & spent afternoon North Shore. Pleased with Mr Neal’s home at Clifton – Cromington[?] at Devereux. Cold. hard experience.” Mar 26 – “Morning spent in Mr Dill’s office. Charmed with Mr Brown – proprietor of Bulrush Farm! Talked also with Mr Neal [Sc tist]. Left Boston this evening for Buffalo once more.” Mar 27 – “Arrived this morning. Stopped at Sem. on way out in response to note received up in auto. Spent hour with Laura listening to thrilling tales of Wellesley fire. Decided upon Bulrush Farm by wire.” Mar 28 – “A wonderful experience hearing Forbes Robertson (cousin of Benson the Stratford player) in ‘The Passing of the Third Floor Back’. Box Party – Miss Crawford, Mrs Hibbard, Mrs Spear, and Mrs Parmelee, congenial group.” Mar 29 – “Sunday – soft and spring-like. Quiet day with Mr Martin in Baltimore and Frida out. No cook yet. Called on Mr Johnston. Pop concert[?] at Fort good.” Mar 30 – “Telegraphed our decision for Bulrush Farm, No. Scituate owned by Mr Wendell F. Brown. 71 Colchester Street Brookline. Miss Dotey here for two weeks. Bartons in for dinner.” 65 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Mar 31 – “Busy day with tailors – milliners, dress” April 1 – “A long call on Mame this morning. Bought my spring hat - lunching on Allen Street - and met Isabelle at Century Club.” Apr 2 – “Late morning errands taking Mrs Morey with us and lunching at The Club.” Apr 3 – “Wellesley Dance this evening at Sem. Dinner for Dorothy – Jean & Walter, Russell Hally and Billy guests. I. & Mr M. at Whitford dinner.” Apr 4 – “Darwin arrived this morning.” Apr 5 – “Sunday. Home with Isabelle who has been in bed all day – except for a call this afternoon upon Thekla who is also ill.” Apr 6 – “Heart Mrs Hedstrom speak upon ‘Simplicity’ at The Seminary this A. M. Munder had tea with us – and Mame and Bertha called.” Apr 7 – “Entertained at luncheon. J.C.H. for my first time at Twentieth Century. Miss Sellien’s later. Rain and a home evening – anagrams with Darwin.” Apr 8 – “Busy over our summer house-keeping this morning. Hospital this afternoon to see Mrs Curtis. Mrs Morey with us for tea.” Apr 9 – “’This happy pair’ have enjoyed I.R.M’s birthday. Bought our tickets etc this morning. Munder out this afternoon with ‘Gubbio’ & flowers. Read ‘Post Office’ this eve – Tagore’s ‘Bluebird.’” Apr 10 – “Good Friday. An hour at Trinity and lunched at Twentieth Century. . Errands, then finished preparations for our leaving en famille this evening for vacation at North Scituate.” Apr 11 – “Arrived Boston 10.50. Shopped a bit and lunched (unsatisfactory) at Parker House. Laura met us at Station and we came down to N. Scituate meeting Mr Brown on the train.” Apr 12 – “Bulrush Farm ‘Egypt.’ Easter Sunday. Heavenly day for out-door ‘exploring’! Everybody charmed with the place. Mr M., Darwin and James left this evening.” Apr 13 – “Early breakfast for Laura to take train. ‘Marketed’. Long walk in afternoon on ‘our estate’. Pleasant evening call from Mr & Mrs Brown.” Apr 14 – “Another sunny day but very windy. Enjoyed the ingle nook all day reading Adam Bede.” Apr 15 – “Rainy day, surf booming loudly. James came in afternoon for the night.” Apr 16 – “Cold, with slight snow flurries. Knitting, books and Canfield in the ingle-nook still pleasant diversion.” Apr 17 – “Beautiful day. Dorothy drove to Harbor for (tough) lobsters for luncheon. Preparations for home-going. alas!” Apr 18 – “Left N. Scituate at noon. Hotel Bellevue again. Dorothy left this eve. for B. with Miss Heald. Isabelle & I attended Memorial Services at Old North Church conducted by Dean Hodges.” 66 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Apr 19 – “Blistering hot day. Attended Mother Church. Left Boston at two and got as far as Pittsfield where we spent night on account of shower.” Apr 20 – “Late breakfast – then left for Stockbridge where we are charmingly located in Room 6 at The Inn.” Apr 21 – “Rain & cold. ‘Dropped in’ to the Library & read a clever little story by Elizabeth Jordon, ‘Mr Crosby’s Rest Cure’. Knitted hard rest of day.” Apr 22 – “The most wonderful of all our days in Stockbridge finding arbutus near Monument Mt. Leaving this evening for Buffalo.” Apr 23 – “Arrived at 6.30. Munder came out at 10.30 bringing Mr N. P. McKenzie with her with whom I had an uncomfortable time about Mr Kratzer.” Apr 24 – “Municipal Hospital this morning finishing victrola business. May Staples here for tea this afternoon.” Apr 25 – “Luncheon at The Statler to hear Dr Katherine Davis speak upon Bedford Reformatory & kindred subjects. Mrs Pray spent the evening with us until 11.45.” Apr 26 – “Sunday - church. Called upon the Ralphs. Simpsons here for supper and we have had a lovely time.” Apr 27 – “Down town a large part of day, lunching at Club where we began the first of the articles on the Life of Rhibany[?] whom Mrs S. considers more wonderful than Mary Auten[?].” Apr 28 – “Last meeting of Literary Club. Luncheon at Munders with Mrs Ernest Montgomery. Interesting talk on education - The Nichols School in particular. Florence R’s recital in eve.” Apr 29 Apr 30 blank [mistakenly recorded Apr 29, 1915 here] blank [mistakenly recorded Apr 30, 1915 here] May 1 May 2 blank [mistakenly recorded May 1, 1915 here] blank [mistakenly recorded May 2, 1915 here] May 3 – “Sunday, church. Calls in afternoon from Mrs Northrop & May M. also Mr Marble from The Bonstelle Stock Co. a friend of ‘Nunie’[?] Bartons in for supper.” May 4 – “Shampoo – luncheon at The Club. Attended later tea given by Mrs Tuttle for Mrs Ralph.” May 5 – “Out all the morning. Munder here for tea.” May 6 – “Day given to the entertaining of Mrs. Miller – tea at The Club – Art Gallery etc. She and her husband dined with us and left for their home soon after.” May 7 – “Made a half dozen calls or more with Isabelle.” May 8 – “Out nearly all day – dressmaker, millener, etc.” May 9 – “Went to tea given by Mrs Webber for Mrs Armstrong this afternoon. Heard Amato[?] this evening at May Festival Concert.” May 10 – “Sunday. Busy day. Isabelle knocked out and the Barcalo family dined here.” 67 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 May 11 – “Rain – and we had few guests at our tea at The Guild. Mrs Morey & Benedict here for dinner.” May 12 – “Still rainy and so cold! Had Miss McKinnon out for tea and heard a fresh view point concerning The Guild of Allied Arts.” May 13 – “Attended Com. Meeting at Mrs Prentiss’ and heard all about the plans for the Musical Extension work of the Chromatic Club.” May 14 – “We are quite enthusiastic over helping the Guild of Allied Arts and had Mrs Dold, Mrs Parker and Munder out for tea to enlist their services.” May 15 – “My auto hat purchased this morning. Mrs Hammond’s tea at The Park Club this afternoon.” May 16 – “Down town both morning and afternoon – settling trunks for college etc. Practically finished ‘Adam Bede’ this evening.” May 17 – “Church with Thekla. Saw ‘her house’ with her this afternoon - Dorothy taking us in electric.” May 18 – “Much luncheon at Mrs Spear’s with Isabelle. Several callers late in afternoon.” May 19 – “Beautiful day! Took Miss Lee for an auto ride along Lake Shore stopping at Eyn[?] Court Inn at Wanaka for tea.” May 20 – “Lectures at Mrs Barrell’s in the interests of The Chromatic Club from Mr Abbott and Dr McLennan. 80 degrees today.” May 21 – “Perfect day. Luncheon on veranda. After nap made several neighborhood calls – errands etc.” May 22 – “The Staples & Prentisses here for dinner. Mr S. read fine paper on Tagore, May illustrating it with poems. Mary P. sang Tagore’s Songs – music written by John Alden Carpenter.” May 23 – Discovered our little Clark twins – ‘Cora and Isabelle.’ Finished ‘Adam Bede.’” May 24 – Sunday, church with Thekla. Mr Marble and Mr Bloomer here for afternoon and supper.” May 25 – “Dentists – with little to be done! The Kirbys here for dinner.” May 26 – “Morning at dentist’s. Afternoon at home. Ran over with I. & D. to the Fosters this evening.” May 27 – “Tried to have country run with Mame but were prevented by rain. Brought her home for luncheon. Reidpaths here for dinner.” May 28 – “Country run to Newfane taking Miss Heald and Margaret to call upon the Buffum[?] family. Dinner at The Automobile Club.” May 29 – “Beautiful veranda day trying to finish Hattie’s chiffon scarf. These grounds are so beautiful! Mrs Parmelee out for tea.” 68 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 May 30 – “Mr Martin home all day. So was I until five o’clock when we went to see the new Wilkes baby and Thekla in her new home 211 Anderson.” May 31 – “A lovely Sunday. Church. The Wells here for supper.” June 1 blank Jun 2 – “Cold – temp. about 60. Went to see ‘The Rainbow’ given by ‘The Bonstelle Stock Co.’ Darwin home.” Jun 3 – “Down town twice to-day. Brought Miss Crawford out with us to dinner.” Jun 4 – “Errands and calls all day.” Jun 5 – “Spent morning hunting yellow roses for Dorothy’s costume. Greek Dancing this evening at Seminary very choice. Isabelle and Mr Martin left for Boston.” Jun 6 – “Growing warmer. Suffrage Parade this afternoon a thrilling sight. Outdoor supper with the children and early to bed.” Jun 7 – “Very sultry Sunday – no church for any of us. Packed most of the day.” Jun 8 Jun 9 blank [mistakenly recorded Jun 8, 1915 here] blank [mistakenly recorded Jun 9, 1915 here] Jun 10 – “Class Day at The Seminary. Dorothy took part in ‘The Prophecy’ and awarded Seminarian prizes. Boiling hot day! Supper on veranda with the Bartons and Mrs Haines as guests.” Jun 11 – “Graduation Day! Dorothy happy with many flowers and gifts. Down town this evening doing last things.” Jun 12 – “Very busy day indeed preparatory to our departure to-morrow for The Farm.” Jun 13 – “Left at noon with Isabelle. Darwin & the maids for Albany where John met us with car and we are comfortably located at The Ten Eyck. The Fosters came out to see us off.” Jun 14 – “Left Albany at 8.30 and reached Red Lion Inn at noon where we rested two hours. Drove thro a bower of laurel this afternoon – reaching Springfield for the night. Ames and family called.” Jun 15 – “Left Sp. at nine. Stopped 11 o’clock at Leicester Inn where we found charming hospitality! Southboro Arms Hotel for luncheon delightful place. Fine run from there to N. Scituate which we reached at six.” Jun 16 – “Pretty tired from the trip and have taken day easily – finding everything thus far as delightful as we had anticipated.” Jun 17 – “Perfectly infatuated with the odors – wild – roses, grapes & bay!” Jun 18 Jun 19 blank blank Jun 20 – “Interesting experience marketing this morning, discovering Mr Frye. Edith came noon for over Sunday. Visited Marshfield this afternoon to see Webster Memorial (‘Clam Bake’)” 69 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jun 21 – “Sunday. A quiet day reading, visiting, with a short drive this evening.” Jun 22 – “Edith left us this noon having had a lovely time I know. Rested quietly rest of day.” Jun 23 – “Drove over to Lexington. Dinner at ‘The Russell House’. Called on Mrs Tilton and Mrs Goodwin, also at The Tavern. Took Hattie back to Scituate with us.” Jun 24 – “Marketed this morning & read ‘The Chippendales’ . Napped this afternoon. This evening lovely drive to Hingham seeing ‘The Old Ship’ Church, home by Jerusalem Road.” Jun 25 – “Hattie left this morning early. Mr M., Dorothy & James came this noon. Weather very hot & dry, no rain for six weeks, which accounts for the tragedy of Salem fire.” Jun 26 – “Isabelle’s 25th wedding anniversary. Darwin presented the Cup. We all drove to Plymouth – stopping en route to put out fire. P. exceeds my anticipation.” Jun 27 – “Dorothy’s 18th birthday. Mrs Morey and Benedict arrived at noon. Spent evening at Nantasket.” Jun 28 – “Sunday – quiet day.” Jun 29 – “James left for Maine to-day. Moreys in town sight-seeing all day, so we have had a restful season.” Jun 30 – “Explored Hingham and have lost our hearts to her. The Chimes presented by Hingham England a great gift!!” July 1 – “Many errands this morning. Most of family sailed this afternoon.” Jul 2 – “Rained nearly all day. Walked to village however this evening. Reading ‘Captain Courageous’.” Jul 3 – “Afternoon in Boston with Mrs Morey and Isabelle. Saw ‘Henry Sumner’ in Filene’s!” Jul 4 – “Lovely Fourth! Bartons arrived this morning. Drove this afternoon to Rock Spring House - while others fished.” Jul 5 – “Sunday – ‘church’ in the summer house after which Mr M. read aloud. Quiet rest of day while others drove.” Jul 6 – “Buzzard’s Bay trip for Bartons and Moreys – the rest of us enjoying a quiet day.” Jul 7 – “Isabelle not well and we are most unhappy in our minds also. Have enjoyed these days Laura’s reading aloud from her Eng. Lit. notes.” Jul 8 – “Home recovering for we ladies knitting and reading. Drive this afternoon. Pedro this evening.” Jul 9 – “Discovered on our drive to-day the quaintest tea-room of any in our experience – Beacon Tea Room at Cohasset.” Jul 10 – “Foggy day. Mrs Morey and Benedict left this morning. We drove over to Beacon Tea Room again this afternoon.” Jul 11 – “Thro the never-failing kindness of Mr B. we have enjoyed the launching of the battleship ‘Nevada’ at Quincy Ship yard.” 70 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jul 12 – “Sunday. Spent day with Edith talking most of afternoon with her and Mrs Thomas about California proposition.” Jul 13 – “Wrote letters and did many house things to-day. Supper this evening on the rocks at Minot – driving later to Nantasket. Wonderful sunset.” Jul 14 – “Charming Duxbury Day. Luncheon at Powder Point[?] Hall [ ]. I.R.M. & I made wreath for Myles Standish grave. Talked with 9th John Alden living in Alden House. Tea at James Alden’s house.” Jul 15 – “Home day. Walked to village with Dorothy stopping for soda and at tea-room etc.” Jul 16 – “Bartons with I.R.M. went to Sudbury. Very hot day.” Jul 17 – “Bartons left this morning. Rest of day spent in re-adjusting rooms.” Jul 18 – “Dorothy & Helen arrived this morning the first installment of Dorothys house-party. Christine Herrick is also our guest over Sunday. Drove to Laure[?] Party on Webster estate.” Jul 19 – “Lovely quiet day visiting with Christine who is most entertaining. Drove late this afternoon to Hingham.” Jul 20 – “Took Christine to Plymouth where we were joined by Eric and Paul for dinner, who later took C. down to Hyannisport.” Jul 21 – “Home all day. John working upon car. Very heavy shower at sunset causing damage by lightning in all this region.” Jul 22 – “Busy and satisfactory day in town, having Dorothy’s eyes examined, buying books, etc. K. Cooke has joined our family.” Jul 23 blank Jul 24 – “Days are busy now getting enough to eat and planning for girls.” Jul 25 – “Mr Martin with the two Margarets arrived this morning – completing the house-party. Took them to Doxbury for tea this afternoon.” Jul 26 – “Sunday – quiet day for me – at home all day.” Jul 27 – “Mr Martin & girls gone to Boston for two days sight-seeing.” Jul 28 – “Rainy day – quiet and lovely.” Jul 29 – “Hired auto, and we have all been down to opening of Cape Cod Canal, seeing first civic parade at Sandwich, best ever have seen. Joe Jefferson buried at S.” Jul 30 – “Rained this morning and I have been in all day. Freda not well and have ‘spelled’ her all I could.” Jul 31 – “General European war declared and everything is all excitement!” August 1 blank 71 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Aug 2 – “Sunday. Katherine and Helen left us to-day. Freda in bed all day. Doctor twice.” Aug 3 – “Freda some better but it has been a day of much housework and anxiety all the same.” Aug 4 – “Mr Martin went back this evening chuckling up his sleeve that he is ready for any crises.” Aug 5 – “Quiet day – the girls lunching with Miss Heald. Cloudiness continues. War news not re-assuring as England is officially in.” Aug 6 – “Freda all right again. John summoned home by telegram.” Aug 7 – “German Club departed to-day. Took one in this afternoon for N. Y. train. Shopped and called on Edith and there met Dorothy with other two girls and had supper at Essex Hotel (very nice) before our final separation.” Aug 8 – “Actually alone once more and a quiet house is very pleasant. Took a lovely woods drive this afternoon with Stanley.” Aug 9 – “Quiet Sunday. Drove to Hanover, Norwell etc this afternoon – lovely country!” Aug 10 – “Cohasset morning on shopping. Our hottest day – 82 ° on veranda. Read aloud ‘Capt Warren’s Wards.’” Aug 11 – “Somewhat cooler – but too humid to admit of any very strenuous living.” Aug 12 blank Aug 13 – “Miss Heald here for day. Drove this afternoon – shore drive – and came home to an early lobster supper.” Aug 14 – “Isabelle and Dorothy in town all day – seeing Mrs Thomas among other errands. I have been interested in Darwin & Ward and have finished lots of little jobs.” Aug 15 blank Aug 16 – “ Perfectly beautiful Sunday and we are grieved to think there are only two more weeks!” Aug 17 Aug 18 Aug 19 Aug 20 Aug 21 Aug 22 blank blank blank blank blank blank Aug 23 – “Sunday – visited all morning with Mrs Simpson. Drove to Marshfield to hunt up Peregrine Whites home, inviting Mr Brown to go with us and to return for supper.” Aug 24 – “Regular Monday morning shopping. Drove to Hingham this afternoon via Jerusalem Road.” Aug 25 Aug 26 blank blank 72 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Aug 27 – “Such wonderful weather! Picked bay-berries all the morning for candles only to find we had done it too soon!! October is the month. Fine sail this afternoon.” Aug 28 – “Day in Boston. Bought a coat. Had luncheon with Mrs Thomas. Called on Miss Claribel and came home about 7.30. (Move back two days. Spent this day quietly at home with D.)” Aug 29 – “Miserable rainy day spent in Boston shopping for Dorothy and in calling upon Mrs Thomas.” Aug 30 blank Aug 31 – “Sunday. Read aloud ‘John Winterbourne’s Family’ all the morning. Short shore drive this afternoon. ‘Lesson’ this evening. Packed all this day. (Move back one day) September 1 – “Mrs Simpson left this morning. Mr Martin in town late again and ‘Marie’ has typhoid. So his plans are upset and we take car as far as Albany.” Sep 2 – “Hottest 2nd in 36 years! Left The Farm at 11. Luncheon at The Somerset. Called on Mrs Thomas. Dinner at Leicester Inn with the loveliest moonlight ride to Springfield ever known.” Sep 3 – “Disappointed not to see room at Northampton. Luncheon at Red Lion Inn. Drove to Albany via Stockbridge Bowl and Pittsfield. Mr Martin’s suddenly ill.” Sep 4 – “Mr Martin able to go on. We left by Fast Mail arriving at seven o’clock. Got mostly unpacked and settled before bed-time.” Sep 5 – “Finished unpacking. Marketed and made ready to receive Mrs Wright, Frances & Llewellyn. Mr Martin and boys arrived midnight.” Sep 6 – “Went to church alone. The Wright’s left this noon and we were quiet rest of day. A wonderful woman to meet the Cheney tragedy in such a sane impersonal way.” Sep 7 – “Duffed right in all day on the college preparations. Miss Doty here & everything is humming.” Sep 8 – “Very cold. Visited dentist and milliner this morning. All went to see ‘Peg o’ My Heart’ this evening and I never enjoyed a play more!” Sep 9 – “Much shopping for Dorothy but with three of us it goes off very quickly. Dined with Jessie this evening & went to Wed. church.” Sep 10 – “More shopping and sewing for Dorothy.” Sep 11 – “Took the two Dorothys out to Baffius - a bitterly cold ride. Fires felt good at The Automobile Club where we had luncheon.” Sep 12 – “Much warmer.” Sep 13 – “Sunday with church for everybody. Met Mrs Jones – Pres. of Boston Chromatic at Mrs Choates this afternoon. The Wills, Moreys, Reidpaths, and ‘Myrtella’ here for supper.” Sep 14 – Finished Dorothy’s cross-stitching. Call from Mrs Simpson this morning. Dentist to have nerve removed.” 73 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Sep 15 – “Dorothy’s last day a busy but harmonious one. She went off very happily. Fosters en masse at station.” Sep 16 – “Spent morning cleaning Darwin’s room. Dentist this afternoon and drive after it.” Sep 17 – “Luncheon at The Club, and we took Darwin out to see Jack Board after it. Mrs Underhill spent evening with us.” Sep 18 – “Cleared Dorothy’s room. Her letters show a happy and easy adjustment to College.” Sep 19 – “Drive all over Western New York. Very hot and dusty. Bartons here for supper.” Sep 20 – “Isabelle all in with headache. Very hot for this time of year. Usual quiet Sunday evening.” Sep 21 blank Sep 22 – “Too hot for anything to-day.” Sep 23 – “Jolliest luncheon to-day we ever had – Mrs Barrell, Mrs Choate, Mrs Prentiss & Mrs Hillman in the interests of The Chromatic Club. Heat broken at last by cold storm.” Sep 24 – “Luncheon at The Club inviting Miss McKinnon to put us in touch with The Guild plans for the winter. Not promising.” Sep 25 – “Pleasant day in Rochester at Mrs Van Hoesen’s[?].” Sep 26 – “Usual rushing Saturday. Pleasant evening with The Fosters who joined us in a duck dinner. Called on Mame & Bertha who straightened me out on D’s room-mate.” Sep 27 – “Sunday, home again Isabelle not well. All had supper over at Mrs Morey’s.” Sep 28 – “Tea at Mrs Barrell’s with Mary P. and Mrs Hillman relative to Music Settlement. We have promised to visit Music Schools in both New York & Boston.” Sep 29 – “Very busy day – our flat being papered making packing difficult. Leaving this evening for New York & New Eng.” Sep 30 – “A wonderful day! Saw David Mannes for an hour at his home this morning and visited his Music School this afternoon. It was an interesting experience being Registration Day.” October 1 – “Morning at Dr Meek’s who said encouraging things to Isabelle about her eyes. Lunched at the ‘Marie Antoniette’ and shopped for flowers at McCreery’s.” Oct 2 – “Arrived Sp. at three and trolleyed to Chic. Falls and had a lovely hour calling on Miss Mary and walking around.” Oct 3 – “Arrived Northampton at ten. Unsatisfactory interview with the Dean. Miss Perry however is co-operating in doing over D’s room. Went to Hartford for Sunday.” Oct 4 – “Peace Sunday. Church with Herrick. Bartons here for dinner - they took me back to Northampton with them.” 74 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Oct 5 – “Chapel with D. Took some of our belongings over to her closet, shopped for room furnishings then left for Boston. Nice visit with Miss Wheelock on train.” Oct 6 – “Hard day of corset fittings by Miss Parker at Filene’s. Shopped for D. – lamp, china etc. Luncheon at The Womens Exchange.” Oct 7 – “Visited Denison House – North & South End Music Settlements. Charmed by Mrs Filene & Mr Bloomfield at the former. Tiring experiences & went early to bed.” Oct 8 – “Called on Mrs Thomas. Afternoon tea with Edith in her apartment, then left at six o’clock for Sp. playing Canfield all the way. Supper in our room at The Kimball.” Oct 9 – “Left Sp. at noon after a satisfactory shopping expedition at Brighams. Called on Dorothea & Esther this afternoon. Supper with the girls at Boyden’s. Very hot weather!” Oct 10 – “Settled D’s room which is lovely! Ran out to Deerfield this afternoon without the girls to visit the industries. Oh, such lovely old doorways! Shopped later for D’s supper to-morrow night.” Oct 11 – “Sunday. C.I. Church. Took girls to Deerfield Arms for dinner. Drove thro’ Sunderland, Amherst stopping at Madelaine’s Hadley home. Never saw such foliage. Dean Brown of Yale at Vespers. Dorothy gave spread for us inviting 22.” Oct 12 – “Left Northampton this morning stopping an hour in Hartford en route to N.Y. Located at The Collingwood. Isabelle all in with terrific sick headache.” Oct 13 – “Visited Dr Meeks with Isabelle again and also the optician.” Oct 14 – “Our last day in New York. Interesting experiences at Hanfstaengel’s and Braun’s.” Oct 15 – “Arrived Rochester at 8.30 and had final fittings at Mrs Van Hoesen’s. Reached home at 1.50.” Oct 16 – “Settled. Looked over bills etc. A few errands. Dined with Thekla.” Oct 17 – “Marketed all the morning & delivered flowers. Munder over for tea.” Oct 18 – “Sunday, rain. Church then went round to Mame and Bertha’s for dinner. A lovely visit!” Oct 19 – “Cross-stitched all the morning. Errands this afternoon – then called on Madame Dann with Isabelle.” Oct 20 – “First meeting of Literary Club. Fine paper beginning the three years course of drama. First Newcomb.[?] Hambourg recital this afternoon.” Oct 21 – “Expected Ida C. for few days but she failed us. Mrs Dold, Mrs Parker and Munder here for luncheon.” Oct 22 – “Beautiful day & we drove out to Plum Daffy. Found it well wired but we walked and sat around and loved it.” Oct 23 – “Thekla had luncheon with us to-day – then after taking her home we went to Mary Prentiss’ for tea with Mrs Barrell.” Oct 24 – “Unsuccessful hunt for Music Settlement rooms. Much colder and we stayed at home this afternoon.” 75 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Oct 25 – “Mr Martin’s 49th birthday. The Kirbys here for dinner and afternoon.” Oct 26 – “Bitterly cold – only 29! Lived in the flat most of day. Went to Alice Rogers debutante tea. Attended committee meeting at Mrs Prentisses this evening.” Oct 27 – “Visited Guild in new quarters this morning. Luncheon at Club with Miss Welles with whom D. has begun violin lessons. Mrs Morey dined with us. Read ‘In the Vanguard’, Mrs Trask’s peace plan.” Oct 28 – “Luncheon at Munder’s with Isabelle finishing bonnets & scarf to go upon the Xmas ship.” Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 31 blank blank blank November 1 blank Nov 2 – “Ida in town at last - and she came after class with Isabelle. Mrs Foster, and Mrs Simpson for tea. Ida was so interesting to Isabelle & me in her enthusiasm over Eng.” Nov 3 – “Ida & Munder our guests at Literary Club. – (Sakuntala) Went home with them to luncheon. Attended reception to Suffragists at Mrs. Rumsey’s. Exciting eve. hearing returns – Commission Gov. winning city. ” Nov 4 – “Attended burial of Mrs Wm Lord. Went to Mrs Dold’s luncheon at the 20th Cent. Club (18) then went with Ida & Munder to see exhibit of tapestries at Gallery.” Nov 5 blank Nov 6 – “Mrs Morey here for luncheon. Calls this afternoon delivering tickets for our musicale.” Nov 7 – “Morning at Larkin Co. buying materials for dresses – an interesting experience. Heard John Spargo talk at Mrs Bull’s on Philanthropy in relation to Socialism.” Nov 8 – “Miserable, cold, raw Sunday. Baileys here for supper.” Nov 9 – “Busy morning delivering last tickets, calling on Mrs Parker, Munder, and Mrs Simpson. Mary Auteri[?] lecture followed by reception at The Guild couldn’t attend owing to sudden blood pressure.” Nov 10 – “Telegram from Mrs Salter telling of her Mother’s death gave us a busy day recalling our invitations for Musicale Saturday.” Nov 11 – “Bartons return to their home roof breakfasting & dining here first however. Munder’s guests at The Club. Called afterwards – I upon Miss Falkner, then drove around The Front to enjoy the clouds.” Nov 12 – “Guests of The Smith College Club at Mrs Albrights to hear Pres. Woolley – one of the really great women of our country.” Nov 13 – “Isabelle in bed all day. Rain, 84 mile gale! Read ‘The Idol Breaker’ – Charles Rann Kennedy’s last play.” 76 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Nov 14 – “Lovely luncheon today! Mrs Northrup, Mrs Chamberlain, Mrs Underhill & Mrs Staples. Home wonderful with chrysanthemums – pink ones nearly five feet growing in boxes.” Nov 15 – “Sunday – cold – rain. Home all day.” Nov 16 – “Tina Lerner’s recital at Ruth Kellogg’s one of the choicest musical experiences I have ever had.” Nov 17 – “Shampoo this morning. Called with Isabelle upon Mrs Putnam & Mrs Frank Goodyear before hearing Hambourg recital at Mrs. Schoelhopf’s. Left 1.25 this eve. for Hartford.” Nov 18 – “Came right thro’ to Hartford & found Hattie was in C. F. My guardian angel was not on duty! Unpacked and rested.” Nov 19 Nov 20 Nov 21 blank blank blank Nov 22 – “Sunday. Nell, Tom and I alone for dinner. Tom drove Nell to Sp. right after it.” Nov 23 – “Very cold. Drove with C. & H to florists at West Hartford but came home and hugged the fire & knitted as I have been doing. Nov 24 – “Successful morning’s shopping at The Little Crafts Shop. Called on Maud Stanwood this afternoon who is ill. Charming visit with Mrs Scott also.” Nov 25 Nov 26 blank blank Nov 27 – “Down town with Lilian this morning. Rested all afternoon. Have enjoyed reading ‘The Precipice’ by Elia Peattie. Boys taught me Auction this evening.” Nov 28 – “Alumnae House again! Girls met me but I had Dorothy alone at dinner and for most of evening which I spent in sewing for her.” Nov 29 – “The girls breakfasted with me. Paradise with Dorothea and church. Peg, Faith, Virginia & the Dr dined with us Dutch treat. Walked on Round Hill. Left Northampton before Vespers.” Nov 30 – “Monday morning Club with H. Called on Maud Stanwood. After luncheon went out to The Kimballs. Met an interesting girl there – Laura Huntsinger.” December 1 – “Westville Day. Luncheon at Jean’s where we met a curious woman Mrs Goodsell from Paris. Anna[?] better than we had expected.” Dec 2 Dec 3 Dec 4 Dec 5 Dec 6 Dec 7 Dec 8 blank blank blank blank blank blank blank 77 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Dec 9 Dec 10 Dec 11 Dec 12 Dec 13 Dec 14 blank blank blank blank blank blank Dec 15 – “Drama League guests of H. P. L. Club this morning to hear Mr Goetz read a paper on The Greek Drama. Trios this” Dec 16 – “Worked all the morning doing up Xmas gifts. Luncheon at The Club given by Mrs Bailey. Spent rest of afternoon with K. Ogden much entertained by her account of The Goodyears.” Dec 17 Dec 18 blank blank Dec 19 – “Carried all our things to the C. A. S. and did our marketing and a few other errands. Read aloud all the evening from Fiske’s Beginnings of New Eng.” Dec 20 – “Xmas Sunday. Church. Ida with us and I walked back to her apartment with her. Mrs Curtis died about noon. “ Dec 21 Dec 22 blank blank Dec 23 – “Finished all our gift distribution to-day. Weather very cold indeed.” Dec 24 – “D. arrived early looking plump & happy as a peach. Saw to plant distribution. Ended day helping Darwin make Nativity – such ingenuity & imagination! Beautiful snow tonight.” Dec 25 – “No joke Xmas this year. Lovely day and lovely gifts! Bartons, Moreys, Fosters, Simpsons & Coatsworths in the evening. Darwin adorable playing Xmas carols!” Dec 26 – “Usual day of straightening out after the Xmas deluge. Slipped on D’s threshold and hurt myself so that I had elbow set this evening and ribs straightened.” Dec 27 – “Sunday, no church nor anything else for me to-day. Very sore and bruised.” Dec 28 – “Pretty rocky from my accident. Dorothy gave luncheon to girls in neighborhood.” Dec 29 – “Errands this morning & in the rain so D’s sleigh-ride had to be given up but she had nice dinner & dance. Two musicians gave fine music on accordion & guitar.” Dec 30 – “Quiet day. Dorothy & Isabelle both out for luncheon and afternoon. Got part of Xmas notes written.” Dec 31 – “Much happy living in the flat today. ‘College spread’ while D. entertained at luncheon. Numerica this evening with Benedict and D.” 1915 78 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 January 1 – “Did not join family at Pygmalion Party but met them with Barcalos at The Fosters for dinner.” Jan 2 – “Morning at Beach’s sitting for photos – the children & I.” Jan 3 – “Sunday, church with Thekla. Bartons here for dinner. Mrs Parmelee called with Fosters. Dorothy at K. Cookes.” Jan 4 – “Beautiful day. Spent morning picking up house & looking over bills. Down town this afternoon bringing Jessie up for tea with me at The Club. Reidpaths here for dinner.” Jan 5 – “Shopped all the morning with Dorothy. Laura out all afternoon shampooing etc. Numerica, pedro and pool this Dorothy’s last evening at home.” Jan 6 – “Heard Lucy Pratt of Cambridge, Mass. give her Ezikiel Stories at The Club this morning. Dorothy went back to College to-night very reluctantly.” Jan 7 – “Home this morning secretarial work. Ordered sapphire ring this afternoon! Feeling quite unhappy over Hattie’s physical condition.” Jan 8 – “Heard Mrs Havelock Ellis speak on ‘The Art of Happiness’ at The Garrett Club. She read also a very Mystical story.” Jan 9 – “Marketed as usual. Heard Chro. Club alone. Charming Beethoven written for cello & clarinet!” Jan 10 – “Isabelle in bed so I was at home this morning. Heard Dr Boynton on Matthew Arnold this afternoon – home & got supper – then to bed.” Jan 11 – “Sat for my pictures again this morning & went to dress-makers. Isabelle in bed so I was home rest of day.” Jan 12 – “Morning at oculist with Darwin. Jan 13 – “Mrs Barcalo’s guests at The Club to-day. Dentists. Stopped at Ida’s where Isabelle had waited for me looking over my proofs which at last seem satisfactory.” Jan 14 – “Made eleven calls with Isabelle and found no one at home but Mrs Board. Mr Martin at Nichols School dinner to-night. We read our Republican & had Moreys here.” Jan 15 – “Unpleasant morning at oculists with Darwin. Out again this afternoon with him for errands. Dancing school tonight. Weather very mild.” Jan 16 Jan 17 Jan 18 Jan 19 Jan 20 Jan 21 Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank 79 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29 Jan 30 blank blank blank blank blank Jan 31 – “C. S. Church this morning with Isabelle. Spoke to reader & some of the girls. Dorothy’s for supper. Virginia sang. Later in D’s room had Information Test with Faith. Peg, Sarah, Harriet & D.” February 1 blank Feb 2 blank Feb 3 – “Interesting interview with Dr Burton who showed us plans for the future college.” Feb 4 – “Lovely day shopping at Brigham and for Dorothy’s screen. Leaving this evening for home and relieved for I’ve felt so apprehensive ever since we left.” Feb 5 – “Arrived Buffalo 6.20. Mr Martin met us with news of ‘Maud Dick’s’ death last night which saddens Isabelle a good deal. Went down and got my ring.” Feb 6 – “Morning at Miss Sellien’s. Roads in terrible condition again. Mrs Underhill in for tea. Mrs Morey in this evening. Read most of ‘Children of Earth’ in between times.” Feb 7 – “Darwin and I went alone to church – Mr Martin being wretched again with boils. Home quietly the rest of day.” Feb 8 blank Feb 9 – “Postponed Literary Club meeting. Greek Symposium great fun! ‘Katie’[?] with us for luncheon & we made plans for Herr Schmidt’s lecture here. Elena Gerhardt’s recital heavenly lovely!” Feb 10 – “Afternoon at Club – Drama League meeting followed by tea with Genevieve Stoll. Sipprell exhibition of Color Photography very fine.” Feb 11 – “Errands – ending at Club for luncheon. Munder and James out for tea.” Feb 12 – “Lovely luncheon to-day – only Katherine couldn’t come – with May Staples and Mrs Putnam.” Feb 13 – “Read ‘The Sunken Bell’ this morning. Called on Mrs Bell, Clara Allen, Mrs Neill, and The Halls this afternoon.” Feb 14 – “Very tired and have slept six hours of my Sunday. The Simpsons dropped in for supper.” Feb 15 – “Read all the morning – war news etc. Drama League meeting to meet Mrs Saunders of Boston. Evening with ‘Lena[?]’ over Japan! The year of years to go! Feb 16 – “Splendid papers by Mrs Bugbee & Mrs Merrill at Literary Club. Made Seneca Street calls this afternoon. Kreisler recital had to miss on account of upset circulation.” Feb 17 – “Ash Wednesday service at Trinity Church very beautiful indeed. Mr Davis impresses one greatly with his spirituality. Ida at luncheon with us. Brought out lovely pictures of Switzerland.” 80 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Feb 18 – “Noon service at St Paul’s. Walked up afterward to Century Club for luncheon. Dined at Mrs Barcalo’s with the Fosters.” Feb 19 – “Reading ‘The Master Builder’. Took Ida with me shopping this afternoon. Mr Martin gone to-night to spend Sunday and the 22nd with Dorothy.” Feb 20 – “Day devoted to entertaining Prof Schmidt at dinner to-night with Simpsons and The Drama League. 150 present to hear Prof S. wonderful lecture on Ibsen.” Feb 21 – “Church. Very mild day and drove to Clarence this afternoon. Mrs Hubbard Miss Crawford and Katherine here for supper.” Feb 22 – “Worked in the greenhouse most of morning. Visited ‘Katie’s’ class and heard ‘The Lady from the Sea’. Isabelle not well to-night so are not hearing Prof Usher on The Scope of German’s Ambition.” Feb 23 – “Isabelle in bed all day. Bartons here for dinner to hear Mr M’s account of his & Laura’s visit to Smith – ‘the three most wonderful days he ever had in his life.’” Feb 24 – “Isabelle better but not up until night again. Finished ‘The Lady from the Sea’ and Henry Arthur Jones delightful comedy ‘Mary goes First’.” Feb 25 – “Luncheon at Club. Mrs Barton & Mrs Morey with us. Mrs Neill brought out for tea. Miss DeLong who charmed us all with her account of her starting The Pine Mt. School in Kentucky.” Feb 26 – “In Rochester all day. A very cold windy and trying experience in as much as I had another fall!” Feb 27 – “Much looking over of materials for spring dress-making. Mrs Ellis lecture at four upon Edward Carpenter. Mrs Coonley Ward, Mr Bazir, Miss Rudd, Miss Sackett here for tea.” Feb 28 – “Church out here with Mrs Morey and then a long walk. Alone this evening & had Thekla out for tea – wagon supper before the fire.” March 1 – Mrs Coonley Ward wished to come out again so was here for luncheon and afternoon until we took her to Miss Muzzcys[?] new bungalow for tea.” Mar 2 blank Mar 3 blank Mar 4 – “Chromatic Club calls again this afternoon – interesting discoveries!” Mar 5 – “Dentist and errands this morning. Long nap this afternoon because of dinner this evening at Mrs Parkers with Fosters, Wills, and Dolds.” Mar 6 – “Very humid day. Fine program at Chromatic Club ending with Jan Sickecz[?]. Called at Mrs Birdsall’s on way home.” Mar 7 blank Mar 8 blank Mar 9 blank Mar 10 blank 81 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Mar 11 Mar 12 Mar 13 blank blank blank Mar 14 – “Sunday. Wyoming. ‘Church’ at breakfast table – guests repeating 19th & 23rd Ps. Addeson’s Hymn & Stevenson Prayers. Drove thro’ the Gulf. Rest of day given to guests – principally to Charles & Saadi.” Mar 15 blank Mar 16 – “Spent morning looking over Mrs Wards jewelry and gems until we left to drive to Warsaw for our train. Arrived home at two after three most perfect days.” Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 blank blank blank blank blank blank blank Mar 24 – “Anna ill and gone” Mar 25 – “Dorothy came this morning for two weeks. Virginia and her Mother were here for luncheon. Plans for Mr Martin taking the children to California this summer nearly settled.” Mar 26 – “Luncheon at The Club taking Mrs Morey to visit with Dorothy. Afterward saw Joe Allen about Darwin’s week of straight failure in Greek!” Mar 27 – “Mrs Wick’s funeral this morning.” Mar 28 – “Sunday – called on Thekla before church” Mar 29 – “Isabelle & Dorothy in Rochester. Had Jessie for luncheon with me at The Club. Ground covered with snow again – weather very cold.” Mar 30 Mar 31 blank blank April 1 – “Dress-maker’s this morning. Went with May Staples to Mrs Clifton’s funeral this afternoon. Then had tea & nice visit with Mrs Simpson. Mr Shield’s lecture with Isabelle at C. S. church this eve.” Apr 2 – “Good Friday service at Trinity perfectly beautiful – beginning with the Vorspiel to Parsifal. Read Parsifal this eve. After Bartons and Mr Martin had gone to C.S. Lecture.” Apr 3 – “Last program of Chro. Club was a Bach one. Cantata was sung and there were selections for orchestra. A very delightful afternoon!” Apr 4 – “Home all this Easter Sunday until evening when we went down to the Wills for supper in their new house. Betty and Ida out this afternoon.” Apr 5 blank 82 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 April 6 – “Dorothy’s luncheon for Mary Craus. Isabelle, Darwin & I lunching at Park Club.” Apr 7 – “Busy day getting Dorothy off to College.” Apr 8 – “Drama League meeting at 11 at Westminster church. Luncheon at Club taking Ida with us. Shopped after it. Mrs Morey here for dinner and night.” Apr 9 – “Summer’s day - 72°! Isabelle had a lovely birthday evening ending with card from Dorothy & long evening with Mr Martin on business matters.” Apr 10 – “Errands this morning finding at last satisfactory veranda furnishings.” Apr 11 – “Sunday. church with Thekla. Nice call on Bertha Keyes talking about Smith. She says Isabelle & I are not universal enough in our view-point – that ‘we can’t see the woods for the trees’.” Apr 12 – “Wet disagreeable day and in all day except to drive Isabelle up to Class.” Apr 13 – “May Staples remarkable paper at Club comparing four modern dramas with previous work of the Club. An unfortunate call upon Katie this afternoon. Miss Mann & Clark[?] had tea with us here.” Apr 14 – “Sigmund de Ivanowski who is to paint Isabelle’s portrait arrived about 11. Time was given to the hours & place of portrait etc. He is fresh from a winter on Martha’s Vineyard & full of inspiration.” Apr 15 – “Isabelle’s first sitting. I spent morning with them but I’m sure Mr Ivanowski would prefer to be alone with her. He is a Polish Count – very highly educated, a most remarkable man spiritually.” Apr 16 – “Mrs Coonley Ward came in at noon bringing the negro artist Mr Henry O. Tanner. They remained for luncheon. Mr T. proved to be an old friend of Mr Ivanowski & their meeting was lovely to see. Went later for tea at Mrs Matthews” Apr 17 – “Day given entirely to Darwin’s dance. Thirty-four children came. Isabelle chosen director for two years by Chromatic Club.” Apr 18 – “Sunday – at home all day. Ivanowski worked part of day and left this evening for High Orchard.” Apr 19 – “Early day. Went at 4.30 with Isabelle to Garrett Club for tea with Mrs Barrell to meet Mrs Seymour Barnard.” Apr 20 – “Morning given to Mrs Rumsey in Suffrage interests. Clayton Hamilton’s lecture on ‘The New Art of Making Plays’ disappointing. Glad we’re not going to Detroit! Moreys here for dinner because Eda does go [?].” Apr 21 – “Saw Pavlowa[sic] who does not impress me as being any more wonderful than many of her companions. Greek dance the most beautiful thing I ever saw.” Apr 22 – “Successful all day trip to Rochester. Letter from Mrs Salter waited our arrival home. Mary Prentiss came out this eve. & we decided to put recital thro’.” Apr 23 – “Much house-cleaning! Went with Isabelle to Chro. Club Directors meeting where they elected officers for next year.” 83 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Apr 24 – “Very hot day. temp. 80 degrees. Worked on Salter recital all day – sold 65 tickets. Fosters and Barcalos here for dinner.” Apr 25 – “Sunday. Frank Lloyd Wright here and no church for anyone.” Apr 26 – “Errands. Found Ida here for dinner when I returned.” Apr 27 – “Last Literary Club. Reports of Drama League Convention were given by Mrs Morey & Mrs Simpson. Ellen M. here for luncheon.” Apr 28 – “Last Century Club Meeting. Mrs Deming’s guests at luncheon.” Apr 29 – “Above should be written here.” [ ie,]”Mrs. Reidpath and M arrived home from their winter south. Mrs. Salter arrived at 5.30 for over Sunday. Mary P. out for evening deciding on programs etc “ Apr 30 – “Ditto” [ie] “Took Mrs. Salter to see Dalcroze exhibition at Franklin School. Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Barrell Mayer[?], Underhill, Hillman, Prentiss and Miss Larned guests at luncheon.” May 1 – “Ditto” [ie] “The Salter-Prentiss recital. One hundred present. Mrs. S. delightfully informal and interesting in her remarks about her songs.” May 2 – “Ditto” [ie] “Round of churches with Mrs. S. beginning with C. S. and ending at Westminster. Visited Mr Myer’s studio. Callers for Mrs. S. all the afternoon.” May 3 – “Saw Mrs Salter off at 9.30 this morning. Made several calls during day.” May 4 – “House-cleaning all day. Weather cold and rainy” May 5 – “Went to Mrs Kennedy’s luncheon in honor of Mrs Chamberlain’s niece Mrs Stevens given at The Club. Said good-bye to Ida” May 6 – “Very busy house-cleaning day.” May 7 – “Lusitania torpedoed by German submarine. Sank in 15 min. 1500 lives lost, among them it is believed Mr and Mrs Elbert Hubbard.” May 8 – “Motored to Lockport this afternoon taking Miss Heald with us who has recently lost her mother. Country perfectly beautiful!” May 9 – “Church with Thekla. Called upon Mrs Knowlton and Mrs Wilkes with her afterward and then had a good visit with her at dinner. Supper at Mrs Morey’s” May 10 blank May 11 – “House-cleaned my room. Saw Edurice[?] Noye[?] in original dances this evening accompanied by Mildred [N ]” May 12 – “Bertha and Emily up from Rochester and we have had a lovely day! Ran down to the Falls after luncheon.” 84 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 May 13 – “Mrs Coonley Ward & Stuart Walker here. Heard him talk at The Studio Club about his work at The Christodora House. A lovable charming man.” May 14 – “Mrs Reidpath and Margaret out for afternoon and evening.” May 15 – “Down town all the morning – hair and errands. Family took a country run this afternoon but I stayed at home doing odd jobs.” May 16 – “Cold rainy Sunday. Leaving this evening for Chicago.” May 17 – “Arrived in sunshine but the cold, too. Nice visit with Mrs D. alone, seeing presents and trousseau. Drive with Mrs Teter & luncheon at Fields given for Dorothy by Mrs Eaton. Charlie arrived at 3 & all dined together at 5746[?]” May 18 – “Sunny & cold. Decorated church with aspens. Our lady roses & candles added later. ‘Ave Maria’ Gounod’s played just before Dorothy entered, the bride of the most statuesque beauty I ever saw. Reception at house very pleasant.” May 19 – “Early start – visiting first Lorado Taft studio – a charming experience!! Luncheon with Winifred, nice walk around University buildings, back to Chicago to leave with Charlie at 5.30 after a heavenly time!!” May 20 – “Arrived Buffalo 7.30 this morning and have slept most of day.” May 21 – “Shocked to hear of Mrs Lyman’s death the 19th at The Del Prado! Attended Mrs Prentiss’s tea at College Club. Munder here for dinner.” May 22 – “Errands. Deposited $50 in Musical Extension Com. interests. Leaving this eve. with Isabelle for Phila., Atlantic City. Bethlehem (Ivanowski) Boston, etc.” May 23 – “Lovely weather here in Philadelphia. Motored thro’ Fairmount Park to Allen Lane to have supper with the Bournau[?] family.” May 24 – “Hotel Brighton, Atlantic City has much the atmosphere for us of Red Lion Inn. The Board Walk is certainly unique!” May 25 – “Hours on Board Walk. Moonlight lovely!” May 26 – “Photos taken. Hands read. Did all kinds of stunts today.” May 27 – “Auto drive this morning.” May 28 – “Left Atlantic City this A.M. for Bach Festival. Rooms with Mrs C. N. Shields 24 Church St. Heard St John Passion Music at 4 and at 8. Lovely beyond anything ever dreamed of.” May 29 – “Visited Sisterhood this morning and saw all Moravian interests. Heard B Minor Mass at two. Left for Cranford N. J.[?] at four where, thro’ the kindness of Mr Wessells we were taken in at Hampton Hall.” May 30 – “Sunday. lovely weather. Drove over to Mr. Ivanowski’s studio this morning and had a short sitting. Saw portrait and was disappointed.” May 31 – “Played Canfield all the morning until twelve when we went to Mr I’s again – this time for luncheon.” 85 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 June 1 – “Luncheon at Mr Ivanowski’s again. Left at four for New York where we are at Collingwood for the night.” Jun 2 – “Shopped all the morning and then left for Boston where we are located at Hotel Somerset.” Jun 3 – “Morning with our nice old man at Lauriats[?] who raked up an old edition of Margaret Fuller’s Memoirs for us. Edith spent eve. with us bringing me the Herrick coat-of-arms.” Jun 4 – “Lovely day with Thorntons! Mr Martin and Dorothy here for ‘Siegfried’ given in Harvard Stadium to-night – a thrilling experience for us in our good seats.” Jun 5 – “Edith and I left at noon for Exeter where we have seen the boys beat Andover in base-ball. E. is a charming old town and I am pleased with F.D.C’s friends.” Jun 6 – “Edith sick all night and it has been a hard Sunday, so that Hotel Somerset looks good to me. Heard Frederic play the organ, however, which is what I went for.” Jun 7 – “Shopped with Isabelle and Munder this morning. Quiet afternoon Amherst Night at Pop Concert an inspiring event!” Jun 8 – “Went out to Wellesley for taste of Laura’s Commencement. Luncheon at [?] A. Tea at some other Society House. Float this evening.” Jun 9 – “Drove to see those wonderful rose-houses and took train at S. F. for Springfield. Rested all afternoon at The Kimball. The Ds. joined Isabelle for Buffalo and I came home.” Jun 10 – “Sewed for Hattie nearly all day in preparation for her California trip. Tom took for a ride about the City then we went to prayer-meeting.” Jun 11 – “More bags and collar and cuff sets!” Jun 12 – “Did last of Hattie’s shopping this morning – Pullman robe etc. Charlie took us this afternoon to Farmington.” Jun 13 – “Lovely Children’s Sunday at Immanuel Church. Mr Tucker, who has just returned from Cal., his sister, and Miss Hotchkiss here for supper.” Jun 14 – “Boiling hot day – Busy getting ready Charlie’s birthday dinner. Ames brought family down in auto.” Jun 15 – “Rain & humidity. Leaving this evening for Buffalo.” June 16 – “Arrived at 10 this morning. Buffalo is perfectly beautiful! Slipped my jaws and had a serious time at Dr Russells this evening.” Jun 17 – “Down town doing last errands for our Cal. travellers, and helping Miss Doty out with the sewing.” Jun 18 – “The Ivanowskis arrived this morning. The finishing touches were made and the portrait signed – a satisfaction to all. Family departed for California at 8.30. P.M. A blistering hot day.” Jun 19 – “The Ivanowskis came out at 11 and we went to Clifton House for luncheon. Mrs Davenport gave a small tea at 4.30 for The Is. after which we stopped at Mrs Goodyears garden. Ivanowskis returned to N.Y. this eve.” 86 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jun 20 – “Sunday – rested this morning, then went to Munders to dinner. Spent evening copying recipes and other odd jobs.” Jun 21 – “Made calls this afternoon and had dinner at Mrs Morey’s.” Jun 22 – “Dr Fay took out wisdom tooth this A.M. & thinks my ear-ache will stop. Bartons home from vacation & Isabelle went down to meet them & bring them out for dinner.” Jun 23 – “Very cold and rainy. Luncheon at Mrs Parmelee’s with Isabelle. Called on Olive Williams about College rooms. Grandma & Auntie Margaret out for dinner. Temperature 48!” Jun 24 – “Mrs Parmelee & her guest out for tea. Mrs Morey and Benedict over for dinner. Reading Memoirs of Margaret Fuller.” Jun 25 – “Visited around in the neighborhood this morning. Out this afternoon for a few errands. Weather still unusually cold.” Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 blank blank blank blank blank July 1 blank Jul 2 blank Jul 3 blank Jul 4 blank Jul 5 blank Jul 6 blank Jul 7 blank Jul 8 blank Jul 9 blank Jul 10 blank Jul 11 blank Jul 12 blank Jul 13 blank Jul 14 blank July 15 – “Barcalos took us” Jul 16 – “Lovely run from Albany to Williamstown via Pittsfield, arriving at The Greylock in time for luncheon. Howes & Dean Ferry off on fishing trip but had nice visit with Mrs Dillaway.” Jul 17 – “Nice little visit with The Howes before leaving via Mohawk Trail for Greensfield. Delayed 5 hrs. for repairs – terribly hot! Picnic supper and lovely ride via Athol to Templeton for the night.” Jul 18 – “Sunday – luncheon at Groton Inn. Stopped at Whittier birthplace in Haverhill and at Deer Island. Supper at Newbury port. Night at Hotel Farragut Rye.” 87 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Jul 19 – “Left Rye this morning – visiting en route to Portland the Thomas Bailey Aldrich house in Portsmouth. Shore route quite disappointing – roads rough from recent heavy rains. ‘La Fayette’ attractive in Portland.” Jul 20 – “Drove about Portland – lovely city. Heard Municipal Organ Recital – McFarlane the organist, before leaving for Brunswick this afternoon. A lovely walk at sunset on college campus!” Jul 21 – “Left Brunswick at nine. Better roads than yesterday but we didn’t reach Rockland before one. The Samoset is lovely and we want to stay rest of summer!” Jul 22 – “Explored woods and shore about here. Drove over to Camden at four to welcome Mrs Daws. Finished reading ‘The Country of the Pointed Firs’ this eve.” Jul 23 – “Lovely day sitting out doors and reading ‘Jeffery’. Had Mrs Daws over for tea and took her back.” Jul 24 blank July 25 – “Sunday. Isabelle in bed until night when we drove up to the loveliest little fir balsam grove on the shore toward Camden.” Jul 26 – “Foggy night but cleared so that we left Samoset at nine. Lunched by the side of the road – arriving in Portland (raining) about five. Congress Sq.” Jul 27 – “Lovely day in the woods. Followed the Ammonoosac up finding Twin Flower this morning. Afternoon in woods back of Mt. Pleasant House reading ‘The Pearl of Arris Island’.” Jul 28 – “Left Portland at nine – cloudy but clearing. Poland Springs charming! Luncheon Bay of Naples Inn (over advertised) Tea at Intervals. lovely ride to Bretton Woods. (Transpose with 27th)” Jul 29 – “Wonderful day of clouds! Left Bretton Woods at nine – stopped in Littleton long enough to telephone Anna. Luncheon Hale’s Tavern – Wells River. Arrived Woodstock four-thirty.” Jul 30 – “Lovely mountain drive thro’ woods with charming little brooks all the way from Woodstock to Manchester. Rested in our room most of day.” Jul 31 – “Very hot & glad to leave Manchester. Spending night at Isabelle’s friends house at Glen Falls.” August 1 – “Heat continues. Motored to Schenectady and took train. Could get no seats in parlor-car and had a miserable trip home!” Aug 2 – “Family arrived this morning safe but not sound. Dorothy has high temperature and heavy cold. Bartons and Reidpaths here for dinner.” Aug 3 blank Aug 4 – “John going to leave us. It seems he took unto himself a wife on our trip!” Aug 5 Aug 6 Aug 7 blank blank blank 88 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 August 8 – “Church – terrible shower delayed me at Utica St. Luncheon at Theklas. Bartons with Everett Martin here for supper. Darwin decorated a cake for Uncle George’s birthday.” Aug 9 blank Aug 10 – “Fosters & Brewers here for dinner. I went down later to call upon Mr Will Lord.” Aug 11 – “Very pleasant veranda tea at Mrs Underhill’s for Mrs Pray.” Aug 12 – “Mrs. Dann and Dorothea here all day. Worked upon Maternity Kits for Red Cross. Drove latter part of afternoon. Hard evening – revolt of Dorothy. Isabelle ill with headache.” Aug 13 – “Luncheon at Munders for Mrs Pray. Isabelle not able to go.” Aug 14 blank Aug 15 – “Sunday – at home quietly all day.” Aug 16 blank Aug 17 – “Gave luncheon for Laura’s house party and other guests - very pretty decorations bachelor buttons & whites Wellesley colors” Aug 18 blank Aug 19 – “Lyon came this morning and we have had a lovely day at Niagara with him.” Aug 20 – “With Lyon more or less all day – reading to Isabelle between times. ‘I, Myself’ by Mrs F. P. O’Connor. ” Aug 21 – “Poured all day. Mr Martin ill. Mr Berry here for dinner. Lyon left this morning.” Aug 22 – “Sunday. church with Isabelle and the boys. Long nap this aft. Mrs Pray over this evening.” Aug 23 – “Lovely day out at Idlewood – Mrs Barcalo’s guests. Grandma & Auntie Margaret here for dinner.” Aug 24 – “Over at Nichols School superintending decoration of office walls.” Aug 25 – “Down town twice to-day seeing about furs etc. Everett went home to-night. Mrs Morey here for dinner and the night.” Aug 26 – “Very cold. Went to Munder’s luncheon given at the Park Club for Mrs Dold’s sister. Later took Mrs Severance and Delta to Automobile Club for tea. Mrs Pray here this eve. having musical talk with Dorothy.” Aug 27 – “The Joe Allens were here for dinner and we had a very pleasant evening’s conversation. Dorothea’s birthday.” Aug 28 – “Day given to Dorothy’s luncheon for Miss Jauch and the girls.” Aug 29 – “Dorothy and Mr Martin both away and we had a quiet, lovely Sunday.” Aug 30 – “Waited all day to go out and car wasn’t ready. Sent off clothes and did a lot about the house.” 89 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Aug 31 – “Sun out again and we went out to Idlewood taking Mrs Stevens and ‘Marmii[?]’. Family went to theatre. Thekla spent evening with us – loving the portrait!” September 1 blank Sep 2 – “Warm weather again at last! Had a lovely picnic with Fosters out on Lake Shore.” Sep 3 Sep 4 Sep 5 Sep 6 Sep 7 Sep 8 Sep 9 Sep 10 Sep 11 blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank Sep 12 – “Sunday. Miss Heald here for dinner. Heyl Nichols for supper.” Sep 13 Sep 14 Sep 15 Sep 16 Sep 17 blank blank blank blank blank Sep 18 – “Mother & Marg. out for supper. Laura & her father went [with] us to Hubbell wedding. (This Isabelle’s day) We’re busy with errands and sewing for Dorothy.” Sep 19 – “Bartons in for Sunday dinner. Fourteen callers during afternoon ending with Roth family for supper.” Sep 20 blank Sep 21 – “Dorothy’s last day at home. Laura also goes this eve. to Simmons for year. Bertha married to Will Husted by Charlie at St. Bartholomews Chapel.” Sep 22 – “Isabelle resting to-day. I went down and selected new suits for Darwin with long trousers! Bought neck-ties for Herrick trousseau.” Sep 23 – “Luncheon at Park Club with Isabelle. Thekla (whom I had first been invited to hear play at her house) and Miss Hagerty. Later lovely call on Mrs. Goodyear.” Sep 24 – “Worst rheumatic storm ever had took cold on Mrs Goodyear’s terrace yesterday.” Sep 25 – “Feeling better and able to get up on couch.” Sep 26 – “Mr & Mrs M. at Dold Farm so had a quiet Sunday but for a few calls. Darwin in long trousers to-day. 72 mile an hour gale a terror.” 90 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Sep 27 – “Up to breakfast & had a walk but was quiet rest of day. Very cold only 50 at noon! Went in to see Underhill baby number three.” Sep 28 Sep 29 Sep 30 blank blank blank October 1 blank Oct 2 blank Oct 3 blank Oct 4 blank Oct 5 blank Oct 6 blank Oct 7 blank Oct 8 blank Oct 9 blank Oct 10 blank Oct 11 blank Oct 12 blank Oct 13 blank Oct 14 blank Oct 15 blank Oct 16 blank Oct 17 blank Oct 18 – “Covered window-box and that finishes doing over my room. Addressed announcements with Herrick this evening.” Oct 19 – “Lovely drive with Alice Kimball this morning ending with short call upon her mother. Alice Williams Sherman here for the night.” Oct 20 blank Oct 21 – “Ames, Ilsa & Frederic here for luncheon. Motored both ways to Bristol for Herrick’s wedding. John, Constance, Bertha, Mr Husted & Bobby & Lester came, also Ames family and Ruth Sherburne[?]. All, including H. & L. here at house after wedding.” Oct 22 – “Nice call this morning from John and Constance and Husteds before leaving. Ruth Sherburne remaining over day with us – nice girl, very!” Oct 23 – “Rested and picked up things for packing – again – also finished Lilians [ for three weeks!” ]. Hear that Isabelle has been in bed Oct 24 – “Motored to New Haven this afternoon taking Charlie down for Nat’l Council. Tom & Ruth Loveland went. Picked up F. D. C. and all had tea at The Taft.” Oct 25 – “Northampton at noon. Drove to Hadley after luncheon before D.D.M. left for Buffalo. Isabelle weak & looking terribly!” 91 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Oct 26 – “Sat out in the enclosed veranda of Alumnae House all the morning in the sun. Drove round ‘Dippy Hill’ this afternoon.” Oct 27 – “Heard Prof Palmer of Harvard lecture on ‘Puritan Homes’ at College this afternoon.” Oct 28 blank Oct 29 – “Have to give up our rooms in Alumnae House for two nights so took the girls and drove over to Deerfield where Isabelle & I are staying at Old Deerfield Arms – very comfortable house.” Oct 30 – “Went in & out of houses seeing the Industries of Deerfield. Especially enjoyed Mrs Gertrude Smith. Motored about Greenfield this afternoon & have had a lovely day.” Oct 31 – “Sunday – out all morning, visiting beautiful old church founded by Rev. Samuel Mather in 1676. Drove back to Hamp at 2.30. Heard Dean Brours[?] at Vespers on The Wise and Foolish Virgins.” November 1 – “Beautiful Week” Nov 2 – “Dorothy’s English class & heard music lesson to-day. Visited Harper Shampooing Rooms. Mary & Dorothea to dinner with us.” Nov 3 – “Miss Jordan’s class with Harriet [ ]. Pleasant experience at Library finding out that my companion from Lake Placid was Dr Lukas Eastman – Sioux. Calls on Mildred Howells & Mrs Houghton.” Nov 4 – “Left Northampton at 11, arriving at Hotel Somerset about 4.” Nov 5 – “Miserable rainy day. Mr. Ivanowski gave Dorothy sitting this morning. Isabelle in bed with headache.” Nov 6 – “Mr. Ivanowski here this morning. Afternoon tea over in Edith’s room. Eastman Weaver here for dinner and took Dorothy.” Nov 7 – “Sunday. Ivanowksis here for dinner. Saw Dorothy off at four and walked out to the Hotel.” Nov 8 – “Perfectly wonderful weather! Secured victoria and Cockney driver and much enjoyed long afternoon in The Arboretum.” Nov 9 – “Lovely drive in Brookline this afternoon – including Longwood and Chestnut Hill. Dined at Mrs Prays this evening.” Nov 10 – “Cambridge this morning followed by drive with The McKenzies. C.S. Meeting this evening and Evan Williams Recital.” Nov 11 – “Shopped for china, books etc. Luncheon at Parker House. Edith and Lyon here for dinner and the evening.” Nov 12 – “Rainy humid day. Spent most of afternoon at Cambridge. Saw Granville Barker’s production of ‘The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife’ and ‘Androcles and the Lion.’” Nov 13 – “Nice call from F.D.C. early this morning. Luncheon at The Farm at North Scituate. Mrs McIvestire[?] taking us! Great football day – Yale beating Princeton 13 to 7.” 92 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Nov 14 – “Nicest Sunday morning ever in Boston! Walked thro’ Fenway to Church of the Disciples and heard Mr Rihbany on ‘The Larger & Fuller Life’. Lyon and Ruth in for tea.” Nov 15 blank Nov 16 – New York Symphony Concert Mischa Elman soloist. Enjoyed John Carpenter’s ‘Perambulator Suite’ very much.” Nov 17 – “Mr Thomas serious illness makes me have Edith much on my mind. Down town all day shopping.” Nov 18 – “Luncheon with Edith. Drove to Arboretum and had tea at Edith’s; Laura joining there and here for dinner. Call at Wheelock School on way back with L.” Nov 19 – “Pouring rain all day. Had eyes examined and went Cambridge. Dorothy arrived for Game.” Nov 20 – “Beautiful day for Yale’s defeat by Harvard 41 to 0! Had luncheon at Mrs Thorntons, called on [Bac time Hattie did! Pleasant home evening with Dorothy.” ] same Nov 21 – “Our last Sunday in Boston has been a very lovely one. Mother Church this morning. Call from Eastman who took D. to train while we went to Kreisler concert. Mrs Pray & Benj to supper.” Nov 22 – “Cambridge this morning, and went over to Boston for few more errands. Lunched at Mary Elizabeth’s.” Nov 23 – “Left Boston at 12. Engine & baggage car separated from train delayed us an hour. Dorothy joined me at Sp. Arrived N.Y. at 8, went up and called on Christine Herrick.” Nov 24 – “Late breakfast so didn’t arrive at Westfield until noon. Spent all of afternoon - Dorothy visiting Mrs. Ball’s studio. Arrived at Hampton Hall for dinner.” Nov 25 – “Thanksgiving Day at Crawford, N.J. Sounds queer! Had early sittings and were back for dinner at Hampton Hall. Spent rest of day walking and playing Japanese Whist.” Nov 26 – “Dorothy finished sitting so we could leave at 1.06. Spent time in shops until D. left at 5.03 for Hamp. I spent my time quietly at Collingwood until I left for Buffalo at 9.34.” Nov 27 – “Arrived at 8.20, unpacked and got settled generally.” Nov 28 – “First Sunday back. Went to church with Isabelle and called on Mame & Bertha afterward. Munder & Mr F. out for supper.” Nov 29 – “Frida left to-day. Isabelle went to Mrs. Simpsons Class and I went for shampoo etc. Mrs Morey in for dinner. Barcalos called.” Nov 30 – “Mrs Morey’s & Mrs Staple’s papers on Shakespeare at The Club this A.M. Mrs. Simpson stayed for luncheon. Xmas shopping later.” December 1 – “Wretched day & did nothing but one trip down town.” Dec 2 – “Heard Dr. Brashear at 20th Cent. lecture on ‘Astronomy’.Came home & got dinner for Darwin while others went to Buffalo Club - Munder’s guests.” 93 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Dec 3 – “Mrs Bailey in for luncheon after [ Meeting.” ] operation. Made some calls later and went to Mrs Barrells to Directors Dec 4 – “Busy day at home until four when we went out and did errands. Mrs Morey had dinner with us and Mr Martin to us all evening.” Dec 5 Dec 6 Dec 7 Dec 8 Dec 9 blank blank blank blank blank Dec 10 – “Morning out at Ivanowskis not agreeable Dorothy’s portrait not pleasing. Beautiful vesper service at St Bartholomew’s. Home to-night.” NO MORE ENTRIES FOR 1915 MEMORANDA “Hattie’s luncheon card – To Lexington came Paul Revere Also our youngest member here. She’s welcome to Connecticut Without an ‘and,’ or ‘if,’ or ‘but’. In her are happily combined Fine qualities of heart and mind. Good music is her cherished [ t] Especially a male queritette.” “All one’s life is music if one touches the notes rightly and in time.---There is no music in a ‘rest’, that I know of but there’s he making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life – melody and scrambling on without counting. Not that it’s easy to count, but nothing on which so much depends ever is easy” - Ruskin “Though thy life be fixed in one place, and thou neither sailest the sea nor treadest the path of dry land go at least to Eleucis[?] that thou mayest see those great nights, sacred to Demeter, thro’ which thou shalt keep thy soul sacred among the living and go join the great host with a lighter heart.” 94 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 MEMORANDA at end of diary John Herrick b. July 27th 1815. – d. Mar. 22nd 1884 married Jan 5th 1843 Fidelia Stiles. b. Nov. 17th 1827. – d. May 8th 1882. Children John Elliot – b. Nov 22nd 1843 d. Mar 1st 1896 married Helen A Chubb April 8th 1874 who was born Cleveland Sept 1st 1850 Dwight Stiles [?] b. Dec 12th 1845 – d. May 10th 1908 married Dec 6 1871 Sarah Frances Simpson[?] b. Sept 23rd 1850 d. Nov. 16th 1909 William Taylor b. Aug 27th 1854 – d. Mar 9th 1900 married Ida Claravelle [?] Hadley b. June 22nd 1853 Harriet Fidelia b. Feb. 28th 1861 married May 28th 1884 d. Apr 22, 1923 Charles Francis Carter b. June 17th 1856 Children of Dwight Stiles Herrick Sarah Frances Herrick are as follows Bertha Frances – born Oct. 14th 1873 Married Frederick Merwin [?] Lloyd[?] on June 6th 1901 who died May 13th 1905 John Rutherford who died at birth 1875 John Rutherford born Nov. 3rd 1878 Married Constance Brain[?] [ ? ] b. July 26th October 12 1910 Parcy Ruth born June 20th 1887 Married Douglas Macduff Nov. 30th 1910 Ruth Melrou [?] Macduff b. Oct 6th 1912 Dwight Herrick March 28th 1917 95 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Children of William Taylor Herrick Ida Claravelle[?] Herrick are as follows Lester Eliot - b Dec 13th 1874 married Harriet Bogardus[?] June 21st 1903 who was born Feb. 16th 1876 Edith Mary - b. Mar. 27th 1876 Grace – born May 18th and died summer of 18[blank] Percy[?] Stewart – born May 24th 1893 And died August 1894 Children of Lester[?] Eliot Herrick Harriet Bogardus Herrick John Hadley b. Dec 19th 1908 Barbara b. Sept 18 1912 96 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 Appendix: CONTEXTUAL NOTES RE: ENTRIES IN CORA HERRICK’S DIARY (1911-1915) 1/09/11 The play, Mary Magdalene, was written in 1910 by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/09/11 500 and rum are similar matching card games that were mentioned 18 times in the diary during 1911. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/23, 2/09 3/06, 3/12, 3/14/11 A Dervish is someone following a Sufi Muslim ascetic path, embracing extreme poverty and austerity. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/24/11 Marcela Sembrich (1858-1935) was the stage name of a Polish coloratura soprano whose singing career was chiefly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. (en.wikipedia.org) 3/24/11 Literary Landmarks of Rome was written in 1897 by Laurence Hutton (1843-1904). (archive.org) 3/24/11 Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist and is considered one of the most well-known French Romantic writers. (en.wikipedia.org) 5/15, 5/17, 6/06/11 The Servant in the House was written in 1908 by Charles Rann Kennedy (1871-1950, an Anglo-American writer who, after 1905, spent most of his time writing drama. This play was his first success. (www.jstor.org & en.wikipedia.org) 6/22/11 1956), Anti-Matrimony, a satirical comedy, was written in 1910 by Percy MacKaye (1875an American dramatist and poet. (en.wikipedia.org) 9/07/11 The Blue Bird was written by Maurice Maeterlinck in 1906-08. See also 1/09/11. 10/12/11 There are many references to Thekla in the diary. Thekla Adam was a musician; Dorothy Martin was one of her pupils. She was also a poet. (Local History Scrapbook: Biographies in the Grosvenor Room of BECPL & The Poets and Poetry of Buffalo) 10/28/11 The Happy Prince, a collection of five stories for children first published in 1888, was written by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), an Irish writer and poet. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/05, 11/25/11 Bergliot, op 42, was written by Evard Grieg (1843-1907), Norwegian composer and pianist. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/17/11 Fra Angelico (1395-1455) was an early Italian Renaissance painter. The author of the biography CH read is unknown. (en.wikipedia.org) 97 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 11/25/11 There are frequent references to the Chromatic Club in the diary. The club was formed in 1898 for the musical improvement of its members and later expanded its mission to include promoting and encouraging the understanding, appreciation and study of music and the development of musical talent. (Buffalo Courier Express, 11/01/1936, sec. 9,p.7) 11/26/11 “No listing could be found for “The Revenge”, only one for the short story “The Little Revenge” written in 1903, by Mary Shipman Andrews (1860-1936), an American writer best known for a widely read short story about Abraham Lincoln, “The Perfect Tribute”. (en.wikipedia.org) 12/22/11 Gasoline as a cleaning agent was discovered in the mid-19th century. Flammability concerns later led to the development of other solvents to be used for cleaning. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/11, 1/18/12 The Playboy of the Western World was written by John Millington Synge (1871-1909), Irish playwright, poet, and prose writer. It was first performed in 1907 in Dublin at the Abbey Theatre which Synge co-founded. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/11/12 Beatrice Forbes Robinson was a Shakespearean actress and suffragist. (excerpts from Jewish First Wife Divorced: the Correspondence of Ethel Gross and Harry Hopkins, 2003 & Contemporary Plays, 2009, listed in books.google.com) 1/16/12 The Highland Park Literary Club began in 1892. Its purpose was the improvement of the members through study. Subjects were chosen by the members who presented papers on those subjects. Isabelle Martin was a charter member. From 1907 to 1936 meetings were held at the Martin’s home from October through April, once or twice a month. In the diary the club is referred to as the Literary Club, Parkside Club, P.S. Club, and Club. Five meetings are mentioned for 1912 but there were probably more. (Highland Park Literary Club archives, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum) 1/23, 1/27/12 The Selfish Giant is in the collection of stories titled The Happy Prince written by Oscar Wilde. See also 10/28/11. 1/27/12 Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) wrote two versions of The Lady of Shallot, one in 1833 and one in 1842. Tennyson was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during Queen Victoria’s reign. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/03/12 The Blue Bird may have been the 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck. See also 1/09/11. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/06/12 Riders to the Sea was written by John Millington Synge (1871-1909). It was first performed in 1904 in Dublin. See also 1/11/12. (en.wikipedia.org) 98 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 2/08/12 The play, Workhouse Ward, a comedy, was written in 1909 by Isabella Augusta Persse (1852-1932), an Irish dramatist who co-founded the Abbey Theatre. (www.enotes.com & en.wikipedia.org) 2/19/12 Montessori education is an educational approach developed by Maria Montessori (1870-1952) and is characterized by an emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and a respect for a child’s natural psychological development. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/20/12 Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, a writer, and founder of the Scout Movement. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/23/12 Courage of the Commonplace was written by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (18601936) in 1911. A film adaptation was made in 1917. See also 11/26/11. 2/24/12 A Doll’s House premiered in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1879. It was written by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), a Norwegian playwright and one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/25/12 Pickwick Papers was written by Charles Dickens (1812-1870 in 1836. It was his first novel. (en.wikipedia.org) 3/01/12 The Breath of the Gods was written in 1905 by Mary McNeil Fenoliosa (1865-1954) under the pseudonym Sidney McCall. It was a great success and was adapted as a Broadway play, a film and an opera. (www.encyclopediaofalabama.org) 3/02/12 “The Blessed Damozel”, a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti(1828-1882), inspired the cantata written in 1888 by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), the French composer. (en.wikipedia.org) 3/04/12 “An Habitation Enforced” was a short story first published in 1905 and was written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), an English writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. (www.kipling.org.uk) 3/11/12 Tennyson’s Idylls of the King contained the story of Pelleas and Ettarre. This may have been what Cora Herrick was reading. (en.wikipedia.org) 3/13/12 Monna Vanna was a play written by Maeterlinck. See also 1/09/11. (theatredatabase.com) 3/25, 4/06/12 Louise F. Mueller was listed in the Buffalo City Directory as an artist or photographer from 1908 to 1919. 4/13/12 The play, Pomander Walk, is a romantic comedy written by Louis N. Parker (1852-1944) that opened in 1910. (en.wikipedia.org) 99 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 4/24/12 Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922) was a Hungarian conductor who performed internationally. (en.wikipedia.org) 4/29/12 Points of View, was written by Agnes Repplier (1855-1950), an American essayist, in 1891. (en.wikipedia.org) 5/20/12 The solitaire card game, Canfield, is mentioned five times during 1912-1915. (en.wikipedia.org) 5/30, 5/31/12 A book titled The Mother was written in 1907 by Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). (en.wikipedia.org) 6/04/12 The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 230 feet long which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, the Duke of Normandy and Harold, Earl of Wessex, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. (en.wikipedia.org) 6/05/12 Mont Saint-Michel is a rocky island off Normandy, France that has held fortifications since ancient times and since the 8th century has been the seat of a monastery. (en.wikipedia.org) 6/07/12 Chateau des Roches was built between the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1804 it was acquired by Louis-Francois Bertin who organized a literary salon to which famous artists came and which continued until his death in 1841. (en.wikipedia.org) 6/14/12 Chateau de Loches is a castle located in the Loire valley. It was constructed in the 9th century. (en.wikipedia.org) 6/16/12 Chateau de Chaumont is a castle founded in the 10th century. It was ordered destroyed by Louis XI and was rebuilt in the 15th century by Charles I d’Amboise. (en.wikipedia.org) 6/27/12 The Vicar of Wakefield was written in 1761 by Irish author, Oliver Goldsmith (17301774), and was one of the most popular 18th century novels among Victorians. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/01/12 Brantwood was the home of John Ruskin (1819-1900), the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/01/12 Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920) was a British novelist. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/02/12 Fox How was the home of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), a British poet and cultural critic. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/03/12 Furness Abbey in Cumbria, England is a former monastery dating back to 1123. 100 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 (en.wikipedia.org) 6/30, 7/05, 7/11/12 William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a major English Romantic poet who helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/17/12 Eaton Hall in Cheshire, England is the country house of the Duke of Westminster. The first house was built in the 17th century and was replaced twice, the second time with outbuildings and a chapel which took 12 years to complete. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/19, 7/23/12 Major Vigoureaux was written in 1907 by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), who is known primarily for his “Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900”. (en.wikipedia.org) 8/01, 8/08/12 The Street Called Straight was written in 1912 by Basil King (1859-1928), a Canadian clergyman who became a writer after retiring. (en.wikipedia.org) 10/01/12 My Robin was written in 1912 by Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), an English playwright and author best known for her children’s stories. (en.wikipedia.org) 10/05/12 1912. A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil was written by Jane Addams (1860-1935) in It tells of the young girls who move to Chicago and become victims of the white slave trade. (uillinois/books/catalog) 10/19/12 Milestones was considered to be the most successful play written by Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), British novelist, playwright, essayist, and critic. It was written with Edward Knoblock. (www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk) 10/23/12 Love and Marriage was written in 1911 by Ellen Key (1849-1926), a Swedish feminist writer. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/04/12 The trick-taking card game Pedro is mentioned nine times during 1912-1915. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/12/12 A Listener in Babel: Being a Series of Imaginary Conversations held at the Close of the Last Century and Reported by Vida D. Scudder was written in 1903 by Vida Dutton Scudder (1861-1954), an American educator, writer, and welfare activist. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/18-19/12 Marion Harland’s Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life was published in 1910. Marion Harland was the pen name for Mary Virginia Hawes (1830-1922). The book relates the story of her ancestors and her life in an historical context. (docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/harland) 11/28/12 Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) was an Austrian violinist who was noted for his tone and expressive phrasing. (en.wikipedia.org) 101 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 11/28/12 Johanna Gadski (1872-1932) was a German soprano with a powerful voice who performed mostly dramatic roles in the German and Italian repertoires. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/29/12 Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. (en.wikipedia.org) 12/16/12 Cribbage is a card game usually played by two but can be played with more. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/07/13 The Highland Park Literary Club held its first meeting for 1913. Six meetings are mentioned in the diary but there were probably more. See also 1/15/12. 1/08/13 Alice Meynell (1847-1922) was an English writer,poet, and suffragist. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/08/13 Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) was an American musician and poet. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/09/13 Flonzahy string quartet was organized in New York City in 1902 and was highly regarded. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/12/13 “The Hound of Heaven” is a long poem first published in 1893 by English poet Francis Thompson (1859-1907). (en.wikipedia.org) 1/15/13 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic children’s novel written in 1903 by Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923), American educator and author of children’s stories. It became a play in 1909 and a movie in 1938. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/17/13 Henrietta and Johanna Sellien are listed in the 1913 Buffalo City Directory as being dressmakers with a residence at 565 Elmwood Avenue. 1/19/13 Laurence Binyon - see 11/29/12. 1/23, 2/1/13 Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846-1926) was a German philosopher and the 1908 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/24/13 Charles L Tripi is listed as a ladies’ tailor at 693 Main Street in the 1914 Buffalo City Directory. 2/03/13 Magda was the English translation of the drama Heimat and was written in 1896 by Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928), a German dramatist and novelist. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/13/13 Talcott Williams (1849-1928) was a journalist who became the first director of the Columbia University Pulitzer School of Journalism. 102 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 2/18/13 Lanier - see 1/08/13. Tennyson – see 1/27/12. 2/18/13 Elena Gerhardt (1883-1961) was a German mezzo-soprano known for her interpretations of German classical lieder. She left Germany in 1934. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/21/13 Uncle Vanya was written in 1896 by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian physician, dramatist and author. (en.wikipedia.org) 3/05/13 Sakuntala may refer to a story from Hinduism about Shakuntala or Sakuntala, the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata. (en.wikipedia.org) 3/09, 3/14/13 The Necessary Evil was a play written in 1913 by Charles Rann Kennedy. See also 5/15/11 note. 3/13/13 Alessandro Bonci (1870-1940) was an Italian lyric tenor famous for his bel canto repertoire. Mme. Rhadeska was a blind soprano from Boston. (en.wikipedia.org) 3/16/13 The Next Religion was a play written in 1912 by Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), a British writer whose Jewish family was from Czarist Russia. (archive.org & en.wikipedia.org) 3/17/13 David Mannes (1866-1959) and his wife Clara Damrosch were co-founders of the David Mannes School of Music in New York City. She was a pianist and he was a violinist and concertmaster of the New York Symphony Orchestra from 1898 to 1912. (en.wikipedia.org) 3/20/13 Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) was a Polish American pianist, composer, and teacher and was a highly regarded performer at that time. (en.wikipedia.org) 4/04, 4/05/13 Emile Jacques Dalcroze (1865-1950) was a Swiss composer, musician and music educator who developed a method of learning and experiencing music through movement. (en.wikipedia.org) 4/17/13 Warren & Ruttiman (Grace S. Warren and Rosina E. Ruttiman) is listed as having millinery at 56-58 Allen Street in the 1913 Buffalo City Directory. 4/17/13 The Necessary Evil was written by Charles Rann Kennedy. See also 5/15/11. 4/20/13 Albert Besnard (1849-1934) was a French painter who followed the academic tradition until 1888, then devoted himself to the study of color and light as used by the Impressionists. (en.wikipedia.org) 4/27/13 Daffodil Fields was written in 1913 by John Masefield (1878-1967), English poet and writer. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death and he wrote many novels and non-fiction works. (archive.org & en.wikipedia.org) 103 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 5/21/13 By Oak and Thorn: a Record of English Days was written in 1896 by Alice Brown (18571948), an American novelist, poet and playwright best known for writing local color stories. (en.wikipedia.org & books.google.com) 6/10/13 Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) was an influential 18th century English painter specializing in portraits. (en.wikipedia.org) 6/20/13 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, was born in Devon, England in 1772 and died in Highgate, England in 1834. (en.wikipedia.org) 6/28-29/13 Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement and worked with William Morris. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/01/13 Beaumanor Hall is a stately home with a park in the village of Woodhouse in Leicestershire, England built in Elizabethan style in 1845-7 for the Herrick family. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/05/13 Haddon Hall’s origins date to the 11th century with additions made between the 13th and 17th centuries. In form it is a medieval manor house. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/07/13 Plas Newydd is the country seat of the Marquess of Anglesey. The house originated in the 14th century and was greatly altered in the 18th century. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/12/13 Alywin was written in 1898 by Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914), English critic and poet. (en.wikipedia.org) 6/17/13 Ship of Stars was written in 1899 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. See also 7/19/12. 7/22/13 of Greyfriars Kirk is a parish church of the Church of Scotland. The kirk stands on the site a pre-Reformation establishment of the Franciscan order, the “Grey Friars”. The kirk was begun in 1602 and completed around 1620. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/23/13 John Knox House is reputed to have been owned by John Knox, the Protestant reformer, during the 16th century but Knox appears to have lived in Warriston Close. The house was built from 1490 onwards. (en.wikipedia.org) 8/01/13 Burns Cottage in Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland, is a simple two-room clay and thatch cottage in which Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet, was born in 1759. (en.wikipedia.org) 8/07/13 Six Trees: Short Stories was written in 1903 by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (18521930), a prominent 19th century American author. (en.wikipedia.org) 8/11/13 Fox How - see 7/2/12. 104 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 9/11/13 A Montessori Mother was written in 1912 by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958), an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 1900s. (en.wikipedia.org) 9/27/13 The Squirrel Cage was written by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. See also 9/11/13. 10/01/13 Four Feathers was an adventure novel written in 1902 by British author A. E. W. Mason (1865-1948). (en.wikipedia.org) 10/22/13 Modern Philanthropy: a Study of Efficient Appealing and Giving was written in 1912 by Dr. William Harvey Allen (1874-1963). (catalog.loc.gov) 11/03, 11/15/13 Sellien – see 1/17/13 11/15/13 The Poor Little Rich Girl was the best known work of Eleanor Gates (1875-1951), American playwright. It was first produced in 1913 and was later made into films in 1917 and 1938. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/30/13 Elijah is an oratorio written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1846. It depicts events in the life of the prophet Elijah, taken from Kings I and Kings II in the Old Testament of the Bible. (en.wikipedia.org) 12/04/13 Beaumanor Hall and Park – see 7/1/13 12/08/13 Dalcroze – see 4/4/13 12/27/13 Tagore is the anglicized name of Rabindranath Thakur (1861-1941). He was very influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa. He also introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. (en.wikipedia.org) 12/31/13 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/02/14 Lėon Bakst (1866-1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer, a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballet Russes. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/02-03/14 Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) was a Russian ballerina widely regarded as one of the best classical ballet dancers in history. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/05/14 Sadhana: The Realisation of Life was written in 1913 by Tagore. See also 12/27/13. Sādhanā, includes a variety of disciplines in Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Muslim traditions that are followed to achieve certain spiritual objectives. (en.wikipedia.org) 105 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 1/12/14 Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) was an American poet, novelist and editor. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/20/14 The Highland Park Literary Club held its first meeting for 1914. Seven meetings are mentioned in the diary but there may have been more. See also 1/16/12. 1/22/14 John Clement, Inc (John Clement), ladies’ tailors, is listed at 960 Main Street in the 1914 Buffalo City Directory. John Clement lived on Summit Avenue. 1/30/14 Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940) was an Italian coloratura soprano who enjoyed a very successful operatic and concert career in Europe and America. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/07, 10/06/14 The Women’s Exchange is listed at 687 Main St in the 1914 Buffalo City Directory. 2/09/14 A Nest of Linnets was written in 1901 by Frank Frankfort Moore (1855-1931), Irish dramatist, biographer, novelist and poet. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/18, 2/20, 4/14/14 Columbia Grafonola was a wind-up phonograph machine. (victrolagramophones.proboards.com) 2/28/14 The School for Scandal was a play written by Richard Sheridan (1751-1816), an Irish playwright and poet who was a long-time owner of the Drury Lane Theatre in London. The play was first performed there in 1777. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/28/14 Annie Russell (1864-1936) was an English born American stage actress who formed her own company, the Old English Comedy Company, in 1912 in New York City. (en.wikipedia.org) 3/13/14 Grant’s Tomb, officially General Grant National Memorial, is a mausoleum containing the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife. It is in Riverside Park, Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson River. (en.wikipedia.org) 3/25/14 The Prince of the House of David was written in 1900 as a collection of letters written from a daughter to her father while she was living and studying in Jerusalem. The author was Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809-1860), an American. (books.google.com & en.wikipedia.org) 3/28/14 Johnson Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937) was considered to be one of the finest actors of his time. The Passing of the Third Floor Back was written in 1908 by Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927), an English writer and humorist. The play was later adapted as a film in 1918 and 1935. (en.wikipedia.org) 3/30/14 Miss Dotey is probably Mrs. Hattie A. Doty, dressmaker, who lived at 41 Parkdale Ave. according to the 1914 Buffalo City Directory. No Dotey is listed. 106 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 4/07/14 Sellien – see 1/17/13. 4/09/14 Post Office was written by Tagore in 1912. See also 12/27/13. 4/14, 5/16, 5/23/14 Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans (18191880), was first published in 1859. It has remained in print ever since. (en.wikipedia.org) 4/21/14 “Mr. Crosby’s Rest Cure” appeared in Harper’s Magazine in April 1914. It was written by Elizabeth Jordan (1865-1947), an American journalist, author, and suffragist who served as editor of Harper’s from 1900 to 1913. (books.google.com & en.wikipedia.org) 5/03, 6/2/14 Jessie Bonstelle (1871-1932) formed the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in the early 1900s. (www.worldcat.org & Federal Writers Project. Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State) 5/11, 5/12, 5/14/14 The Buffalo Guild of Allied Arts was formed in 1910 and established a center in 1912. It sponsored a series of lectures and exhibitions for a variety of artists. Isabelle Martin became a Life Member. (The Buffalo Guild of Allied Arts, Research Library, Buffalo Museum) 5/22/14 Tagore – see 12/27/13. John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) was an American composer. (en.wikipedia.org) 6/20/14 Daniel Webster (1782-1852) is buried in Winslow Cemetery, Marshfield, MA. (www.nndb.com) 6/24/14 The Chippendales was written in 1909 by Robert Grant (1852-1940), an American author and jurist. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/02/14 Captain Courageous was written in 1897 by Rudyard Kipling. See also 3/04/12. 7/14/14 Myles Standish (c.1584-1656) served as military advisor for Plymouth Colony. He was one of the founders of the town of Duxbury, MA and is buried there. John Alden (c.1599-1689) was one of the founders of Plymouth Colony and is also buried at Duxbury. (en.wikipedia.org) 8/10/14 Cap’n Warren’s Wards was written in 1911 by Joseph C. Lincoln (1870-1944), an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. (en.wikipedia.org) 8/23/14 Peregrine White was the first baby born aboard the ship Mayflower as it was docked outside Plymouth Colony. His home was in Marshfield, MA where he died in 1704. (en.wikipedia.org) 8/31/14 John Winterbourne’s Family was written in 1910 by Alice Brown. See also 5/21/13. 107 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 (books.google.com & en.wikipedia.org) 9/08/14 The play, Peg o’ My Heart, was first performed in New York City in 1912. A comedy, it was written by John Hartley Manners (1870-1928), a London-born playwright of Irish descent. (en.wikipedia.org) 9/23, 9/28/14 In 1914 the Chromatic Club began a project to assume the music classes that had been offered in Welcome Hall, a church-supported settlement house. This led to the founding of the First Settlement Music School which later became the Community Music School. See also 11/25/11. (Buffalo Courier-Express, 9/22/52, p.13, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum) 9/24/14 The Guild refers to the Buffalo Guild of Allied Artists. See 5/12/14. 9/30/14 David Mannes – see 3/17/13. Mr. Mannes had spoken to Chromatic Club members in Buffalo about his settlement school work earlier in 1914. 10/07/14 Denison House was founded in 1892 by Emily Greene Balch, a professor at Wellesley College, and several Wellesley graduates to provide social services and education to the urban poor. It became a center for many neighborhood activities in the Old South Cove area of Boston. (ocp.hul.harvard.edu) 10/07/14 The Music School Settlement House was organized in Boston in 1910 on Salem Street next to the Civic Service House, a settlement house founded in 1901 to provide services for local residents and newly-arrived immigrants. It was modeled after the Music School Settlement founded in New York City around 1905. (www.bostonhistory.org) 10/27, 11/09/14 Buffalo Guild of Allied Artists moved from the Heathcote School for Boys at 623 Delaware Avenue to 238 Delaware Avenue – see also 5/12/14. (Buffalo City Directory) 10/27/14 In the Vanguard, an antiwar play, was written in 1913 by Katrina Trask (1853-1922), an American author and philanthropist. (archive.org & en.wikipedia.org) 11/07/14 John Spargo (1876-1966) was born in England and came to the United States in 1901. He is regarded as one of the leading public intellectuals affiliated with the Socialists during the progressive era of the early 20th century. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/13/14 The play, The Idol-breaker, was written by Charles Rann Kennedy in 1914. See also 5/15/11. (books.google.com) 11/27/14 The Precipice was written in 1914 by Elia W. Peattie (1862-1935), an American author, journalist and critic. (www.gutenberg.org & en.wikipedia.org) 11/27/14 Auction is a trick-taking card game also known as Forty-fives. (en.wikipedia.org) 108 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 12/19/14 The Beginnings of New England was written in 1889 by John Fiske (1842-1901), an American philosopher and historian who was also a popular lecturer. (en.wikipedia.org) 12/31/14 Numerica, invented around 1890, is a card game that emphasizes number and strategy skills. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/01/15 Pygmalion was written in 1912 by George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), an Irish playwright, essayist and short story writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. It was one of 60 plays that he wrote. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/02, 1/11/15 Howard D. Beach (1867-1954) was an accredited photographer for the 1901 PanAmerican Exposition in Buffalo and became a popular portraitist of Buffalo’s social register. (Rossi, Dale T. Photographing the Queen (City): A Century of Photography in Buffalo, NY 1839-1939) 1/06/15 seven The Highland Park Literary Club held its first meeting for 1915. The diary mentions meetings but there may have been more. See also 1/16/12. 1/08/15 Edith Ellis (1861-1916) was a British writer and women’s rights activist. She was openly lesbian and had an open marriage with Havelock Ellis, the early sexologist. (en.wikipedia.org) 1/10/15 Matthew Arnold – see 7/02/12. 2/05/15 In his journal for Nov. 25, 1885 Darwin Martin records going with Bella to her aunt’s, Mrs. Dick’s house on Eagle Street. She may have been Maud Dick. (Library Archives, SUNY Buffalo, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers) 2/06/15 Sellien – see 1/17/13. 2/09/15 Elena Gerhardt – see 2/18/13. 2/10/15 Clara Sipprell (1885-1975), an early 20th century photographer, was born in Canada but lived most of her life in the United States. She became well known for her pictorial landscapes and portraits of famous people. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/13/15 The Sunken Bell: a Fairy Play of Five Acts, was written in 1911 by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946), German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912. (archive.org & en.wikipedia.org) 2/16/15 Fritz Kreisler – see 11/28/12. 2/19/15 The Master Builder, first published in 1892, was written by Henrik Ibsen. See also 2/24/12. (en.wikipedia.org) 109 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 2/22, 2/24/15 Lady from the Sea was written in 1888 by Henrik Ibsen. See also 2/24/12. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/24/15 The comedy Mary Goes First was written in 1913 by the British dramatist Henry Arthur Jones (1951-1929. (en.wikipedia.org) 2/25/15 Pine Mountain Settlement School was founded in 1913 as a school for children in the remote southeastern mountains of Kentucky and as a social center for surrounding communities. William Creech Sr. donated the land and recruited Ethel DeLong and Katherine Pettit to establish and run the school. Darwin D. Martin, influenced by Miss DeLong, became a strong supporter of the school and served as the President of the Board of Trustees. (www.pinemountainsettlementschool.com & Library Archives, Buffalo, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers) SUNY 4/02/15 Parsifal was completed in 1879 by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). It is based on the story of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail. “Vorspiel” leads into the opening scene of Parsifal. (www.musicwithease.com) 4/14-18/15 Sigismund de Ivanowski (1875-1944) studied painting in Poland, Germany, Russia, and England. He was born in Poland and migrated to the United States in 1902. Besides portraits he also did illustrations for books and magazines. He lived in Westfield, NJ and had a studio in New York City. CH spelled the first name incorrectly. (Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975, vol. II) 4/16/15 Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) was the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. (en.wikipedia.org) 4/21/15 Pavlova – see 1/02/14. 4/30/15 Dalcroze – see 4/04/13. 5/13/15 Stuart Walker established a theatre named the Portmanteau at the Christodora Settlement House in New York City in 1915. The theatre was portable so it could be set up in different locations. (The New York Times, 7/15/1915) 5/19/15 Lorado Taft (1860-1936) was an American sculptor, writer and educator who, after studying in Paris, settled in Chicago in 1886 and taught at the Art Institute of Chicago. (en.wikipedia.org) 5/28/15 The Bach Festival was first held in Bethlehem, PA in 1900 and continues today. Bethlehem was established as a Moravian mission in 1741 and music is very important in the Moravian Church. nytimes/2007/05/07/arts/music & en.wikipedia.org) 110 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 6/03, 6/24/15 Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was an American journalist, critic, and women’s rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. (en.wikipedia.org) 6/04/15 Siegfried was the third of the four operas that compose The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). (en.wikipedia.org) 6/17/15 Doty - see 3/30/14. 7/18/15 John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American Quaker poet and ardent abolitionist. He was born in the family homestead near Haverhill, MA. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/19/15 Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) was an American poet, novelist, and editor. Critics have said that his novel The Story of a Bad Boy contained the first realistic depiction of childhood in American fiction. He was born in Portsmouth, NH. (en.wikipedia.org) 7/22/15 The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 short story sequence written by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909). (en.wikipedia.org) 7/27/15 The Pearl of Orr’s Island was written in 1862 by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), an American abolitionist and author of more than 20 books. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/5-7, 12/10/15 Sigismund de Ivanowski – see 4/14/15. 11/10/15 Evan Williams (1867-1918) was an oratorio tenor who made almost 100 recordings and gave more than 1,000 performances and recitals during his 25 year career. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/12/15 The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife was written in 1912 by Anatole France (18441924), French poet, journalist, and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. The play was written as an entertainment for the members of the Society of Rabelaisian Studies but was so well received it was immediately taken up by a regular theatre. (www.goodreads.com & en.wikipedia.org) 11/13/15 Androcles and the Lion was a play written in 1912 by George Bernard Shaw. See also 1/01/15. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/14/15 Abraham Mitrie Rihbany (1869-1944) was a theologian, philologist and historian who was born in Lebanon and migrated to the United States in 1891. There is a record of his preaching on the subject “The Larger and Fuller Life” at the Church of the Disciples in Boston. (Unitarian Register, vol. 95, p.22 & en.wikipedia.org) 11/16/15 Mischa Elman (1891-1967) was a Russian violinist famed for his passionate style and beautiful tone. He became a United States citizen in 1923. (en.wikipedia.org) 111 �Transcript: Line a Day, Herrick Diary, 1911-1915 11/16/15 Adventures in a Perambulator, an impressionistic orchestral suite written in 1914, was one of the most famous works composed by John Alden Carpenter. See also 5/22/14. (en.wikipedia.org) 11/21/15 Fritz Kreisler – see 11/28/12. 12/02/15 John Brashear (1840-1920) was an American astronomer and instrument builder who first was an apprentice to a machinist, then worked as a millwright in Pittsburgh. He pursued his interest in astronomy by building his own refractor. After 1880 he devoted all of his time to manufacturing astronomical and scientific instruments and performing experiments. His instruments were of such quality that they were purchased by almost every important observatory in the world. (en.wikipedia.org) Anita Mitchell 3/2013 112 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Darwin D. Martin Family papers Subject The topic of the resource Martin, D. D. (Darwin D.), 1865-1935 ; Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) ; Herrick, Cora ; Martin, Darwin R. 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Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Preferred Citation: Mitchell, Anita, trans. Indexed Transcription of Memoranda of Events in the Life of Darwin D. and Isabelle R. Martin, 1865-1934. [Entry description and dates]. Diary in 3.1, MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Acquisition Information: Anita Mitchell, Darwin D. Martin House docent, gifted her index of the diary to University Archives in 2014. Terms of Access: Subject Index to Memoranda of Events in the Life of Darwin D. and Isabelle R. Martin, 1865-1934 is open for research. NOTE: Any marks within brackets [ ] are of the transcriber. �Contents Books Read by Darwin D. Martin ................................................................................................................ 1 Education, Lectures and Books ..................................................................................................................... 3 Events............................................................................................................................................................ 7 Gardeners ...................................................................................................................................................... 9 Graycliff ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 Graycliff Visitors, Friends, and Relatives ................................................................................................... 13 Martin, Darwin D. and Larkin Company .................................................................................................... 14 Martin House Complex, Jewett Parkway .................................................................................................... 22 Transportation Vehicles, Personal (with receipt information from MS 22.8 Box 7 Ledger)...................... 24 Wright, Frank Lloyd ................................................................................................................................... 26 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Books Read by Darwin D. Martin Mar 13, 1883 “Bought my first copy of Shakespeare. Cheap” Sept 1883 “Read ‘The Lady of the Lake’.” Nov 14, 1883 “Reading Romeo and Juliet” Mar 1885 “Use public library books liberally.” Jun 11-Jul 30, 1885 “Almost continuously living at the Hubbards at E. Aurora, commuting with him to Bflo. Enjoyed his books....” Sep 1, 1885 “Read Henry George ‘Crime of Poverty’” Oct 12, 1886 “Commended by Mr Hubbard to join CLSC. Began reading CLSC course with Belle & Nettie continued only to Dec 26.” Mar 11, 1887 “DDMs first reading from ‘Arabian Nights’ for elocution” Oct 1887 “Reading Chautauqua course.” Dec 1, 1887 “Finished ‘Don Quixote’.” Jan 1, 1888 “Finished Arabian Nights.” Feb 22, 1888 “Half holiday. Bot 40 books at a close-out sale” Sept 4, 1888 “Finished ‘Knickerbockers NY’” Jan 4, 1890 “Began reading aloud Irving’s Life of Washington.” Feb 25, 1890 “Reading aloud ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’” June 3, 1890 “DDM began Les Miserables” Oct 19, 1890 “Reading Peregrine Pickle aloud.” June 1895 “reading Les Miserables” Jan 2, 1898 “DDM began reading aloud to Belle ‘The Story of Jesus Christ’ by Eliz Stuart Phelps” June 1902 “DDM read ‘Story of Ireland’ and history of Ireland as contained in Larned’s Ency.” Aug 1902 “DDM read ‘Scotland’ (Story of) and Larned’s history thereof.” “DDM read aloud to IRM ‘Henry Esmond’ Reading Science & Health and scriptures daily.” Nov 23, 1902 “Began Sunday eve readings DDM aloud; Belle, Belle C, Delta, Geo. & Mr & Mrs Morgan listening. Read Book of Esther.” Nov 30, 1902 “Mr & Mrs Hughes also listeners. Read ‘Our Bible’ Canon Talbot.’” Dec 7, 1902 “Read ‘Our Bible’.” Dec 14,1902 “΄Milton’ Canon Farrar.” Dec 21, 1902 “΄Ruskin’” Sep 19-26, 1903 “at St. Louis daily reading with Belle, Christian Science.” Dec 1905 “Did not renew subscription expiring this month to C.S. Sentinel as all copies rec’d in last six months are unread for lack of time.” Aug 1906 “Read Tolstoi’s ‘My Religion’, greatest book I ever read, next to Science & Health, meaning that it has made a deeper impression on me.” 1 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Dec 1906 “During month read, on cars, etc, a book on esoteric Catholicism ‘The Parochial School’ which strongly moves me.” Jan 1907 “Read on cars ‘The Master Christian’ by Marie Corelli” Feb 1906 “Read on cars Maeterlinck’s ‘Life of the Bee’.” Mar 1906 “Read ‘Liberty and a Living’ on cars, also Riis’ ‘Making of an American’.” Feb 1908 “Month well occupied with preparations for the trip, the evenings with readings on France etc as most of time will be spent there.” Feb 1909 “Purchased pocket edition Victor Hugo. Read ‘93’. Read to Belle ‘New Orleans, the Place & the People’ by Grace King.” Feb 11-12, 1910 “visited N.E. Historic Geneology Library. At shop procured a Martin geneology published in 1880 not including Father etc.” Dec 1911 “At Christmas gave family Audubon’s 7 vol. 1842 edition of ‘Birds of North America’ of which but 1000 sets were published.” Apr 1912 “We’ve read to the enjoyment of all ‘Pickwick’ (at the dinner table). DDM has read to Darwin from ‘Two Years Before the Mast.’ Dec 20, 1913-Jan 4, 1914 “Darwin home from school. We finished ‘Two Years Before the Mast’.” Jan 1914 “We read aloud T.B. Aldrich’s Life and Letters.” Aug 26, 1914 “Read aloud ‘Captain Courageous’.” Jan 20, 1915 “Began reading to Darwin ‘Lion Ben’ Rev Elijah Kellogg. He enjoys as I did when a boy.” Feb 1, 1915 “Reading to Darwin ‘Pizarro’ another of my boyhood books.” Feb 10, 1915 “Reading to IRM Cramb’s ‘England and Germany’” July 2-4, 1916 “Rained. Read ‘Little Minister’.” Dec 1, 1916 “Bo’t Mark Twain books in first edition.” Dec 25, 1916 “Gave Belle ‘Pippa Passes’ bronze by Miss Allen. She gave me Tolstoi.” Mar 12, 1920 “Read ‘Wuthering Heights’.” Oct 30, 1921 “Began aloud ‘The Americanization of Edward Bok’ reading 110 pgs.” Jan 1922 “Enjoying Robert Louis Stevenson travel stories.” Mar 9, 1924 “Finished 4th & last vol. Green’s History of English People; begun last fall, prob. Oct.” Mar 11, 1924 “Finished Old Testament; first time all thro.” Jul 5, 1924 “To Peterboro to see home of Gerrit Smith whose biography I recently read” Oct 24, 1930 “Bot’ Amer Wild Flowers $500, Last book buys for years to come.” Feb 11-15, 1931 “Home with a cold. Read ‘In Quest of the Perfect Book.’ Read aloud ‘Domby and Son’. Greatly enjoyed.” Mar 1931 “Read aloud to Mother: Domby and Son.” Apr 1931 “Read aloud ‘A Lantern in Her Hand’” Feb 21, 1932 “Finished reading aloud ‘Our Mutual Friend’.” Feb 22, 1932 “Began ‘Little Dorrit’. IRM enjoys Dickens. Also read aloud recently ‘Jungles Preferred’ by Janet Miller. Finished ‘Dorrit’ April 6.” 2 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Apr 1933 “Reading ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ together.” July, Aug & Sept 1933 “read ‘Hard Times’.” Feb 23, 1934 “Finished ‘Waverly’ first time ever.” Mar 18, 1934 “Finished reading David Copperfield together. We read it first time about 1890.” Mar 19, 1934 “Finished ‘Within This Present,’ story of present depression.” Education, Lectures and Books Sep 1872 “DDM began school at “Harmony” district school, 1 ¾ mile walk.” [Nebraska] Nov 1877 “DDM and Father removed from Mt Ayr Iowa back to Father’s wife’s farm in Stoe Co Neb. eight miles south of Nebraska City. By wagon to Shenondoah, Iowa. DDM on horseback, thence DDM by train to Neb. City and Father rode horse on to that place. This marked DDM’s last attendance at day school.” Nov 1879 “Am having a course at Bryant and Stratton night school in writing. Three nights a week for certainty twelve weeks perhaps longer for 18.00.” Feb 20, 1883 “Heard Hon James O Putnam of Bfo, ex U.S. Consul to Belgium in fine lecture at YMCA on “The Religious and Political History of Belgium.” Mar 13, 1883 “bought my first copy of Shakespeare. Cheap” Sept 1883 “Read ‘The Lady of the Lake’.” Nov 7, 1883 “Entered YMCA bookkeeping class to next Wednesday evenings. It proved very beneficial.” Nov 14, 1883 “Reading Romeo and Juliet” May 1884 “Impressed by the sound morality of a lecture by Robt G Ingersoll, and by three [at] YMCA by Dr Roswell Park and Dr C.G. Stockton, Dr Hopkins.” Dec 10, 1884 “Father and I enjoyed Mark Twain & Geo W Call at Concert Hall in reading from own works” Mar 1885 “Use public library books liberally.” Jun 11-Jul 30, 1885 “Almost continuously living at the Hubbards at E. Aurora, commuting with him to Bflo. Enjoyed his books.….” Sep 1, 1885 “Read Henry George ‘Crime of Poverty’” Feb 1&2, 1886 “Took Belle & Nettie to lectures of A W Tourgee weekly.” Oct 12, 1886 “Commended by Mr. Hubbard to join CLSC. Began reading CLSC course with Belle and Nettie, continued only to Dec. 26” Oct 13, 1886 David Dudley Field lecture at YMCA Nov 30, 1886 Gen. Lew. Wallace lecture at YMCA 3 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Dec 9, 1886 “to E. Aurora to CLSC. Hubbard Pres.” Mar 11, 1887 “DDMs first reading from the ‘Arabian Night’ for elocution.” Mar 14, 1887 “Belle, Nettie & I hear Gen. Lew. Wallace” Oct 1887 “Reading Chautauqua course.” Nov 18, 1887 “DDM and Mr. Hubbard to hear Charles Dickens (son of novelist) read from his father’s works, ‘Dr. Marigold’ and trial scene of Pickwick.” Dec 1, 1887 “Finished ‘Don Quixote’.” Jan 2, 1888 “Finished Arabian Nights.” Jan 17, 1888 “Belle & I heard Geo W Cable read from ‘Grand Points’ Feb 22, 1888 “Bot 40 books at a close-out sale” Mar 28, 1888 “Belle & I heard Charles Dickens Jr. read from his father’s works” Jun 2, 1888 “First of five lectures by Prof Loisette, ‘memory trainer’” Sep 4, 1888 “Finished ‘Knickerbockers NY’” Nov 16, 1888 “First of 12 lectures on Am History at Bfo Library” Feb 1, 1889 “Finished course of 10 wkly lectures on Am History” Feb 18&25, 1889 “lectures on Holy Land” Jan 4, 1890 “Began reading aloud Irving’s Life of Washington.” Feb 25, 1890 “Reading aloud ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’” Jun 3, 1890 “DDM began Les Miserables” Oct 19, 1890 “Reading Peregrine Pickle aloud.” Jan 27-28, 1893 “To lectures given by Prof. John Fiske on ‘Virginia’ and ‘The Carolinas’.” Jun 1895 “reading Les Miserables” Jan 2, 1898 “DDM began reading aloud to Belle ‘The Story of Jesus Christ”’by Eliz Stuart Phelps” Jun 1902 “DDM read ‘Story of Ireland’ and history of Ireland as contained in Larned’s Ency.” Aug 1902 “DDM read ‘Scotland’ (Story of) and Larned’s history thereof.” “DDM read aloud to IRM ‘Henry Esmond’. Reading Science & Health and scriptures daily.” Nov 23, 1902 “Began Sunday eve readings DDM aloud; Belle, Belle C. Delta, Geo. & Mr. & Mrs. Morgan listening. Read Book of Esther.” Nov 30, 1902 “Mr. & Mrs. Hughes also listeners. Read ‘Our Bible’ Canon Talbot.” Dec 7, 1902 “Read ‘Our Bible’.” 4 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Dec 14, 1902 “’Milton’ Canon Farrer.” Dec 21, 1902 “’Ruskin’.” Sep 19-26, 1903 “at St. Louis daily reading with Belle, Christian Science.” Dec 1905 “Did not renew subscription expiring this month to CS. Sentinel as all copies rec’d in last six months are unread for lack of time.” Aug 1906 “Read Tolstoi’s ‘My Religion,’ greatest book I ever read, next to Science & Health, meaning that it has made a deeper impression on me.” Dec 1906 “During month read, on cars, etc, a book on esoteric Catholicism ‘The Parochial School’ which strongly moves me.” Jan 1907 “Read on cars ‘The Master Christian’ by Marie Corelli’” Feb 1907 “Read on cars Maeterlinck’s ‘Life of the Bee’” Mar 1907 “Read ‘Liberty and a Living’ on cars, also Riis’ ‘Making of an American.’” Feb 1908 “Month well occupied with preparations for the trip, the evenings with readings on France etc as most of time will be spent there.” Mar 23, 1908 “Lecture on Bismya (oldest city) Historical Bldg” Nov 24, 1908 “With Morey’s, attended illustrated lecture on Canadian Rocky mts.” Feb 1909 “Purchased pocket edition Victor Hugo. Read ‘93’. Read to Belle ‘New Orleans, the Place & the People’ by Grace King.” Oct 13, 1909 “Dorothy and parents hear Frederick A Cook tell his story of his discovery of the North Pole.” Feb 11-12, 1910 “visited N.E. Historic Geneology Library. At shop procured a Martin geneology published in 1880 not including Father etc.” Dec 25, 1911 “At Christmas gave family Audubon’s 7 vol. 1842 edition of ‘Birds of North America’ of which but 1000 sets were published.” Apr , 1912 “A very pleasant winter. We’ve read to the enjoyment of all ‘Pickwick’ (at the dinner table). DDM has read to Darwin from ‘Two Years Before the Mast.’ Dec 20, 1913-Jan 4, 1914 “Darwin home from school. We finished ‘Two years Before the Mast.’” Jan 1914 “We read aloud T.B. Aldrich’s Life and Letters.” Aug 26, 1914 “Read aloud ‘Captain Courageous’”. Jan 20, 1915 “Began reading to Darwin ‘Lion Ben,’ Rev Elijah Kellogg. He enjoys as I did when a boy.” Feb 1, 1915 “Reading to Darwin ‘Pizarro’ another of my boyhood books.” Feb 10, 1915 “Reading to IRM Crambo’s ‘England and Germany’” 5 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM July 2-4, 1916 “Rain. Read ‘Little Minister’” Dec 1, 1916 “Bo’t Mark Twain books in first edition.” Dec 25, 1916 “Gave Belle ‘Pippa Passes’ bronze by Miss Allen. She gave me Tolstoi.” Feb 11, 1919 “Heard G H Putnam (G.P.P’s son) lecture on Lincoln” Feb 27, 1920 “Walter L Brown Secretary The Bfo Library notified me of my recent election a life member and voter. Bfo Lyceum founded 1817, succeeded by Young Men’s Assoc. 1836 whose members in 1897 formed Bfo library.” Mar 12, 1920 “Read ‘Wuthering Heights’.” Oct 30, 1921 “Began aloud ‘The Americanization of Edward Bok’ reading 100 pgs.” Jan, 1922 “Enjoying Robert Louis Stevenson travel stories.” Mar 9, 1924 “Finished 4th & last vol. Green’s History of English People; begun last fall, prob. Oct.” Mar 11, 1924 “Finished Old Testament, first time all through.” Jul 5, 1924 “To Peterboro to see home of Gerrit Smith whose biography I recently read,” Aug 7, 1925 “Eve train to Chautauqua Assembly. Heard Lorado Taft lecture on art.” Apr 21-22-23, 1926 “Scientific Symposium lectures by Dr Alex Hedlicks” Jun 10, 1930 “Heard at 20th Centy Club Martin L. Dewey on ‘Trees’” Oct 24, 1930 “Bo’t Amer Wild Flowers $500. Last book buys for years to come.” Jan 22, 1931 “Lecture at Historical Soc. on Constantinople Baungart[?]” Feb 11-15, 1931 “Home with a cold. Read ‘In Quest of the Perfect Book.’ Read aloud ‘Domby and Son.’ Greatly enjoyed.” Mar 6, 1931 “Lecture Nat Sci. Mus. on Arctic by Donald B Macmillan.” Mar 1931 “Read aloud to Mother: Domby and Son.” Apr, 1931 “Read aloud ‘A Lantern in Her Hand’” Jun 22, 1931 “Chrm Spcl. Com. Mus. Sci. on Hayes Lectures.” Jan 27-28, 1932 “Attended lectures by Col Raymond Robins and Dan’l A. Poliny.” Feb 21, 1932 “Finished reading aloud ‘Our Mutual Friend.’” Feb 22, 1932 “Began ‘Little Dorrit’. IRM enjoys Dickens. Also read aloud recently ‘Jungles Preferred’ by Janet Miller. Finished ‘Dorrit’ April 6.” Mar 8, 1932 “Lecture Dr Flick State Historian on Sullivan Campaign.” Mar 22, 1932 “Lecture by M McWilner[?] ‘Niagara Frontier’.” Apr 12, 1932 “Historical lecture A C Parker Romance Indian Days.” 6 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Apr 26, 1932 “Lecture Historical Bldg by Clarise[?] Bonner” Nov 1, 1932 “Historical lecture, Niagara lands[?].” Apr, 1933 “Reading ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ together.” Jul, Aug, Sep 1933 “ read ‘Hard Times’” Feb 23, 1934 “Finished ‘Waverly’ first time ever.” Mar 18, 1934 “Finished reading David Copperfield together. We read it first time 1890.” Mar 19, 1934 “Finished ‘Within This Present,’ story of present depression.” Events Jan 1878 “First telephone exchange in world installed in 1878.” Nov 1878 “Frank permitted me to throw a dime to an organ grinder from our 5th floor attic window. Great thrill.” June 1879 “Saw ‘Brooklyn Bridge’ a-making: reels of wire rolling from main pier to its mate across East River accumulating the main cables.” Oct 28, 1880 “Repub campaign U.S. Grant – Conklin here. Trade procession. Mr Hubbard drove tandem team, black mares, Dolly & Polly. I rode beside him. Torchlight parade in eve 12,000 men.” April 6, 1882 “JDL & Co have a typewriter and I tried out the newfangled thing in the evening.” July 18, 1883 “North American Saengerfest held in German Young Men’s Association’s unfinished Music Hall. I had great joy in attending one evening session. Heard great chorus of 2000 in classical music for first time.” July 17, 1884 “Greeley expedition found. 6 out of 24 alive.” Dec 10, 1884 “Father and I enjoyed Mark Twain & Geo W Call at Concert Hall in reading from own works.” Dec 25, 1884 “Roller skating is a craze spent evening at a rink. No falls, never again.” Sept 15, 1886 “We three [Delta, Belle & DDM] saw Edwin Booth in Hamlet.” Oct 28, 1886 “Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty, Bedloe’s Island, unveiled.” Nov 18, 1887 “DDM and Mr Hubbard to hear Charles Dickens (son of novelist) read from his father’s works, ‘Dr. Marigold’ and trial scene of Pickwick.” Aug 26, 1891 “Belle wants me to get a bicycle.” Aug 30 “Got one.” Sept 9, 1891 “Electric cars began running on Seneca St.” July 1-15, 1893 “Belle, Nettie and DDM to World’s Fair Chicago. A perfectly happy two weeks at a modest cost. A good vacation in a strenuous year.” 7 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Nov 16, 1896 “12.01 A.M. Niagara electric current first turned on in Buffalo. Salute of 21 guns. One thousand horse power furnished to street railway.” Feb 15, 1898 “U.S.S. Maine blown up in Havana Harbor.” May 1, 1898 “Battle of Manilla Bay. Departure of 65th Reg. to war.” July 10, 1898 “Sunday. Patriotic praise service proclaimed by Pres. McKinley. Dorothy’s flag was carried after the cross in procession at our church.” Nov 2, 1898 “Belle took Nettie, with Margaret, Delta and Nelle Crouse to hear Sousa’s band in eve.” May 1900 “Belle heard Paderewski the pianist.” May 20, 1901 “Pan-Am Exposition dedicated. DDM as a member of Publicity Committee rode in procession from City Hall to Temple of Music. Vice President Roosevelt spoke.” Sept 6, 1901 “Pres. McKinley shot at Exposition.” Sept 14, 1901 “He died at John G. Milburn’s home, Buffalo. Roosevelt took oath of office as president at home of Ansley Wilcox Buffalo.” May 22, 1903 “DDM ran new electric runabout from home to office, successfully, but after arrived there ran into fence and damaged it.” July 29, 1903 “Belle visited St Louis Exposition grounds.” Sept 19-26, 1903 “DDM…Drove in World’s Fairgrounds, etc.” April 25, 1904 “Rec’d and ran new Haynes-Apperson automobile (gasoline motor)…” Apr 18, 1906 Apr 21, 1906 “San Francisco shaken 90 seconds by severe earthquake causing much destruction, followed by three days conflagration destroying three-fourths of city and making 300,000 people homeless.” “ Larkin Co’s donations to San Fran sufferers over $4000. Employees $1.000 more.” Jan 7, 1907 “Heard Melba with Pittsburg Orchestra.” Nov 9. 1907 Mar 1, 1909 “Meeting of forty men in playroom addressed by Charles P. Norton Vice Chancellor University of Buffalo on University project to take county poor farm for a site for a greater university. This was first public announcement of intention to take it.” “Sub. $500 to new site for University of Buffalo.” Oct 13, 1909 “Dorothy and parents hear Frederick A Cook tell his story of his discovery of the North Pole.” Feb 20, 1912 “Darwin in afternoon attended Boy Scout meeting at which Sir Robert Baden Powell presided. In eve IRM and DDM heard him at 20th Cent. Club house.” Nov1912 “Mother purchased a Victrola.” Apr 7, 1913 We parents and Dorothy saw Annie Russell in “She stoops to conquer.” June 14, 1913 “Saw my first aero plane. Passed over home.” May 7, 1915 “’Lusitania’ sunk by Huns. Elbert Hubbard lost.” 8 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM April 6, 1917 “President Wilson and Congress declare a state of War exists with Germany.” Nov 2, 1917 “U.S. postage increased to 3¢ per oz.” Oct 10, 1918 “Subscribed $50,000 to Fourth Liberty Loan.” Sept30, 1918 “Allies gave armistice to Bulgaria.” Oct 21 “Armistice with Turkey.” Nov 3 “Armistice with Austria.” Nov7 “False report of armistice with Germany. Great celebration impromptu.” Nov 11 “Civic holiday; armistice signed with Germany at Cenlis France (see Aug 23 ’08).” Nov 5, 1918 “Women vote for first time in N.Y. State.” Nov 18, 1919 “Rachmaninoff pianist.” May 16, 1920 “Saw for first time an airplane take off and alight at Curtis field.” April 7, 1923 “Heard Lord Robert Cecil Gov. Cox and Hamilton Holt on League of Nations which I heartily favor.” Jan 9, 1926 “All including Mother to George Arliss at Majestic Th.” Aug 7, 1927 “Jas, Dorothy & I to Peace Bridge dedication.” Oct 3, 1929 “Margaret gave family dinner Darwin’s birthday. He greatly distressed by Stock Market but worse fol. 24 to 31 and Nov 11-13 panics.” Nov 1929 “Anxious days because of Stock Market Panics.” Dec 1929 “1929 remembered as the year of the great stock market boom and the bursting of the bubble to ruining so many.” July 1, 1932 “Parade Bfo Centennial & Dedication City Hall” Oct 19, 1933 “To Chicago World’s Fair. 7.45 train. Will & Everett met me. 5.30 P.M.” Oct 20, 1933 “Will & I all day ‘Century of Progress’.” Gardeners Oct 5, 1904 “Hebditch, experienced English gardener, just arrived, began charge of our garden.” Dec 28, 1904 “Hebditch began filling conservatory boxes.” Mar 31, 1905 “Hebditch, gardener, resolved to return to England.” Apr 19, 1905 “ Harry Hebditch, gardener left us. (sailed for England 22nd) and George Frampton took his place.” Mar 6, 1906 “ Discharged George Frampton as gardener.” 9 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Mar 7, 1906 “Thomas S. Skinner took charge as gardener” Sept 4, 1907 “ Thomas Skinner our gardener and Mary [blank] married at twelve o’clock in living room by Rev Dr G. H. Gaviller. Luncheon to guests followed.” Aug 21, 1913 “In N.Y. Mr May took me in his car thro Bronx, White Plains, etc. Saw Thos Skinner at Mamaroneck, the gardener who left me June 30, 1912 George Fellows taking his place.” Nov 27, 1916 “ George Fellows gardener left. U. Edwin Helie in his place.” July 31, 1932 “ Forbes, gardener lvs” Graycliff Apr 18, 1926 To E. Aurora with Bartons to call on Cousin Josephine Cook Hazard, ill. Looked at lot on return.” Apr 19 Bought lot 250 front on Lake Erie in Evans Aug 22, 1926 Mother’s first visit to lot at lake. Delighted. Oct 12, 1926 Mother’s 2nd visit to Lake Shore lot. Dec 25, 1926 Very happy Xmas. Mar 4, 1927 with Wright bought hardware. [in NYC] Apr 5, 1927 Apr 6 Wright here to Country house building job. Clock for country house from families. July 31-Aug 2, 1927 Mother ill. Took her to Graycliff. Sept 1927 Frequent trips to country house, progressing apace. Oct 5, 1927 In NY. Shopping for new house. Mar 10, 1928 Hotel Drake Chicago Bot furniture for Graycliff. Mar 12 Bot furniture Apr 7, 1928 IRM & DDM to Graycliff first time since last fall. Jun 25, 1928 Contract for steel stairs Graycliff beach to lawn $2212. July 20, 1928 IRM July 21 DDM to Graycliff Jul 20-30 J & Dor. also Sept 20, 1928 Paul A Harsh overnight at Graycliff which he suggested the name for. 10 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Sept 30 Family left Graycliff for season. June 21, 1929 Belle moved to Graycliff. June 22 DDM ditto. July 16, 1929 5:30 P.M. Jas & Dor drove to Graycliff. July 29 Graycliff evergreen Garden, stoneseat begun. Dead black oak removed. Sept 1929 McChesney painting [Graycliff or Jewett Pkwy?] Sept 18 All morning judging back-yard playgrounds. Lake Shore Assn dinner and annual mtg at Hunt Club. Oct 4-7, 1929 at Graycliff Oct 19 To Graycliff. Oct 20 To G. with all children. Lovely days. Oct 27 ditto. Apr 21, 26, 1930 Belle to Graycliff May 3, 1930 I to Graycliff 1st time since Oct. May 10 At G. lunch So. Terrace. June 7, 1930 Mother, Miss H, I, Jas & Dorothy with Marget to Graycliff for summer. July 1930 Much croquet all summer Home all Saturdays (Graycliff) Aug 22, 1930 Jas Dorothy & Marget to city home Aug 29-Sept 3 Jas & Dor to Gclf. Aug 31-Sept 1 Darwin Marg to G. Sept 7, 27-28, 1930 Darwin & Marg to Gclf. Sept 14 Jas & D. to Gclf Sept 23 IRM home [from Lake Placid Club] by auto to Graycliff Sept 24 DDM to G. Oct 4-5, 11-13, 1930 at Graycliff. Dinners at Wanakah Club. Oct 19 4″ snow at Graycliff, Angola, etc. 11 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Apr 18, 1931 To Graycliff, first in ’31, lunch at Wanakah Club. May 2, 1931 Again to Graycliff. Carried lunch. May 2 Foster family called. Dary’s first visit to G. May 26 To G. May 30 IRM Miss H and I to G for summer. Foster family called. June 19, 1931 Jas & Dor. moved to G. June 25 to Graycliff with them [Van Berghs] in their car. July 25, 1931 Family party afternoon and to dinner. Oct 13, 1931 Dorothy and family left Graycliff for season. Nov 1, 1931 Closed Graycliff Dec 31, 1931 To Graycliff in A.M. one hour, no snow yet. May 26, 1932 To Graycliff for summer. July 22, 1932 Family dinner Oct 12, 1932 3 pm Graycliff & to bed 1492 miles trip [to Long Island] Nov 1-3, 1932 Closed Graycliff Mar 25, 1933 A.M. drove with Mother to Graycliff. May 25, 1933 Graycliff opened. May 27 DDM Foster family to G. Sept 30, 1933 Foster family returned to city. Sept 28 Wm. painted Graycliff house & garage. Oct 13, 1933 IRM planted 5 white, 6 Austrian Pines in n.w. corner front lawn at Graycliff. Oct 26 Belle closed Graycliff in afternoon. Apr 17, 1934 IRM CMH to Graycliff. May 26, 1934 Changeover 20 to 60 cycle NL @ Graycliff May 28 Moved to Graycliff. May 29 Health Board Graycliff water “safe.” It is not potable. 12 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM June 30, 1934 Pd Graycliff tax $1,300. Oct 24, 1934 I Graycliff to Jewett. Graycliff Visitors, Friends, and Relatives July 21-23, 1928 Bartons inc. Laura out to Gry July 22, 1928 Fifteen to dinner at Wanakah Club. Supper at Graycliff July 24, 1928 Wright Simpson & Mrs S to Graycliff dinner Aug 12, 1928 Barcalos to dinner Graycliff Sept 20, 1928 Paul A Harsh overnight at Graycliff which he suggested the name for June 15, 1929 W.[FLW] & Delta to Graycliff July 15-29, 1929 Laura with her mother, sometimes, Graycliff July 20, 1929 Dr Ferdinand Schevil and Benj. E. Page of Chicago to office, Larkin office after hours, to Jewett Pkwy and dinner at Graycliff. Aug 20-26, 1929 George & Laura at Graycliff Sept 8, 1929 Mr & Mrs Henry P. Fink to dinner [Graycliff?] Oct 27, 1929 Mrs Shipman at G. June 25-26, 1931 To Graycliff with them [Van Berghs of Rochester] in their car Aug 2, 1931 Mr Mrs W F Will to supper [Graycliff?] Aug 22, 1931 Delta and Laura with us at Graycliff. They to Phil at night. 118 Summit Ave vacated. Oct 3, 1931 Luke Harvey to Graycliff for call to bid goodby before sailing to [ ] at Milan Italy Oct 9-10, 1931 George Tait to Graycliff overnight. July 2-Aug 7, 1932 Delta at Graycliff July 30-Aug 7, 9-10 George and Laura July 12, 1932 Barcalos dinner [Graycliff?] July 13, 1932 Mr & Mrs W F Will dinner [Graycliff?] Oct 2, 1932 WEM here. Kirby’s to supper. [Graycliff?] July 19, 1933 J. F. Place’s & G. M. Kirby’s to dinner at G. 13 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM July 28-Aug 7, 1933 Delta Laura George vacation at Graycliff Oct 3-4, 1933 Carrie & Ida [IRM’s cousins] at Graycliff overnight Apr 14, 1934 Chas. Dennison Kellogg (just discovered middle name) with 2 secretaries, Helen & Bernice Hansen here in Caravan with living quarters. Ford V-8. Apr 15, 1934 A.M. with IRM took them to Graycliff. June 5-8, 1934 Mary Foster Collins at Graycliff. June 7, 1934 Glyn Morris here. Chas Kellogg ‘Bird Way’ overnight June 7, 1934 Luncheon to 14 July 9, 1934 Cath McDermid nurse Darwin’s birth and to Isabelle and Nettie in 1898, now of Seattle and Pasadena, to dinner and all. [Graycliff?] July 18, 1934 Geo Martin 2541 Lakewood Av Detroit wife & dau Jane 14 only child at Graycliff dinner. Nice. Aug 2, 1934 Marmy to Graycliff Aug 17, 1934 M. & Grandma ditto. Sept 7, 1934 Delta came. Sept 15, 1934 Biggs family to dinner [Graycliff?] Oct 11, 1934 Laura here Oct 19, 1934 Laura & Delta left. Martin, Darwin D. and Larkin Company Aug 1878 “DDM left Father….for Newark, N.J.” “Arrived at Newark, meeting LFM last of month.” Sep 2, 1878 “Began working under LFM for J.D. Larkin & Co. with wagon selling ‘Oatmeal’ soap to private houses in Newark N.J. later the Oranges” Oct 1878 “Having finished our work in N.J we went to Boston where we spent the winter. DDM’s pay 5.00 weekly. “ Apr 1879 “LFM and DDM having finished work in Boston went to Brooklyn.” July 1879 “DDM and LFM finished work in Brooklyn and went to Paterson, N.J.” Aug 7, 1879 “DDM arrived in Buffalo from Paterson, NJ. via Hudson River night line steamer to Albany via Memphis (to see Delta) in company with LFM. and within an hour began work in the office of J.D. Larkin & Co. at 3.00 weekly.” 14 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Aug 8, 1879 “LFM left for Kalamazoo, Mich. where he joined other salesmen for JDL & Co.” Aug 1880 “William H Coss and his brother Daniel J. Coss came to Buffalo and began work for JDL & Co. Were for past four years on road selling their goods.” Mar 1, 1881 “Asked raise but did not get it” Apr 7, 1881 “ Sent LFM copy (tissue) of JDL & C ltr to L. Harkin[?]. A few days later Messrs L and H at office in eve threatened to discharge me.” Apr 23, 1881 “Pay increased fvoluntarily to 6.¯” Feb 3, 1882 “Mr. Hubbard raised my pay to $7.50 per wk from 6.¯, voluntarily. Made me feel quite grown up. Oct. 1 raised to 9.¯” Feb 25, 1882 “Arose so late did not reach office until 7.30 am” Apr 6, 1882 “JDL & Co have a typewriter and I tried out the new fangled thing in the evening.” Mar 12, 1883 “My pay increase from 9.¯to 10.¯ wk” Jun, 1883 “Much night work at office this summer finishing details of a very large index to ledgers & copying all names therein.” Dec 25, 1883 “Worked at office all day. Father sat in office in afternoon.” Jan 1, 1884 “Worked in office all am and an hour after dinner.” “My pay raised to 12¯ weekly” May 7, 1884 “I now have two assistants office.” Dec 24, 1884 “Received $20 and a silk hdkcf from JDL & Co.” Dec 25, 1884 “My pay to $15 week” Jan 1, 1885 “So busy at office declined Mrs. Hubbard’s invitation to spend day at E. Aurora. Worked all New Year’s day but spent very pleasant evening at the Reidpaths with the girls.” Feb 20, 1885 “Given charge of credits to firm’s customers” Jun 5, 1885 “Will Coss office hrs 8.45 – 5.20” Aug 15, 1885 “Conceived card index to our 35,000 ledger accts.” Aug 25, 1885 “ Began it. Nov 9th Finished. It led to card ledger in 1886 and is as far as I know first commercial card index. Ours made economically possible ‘factory to family’ destiny. Got idea at Young Men’s Assn Library wh. preceded Public Library.” Nov 19, 1885 “I have four assistants, three are girls. Office hours hereafter 7.30 to 5.30.” Dec, 1885 “Firm is generous through summer and fall. I received only a silk handkcf for Christmas.” Feb 10, 1886 “Mr. Hubbard advanced DDM’s salary from 15.00 to 20.00 weekly.” Jul 5, 1886 “ ‘The fourth’ – worked all day. Assistants worked forenoon.” Jul 1887 “Saturday half-holiday, becoming general but not at Larkin office.” 15 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Sep 2, 1887 “Ninth anniversary of entering employ JDL & Co” Nov 29, 1887 “has 6 assistants in office. Rejoice in a students’ lamp at office like one in my room. Dec 19 Seven Assts.” Dec 1, 1887 “Started firm’s first cash book.” Jan 12, 1888 “Acquired a stenographer” Jan 20, 1888 “Hubbard threatened to discharge me for something I wasn’t at all accountable for” Jan 30, 1888 “He promised me 25.¯ if bus. continues as is.” Apr 2, 1888 “My pay raised to $25 weekly.” May 30, 1888 “Decoration Day Half-holiday! Fishing!” Jun 25, 1888 “7 am at office.” [on vacation Jun 21-24] Jul 18, 1888 “Business growing fast. Hiring girl assts as fast as find them” Jul 23, 1888 “A dozen assts” Jul 28, 1888 “At office until one a.m.” Jul 30, 1888 “16 assts.” Aug 11, 1888 “Firm will use barn for business and hire carting done, so I am evicted.” [had kept pony in barn] Aug 27, 1888 “Nettie [Reidpath] and Ida Kaiser began work in JDL & Co’s office at DDMs solicitation.” “I asked H to raise Myra Hutchinson my best asst. to 6.¯ wk. He did.” Sep 16, 1888 “Sunday Worked forenoon to increase space and light in office” Oct 8, 1888 “Now 18 girls in office” Oct 26, 1888 “Have new rolltop desk and leave standing desk. Enjoy my work.” Dec 20, 1888 “Added recording of orders to my office, 24 assts now” Dec 25, 1888 “$25 from firm & 2 etchings.” Apr 8, 1889 “15 clerks in office beside myself” Jul 19, 1889 “18 clerks & office boy. Dictate ltrs to Mr H’s stenog” Feb 25, 1891 “DDM reminded Mr. H. he had said last fall might raise wages, said ‘w’d see Mr. L.’” Feb 28, 1891 “Mr. H. said hereafter w’d pay me 30.00; quite ungracious about it but I feel entitled to it.” Jul 25, 1891 “Mr. Hubbard discouraged talked-of trip to Colo saying as business was dull thought I ought to stay and work for orders. He had previously offered passes. My office assts reduced to seven.” Sep 16, 1891 “Mr. Hubbard charged me with pre-occupation referring to commission earned on sales of building lots.” 16 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Dec 9, 1891 “Note from Mr. Hubbard expressing displeasure with my outside deals. Likened man to a storage battery.” Dec 12, 1891 “Wrote Mr. H if my services unsatisfactory. He asn’d No but that outside deals might prevent promotion.” Dec 14, 1891 “Mr. H. said JDL & Co. will be incorporated next year. Very fortunate for me I have acquired practice in double entry bookkpg for LFM & Co. of which he knows nothing.” Dec 18, 1891 “Told Mr. H. he, Mr. L and Coss bro’s and I not congenial enough. I could love the business as my own if knew more about what was going on.” Feb 22, 1892 “The Larkin Soap Mfg Co began business. DDM one of the five directors. John D. Larkin Pres. E.G. Hubbard Sec’y & Treas.” Sep 5, 1892 “Mr. L suggests probability of Mr. H withdrawing from Co.” Sep 6, 1892 “Am wishing I c’d buy large part of Mr. H’s stock” Sep 20, 1892 “Mr L negociating for H’s stock…, if gets it I will get part.” Nov 5, 1892 “I get 2,000 shs Mr H’s stock thru Mr. L @ 2.¯.” Dec 27, 1892 “Lunch up town with Mr. H to tell me of his retirement. Assured me all responsibility will be mine and we will succeed. Advised me to demand $3000.” Jan 2, 1893 “DDM made Secretary of Larkin Soap Mfg Co. via Mr. Hubbard resigned as Secy & Treas & Director.” Aug 1893 “The panic of ’93’ at its height. A currency famine.” Nov 16, 1893 “L Co business much improved after desperately dull summer.” Apr 20, 1894 “DDM on his first business trip to New York.” May 1894 “DDM returned [to Buffalo from Chicago] via Benton Harbor, Mich to visit our Co’s earliest furniture factory.” Jul 19, 1895 “busy at office.” Aug 1895 “L Co building ‘C’, first of series followed by ‘D’ in ’06 etc.” “Alta and family live in Bfo, he a watchman at factory. Pay typist 4.‾ wk.” Dec 8, 1895 “Wrote Mr L asking increase of salary to 5M. i.e., same as Mr Hubbard had for year he was Secy of L.S.M. Co.” Jan 28, 1897 “stopped on way at Dr. Stern’s office as am not feeling well. Left office at 3 P.M. drove home with Belle.” Apr 5, 1897 “At work after 9 wks” [trip taken to recover health] Nov, 1897 “Oct 3rd Negotiating with Mr. L for equal right in repurchase from outside stockholders of stock of the Larkin Soap Mfg Co. which resulted ultimately in ownership of stock to 10% of total.” Apr 1, 1899 “William R Heath, Mrs. Larkin’s brother-in-law, a lawyer in from Chicago L. Co.” 17 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Sep, 1899 “Negotiated increase in salary from 10 M to 25 M from 1st next Jan.” May 25, 1901 “L.S. Co. Exposition building opened.” Nov 1, 1901 “L.S. Co. showroom in Brooklyn opened.” Nov 2, 1901 “Pan-American Exposition and our exhibit there closed.” Nov 15, 1901 “Learning to tally average soap content of 10.000 orders proving new bldgs E. F. ample.” Jan 25-28, 1902 “DDM in NY and 29-30 in Phila” Mar 1902 “Branch L.S. Co. open in Phila and Peoria.” Mar 1, 1902 “DDM left for Peoria, Ill” Mar 3-9, 1902 3-4 “Peoria” 5th “ Chicago” 6th “LaCrosse, Wis” 7th “Chicago” 8th “Peoria” 9th “Home” July, 1902 “Branch L.S. Co. opened in N.Y. 49 Barclay St.” Sep 15-17, 1902 “til noon visiting Peoria branch L.S. Co. Found new building and opened negotiations for its purchase.” Oct 13, 14, 15, 1902 “Canvassed for quarters for branch of L.S. Co.” [in Boston] Oct 25-26, 1902 “Edward M. May of N.Y. and Crawford N.J. visited us, engaged him to be a special representative of L. S. Co.” Jan 2, 1903 “L.S. Co. opened Boston branch .” Feb, 1903 “Planning requirements of new office building by Frank Lloyd Wright & discouraging counter plans from President.” Mar 16, 1903 “DDM Peoria.” Mar 28-29, 1903 “DDM in N.Y. on business”. “L.S. Co. business extraordinarily successful.” May 1, 1903 “DDM to top new L Co. chimney; saw Brock monument; Niagara mist etc.” Sep 5, 1903 “DDM to first Larkin office picnic at Dunkirk.” Sep 18, 1903 “DDM at Peoria” Oct 22, 1903 “night to N.Y.” Oct 24, 1903 “ Phila 25th t o Cranford NJ. (E.M. May’s)” Dec 7, 1903 “Gave dinner at Otowega Club to Mr May of N.Y. and buyers” Aug 1904 “Name of Larkin Soap Co. changed to Larkin Co.” Nov 1, 1904 “Gum Kirby began at office of L Co.” [Wm Martin’s brother-in-law] Nov 12, 1904 “Belle & DDM left by night train for Pittsburg….. Visited L Co showroom.…”. [went on to St. Louis for Louisiana Purchase Exposition.] Nov 19, 1904 “Sat. a.m. arrived at Peoria. Visited branch….” 18 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Jan 14, 1905 “Mr. Larkin informed me that Mr. Heath is to be made 2nd Vice Pres. of L. Co. at annual meeting 17th and that he wishes all adv. turned over to Mr. Esty.” May 27-28, 1905 “DDM in Boston” Jun 8, 1905 “DDM in Philadelphia.” Apr 21, 1906 “Larkin Co’s donations to San Fran sufferers over $4000. Employees $1000 more.” [after earthquake on April 18] May 17, 1906 “DDM to N.Y.” May 20, 1906 “Evening DDM to Phila ‘Bingham House’”. Sep 7, 1906 “Dinner to men of secretary’s department of office” Oct 1, 1906 “First luncheon in Larkin Office Building dining rm.” Nov 12, 1906 “ in N.Y. visited proposed new branch.” Dec 19, 1906 “At a luncheon to Larkin Co’s young men who travel with exhibitions of goods made a short talk.” Dec 27&28, 1906 “two strenuous directors’ meetings resulting in DDM’s plan for packing Co’s goods being rejected.” Feb 12, 1907 “Dinner at office to office men at six. DDM spoke on ‘Pay the Price’, well received and printed in ‘Ourselves’” Aug 10, 1907 “DDM in A.M. at L Co’s NY Branch.” Oct 7-8, 1907 “DDM to Rockford Ill and return and night train to Peoria”. 8th “Day at Peoria Branch” Feb 1908 “Co. suspended ‘Larkin Idea’ after 7 years continuous publication.” Apr 3, 1908 “To dinner at Hyatt Smith’s being tenth anniversary of his employment with L. Co.” Jun 20, 1908 “DDM to Wanakah to dinner with Mr Gridley & buyers” Aug 1908 “Because of general decline in business L Co. offices and factory closed Saturdays from midMay.” Jan 19, 1909 “annual meetings of L Co and of church (in eve)” Apr 5-8, 1909 “DDM busy at L Co mill” [Memphis, Tenn] Jun 11-12, 1909 “To Peoria at night”. 12th “Day at Branch.” July 1, 1909 “Daniel J. and Wm H. Coss, with Co. since 1876, resigned, and left Bfo today. “ Nov 24, 1909 “Business at office equal once more to best previous record viz: that of 1907.” Feb 9, 1910 “Night train to Boston arriving 9.10 a.m. Hotel Westminster Copley Square 10 a.m. to L. Co. office 63 Summer St. and So. Boston Sleeper St. location of proposed warehouse, 3 p.m.” Apr 2, 1910 “DDM at L Co” [Philadelphia] 19 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM May 3, 1910 “DDM to L Co” [New York] August 25, 1910 “ DDM to Chicago” 26 “noon to Rockford on business” Oct 20-24, 1911 “DDM with J.D.L.Jr. to Chicago to look over site for branch of L Co.” Mar 1912 “After being several years in charge of Mr. Esty, the Co. restored to DDM’s hands the preparation of all copy for advertising. Reestablishes ‘Larkin Idea’ suspended four years ago.” Jun, 1912 “DDM never worked more incessantly than since taking charge of adv. copy work in March. New assistants, new plans and general overhaul of old.” Jul 8 &10, 1912 [during trip to Iowa] “visited Peoria branch” 10th “at Chicago branch” April 7-11, 1913 “Street car strike. Very busy mornings and evenings, chauffeuring to help our girls to and from work.” May 20, 1913 “Sold both Peerless chasis to L Co. ordered new Peerless car.” Mar 28, 1914 “In Baltimore visiting Dan and Will Coss. Dan very ill.” Apr 25, 1914 “Dan’l J. Coss died.” Nov, 1914 “If possible, busiest period I have had in years. At office 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. Business is behind last year 5% but in general ahead of others. Europe’s war which began Aug 1st creates many new problems.” Dec, 1914 “Stock of ‘Premium’ Mdse reduced nearly 50% in 15 months.” Feb 18, 1915 “Stone fell at office. Killed one girl.” Feb 25, 1915 “Mr Larkin paid me $44,752.93 my share of profits of business lost thro Bfo Leather Co.” Apr 1-2, 1915 “JDL proposed withdrawal of me from Copy Dep. I notified him my desire to sell L Co. stock.” Apr 7, 1915 “JDL notified me Copy Dep to go to Mr. Esty. Said w’d buy my stock.” Apr 22, 1915 “JDL ordered transfer made of Copy Dep” Apr 2, 1916 “Visited L Co Philadelphia in eve” Jun 25, 1917 “Began service with Com on Supplies. L Co. gave leave of absence for 1917.” [Service ended Jan 18, 1918.] Jan 21-26, 1918 “A busy week at office.” Feb 5, 1918 “ Annual mtg. L. Co. Minutes record my services in War.” Feb 18-23, 1918 “At office daily.” [had been home ill since Jan 28] Apr 8, 1918 “Back to office.” [after trip which began Feb 24th] May 16-21, 1918 “IRM in N.Y. with Edna Morey spend 17th selecting dresses for L Co.” Dec 27, 1918 “Had article in L Co. ‘Ourselves’ on First Families of the Republic, i.e. Gold Stars from World War.” 20 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Oct 6, 1919 “King Albert & queen of Belgium, & Prince Leopold visited office.” Nov 8, 1919 “Larkin Fellowship Club (girls employed over 18 years) out, 8th, Saturday afternoon.” Nov, 1919 [On a separate sheet of paper attached to this page:] “11/11/19 WR Heath told me JC Heckman told him JDL Jr told him they, the Ls, know Esty not equal to his job but they’d not be forced to make a change i.e. Estys retention is not for Co’s interest, in fact is contrary thereto, but their nepotism is to hold him inimical to Co’s interest. Mr. H says no court would sustain such a course opposed to interest of Co. Horton Heath goes today in Ad. Dep to replace F.C. Hitch who leaves 11/15. 11/20 JCH confirmed above to me said they’d change sometime.” Dec 29, 1919 “Dinner of Larkin men to JC Heckman who is leaving. DDM spoke: only director present.” Jan 13, 1920 “JDL told me C.H.L. to retire. Walter B. Robb to succeed. JC Heckman had told me Nov. 25 CHL was going and he had been asked by JDL Jr if made a director if he would always vote with family. He announced he might not. ‘They do not wish factions on board.’ ” Feb 11, 1920 “J.D.L. Jr. thanked me for beautiful tribute I paid Chas on his resignation in the resolution filed in minutes of meeting.” Apr 1, 1920 “Began retrenchment in buying mdse following an 18 mon. big boom in prices.” July 23, 192` “Office closes all day Saturdays.” Aug 27, 1921 “I gave luncheon at Canoe Club to buyers for James H Isham, retiring.” Oct 1, 1921 “Secy Dep resumes A.M. Sat work” Mar 8, 1922 “DDM to Indianapolis on business.” Nov 3, 1922 “William Henry Coss died, New York” Nov 30, 1922 “L Co. paid last of $5,174,000 we had owed bank.” Aug 27, 1923 “At NY office” Aug 31, 1923 “Resumed work at [Buffalo] office.” Jun 30, 1924 “Wm R. Heath retired from L Co.” Sep 2, 1924 “Darwin begins at L Co in Maintenance Dep.” Nov 3, 1924 “Wrote Crate Larkin review of L Co. advertising from 1885 to date.” Feb 23, 1925 “Dinner to buyers at Athletic Club” Mar 23, 1925 “Darwin resigned from L Co.” May 9, 1925 “Harold Morton Esty died.” Jun 3, 1925 “Crate Larkin elected director.” Aug 28, 1925 “Larkin Co extraneous activities have lost $2,615,500.” Sep 1, 1925 “Completed 47th year with L Co. Sold all my stock to Co. and resigned. All amicable. Took home all my files and records.” 21 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Sep 2, 1925 “To office to bid goodbye. To People Bk to deposit and tell the Bissells. Told Dorothy.” Sep 3, 1925 “Night. To LP Club Darwin ditto from NY.” Sep 4, 1925 “Mother and Darwin much rejoiced.” Sep 14, 1925 “To office, then uptown all day.” Nov 24, 1925 “Luncheon Larkin directors gave me loving cup” Feb 15, 1926 “John Durant Larkin died. Born Sep 29, 1845.” Apr 1, 1926 “G.M. Kirby discharged by L Co” Oct 3, 1926 “After bus Newark to Madison to graves of Daniel J and William H Coss in RC Cemetery.” Apr 1, 1927 “L Co paid me $629917.81, 600M being principal” Aug 13, 1930 “James Lamb called – was L Co manager at Memphis TN” Martin House Complex, Jewett Parkway Sep 13, 1902 with Will visited Oak Park, Ill. Nov 18, 1902 Frank Lloyd Wright of Oak Park, Ill Architect (aged 35) our guest overnight. Dec 11, 1902 Bought site for our new home, and Delta’s, 1⅓ acre, 468 ft. street frontage, cor. Jewett and Summit Ave Mar 18, 1903 at F.L. Wright’s at Oak Park, Ill. Selected a plan for Geo & Delta’s house Apr 13, 1903 Frank Lloyd Wright overnight, Barton’s over, discussing their new house we are to build. May 25, 1903 Frank L. Wright overnight, discussing Delta’s plans Oct 10-11, 1903 F.L. Wright overnight. 11th Staked out Barton House. Oscar S. Lang is to build it. Oct 14, 1903 Began cellar with three teams. Oct 22, 1903 Began stone laying Dec 25, 1903 Belle decided we better begin our house in spring. Jan 31, 1904 To Oak Park with Will and Winnie to see new house. Dinner at Mr Wright’s He accompanied me to Bfo. Decided on plan for our house. Feb 15, 1904 Began plastering Barton House. Mar 19-20, 1904 Visit from F.L. Wright Sketch for barn submitted. May 8 & 11, 1904 Visit from Mr Wright. Plan of our new home practically settled. 22 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM May 12 & 14, 1904 Elm tree northeast of Delta’s house planted [blank] inches in circumference three feet from ground. 14th Elm tree planted near west line lot [blank] inches circumference. May 16, 1904 Broke ground for stable. Jun 13, 1904 Laid first stone for stable Jun 20, 1904 Belle & Darwin drove first stake for our new house. Jun 21, 1904 Broke ground, the 53rd anniversary of the marriage of DDM’s parents. Jul 19, 1904 First stone laid for our new home. Jul 26, 1904 First brick laid on our home, viz north wall of lawn, and greenhouse. Stable a day or two later. Oct 12, 1904 Hot water heat from boiler in stable basement first supplied to Barton House. Oct 29, 1904 Bartons shrubs received and planted. Dec 1, 1904 Roof on house Dec 15, 1904 House heated Jan 5, 1905 First flowers in conservatory. Began erecting frame for greenhouse Apr 1, 1905 John Curtis, coachman, moved into stable. May 9-12, 1905 About 60 trees, 260 shrubs and 1200 perennial plants set out on Jewett Ave place. Two white pines [blank] feet high age of Dorothy, two small ones, two hemlocks & four arbor vitae from Bouckville set out on the 12th. May 23-31, 1905 Many thorn bushes, five large elms and a gingko tree planted. Oct 24, 1905 Started our electric lighting plant for first time. Oct 28, 1905 Mr Wright here. A small fire in kitchen of new house. Decorating of walls begins. Collected 193.40 insurance. Nov 21, 1905 Began moving into our new home, slept there. Nov 22, 1905 First breakfast in our new home. Now begin our meals with a silent blessing. Dec 5, 1905 Mr & Mrs George Weaver to luncheon. DDM home to luncheon. First guests. Dec 6, 1905 Gen’l Electric current connected Mar 10, 1906 Rec’d last of first floor carpets, the living room, a rug 20 ft by 20 ½ ft. May 23, 1906 Bought 53 foot lot on Jewett Av. adjoining. Nov 12, 1906 in N.Y….. Bought lamp at Tiffany’s. Nov 16, 1906 Reception to neighbors, church friends and social friends, 232 present. Nov 17 Reception to 210 office people. 23 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Nov 26 Dinner to 40 of those present 16th. Dec 22 Kindergarten Christmas tree, all presents made by children for parents who were present Dec 27 Children’s party for Dorothy and Laura to fifty children Dec 29 Party, with supper, for servants and 40 friends. All these last affairs were given in the playroom. Apr 20, 1907 Our house may be considered finished: last workman finished his work today, a carpenter who has been continuously on the job until now. May 29-30, 1907 Mr Wright and photographer here taking pictures of house. Mar 1908 This month’s Architectural Record has many pictures of our home. May 5, 1908 Our Jewett Ave garden lot planted to shrubbery and fruit, drained. Poultry house built, first fowls 4/17. Feb 23, 1909 Signed contracts with O S Lang for cottages for Reuben [Palder, houseman] and Thomas [Skinner, gardener] Aug, 1909 Guests from Bfo coming and going at cottage [at Erie Beach]. All enjoying the vacation except for no opportunity for reading and away from Jewett Ave. at its loveliest season. Shrubbery and trees making great growth. May 1911 Took up sod from Sum. Ave lawn. Regraded and reseeded it. Oct 15, 1911 Edison storage battery for electric lights installed. Dec 27, 1918 Open winter. Second boiler started. Sep 5, 1924 Started boiler with new grates & blower Dec 25, 1926 My portrait not quite a success. “Permutil” system of water-softening is. Sept 1927 McChesney painted exterior Jewett Pkwy Sept 1929 McChesney painting [Jewett Pkwy or Graycliff?] Sept 1930 McChesney doing interior painting Jewett Pkwy. May 18, 1932 Heat main fell in pergola basement, pulling all other pipes down cost $480¯ Jun 2, 1932 Failed in effort to borrow $40 M on Jewett Pkwy. Jun 17, 1932 Submitted to U.S. lien on Jewett Pkwy. It was recorded and published Feb 1933. Dec 11, 1933 First trip to greenhouse since 1904 Isabelle returned empty handed. No flowers. Transportation Vehicles, Personal (with receipt information from MS 22.8 Box 7 Ledger) June 11-July 30, 1885 Bought mustang, Mr H traded it for me for a [ ] [Di ] gray pony good under saddle and the harness. Bought phaeton in Oct he gave me cutter in Nov & harness 24 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Oct, 1885 Aided by Mr. Hubbard, DDM acquired a riding and driving pony and phaeton. Dec 18, 1887 Pony, which has been greatly enjoyed all the year, has contracted feet. Jan 8, 1888 Took pony to E. Aurora, walked nearly 10 miles. Turned her out to pasture (open winter). Rode Hubbard’s “Gypsy back to city. Aug 11, 1888 Firm will use barn for business and hire carting done, so I am evicted. To save 300 (estimate) by June 1 ’89 when we hope to wed will abandon horse. Aug 31, 1888 Sold buggy for $25.00 May 1990 Returned pony DDM has enjoyed since mid-winter to Mr H. Aug 26, 1891 Belle wants me to get a bicycle. Aug 30, 1891 Bought one. Jul, 1897 Belle has a bicycle; rides only before dusk, her eyes affected by stronger light. May 22, 1903 DDM ran new electric runabout [Niagara Electric] from home to office, successfully, but after arrived there ran in fence and damaged it. May 29, 1903 Rec’d runabout in good order. Apr 22, 1904 Rec’d and ran new Haynes-Apperson automobile (gasoline motor) after a few days previous use of another. Nov 13, 1905 Bought beautiful carriage team, dark chestnuts, long tails, 5-7 years old. 1040-1120 lbs. Nov 29, 1905 Bought Brougham. Nov. 21, 1908 Sold Haynes auto $300 Nov 24, 1908 Bought a Maxwell runabout $500. [receipt in Archives Box 6, MS 22.6 shows $600 & included gas lamps & generator] Feb 27, 1909 Rec’d new Peerless touring car. [receipt shows it was car no.4759, motor no.2762, cost $4580.00, was onyx brown and included mohair top, folding glass front, luggage carrier, tire bracket, and muffler cut-out] Mar, 1909 Sold Belle’s team and coach harness “at sacrifice” Nov 24, 1909 New limousine body on Peerless car. Very fine. Apr 23, 1910 New Peerless car with last year’s touring body May 12, 1911 Bought new “Overland” five-passenger car for personal use. [receipt shows it was model 52#52805, had K-S Bailey tires, extra tube and cost $1615.65] Apr 9, 1913 Gave Belle “Detroit” electric automobile (five passenger enclosed, Edison battery) for birthday. May 20, 1913 Sold both Peerless chassis to L Co. ordered new Peerless car. Aug 10, 1913 Recd new Peerless car.” [receipt dated Aug 15, 1913 shows Peerless Motor Car model 48-6, style 7 pass. Touring and was sold to J.D. Larkin Jr.] 25 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Sep 17, 1916 With Belle Delta George and I, and Edw Becker, and chauffeur turned “Peerless” over returning from Pekin on N.F. “boulevard”. Last trip in that Peerless touring body no one hurt in least. Sep 20, 1916 Bought Pierce Arrow. June 29, 1917 Bot Stearns car for Dorothy. Mar 16, 1923 Darwin motored me with H. in Peerless acquired recently to Hartford. Aug 4, 1930 Gave and sent 1916 Pierce Arrow touring car to George Jr Republic [MS 22.6 Box No. 7, Ledger titled Estate of D.D. Martin Assignment to Buffalo-Phenix Corp., in the section titled “Automobile Investment”, there were entries for a Pierce Arrow touring car (that was given to theGeorge Jr Republic), a Pierce Arrow limousine, series 80 and a Pierce Arrow limousine series 143. A Ford sedan was purchased in 1929 which was given to Dorothy in 1934 to apply on her purchase of Graham Paige.] Wright, Frank Lloyd Nov 18, 1902 Frank Lloyd Wright of Oak Park, Ill Architect (aged 35) our guest overnight. Nov 19 DDM to Niagara with Mr W. Feb 1903 Planning requirements of new office building by Frank Lloyd Wright & discouraging counter plans from President. Mar 18, 1903 at F.L. Wright’s at Oak Park, Ill. Selected a plan for Geo & Delta’s house. Apr 13, 1903 Frank Lloyd Wright overnight, Barton’s over, discussing their new house we are to build. May 25, 1903 Frank L. Wright overnight, discussing Delta’s plans. Oct 10-11, 1903 F.L. Wright overnight. Nov 23, 1903 Will Martin and F. L. Wright here. Will to Delta’s. Wright home overnight. Jan 31, 1904 To Oak Park with Will and Winnie to see new house. Dinner at Mr Wright’s He accompanied me to Bfo. Decided on plan for our house. Mar 19-20, 1904 Visit from F.L. Wright. Sketch for barn submitted. Apr 15, 1904 Mr Wright here. May 8 & 11, 1904 Visit from Mr Wright. Plan of our new home practically settled. May 6-11, 1904 Catherine Wright aged 10 with us. Aug 30, 1904 Visit from Mr Wright Sep 20, 1904 Visit from Mr Wright Nov 11, 1904 Mr Wright here 26 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Nov 12, 1904 …[19th] Visited branch and drove two hours, to Mr Wright’s “Clark” house etc. To Chicago in afternoon. Will met us. Visited them in their new house. Florence & Wrights to dinner Sunday. Nov 25, 1904 Wright here. Jan 10-12, 1905 Mr Wright here Feb 11, 1905 Mr Wright here. Mr & Mrs Simpson, Miss Block, Paul F. P. Mueller of Chicago and Mr Wright to dinner. Mr Wright starts 14th with Mrs W. for Japan. May 20-22, 1905 Mr Wright here after 3 month trip to Japan Jun 11-13, 1905 Mr Wright here Jul 10, 1905 Mr Wright here Sep 30, 1905 Mr & Mrs Heath, Mr & Mrs Wright to dinner. Oct 1-3, 1905 Mr & Mrs Wright to church with us and home to dinner remaining until Tues. A.M. Oct 3rd. Oct 28, 1905 Mr Wright here. Nov 8-9, 1905 Mr Wright here Mar 16, 1906 Mr. Wright overnight May 10, 1906 Mr Wright here. Jul 25, 1906 DDM on farm two Saturdays & Sundays and each night except 25th at home with Mr Wright. Oct 4, 1906 Mr Hardy, a client of Mr Wright’s, of Racine, Wis. with us over-night. Oct 23, 1906 To lecture on C.S. at Niagara by Bicknell Young with Mr Wright and Mr Mortimer Matthews of Cinti . Mar 25, 1907 Mr & Mrs Charles D. Holcombe & Mr Wright to dinner May 29-30, 1907 Mr Wright and photographer here taking pictures of house. Oct 5, 1907 Party spent entire day with WEM in auto visiting all the C.S. churches viz 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th & 7th (last building). Lastly Unity Church Oak Park and Mr Wright’s office. Jun 1908 Many meetings of C.S. church building committee. Endeavored to secure engagement of Mr Wright as architect, but failed. Jun 13, 1909 To Third Church with LFM. From thence in Will’s auto with him and Frank to Oak Park (dinner) and Riverside (Wright with us) to Arthur Coonley’s. Jun 24, 1909 Wright to dinner. Sep 5, 1914 Mrs F L Wright, Frances and Llewellyn overnight. Oct 1922 F.L. Wright here two days. Mar 4, 1927 With Wright [in NYC] bought hardware 27 �Index: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Apr 5,6, 1927 Apr 6th Wright here. to Country house building job. Jun 1, 1927 With Wright in NY Jun 15-16, 1927 Wright here. Aug 19-20, 1927 Wright here. Jan 30, 1928 Conference Blackstone Hotel with atty Alfred T Rogers Madison Wis, Dr Ferdinand Schevill, Ben E Page, WEM re FL Wright’s affairs. Am to loan 10 M on 2nd mtg on Taliesin. Jun 14-18, 1929 Frank Lloyd Wright & family here. Jul 20, 1929 Dr Ferdinand Schevill and Benj E. Page of Chicago to office, Larkin office after hours, to Jewett Pkwy and dinner at Graycliff. 28 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Darwin D. Martin Family papers Subject The topic of the resource Martin, D. D. (Darwin D.), 1865-1935 ; Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) ; Herrick, Cora ; Martin, Darwin R. (Darwin Reidpath), 1900-1979 ; Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) Description An account of the resource This Digital Collection consists of transcripts and subject indexes of selected diaries and correspondence from the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/archives/ubar_ms0022_6.xml">Darwin D. Martin Family papers</a> held by University Archives. Created by Anita Mitchell, Darwin Martin House docent, these resources provide unparalleled access to Martin, his wife Isabelle, family friend Cora Herrick, and Darwin R. Martin. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-UA042 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. 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University Archives Abstract: Transcription of diary kept by Darwin D. and Isabelle R. Martin. An index to the diary is available as a separate document within this digital collection. Extent: pdf/668 KB Source: Memoranda of Events in the Life of Darwin D. and Isabelle R. Martin, 1865-1934, 3.1, MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Preferred Citation: Mitchell, Anita, trans. Transcription of Memoranda of Events in the Life of Darwin D. and Isabelle R. Martin, 1865-1934. [Entry description and dates]. Diary in 3.1, MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, circa 1878-1935, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo. Acquisition Information: Anita Mitchell, Darwin D. Martin House docent, gifted her transcription of the diary to University Archives in 2014. Terms of Access: Transcription of Memoranda of Events in the Life of Darwin D. and Isabelle R. Martin, 1865-1934 is open for research. �Search Tips for Memorandum of Events in the Life of Darwin D. and Isabelle R. Martin The transcript may be searched in two different ways. 1. Browse the Subject Index to Memoranda of Events in the Life of Darwin D. and Isabelle R. Martin, 1865-1934 (a separate document). 2. Search this transcript using “control f” to search for keywords. Common abbreviations to people and places are listed below. To find references to people: • Darwin D. Martin, search for DDM or I. • Isabelle R. Martin, search for Belle, IRM, IR or Mother. • Dorothy Martin Foster, search for Dorothy, Dor., or D. • James F. Foster, search for James, Jas, or J. • Margaret Foster, search for Margt or Marget. • Darwin Foster, search for Dary. • Margaret Reidpath, search for Margaret, Marmy, Marg, or MFR. • Katherine Reidpath, search for Grandma or KR. • Cora Herrick, search for Miss Herrick, Miss H, or CMH. • William E. Martin, search for Will or WEM. • L. Frank Martin, search for Frank or LFM. • Alpheus E. Martin, search for Alta or AEM To find references to places: • Graycliff, search for Graycliff, Gclf, or G. • Larkin Company, search for Larkin or JDL & Co • Lake Placid Club, search for Placid, or L.P. NOTE: Any marks within brackets [ ] are of the transcriber. �Memorandum of Events in the Life of Darwin D. and Isabelle R. Martin MS 22.6 Darwin D. Martin Family Papers, Box 3, Item 1 University at Buffalo, SUNY, University Archives FIRST PAGE IRM Memorandum *Father’s name: Alexander W. Reidpath Born at 137 High St. Scotland; Musselburgh. April 30th 1841. – Friday Died at 355 Seneca St. Buffalo, NY June 8 1885 Monday Buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo Served three years in civil war, 21st Reg. N.Y. Volunteers and later in 74th Reg. of N.Y. as a substitute for his brother Robert until mustered out. *His Grandmothers: Maternal: Isabelle Williamson Paternal: Elizabeth Simpson Maternal great grandmother: Catherine Logan Authority: His sister, Isabella 6 – 9 – 1913 PAGE ACROSS Mother’s Name: Katherine Danner Born at Brooklyn, New York August 18 1845 Married at Buffalo, N.Y. Nov. 7 1867 Mother’s mother Dorothea Danner nee Murer NEXT PAGE DDM’s Father’s Name. Hiram Martin Born at town of Cazenovia, near village of Woodstock, county of Madison State of New York Friday 25th day of Oct. year 1822 Died at 233 Ridgway Ave. Chicago State of Ill. Home of Wm E. Martin 3:15 a.m. Sunday 29th day of: Jan year : 1893 Buried at Clayville, Oneida Co. State of N.Y. at 7.30 am. Feb. 2 Thursday Sauquoit Valley Cemetery. “Perpetual care” provided Remarks: Father’s Father: John Martin Born at Leverett Mass. 1775 Died and buried at Cazenovia, NY “South Cemetery”. Mar. 2 1860 aged 86 yrs. 1 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM [PAGE CON’T.] Father’s Mother: Dorothy Smith born at Montague, Mass 1784, died Erieville NY Mch 22, 1873 aged 89. Dorothy Smith’s father Saml Smith born Montague Mass 1758 died Cazenovia N.Y. Sept 27 1850 NEXT PAGE Mother’s Name. Ann Eliza McMannis Born at Elizabeth or Rahway State of N.J. 30th day of March year 1832 Married at Newark, Wayne Co. State of N.Y. June 21st 1851 By Rev. Daniel S. Chase in presence of Albert S. and Harriet Martin. Died at Clayville State of N.Y. 3.00 a.m . Monday 4th day of Sept. year 1871 Buried at Clayville Mother’s Father Kenneth McMannis Remarks: Mother’s Mother Martha Foster Born at Westfield N.J.? Sunday Jan 13. 1805 Died ¨ Newark, NY (?) Wednesday May 2. 1849 John Foster a NY. Attorney was a brother. NEXT PAGE Memorandum . of events In the life of Darwin Denice Martin and Born at Bouckville, Madison Co. N.Y. Oct. 25. 1865 (Wednesday) PAGE ACROSS Isabelle Minnie Reidpath [written across from Darwin D. Martin] Born at S.E. corner Seneca & Louisiana Sts Buffalo State of N.Y. on Friday 9th day of April year 1869 Time of M Day of week Weight lbs oz. Married at 355 Eagle St. Buffalo State of N.Y. Date 26th day June year 1889 By Rev. John Evans Bold To Darwin D. Martin NEXT PAGE Children Born Dorothy Reidpath Martin Saturday 3.15 a.m. June 27, 1896 Darwin Reidpath Martin 1 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Wednesday Oct. 3 1900 6 P.M. NEXT PAGE Brothers, Sisters, or 1. Louis Frank Martin July 19, 1852 2. Alpheus Erwin " March 27, 1855 [in margin: Newark, NY] 3. Delta Louise " Nov. 4, 1859 4. William Everett " Oct. 1, 1862 [in margin: Bouckville] 5. Maude Lowain " May 22, 1874 [in margin: Neb.] Married: 3. George Field Barton Aug 8. 1847 1. Florence Bertha Fartig (Fertich) May 15 1872 2. Mary Brown 4. Winifred Kirby Sept 24 1865 5. Jacob Huffer PAGE ACROSS Other Relatives Nettie Eliza Reidpath Nov. 28, 1870 Margaret Forde " Apr. 25, 1873 NEXT PAGE BLANK NEXT PAGE BEGINS DATES, THREE MONTHS TO A PAGE January, 1865. February. March. April, 1865. May. June. July, 1865. August. September. October, 1865. Darwin Denice Martin born. 25th on Wednesday, Bouckville, Madison Co. N.Y. Delta & Wm born in same house. In 1901 the house was visited by Frank, Wm & DDM. In good repair. November. L.F.M’s diary for Oct. 25 1865 says: “Today I had a new baby brother.” December. [NOTHING IS RECORDED FOR 1866.] January, 1867. It was during this winter that Father, Mother and family of five children moved by sleigh from Bouckville to their new home on a hillside farm at Clayville, Oneida Co. N.Y. February. 2 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM March. [NOTHING IS RECORDED FOR FEBRUARY 1867 THROUGH MARCH, 1869] April, 1869. 9th Isabelle Minnie Reidpath born. The house, at corner Seneca & La Sts Buffalo, in the second story of which was the home, over her father’s grocery, razed in 1902 to widen La St for RR viaduct [NOTHING IS RECORDED FOR MAY THROUGH DECEMBER 1869.] January, 1870. 25 Temp in Bfo 15° below zero [NOTHING IS RECORDED FOR FEBRUARY 1869 THROUGH OCTOBER 1870.] November, 1870. 28th Nettie Eliza Reidpath born. [NOTHING IS RECORDED FOR DECEMBER 1870 THROUGH AUGUST 1871.] September, 1871. 4th 3 a.m. DDM’s mother died of erysipelas after three day’s illness. The Sauquoit Valley Cemetery at Clayville N.Y. where she & father are buried is a very beautiful country burying ground, commanding a splendid view. [NOTHING IS RECORDED FOR OCTOBER 1871 THROUGH JUNE 1872.] July, 1872. Father moved west taking WEM & DDM, leaving Delta, Frank & Alta behind. Stopped at Biggsville, Ill where DDM seriously ill with malaria fever at Uncle Chauncey’s. Father went to Wisconsin and returned, married. August Continued on to Neb, to farm of Father’s new wife, ten miles south of Nebraska City. September DDM began school at “Harmony” district school, 1 ¾ mi walk. October, 1872. [blank] November. [blank] December. [blank] January, 1873. LFM spent winter at E. Orange, NJ at home of Uncle Will Renshaw and Aunt Carrie, Mother’s sister. Cousin Minnie Renshaw then a little tot talking baby talk. So says LFM. In December 1925. February. [blank] March. [blank] April, 1873 .[blank] May Father built new house 8 miles south of Nebraska City for his new wife & family. NOTHING IS RECORDED FOR JUNE 1873 THROUGH MARCH 1874. April, 1874. Margaret born 25th 1873[inserted] at No. South Division St. to which the family removed about Apr. 1871. May. Maude L. Martin born, 22nd. Mr & Mrs Larkin married 10th June. [blank] 3 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM July, 1874. This summer and following winter Father, Frank, Will and I lived at Logan, Harrison Co. Iowa. August. [blank] September. [blank] October, 1874. [blank] November. [blank] December. [blank] January, 1875. This winter Father, Frank, Will and I in Iowa at Louis, Cass Co. February. [blank] March. 4 Charles H Larkin born April, 1875. [blank] May. A great year for grasshoppers in Nebraska. [NOTHING IS RECORDED FOR JUNE THROUGH OCTOBER 1875.] November, 1875. LFM located shop for Father in Mt Ayr Ringgold Co Iowa. December. About first of this month DDM and WEM went from Otoe Co. Nebraska to Mt Ayr, Iowa where their father and LFM had preceded them two or three months. Lived in “bachelors’ hall” through a hard winter. January, 1876. [blank] February. [blank] March. 12 WEM began work before and after school in book and stationery store of W.S. Berkey. [NOTHING IS RECORDED FOR APRIL 1876 THROUGH FEBRUARY 1977.] March, 1877. 12th Will entered W. S. Berkey’s book and stationery store as a clerk at 75.00 a year without board. April, 1877. [blank] May. Father and I made a very successful vegetable garden on fertile ground, an ex-cattle yard. Grew a great and varied crop. [NOTHING IS RECORDED FOR JUNE THROUGH OCTOBER 1877.] November, 1877. DDM and Father removed from Mt. Ayr Iowa back to Father’s wife’s farm in Otoe Co Neb. eight miles south of Nebraska City. By wagon to Shenondoah, Iowa. DDM on horseback, thence DDM by train to Neb. City and Father rode horse on to that place. This marked DDM’s last attendance at day school. December. [blank] January, 1878. First telephone exchange in world installed in 1878. February. [blank] March. [blank] April, 1878. [blank] May. DDM plowed a ten-acre field. 4 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM June, 1878. [blank] July, 1878. After few days of carrying water (horseback) to harvest hands in wheat field joined drovers driving 800 sheep into Nemaha Co. mostly at night acct. heat. Was sun-struck after few days and went home ill. 29 Total eclipse of sun 3.03 to 5.07 P.M. DDM drove team to “Minersville,” Dover, MO “bottom” for load of cobs, as had done several times before. August. DDM left Father then living eight miles south Nebraska City, Neb. for Newark, N.J. stopping for a few days enroute to visit WEM at Mt Ayr, Iowa and Uncle Chauncey at Biggsville, Ill. Arrived at Newark, meeting LFM last of month. September. 2nd Began working under LFM for J.D. Larkin & Co. with wagon selling “Oatmeal” soap to private houses in Newark N.J. later the Oranges. Made visits to AEM’s at Orange. Delta came from Memphis, NY visiting us. LFM took us a day to New York City. Had siege of boils and chills and fever fol. sun-stroke October, 1878. Having finished our work in N.J we went to Boston where we spent the winter. DDM’s pay 5.00 weekly. Began work $33.00 in debt to LFM. Paid off during winter. November. My first New England Thanksgiving Day. We boarded at #6 Burroughs Place Hollis St. with a Mrs Thompson. Frank permitted me to throw a dime to an organ grinder from our 5th floor attic window. Great thrill. December. [blank] January, 1879. [blank] February. [blank] March. Father has spent the winter at Villisca Iowa. April, 1879. LFM and DDM having finished work in Boston went to Brooklyn. Became acquainted with mother’s sister “Aunt Tie,” Mrs. Bertha Griswold and family. May. Enjoyed visits, alone, Sundays and sometimes Sat afternoons, in Prospect Park (my first park) and Greenwood Cemetery. June. Saw Brooklyn Bridge a’making: reels of wire rolling from main pier to its mate across East River accumulating the main cables. July, 1879. DDM and LFM finished work in Brooklyn and went to Paterson, N.J. August. 7 DDM arrived in Buffalo from Paterson, N.J. via Hudson River night line steamer to Albany via Memphis (to see Delta) in company with LFM and within an hour began work in the office of J.D. Larkin & Co. at 3.00 weekly. Had 27.00 saved during past year. After two weeks in a boarding house Mr Larkin placed me in private family of Mrs Allan B. Goodrich and son Herbert @ 2.25 per week for board and washing. September Aug 8th LFM left for Kalamazoo, Mich. where he joined other salesmen for JDL & Co. October, 1879. [blank] November. Am having a course at Bryant and Stratton night school in writing. Three nights a week for certainty twelve weeks - perhaps longer for 18.¯ December . [blank] January, 1880. Dec. 30 Temperature -9, low record 5 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM February. [blank] March, 1880. [blank] April, 1880. [blank] May. Mr. Hubbard presented me with a new $3 manila straw hat. June. 13 With Mr Hubbard and two others* to Niagara Falls, went behind Falls. Dinner on Canadian side. First time out of Bflo since I came. *W.E. Harkness Wm Shirrell of NY. 18 Wrote Father at Mt Ayr Iowa “Pls do not go to Montana.” He didn’t. July, 1880. [blank] August. William H Coss and his brother Daniel J. Coss came to Buffalo and began work for JDL & Co. Were for past four years on road selling their goods. September. [blank] October, 1880. 28 Repub. Campaign. U.S. Grant – Conklin here. Trade procession. Mr Hubbard drove tandem team, black mares, Dolly & Polly. I rode beside him. Torchlight parade in eve 12,000 men. November. 21 Eight above zero December. 30 Temperature -9° - low record [duplicate of January 1880 entry] January, 1881. [blank] February. 17 San Salvini in Othello at St James Hall March. 1 Asked raise but did not get it April, 1881. 23 Frank married to Mary Woolen at Indianapolis, Ind. 7 a.m. Pay increased voluntarily to 6¯ 7 Sent LFM copy (tissue) of JDL & C ltr to L. Harkin[?]. A few days later Messrs L and H at office in eve threatened to discharge me. May. 2 Mrs. Goodrich moving from 606 So. Division St. to Maryland St. I was forced to go to the boarding house of Mrs Charles H Cloud 510 Seneca St @ 14.00 per month for board & washing. June. Father came to visit me May 12, having closed his shop in Mt Ayr, Iowa, after an illness from which he is now recovering. After a few days with me he went before May 17 to Cazenovia, Bouckville, Clayville, and Orange, NJ. Later in year he returned here for a short time and then went to Nebraska. July, 1881. [blank] August. [blank] September. 19th James Garfield died. October, 1881. 11th Jessie, daughter to Alta, born. 16 Wrote Delta I never tasted a drop of liquor in my life. I have had it offered me lots of times but always refused and always will. November. [blank] December. [blank] January, 1882. Began daily diary and continued it faithfully eleven years, 1892 inclusive. 6 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 31 Dinner at Mr Larkin’s with Mr & Mrs Hubbard, Danl J & Wm H Coss and Geo Koon[?] at their 218 Swan St home. February. 3rd Mr Hubbard raised my pay to $7.50 per wk from 6¯, voluntarily. Made me feel quite grown-up. Oct. 1 raised to 9.¯ 13 Learned to play cribbage. Deep in “picture card” craze. 25 Arose so late did not reach office until 7:30 am March. [blank] April, 1882. 6 JDL. & Co have a typewriter and I tried out the new fangled thing in the evening. 9 Easter. St Paul’s Cathedral. Sermon by Bishop Arthur Cleveland C[ ?] 19 My height 5' 4 ½ ″ May. [blank] June. 30 to July 10 Father visiting me. Came from St Louis where he visited Frank. Went to Franklinville NY where he got work at his trade. A great walker. July, 1882. 3-4 Semi-centennial city of Bflo. In trade procession I rode with Elbert Hubbard who drove tandem team to wagon of JDL & Co. August. 20 WEM began business manufacturing stove polish as Gano and Martin, partner, Frank H. Gano , in Chicago at 270 N. Randolph St. September. 24 Dr Lucien Herve [?] prescribed my first eyeglasses. October, 1882. 31 My first Shakespeare play – Lawrence Barrett in “Hamlet.” November. 30 Thanksgiving. Dinner at the Hubbards. Dan Coss and I for a cutter ride on Delaware Ave afterward. December. [blank] January, 1883. 8 DDM’s Roommate, Daniel H. Robins killed by cars on train on which he was employed as brakeman, at Niagara Falls 17 Geo M Kirby and Mary Williams, old school mates, married in Mt Ayr, Iowa. 27 Joined the Y.M.C.A. February. 20 Heard Hon James O Putnam of Bfo, ex U.S. Consul to Belgium in fine lecture at YMCA on “The Religious and Political History of Belgium.” 21 On Mr Hubbard’s pony my first horseback ride in 5 years. Theatre Mme Januaschek in “Marie Antoinette.” Father leaving Friendship, NY March. 5 Weight 112 lbs. 9 and 21 Father at Cazenovia 12 My pay increased from 9‾ to 10‾ wk. 13 Bought my first copy of Shakespeare. Cheap 14 ordered a $30‾ suit. My first tailor made. 21 My first shave. Often to the theatre, to church also. April, 1883. 6-11 Father visiting me. Went to Chicago. Took him to his first play in theatre, viz. James A Hearne in “Hearts of Oak”. Father returned to Nebraska; his seventh attempt to live with his second wife. June 20 he went to Minneapolis to live with Frank. May. 7 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 25 Anna Louise, daughter to Alta born. 18 Bought my first watch; a 14 karat gold open face Elgin. Carried until Nov. 14, 1916 = 33 1/2 years. Movement only fair grade; never kept good time. Watch laid away as a keepsake for Darwin. June. Much night work at office this summer finishing details of a very large index to ledgers & copying all names therein. July, 1883. 18 North American Saengerfest held in German Young Men’s Association’s unfinished Music Hall. I had great joy in attending one evening session. Heard great chorus of 2000 in classical music for first time. August. 7-19 My first vacation. Mr Hubbard gave me $5 and $5‾ soap. Spent vacation with Delta at Memphis, Auburn, and Cazenovia with a day at Watkins Glen. September. 12 My first real estate investment. A lot for 360‾. Later built a small house on it and rented it. Read “The Lady of the Lake” 25 Restless Father left Frank’s home & went to Owatonna, Minn to work in shoeshop. October, 1883. 1 Letter postage reduced in U.S. from 3¢ to 2¢ per ½ oz. From Oct. to June ’84 worked evenings selling to grocers “Common Sense” Stove Polish made by WEM. Unhappy evenings. Profit 13.57. 25 Bought push cart. Used it! November. 19 Standard Time adopted. It is 16 minutes ahead of sun time in Bfo. 7 Entered YMCA bookkeeping class to meet Wednesday evenings. It proved very beneficial. 14 Envied John Frear has $800 a year. Reading Romeo & Juliet. Heard Margaret Mather in it. Thanksgiving at Hubbards. December. 3 Father to Garrison, Iowa Go regularly to church. Not attached to any and try various. Take baths at YMCA 17 Father arrived to visit me. 25 Worked at office all day. Father sat in office in afternoon. See best plays. Can’t persuade Father to. January, 1884. 1 Worked in office all am and an hour after dinner. Then walked with Father showed him “my lot.” My pay raised to 12.¯ weekly. 17 To keep Father with me gave up boarding. He rented store 373 Seneca St for shop with living room in rear entrance only thru shop. Furnished it for $34.¯ Mrs. H sent us a cake, can of fruit & jelly. Mrs. L. a cake and biscuit. February. 23 Worried by Father’s lack of work. He talks of going away. March. Use YMCA gymnasium. 25 Father’s trade improving. 29 – April 24 Delta visiting us. Took her to Niagara; to theatres – Richard III, her first Shakespeare play, Thos W Keene in it. Attended churches. Visited Goodrichs with whom I lived my first two years in Bfo. Her room, theatres and Niagara trip and dinner there cost not over $20¯. Apr 26-27 Sat night & Sunday at East Aurora at the Hubbards’. Ditto May 24-25. April, 1884. [blank] May. 3-4 Weekend at Hubbards. Father busy 7 I now have two assistants in office. 14 Contracted for a house on my lot. To cost $800. Impressed by the sound morality of a lecture by Robt G Ingersoll, and by three [at] YMCA by Dr Roswell Park and Dr C.G. Stockton, Dr Hopkins. 8 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM June. 6 Blaine & Logan nominated to my disgust. July, 1884. 11 Cleveland & Hendricks nominated. I’m for ‘em. 17 Greeley expedition found. 6 out of 24 alive. 18 Rented my new house at $12¯ per Mo. 23 My darling sister Delta writes is engaged to George Field Barton 27 Took Father on excursion to Chautauqua Lake. Dinner at Lakewood. All cost 2.55 August. 2-3 Week-end with the Larkin’s at Idlewood. Again, 16-17, 23-24. 28 – Sept 2 Frank here. First time since I came to Bfo. 30 – Sept 15 Delta visiting us. September. 6 Took Delta around Grand Island. 21 A round trip to Rochester in caboose of a freight train. October, 1884. DDM and IRM first became acquainted. 4-6 Weekend at Hubbard’s. Mowed lawn Monday am before reaching office at 8:45 am. Met Miss A M Crawford for first time. 9 to Academy of Music to see “Michael Strogoff” with Father who volunteered to go. He thought it long. 15 I, alone, saw Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in “Merchant of Venice”. 25-26 at Hubbards. Father invited but declined. November. 20 Delta married at Auburn, Uncle Albert’s home, to George Field Barton. I left Bfo on 5 a.m. train and attended wedding. Returned to Buffalo via Syracuse at night. 26-28 Thanksgiving 27th I at Hubbards’ E Aurora. W. cutter-riding. Father alone at our home. 29 Played cards at old boarding home but do not enjoy cards any more. December. 10 Father and I enjoyed Mark Twain & Geo W Call at Concert Hall in reading from own works. 20 My first call at the Reidpath home on invitation of Mrs R. Played cards with the girls. 23 Learned of death on 17th of Agnes A Goodrich. 24 Gave a cribbage board to the Reidpath girls. Received $20 and a silk hdkcf [?] from JDL & Co. Father and I exchanged little gifts. Mrs L sent us a basket of goodies. 25 Spent afternoon and evening with the Reidpath girls in their home. Sent Delta & George a patent rocker. My pay to $15 week. Roller skating is a craze spent evening skating at a rink. No falls, never again. January, 1885. 1 So busy at office declined Mrs Hubbard’s invitation to spend day at E. Aurora. Worked all New Year’s day but spent very pleasant evening at the Reidpaths with the girls. 2 Took Belle and Nettie to Spring St Roller Rink. We did not skate but enjoyed the evening. February. 20 First life insurance policy. 1.000 favor of father. Given charge of credits to firm’s customers 22 Sunday: weekend with Hubbards, Cutter ride. Frequent evenings and Sundays at the Reidpaths. My full diary expresses gratitude for friends and much happiness. March. 25 Music Hall, Buffalo also St. Louis R. C Church burned. 4 Recovered my closed bank book by depositing $30¯. Use public library books liberally. April, 1885. Wm H. Cruttenden married – 15th – to Mrs May Arnold Keelar. Latter died Apr 16th 1921. 9 “My dear little friend, Bella R’s, sixteenth birthday. Is a very happy girl, but for shadow of her father’s illness”. 14 Received her photo, sat for on her birthday. Spent much time and frequently with her. “She is the best little friend I ever had” says my diary. 25 Bought a portable bath tub. 9 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM May. A long hard winter has passed. “I fully realize that the last two or three years have been quite happy years, probably the happiest of my life”. Full diary worth reading. June. 8 IRM’s father, Alexander W. Reidpath died. 18 Herbert Goodrich and Jennie Rosengren married. 5 Dinner at the Larkin’s new house on Bryant St. Will Coss office hrs 8.45 – 5.20. 11-July 30 Almost continuously living at the Hubbards at E Aurora, commuting with him to Bfo. Enjoyed his books, mowed lawn much. Rode with him eves. Bought mustang, Mr H traded it for me for a [ ] Dizes[?] gray pony good under saddle and to harness. Bought phaeton in Oct he gave me cutter in Nov & harness 27-30 Belle at E Aurora, we walked in woods. July, 1885. 1 U.S. Postage reduced from 2¢ per ½ oz to 2¢ per oz. 1 asked lock of Belle’s hair. She gave it me. 30 First lesson in whist. August. 8-10 Father and I week-end at the Larkin’s Idlewood Club. 19 Edith May Larkin age 6 died of burns. 20 I drove from E Aurora a horse of Mr H’s, met funeral at depot thence to cemetery. 24-Sept 24 First letters to and from Belle while they were at West Almond Allegany Co. Her mother proposed it. 15 Conceived card index to our 35,000 ledger accts. 25 Began it. Nov 9th Finished. It lead to card ledger in 1886 and is as far as I know first commercial card index. Ours made economically possible “factory to family” destiny. Got idea at Young Men’s Assn Library wh. preceded Public Library. September. 1 Read Henry George “Crime of Poverty” 10 Have paid $595 of $1160 for house and lot. By end of yr paid $250 this year tho I had planned to pay 400¯. 13 Started mustache never after ward shaved it off. 25 Got “bucked” off Hubbard’s pony. Rode one of his horses then but afterward rode the pony. Much interested in cribbage. Gave board as presents and taught friends to use. 28 My best assistant left account of health afterward died, viz Anna Rose Scheiber. Died Jan 5 ’87. October, 1885. Aided by Mr Hubbard, DDM acquired a riding and driving pony and phaeton. 11 First drive with Belle. 18 First drive with Father. November. 11 Very tired of bachelor’s hall. Too much housework on top of more congenial stable work. 19 I have four assistants, three are girls. Office hours hereafter 7.30 to 5.30. Mileage of asphalt pavement now considerable. In Aug 1879 there was one sample, on a block or two of Franklin St. which, by the way, outlasted much later work. 26 Father and I had Thanksgiving dinner alone. December. Firm is generous through summer and fall. I received only a silk handkcf for Christmas. Of 3000 deaths in Buffalo in year, 39 were listed as of prominent men. One was Alex W. Reidpath, Belle’s father. January, 1886. 1 Mr Larkin had Coss Bros & me for dinner and Del Ave sleighride, seeing four in hand, etc on Ave. 20-7 Delta to Buffalo to visit DDM and Father. Housed at Herbert Goodrich’s. She first saw Reidpath family 16 Phrenologist Fowler declared me deficient in continuity, self esteem, secretiveness and language. His fee 8.¯ a gift by Father. February. 1 and 2 Took Belle & Nettie to lectures of A W Tourgee. 10 Mr Hubbard advanced DDM’s salary from 15‾ to 20‾ weekly. 25 Hettie Winyard died in confinement 18th – age 25. 2nd child. 10 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 20 Father talks quitting shop. Urged him if does to retire from work and live with me. 20 Left office 3.20 pm taking Belle driving on Delaware Av to see allowed racing to cutters a fashionable Bfo winter sport. 26 My daily diary laments lack of leisure. March. 1 Diary says I look forward to a few thousand $ of my own. 24 First visit to theatre of Belle & Nettie (with DDM), the “Mikado”. 30 Will’s business is such he wishes he had a position “as good as mine.” April, 1886. 4 Father & DDM quit cooking our meals and began boarding. Painted and papered our quarters. 14 Declined $100.00 offered by Mr Larkin for pony. May. 5 My diary says “time has not hung on my hands in four years, always busy.” 31 North Main St. from Cold Spring receiving its first pavement. Father and I drove to Williamsville. June. 22 Etta Louise, daughter to Frank, born. EGH jr born. 8 Rode pony frequently on turf of Del Park meadow. Belle’s eyes troubling her. July, 1886. 5 “The fourth” – worked all day. Assistants worked forenoon. 11 Began table-boarding at Mrs Charlotte A Miller’s, 386 Seneca St. 15 Belle and Margaret to West Almond, NY. Addressed me by letter “Dear Friend Darwin” for first time. 23-25 Visit from George Barton. 27 Rode pony to E. Aurora in two hours, to pasture for 3 weeks. Overnight at the Hubbards. August. 15 Took pony from pasture. Rode across country with Mr Hubbard over fences 18 Rode pony to Bfo. 25-30 Visit Frank and May. Only time saw May. September. 4 Belle returned home. 5 To E. Aurora with pony, Mr Hubbard entertained three friends and me whole day. 6 Belle to oculist Dr Lewis who says can cure her. 9-20 Visit from Delta. 16-18 Visit from Mrs Weaver. Both stayed at Mrs Reidpath’s. 12 Delta, Belle, & I to Chautauqua. Rain. Carried lunch. 15 We three saw Edwin Booth in Hamlet. 18 Father drove Mrs Weaver about city. Delta commended Belle to me. 22 Declined partnership with Will which he repeatedly has proposed. 25 Left father’s room for one of my own. October, 1886. 9 Bought the “Merchant of Venice” picture. 12 Commended by Mr Hubbard to join CLSC. Began reading CLSC course with Belle & Nettie continued only to Dec 26. 15 Belle and I to Comedy of Errors – Robson & Crane. 21 Told Belle that I loved her. 24 In a long drive we had an “understanding”, Belle declining to decide as serious a matter until older. But thereafter more confidential. 25 My 21st birthday. 28 Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty, Bedloe’s Island, unveiled. November. 2 First vote; straight republican YMCA lectures alone: Oct 13 David Dudley Field Nov 30 Gen. Lew. Wallace 12 Death of George F. Ellis 27 yrs 11 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM December. 8 First Wells St fire. 9 to E. Aurora to CLSC. Hubbard Pres. 21 First evening drive with Belle. Fine Sleighing. 26 Driving with Belle told her my salary ($20 a wk) which greatly pleased her. Girls discontinued CLSC. 29 Father’s business poor. Resumed cooking his meals. 30 Kissed Belle on cheek, my first. January, 1887. 1 Resolution: To win Belle this year, to “some day” be my wife. 3 Finished paying for my first real estate investments, a house and lot on Maurice St. 5 Will’s business over $8.000 profits over $1.000 in ’86. Enjoy my pony and cutter exceedingly. February. 3 Aunt Harriet, Uncle Albert’s wife, died. March. 11 DDMs first reading from “Arabian Nights” for elocution. 14 Belle, Nettie & I hear Gen. Lew. Wallace 18 Hotel Richmond burned 23 L.A. Weaver DDM’s first over-night guest in bachelor quarters 26 DDM to Oakfield, Mr Weaver’s, meeting George & Delta April, 1887. Greatly enjoying my saddle - and driving - pony. My diary frequently records gratitude for happiness. May. 4 Moved my furniture from room in building wherein Belle was born, to suite of three rooms, opposite side of street, #386 Seneca St. & Belle did all sewing, arranging. 24 Weigh 115 lbs. Use dumb bells “400 daily” June. 1 With Belle saw Steele Mackaye in his “Anarchy”. 12 Belle installed a teacher in St. James Sunday School. 18 and 25 With Walter M Roth “camped” overnight along Niagara River, once on Grand Island. Used pony. 21 Rode to Front to view sunset. 22 Mr Hubbard suggested a week’s vacation to ride thro country (he did it) or by lake trip to Chicago. I declined on account expense. July, 1887. 2-4 Walter and I drove to Niagara Falls via Canada and returned same way having neglected to provide re-entrance at N. Falls. 7 Rode pony to Tifft Farm and bathed[?]. 11 Mr Larkin’s baby of 3 mos, Hubbard, died. 15 Belle away at E Aurora. I took Nettie to running paces[?] at Hamlin Park, E. Ferry St, and Humboldt Pkwy. 25 Rode in 2 ½ hours to E. Aurora with Harry Johnson. 30 Belle accepted my proposal, tonight, and we are engaged. I had proposed on 27th but Belle afraid to permit me to ask Mother, on 30th I did so without her consent. Saturday half-holiday, becoming general but not at Larkin office. August. 2, again 8th Moonlight excursions with Belle on Lake Erie 7 A one day – Sunday – visit from Alta, coming from Newark, NJ. 10 Engagement ring rec’d, ordered on 1st. 11 Rode pony to Fort Erie 12-13 to E. Aurora and return. 28 Belle and DDM drove to Highland Park to look at lots 18 Had contemplated Glenwood Av. 21 With Belle, Walter Roth and Kitty Rockwell, whom he married, to Niagara, Cave of the Winds, etc. September. 2nd Ninth anniversary of entering employ JDL & Co. 12 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM bought Summit Ave lot on which our home built, where both children were born. Paid $650 for lot. 10 Pony began balking 13 Hubbard president East Aurora Fair, I drove to Orchard Park advertising Fair. 20 Hubbard suggested my going to Hamburg Fair but I protest too busy. 22 I saw part of parade of Barnum Circus at Seneca St. and Jefferson, then at grade. October, 1887. Reading Chautauqua course. 10 Two tons coal del’d but dealer failed to put it in. I gladly did so to save 50¢ after day’s work at office. 20 Paper hanging Maurice St. house. I glue-sized and helped paper-hanger. November. 16th Average cost of DDMs clothing for six years, $57.80 per year. 18 DDM and Mr Hubbard to hear Charles Dickens (son of novelist) read from his father’s works, “Dr. Marigold” and trial scene of Pickwick. 27 DDM and Belle to St. John’s Church, Rev. Sam’l R. Fuller 29 DDM has six assistants in office. Rejoice in a students’ lamp at office like one in my room. Dec 19 Seven Assts. December. 1 Finished “Don Quixote”. Started firm’s first cash book 13 William Simeon Frear, aged 27, died. 17 I made affidavit to assets 3,000 to give bond for Mr. Larkin as assignee 18 Pony, which has been greatly enjoyed all the year, has contracted feet. 28-30 Will Martin visiting Father & DDM first time here in six years, first time in ten years with three met. He secured George Barton as partner in Martin & Barton. 30 Evening at Charles A Bloomer’s, Carolina St to meet Mae and John Martin, Uncle Albert’s children. January, 1888. 2 Saw Will off at 6:40 am GT Ry for Chicago. Finished Arabian Nights. 8 Took pony to E. Aurora, walked nearly ten miles. Turned her out to pasture (open winter). Rode Hubbard’s “Gypsy” back to city. 10 Dinner at Mr Larkin’s. 12 Acquired a stenographer. 17 Belle & I heard Geo W Cable read from “Grand Points” 28-31 Delta & George with us. Had my rooms. Left for Chicago to join Will’s business. 29 Father declared Belle too good for me. February. 2 to cutter, “Gypsy” ran away for a block on Delaware Ave with Belle and me. 5 Exchanged Gypsy at E Aurora for my pony, rode home but she proved still lame. 22 Half holiday, Bot 40 books at a close-out sale 20 Hubbard threatened to discharge me for something I wasn’t at all accountable for 30 He promised me 25¯ if bus. continues as is. March. 17-19 Weekend at Oakfield with the Weavers. 23 Stopped tea and coffee and feel free from nervousness. 28 Belle & I heard Charles Dickens Jr. read from his father’s works April, 1888. 2 My pay raised to $25¯ weekly. 12 Will boards with Delta. 22 Took pony to E Aurora. Walked over 10 miles and walked here all the way. Lame May. 1 Mrs R. moved from 355 Seneca St to 315 Eagle St. 6 Driving “Gypsy” with Belle tipped over another rig and upset lady and gentleman. Unhurt. Cost 6.75. 13 Fishing with Walter Roth at LaSalle 20 Sunday afternoon with Belle at Niagara, by train 23 Hubbard took his pony home. 13 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 25 Friday afternoon with Belle, her mother and several other ladies by train to La Salle, all fishing 30 Decoration Day Half-holiday! Fishing! June. 2 First of five lectures by Prof Loisette, “memory trainer” 21-24 Vacation! 21 First revisit to Clayville since we left there in July 1872. Had Mother’s grave reconditioned. Visited old home. Drank at and waded in brook in gulf. Saw old country school, same teacher yet. I had Mary Bentley. Visited Mr & Mrs Marshall Miller and Elle M. 22 Train to Waterville. Drove to Bouckville. Visited house where I was born. Residents who knew parents welcomed me. Drove to Cazenovia, welcomed by Aunt Emeline and cousin Will Cruttenden. 23 Cazenovia on to Auburn by train in eve. 24 Visited with Uncle Albert’s family. Called in eve on Walter, Uncle A’s oldest son, at Syracuse. 25 7 am at office. 3 hrs in eve with Belle 26 Will Cruttenden called July, 1888. 1 Sunday. Saw pony in pasture E. Aurora, lame as ever. 4 Visited Lewiston alone. Fished 3 hours, caught 2. Saw Belle in eve. 5 Belle and Mrs R walked with me to 103 Maurice St where I thot we’d begin married life. She did not like it. 12 Called at Mr Bloomer’s 14 Attended opening Thompson Houston Co. electric lt sta, Court St. 18 Business growing fast. Hiring girl assts as fast as find them 22 Sunday. Belle and I to Niagara-on-lake. Gorge route NY first sight of Lake Ontario 23 A dozen assts 24 Made final payt on Summit Ave lot. 28 At office until one a.m. 30 16 assts. August. 1 We, Pinafore, Music Hall, First time 3 Again. 27 Nettie, and Ida Kaiser began work in JDL & Co’s office at DDMs solicitation. 6-25 Belle at Sizerville Pa. with Aunt Eliza and children. She gained 8 lbs. Am enjoying Charles Riselay. Do much walking. 11 Firm will use barn for business and hire carting done, so I am evicted. To save 300 (estimate) by June 1 ’89 when we hope to wed will abandon horse. 13 Told Hubbard I will marry next year. He congratulated me. 23 Vaccinated 27 I asked H to raise Myra Hutchison my best asst to 6.¯ wk. He did. 31 Sold buggy for 25.00 September. 1 Cousin Will Martin and his cousin Jas Frear called 2 Sunday. With them to N Falls and Lewiston. Called with me on Belle 10.15 p.m. 4 Finished “Knickerbockers NY” 9 Belle and I drove one of Mr. L’s horses 12 I attended briefly (after 4.40 pm) Bfo Exposition 16 Sunday. Worked forenoon to increase space and light in office 22 Belle decisively declines Maurice St or a farm for which Father thinks c’d trade it 28 We decide to build. Belle suggest Father live with us. Oct 1 Prevailed finally on Father to try living with us three months. Belle very glad. October, 1888. 2 Belle and I sketching & drawing plans for house very happily. 3 Dinner at Mr Larkin’s. Discussed building. Saw his house 125 Hodge Ave closely. He is great help to me. Cousins Neal and Will[?] Martin & their aunts Mrs Bloomer and Mrs Phillips at office. Went thru factory. 3 Met architect C R Percival. House will cost several hundred dollars more than my limit of 2500. 5 Eve at Bloomers 8 Now 18 girls in office 14 Sunday. Searched East Side for eligible house to buy, exchg my cottage for part pay. C’d find none 22 We agree we must cease quarrelling or end engagement. 25 People think me older than 23. 14 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 26 Have new roll top desk and leave standing desk. Enjoy my work. November. Began building our home at 145 Summit Ave, Dec 17th First contract (cellar) signed 15th. 6 Voted straight republican except Pres. I favored Cleveland but paired off with Bowers my ex clerk who favored Harrison and both voted Fisk Prohibition. House hunting. 15 Saw Clara Morris in Renee de Moray for 25th 27th “Bostonians” 16 First of 12 lectures on Am History at Bfo Library December. 20 Added recording of orders to my office, 24 assts now 23 Sun. Belt line to see cellar, digging half done. Geo J Korn my first asst died at Leadville Col. 13 Funeral East Pres Ch today. My first experience as pall bearer. Walked home from Parkside 25 $25 from firm & 2 etchings. Walked to Parkside, after nice dinner at boarding house, walked to Main St. 18 Dan[?] [Bks?] won’t loan on Parkside! 30 Cellar finished, advertising for loan of $2,300. Will cut off things we can add later – bathrm fixtures 31 Worried Expressed hope our new house w’d be father’s final home. January, 1889. 1 Hailed this as red letter yr of my life. Father to dinner with me. 4 Borrowed $800 on mtg on Maurice St. cottage with which to help build new house. 9 Bids for house exceed estimates 14 Borrowed $500 from A.A. Schaeffer. 15 Closed contract with carpenter, all contracts am’t to $3950.00 18 Dr tells Belle eye improving. Justified myself in spending $1,000 excess for house by my lifelong economy. February. 1 Finished course of 10 wkly lectures on Am History 2 Great Wells St fire. 18,25 lectures on Holy Land 25 Carpenters raised studding for house. 28 Discovered the delusion in borrowing from Loan Assn at double the apparent rate of interest, so won’t borrow money that way. March. 3 Father and I to Parkside to see house. Walked out from Cold Spring and all way back. House sheathed 9 Weigh 119 lbs. 17 House progressing. Belle can now open her eye. 21 Cancelled a purchase made some months ago of a buggy because of a swindle in it, $115.00 paid for it refunded. 29 Bfo Savings Bank “can offer no encouragement for application for 1.200 loan on my house because so far out.” April, 1889. 3 House ready to plaster 7 Belle & I to see house. Her first visit. 6 Painted picket fence at Maurice St by electric st lt 8 Fifteen clerks in office beside myself 9 Borrowed $300 of Mr Schaeffer. Belle’s 20th birthday 10 Bell & I, Bostonians “Mignon”. 7,14 Sunday forenoon. Painted said fence 30 Centennial Day Legal holiday. Washingon inaugurated one hundred years ago. May. 1 Borrowed $1.200 on 1st mtg on house 7 Father visited E. Aurora, got from the Reidpath place 2 Doz Red Raspberry plants, 2 Doz Currant & 1 Doz Virginia Creeper for our garden. 18 DDM to E. Aurora, over Sunday at the Hubbard’s. 23 Date fixed for our wedding; June 26 June. 2 Belle & I at Weaver’s at Oakfield over Sunday 6 Bought wedding ring 11 Invitations issued to 83. 15 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 26 Our wedding day. Married at 315 Eagle St by Rev John E. Bold in presence of Belle’s mother and sisters, DDMs father and brother Will, and all Belle’s Buffalo relatives and numerous friends including Messrs Larkin and Hubbard and their wives. Went directly to our new home in a one-horse CW Miller $3¯. July, 1889 3 Father comes to live with us. 6 Rec’d Jersey cow and flock of hens from Mr Hubbard. Father led her from E Aurora in two days. 15 Mr & Mrs Berry called. 22 DDM elected member Royal Ar. 31 Initiated. 6 Began carrying my lunch. 19 18 clerks & an office boy. Dictate ltrs to Mr H’s stenog August. 1 Wm C. Smith would like to take partnership in his toy mfg business. 3 Father is working hard to put lot in shape. I work hard evenings and Sundays. Belle does all her work except washing. 17 May Martin and Lena Frear visit us. 21 Renewed trouble in Belle’s eye. September. 3 Winifred Lewis died. October, 1889. 12 Received wedding present, roll-top desk from Will, George and Delta. 15 Belle and I to golden wedding of Mr & Mrs Charles A. Bloomer 16 Cousin Neal Martin visiting us. 17 Mrs Bloomer, Phillips & Keller, all whom Father knew when they were young together, called. 20 To Church of Good Shepherd for first time. 22 Ordered private water pipe laid from Jewett Ave to our house, others share in cost. 28 Paid James Hoag carpenter contractor for house in full. November. 1 Debts but not creditors disturb us. 14 Water from city pipes first turned on in our house. 24 A church supper at neighbor’s new barn. Belle & DDM started to it, but disagreed and returned home. 28 Our first Thanksgiving day. Father, Mother, Nettie and Margaret with us. Heavy snow. 30 Ella Richardson and Helen Darbee called. December. 14 Initiated in Home Circle. Have $7.500 insurance now. 25 A Merry Christmas. All at Mother’s. January, 1890. 1 Mother and Nettie visited us. 4 Began reading aloud Irving’s Life of Washington. 11 Expenses for 1889 causes realization that must increase income to meet expenses and reduce heavy indebtedness 16 For first time entertained neighbors at tea, Mr & Mrs Ralph, Saunders and Terry. A happy eve. 20 Belle attended May Sliter’s wedding St. John’s Church. 22 WEM announced engagement to Winnie Kirby of Mt. Ayr, Ia February. 4 Attended one of our first neighborhood parties at Saunders 6 DDM using a pony of Mr Hubbard’s. 7 Inflammation attacked Belle’s eye 12-15 Belle at Mother’s. 25 Reading aloud “Martin Chuzzlewit” 28 DDM elated over sale for 3.00 of a Ply. Rock cockerel. March. 4 Belle’s eye clearing and we rejoice. DDM rises six AM and does chores around home all day Sundays. 10 Made first call on Mr & Mrs Aspinwall. 14 At a party at Ralph’s. 16 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 16 19 28 3? DDM to church, getting acquainted with Episcopal service. Father has erected for us a 6 X 6 hen house in addition to 16 X 16 built last summer. Our life is busy. In a snow storm a terrific clap of thunder Caused notice of intention to gas-light Summit Ave. April, 1890. 14 Renewed inflammation of Belle’s eye. 25 Sold Maurice St house. Cleared $250¯ besides 6% on investment for 6 ½ years. DDM’s first real estate deal. Relieves us of an $800.00 mtg. Invested in 8 vacant lots as a speculation. E. Jewett Ave. Bought Maurice St. lot Sept 12 1883. 30 Mrs Charlotte Miller closed my old boarding house, so no more luncheons. May. Father making our garden and lawn. Returned pony DDM has enjoyed since mid-winter to Mr. H. DDM making window screens. 14 DDM made 45.00 commission on a R.E. sale. 17 Putting brick partitions in cellar. 18 DDM promises to stop work on Sundays at twelve noon. 27 Ordered fixtures put in our bathroom. 31 Decided our lawn 4 in. too low and must grade up. June. 1 Enough unfinished work around place to occupy one a month. 3 DDM began Les Miserables 4 LFM writes has left wife. 7 Our first maid-servant 21 She is gone. 24 Attended reception to Andrew C. McKenzie and wife. 26 Our first wedding anniversary; a family party. July, 1890. 9 Mr Hubbard out to dinner. DDM very proud of Belle’s cooking. 14-15 Mrs. L.A. Weaver visited us. 16 Oppressed by debt. 31 Our second maid-servant, “Kate” 13 First use of bathtub and bathroom. 14 Paid plumber in full. August. 2 Visit from Frank. Belle’s first acquaintance with him. 6 DDM, Belle, and Frank around Grand Island on boat. 11 Belle & Frank to Oakfield to visit Weaver’s. 16-17 DDM to Oakfield 20 Will & Winnie married on eight anniversary of his beginning business 21 Belle & Mrs Weaver to Chicago to visit Delta. 22 Laid oak floors in hall, dining room and bathroom as a surprise for Belle. September. 4 Belle home. 19 Father left us to start a shoe-shop 11 Owing to our income being so alarming limited to our outgo and to the evident inability to reduce our mortgageindebtedness of $3,000 besides the necessity of furnishing our empty house, DDM embarked in a side business, doing the work at home nights; a partnership with his brother LFM under name LFM & Co. Sachet Powder. October, 1890. 19 Started furnace. Reading Peregrine Pickle aloud. 25 DDM’s 25th birthday. A hand painted Jardiniere from Belle. Mother rec’d her back-pension of $845.¯ and presented 25.00 to Belle toward piano. Belle loaned it to DDM. 28 Raising our back lot for lawn, decreasing garden space, laying gravel walk. November. 16 Myra Churchill and Fannie Edwards to tea 17 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 29 " " " " " all day 28 Mrs Geo and Mrs L.A. Weaver overnight December. 3 Belle at Mother’s managing a tea Nettie gave to girls from office 6 Another ulcer on Belle’s eye 12 Party at Terry’s 14-25 Belle ill. 25 DDM’s present to Belle: library couch, canary bird and cage. Belle’s to DDM, crayon portrait of self, framed. A very happy day. DDM carried Belle down stairs (first time since illness) and laid her on new couch. 31 House expenses in 1890 646.43 31 Main St. trolley cars now run north to NY & belt line crossing. January, 1891. 1 Main St cars extended from Cold Spgs to Belt Line crossing 1 Belle able to ride in carriage; drove to Mother’s stopping a minute en-route at Father’s. 3 Belle home. 4 Father has moved his shop from Glenwood Ave to Masten St near Ferry. 6 Increased Belle’s weekly allowance for apparel, groceries, meat and girl to $11.00. DDM’s profits for 1891 on LFM & Co’s business, 365.00, but work constantly. 7 Belle bought cover for our new couch. 8 Mother & Aunt Eliza called. 9 Called at Wing’s 10 Nettie & Ida out for eve. 11 Father to dinner 13 Compiling a ledger of my private accounts commencing 1883. 17-22 Visit from Delta & George. 27 Frank H. Gano called. 29 to 2/2 G. back, overnights February. 7 Mr & Mrs Hubbard returned from two weeks southern trip 12 Nettie painted and she and Belle gave me an oil painting of pansies. 14 DDM and Wing to hear Bishop Keane (RC) on temperance 15 Walter Roth called, first time out of house after severe illness. 24 Nelie & May called 25 DDM reminded Mr H. he had said last fall might raise wages, said “w’d see Mr L.” 28 Mr H. said hereafter w’d pay me 30.00; quite ungracious about it but I feel entitled to it. Will writes they are to build a factory. Wrote my will. March. 10 Wrote Will urging him to invite father there, he is not contented in his shop. He could visit between Will & Delta. 15 & 22 Sunday. Father out afternoon and overnight. 19 First returns rec’d from LFM & Co’s circulars. On them depends Belle’s long cherished furnishings for home. 29 Easter. Father has decided to quit shop and go to Chicago. April, 1891. 1 Church fair. Belle had candy booth. 3 Borrowed $800 by increasing mtg to $2000 and paid A. A. Schaeffer notes due. 7 Father quit boarding and stays nights with us. 9 Belle’s 22nd birthday. Nettie out. Bought grate. Carpets ord’d house decorated. 13 Acct ill DDM left office at noon, to mother’s until 3. Walked home, stopped ½ hr at Father’s shop, ordered lavatory. 15-20 Belle, Nettie & Father have La Grippe. 22 Belle making garden. We rise at 6. Getting our place in better shape than ever before. May. 5 Heavy frost. At noon snow, at night everything white. Plum trees, purple beech and cut leaf birch set out. 8 Father fears has heart disease. 11 Drs pronounce it pericarditis. 18 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 17 Ice formed. 24 Nettie, Marg, Hattie, Ida & Carrie to tea 26 Bought my first hat and trousers since married. 30 Mother, Nettie & Marg out all day June. We were very happy on our second wedding anniversary by the arrival of Decker Bro. piano No. 22878 in French burl walnut as a present from DDM to Belle. The price $418.00. Earned from the “side” business of L.F. Martin & Co. A very desirable addition to our sparsely furnished home. 3rd Father to Oakfield then Clayville, Bouckville & Cazenovia first time in seventeen years. At Clayville 12-15 Bouckville 15th July, 1891. 5 LFM & Cos first inventory: DDM’s profits Jan 1 to July 1 $435¯. 7 Busy with garden & poultry besides JDL & Co & LFM & Co. 20 Delta delivered of still-born baby girl. 25 Mr Hubbard discouraged talked-of trip to Colo saying as business was dull thought I ought to stay and work for orders. He had previously offered passes. My office assistants reduced to seven. 26 A four hour drive with a neighbor’s horse a great treat to Belle and me. August. 3-12 Belle, mother, Nettie & Margaret to Niagara on Lake a week. 10. Belle etc to Toronto. 12. Home again, flowers all in bloom pleased Belle immensely. 15 Belle and Nettie driving with Dr Van Dusen’s rig. 20 Father returned home. 24 First time to theatre since marriage, guests of Mr Terry. 25 Belle & DDM to Mr. Bloomer’s to see Mrs Phillips’ sister to Mrs B. and our Aunt Harriet. 26 Belle wants me to get a bicycle. 30 Bought one. September. 9 Rode wheel to office in 40 minutes. Weighs 57 lbs. solid tires. Electric cars began running on Seneca St. 12 Father departed for Chicago, last time I ever saw him alive. 13 Frank met him in Detroit. 14 Arrived Chicago. 15 Attended wedding of Lily McKenzie and David D. Beveridge. 19 Belle entertained bridal party 16 Mr Hubbard charged me with pre-occupation, referring to commissions earned on sales of building lots. 18 Gave eight pullets to Mr Larkin. 27 To church first time since Easter. October, 1891. 18 Geo Reidpath from Boston called. Also Mr & Mrs Larkin. November . 2 Feel that my life is too busy. 11 House has cost, to date, $4480.¯ 12 First call at rectory. 16 Our first visit to Star Theatre Jos Jefferson in Rivals. December. 9 Note from Mr Hubbard expressing displeasure with my outside deals. Likened man to a storage battery. 12 Wrote Mr H. if my services unsatisfactory. He asn’d No but that outside deals might prevent promotion. 14 Mr H. said JDL & Co. will be incorporated next year. Very fortunate for me I have acquired practice in double entry bookkpg for LFM & Co. of which he knows nothing. 15 Sold our wedding-present cow. 18 Told Mr H. he, Mr L and Coss bro’s and I not congenial enough. I could love the business as my own if knew more about what was going on. 31 DDM’s busiest year thus far. Belle’s expense acc’t is $11.00 a week. January, 1892. [blank] February. 19 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 22 The Larkin Soap Mfg Co began business. DDM one of the five directors, John D. Larkin Pres. E.G. Hubbard Secy & Treas. March. [blank] April, 1892. [blank] May. 9 Frank and Florence Fartig married at her home at Lancaster, O. [entry recorded for May 1895] June. [blank] July, 1892. 16-31 Our deferred “wedding trip”, i.e. the first since we were married. 17-23 Boston. 21 Plymouth by sea. 22 Newport by rail. 23 night boat to Portland. 24 Mt Pleasant House White Mountains. 25 Mt Washington. 29 Burlington, VT. 30 Lakes Champlain and George, thro Saratoga. 31 So glad to be home! August. [blank] September. 5 Mr L suggests probability of Mr H withdrawing from Co. 6 Am wishing I c’d buy large part of Mr H’s stock 20 Mr L negotiating for H’s stock. If gets it I will get part. 26 Sold Mr H my Jewett Ave (East) lots; made $354¯. 10-31 Sold Mr H three other lots made 650¯. October, 1892. 6 Snow. 7 Took first “header” from bicycle. Not hurt. 18 Laura Field Barton born in Chicago. November. 5 I get 2,000 shs Mr H’s stock thru Mr L @ 2¯. December. 9 Lighted gas first time in our home. 16 My first dress-suit. 25 My Xmas present to Belle a disappointment to both. A sofa and chair of wrong color. 27 Lunch up town with Mr H to tell me of his retirement. Assured me all responsibility will be mine and we will succeed. Advised me to demand $3000. January, 1893. 29 Father died at three o’clock A.M. at Will’s home in Chicago of pneumonia, cold taken the previous Wednesday. 2 DDM made Secretary of Larkin Soap Mfg Co. via Mr Hubbard resigned as Secy & Treas & Director. 17 Letter from Mr H from Cambridge, Mass. 27-28 To lectures given by Prof. John Fiske on “Virginia” and “The Carolinas.” February. 1 Frank & Florence arrived from Chicago with Father’s body. Alta arrived from Newark, NJ, the three with Belle & I went with body to Utica. 3 Father buried at 7.30 a.m. in a storm of sleet, beside Mother at Clayville, NY. Leaving cemetery sleigh containing Aunt Emeline, Miss Miller, Alta and DDM capsized and Aunt E’s hip broken. Uncle Albert took her to his home at Auburn. 2-7 Frank & Florence here. Alta to Auburn 9th at work in Auburn. March. 3 Uncle Chauncey, father’s oldest brother died in Illinois where he lived 11 Belle’s eyes operated on by Dr F. Park Lewis assisted by two others, to enlarge pupils. Belle at mother’s for two weeks following. 14 Luncheon with Mr Hubbard at Brozel Hotel. April, 1893. 9 Gave Belle four volume Bible for birthday. 27 Delta and Laura Chi to Oakfield. Saw them five minutes at depot. May. 6-8 Belle and I to Oakfield to visit Delta and baby. 20 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 21-25 At home and to Dr Renner, Ear abcessed. June. 1-3 Belle to Oakfield. 1 I have Richard W. Adams to do LFM & Co books. 1 I to E. Aurora, visiting overnight with Mr Hubbard. 5 Riding bicycle again. 17-July 1st Delta & Laura with us. Mrs Weaver 28-30. Delta and Laura with us on day train to Chicago. July, 1893. 1-15 Belle, Nettie and DDM to World’s Fair, Chicago. A perfectly happy two weeks at a modest cost. A good vacation in a strenuous year. Met half sister Maude first time since ’78. Visited Will’s home, first time & Delta’s at Austin. First time since ’76 Frank, Will & DDM together. First since ’71 we three and Delta together. August. “The panic of ‘93” at its height. A currency famine. 3-8 Cousin Nelie visiting at Bloomer’s and to us. September . See Sept ‘94 October, 1893. [blank] November. 16 Birth of Bernice, WEM’s first child. L Co business much improved after desperately dull summer. 14 First snow. Started furnace fire. December. [blank] January, 1894. [blank] February. [blank] March. [blank] April, 1894. 20 DDM on his first business trip to New York. Brother Will at his factory in Chicago, met with the misfortune of losing three fingers from each hand. May. Belle and DDM. went to Chicago to visit Will and Winnie. Will accepts his loss with fortitude. Belle remained a month to help Winnie. DDM returned via Benton Harbor, Mich to visit our Co’s earliest furniture factory. June. 20 Florence Perrine and Edward J Barcalo Married at Church of Good Shepherd. Belle attended ceremony alone, I having forgotten it until passed church on bicycle during ceremony. 26 Belle entertained her girl class-mates with whom she met at E. Aurora last Sept. 15 July, 1894. [blank] August. [blank] September. 1893. 15 Mama (IRM) to East Aurora, her old home, to meet at the home of Miss Helen E Darbee with the girls of her East Aurora Academy Class of ’83. October, 1894. [blank] November. [blank] December. [blank] January, 1895. [blank] February. 14 Delta and George moved from Chicago to Buffalo. At our house for several weeks until located their new home on Vernon Place. March. 20 DDM baptized at Church of the Good Shepherd by Rev. Thomas B. Berry our rector. IRM and Arthur C.C. Pollard witnesses. 21 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM April, 1895. [blank] May. 1892. 9 Brother Louis Frank Martin married to Florence Fartig at her home at Lancaster, Ohio. June. reading Les Miserables July, 1895. Mother spent month at Bemus Point: Mason House. I there few days, week-end. 10th nt[night] I to Boston 13-14 Portland Me with WE Wing, visiting LFM and Florence. 15 Boston, 16-17 NY. Night boat to Albany 18th Saw capital. Train at 8:15 am to Utica. Train to Clayville. Monument placed by LFM nice. Charmed by environs as a vacation place. Many bicyclists. Mohawk valley likewise. 19th busy at office. At Bemus Point, I home, Mother home in August. August. Beset by debts. Lovely garden. L Co building “C’\”, first since ’82, first of series followed by “D\” in ’96 etc. Alta and family live in Bfo, he a watchman at factory. Pay typist 4.¯ wk. Belle Crouse visiting Delta and wants a job. September. [blank] October, 1895. [blank] November. [blank] December. 8th Wrote Mr. L. asking increase of salary to 5M. i.e., same as Mr. Hubbard had for year he was Secy of L.S.M. Co. January 1896. [blank] February. [blank] March. [blank] April, 1896. [blank] May. Belle and DDM a week in Washington, D.C. June. 26 Seventh anniversary of our marriage. 27 3.20 A.M. Dorothy, our first baby born. Dr Henry H. Bingham. Nurse Miss Drake. July, 1896. 10 DDM weighs 125 lbs. Nettie 133 lbs. August. [blank] September. [blank] October, 1896. 10 DDM weighs 130 lbs for first time. 30 Dorothy Reidpath Martin baptized at Church of Good Shepherd by Rev. Thomas B. Berry. DDM, NER, and Delta sponsors. A “four generation” photo taken of Dorothy, her mama, mother, and grandmother. November. 16 12.01 AM. Niagara electric current first turned on in Buffalo. Salute of 21 guns. One thousand horse-power furnished to street railway. December. DDM weighs 134 lb January, 1897. 27 DDM read paper before Brotherhood of St. Andrew at St. James Church Guild House. 28 A stormy day. Belle drove to Mother’s with Dorothy. I went along, stopped on way at Dr. Stern’s office as am not feeling well. Left office at 3 P.M. drove home with Belle. 22 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 31 Mrs. Hipp, nurse came to care for me. February. 13 Aunt Mary Baker, Belle Crouse’s mother died. 15 Decided on Dr’s advice to go to Old Point Comfort, Va 18 Belle and I took “Black Diamond” L.V. RR 11 AM, Phila 8.30 pm 19 Left Phila (Hotel Walton) 10 A.M, Pa R.R. reached Old Point 7 P.M. 22 Visited Nat’l Soldier’s Home, Hampton, 3600 inmates 27 a/c continuous rain left 6 AM for Savannah, Ga. Reached there DeSoto Hotel 1.30 AM 28th. March. 4 Visited Bonaventure cemetery by trolley. 7 To Tybee Island by train. 9 To Thunderbolt by carriage. All our stay weather was warm and delightful. 12 5 P.M. went to Brunswick. 13 Drove around B. departed 8.30 via boat to Fernandina. Drove in F. and Jacksonville. Arrived St. Augustine 7.30 P.M. 14 Thermometer 91°. To Trinity Ch.,to So Beach. 15 Fort Marion. Departed 12.10 noon. 16 Richmond Va 7.10 A.M. Hotel Jefferson. Drove three hours. Boat James River 3 P.M. Old Point 10 P.M. 18 Hampton Institute 19 Newport News 22 Yorktown via boat 24 Va Beach 27 Left Norfolk 7 p.m. str Jamestown 28 3.30 P.M. N.Y. Belle’s first N.Y. visit. April, 1897. 2 Empire State Express NY to Utica, arrived Canastota 2.19 left 5.49 P.M. Ar. Cazenovia 6.30 3 Left C. after nice visit at 11 am. Ar. Bfo 4.15 Home and Dorothy 5 P.M. 5 At work after 9 wks. 9 DDM attended three hour Good Friday service at St. Paul’s. 27 As guests of Mr & Mrs Charles R. Riselay to see E S Willard in “Professor’s Love Story” May. 2 Edw. M. May spent day (Sunday) with us. 5 Belle, Mother, and DDM confirmed by Bishop Walker at Church of Good Shepherd. Nettie and Margaret present. June. 1 DDM weighs 132 lbs July, 1897. Belle has a bicycle; rides only before dusk, her eyes affected by stronger light. August. 12 DDM weighs 128 lb Aunt Tie and her grandson Sidney Berry visiting us. September. 21 Will’s baby Eunice born. October, 1897. 13-17 First Internat’l Convention of Brotherhood of St. Andrew held at Buffalo. DDM on Committee on Registration. 29 Death of Wm George at Union Square Hotel NY November. Oct 3rd. Negotiating with Mr L for equal right in repurchase from outside stockholders of stock of the Larkin Soap Mfg Co. which resulted ultimately in ownership of stock to 10% of total. December. [blank] January, 1898. 23 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 1-6 Frank and Florence visiting Delta’s. All with us for New Year’s dinner etc. On 6th they departed for St. Augustine, Fla. 11 Entertained the neighbors at cards. 2 DDM began reading aloud to Belle “The Story of Jesus Christ” by Eliz Stuart Phelps 25 Out to card party 29-30 Mr & Mrs F. W. Van Bergh of Rochester visiting us. February. 4 DDM to Phila 6 Atlantic City five hours 7 A.M home. 15 U.S.S. “Maine” blown up in Havana harbor. 12-20 Belle & DDM in Chicago at Will’s. March. 2 Belle took Nettie, with Margaret, Delta & Nelle Crouse to hear Sousa’s band in eve. Belle & Dorothy at mother’s over night. Belle, Nettie and I to “ladies night” dinner of Independent Club. Last time Nettie with us 5 Belle taken ill. In a few days diagnosed as Typhoid fever. Very, very ill. Dr. George R. Stearns Homeopath attending, a most faithful physician. Dorothy at mother’s most of the time. Nettie taught her “now lay me.” 3 DDM weighs 140 lbs April, 1898. 30th 11.15 P.M. Our beloved sister, Nettie passed on, after an illness of one month. Gastric fever. Her father’s birthday. Belle unaware of Nettie’s illness until 20th. Unable to see her or attend funeral. May. 1st Battle of Manilla Bay. Departure of 65th Reg.. to war. 2nd Nettie’s funeral from St James Church. 15 Took Belle for her first airing, driving. Belle slowly convalescing. Emaciated to 70 lbs. June. Belle very slowly returning to health. Prepared and published a memorial of Nettie with tributes from many friends. On 28th obtained first copy and presented to Belle, Marg. And Mother July, 1898. 5th Cervera’s fleet destroyed off Santiago. 10th Sunday. Patriotic praise service as proclaimed by Pres. McKinley. Dorothy’s flag was carried after the cross in procession at our church. 15 Took Belle, Dorothy, Mother, Marg and Belle Crouse to Murray Hill Hotel Thousand Islands. DDM back at Bfo 18th A.M. 23 DDM wheeled to Forestville to visit Goodrich’s. August. 1 Belle & others at Cazenovia. 6 DDM Ida and Carrie Kaiser joined them. 7 Saw Aunt Eva and Cousin Will H. Cruttenden 10 Visited barren site of house where DDM’s father born at Woodstock 11 Drove to Chittenango Falls 17 Bouckville 19 All home [NOTHING IS RECORDED FOR SEPTEMBER 1898 THROUGH MARCH 1899.] April, 1899. 1 William R Heath, Mrs. Larkin’s brother-in-law, a lawyer in from Chicago L. Co. May. 20 DDM and IRM sailed at 12 M. on “Campania” Cunard Line. Mr & Mrs Riselay, Mr & Mrs Deming from Bfo, Miss Berry, Mr & Mrs E M May, Mr Stengel of NY, at ship to see us off. Many friends sent flowers and fruit. Very pleasant trip across. 24 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 26 4 P.M. landed Queenstown. Rode in jaunting car thro. town. 5 P.M. train for Cork. 5.30 – 6.30 drove in jaunting car thro’ town. River Lee, Shandon Church, St Finn Barre’s P. E. Cathedral inside and out. 6.30 train to Bandon arriving 7.30. Walked 1 ½ hours after supper. Passed tent of an “American” circus. Squalor abounds even in hotel. 27 4.30 to 6.30 A.M. en-train to Bantry. 7.30 – 9 A.M. Jaunting car to Glengariff, 12 miles. 9 – 3.45 coach over Kerry mountains to Muckross 42 miles. Luncheon at Kenmare. Muckross Abbey, Killarney. 28 Lakes, Gap of Dunloe. 29 Dublin 30 Belfast Larne, Stranrear Scotland, Ayr, Glasgow Kilmarnock. 31 Scotch lakes, Trossachs, Stirling. Edinburgh, Royal Hotel. June. 1-2-3 Edinburgh, Belle’s Aunt Isy. 1 Musselburgh, Belle’s father’s birthplace. Grave her grandmother. 3 Melrose, Abbotsford 7 – 12 P.M. train Melrose to Manchester. 4 9.20 – 11 train to Chester. Choral service at Cathedral. 5 Eaton Hall, Haevarden[?] 6 6.45 – 9.45 train to Warwick Castle. 12.30 – 2 drove to Stratford. 4 -5.30 return to Warwick, street car to Leamington. 7 8.15 Kenilworth Castle. 12.30 Oxford. 4.10 – 5.30 train to London, Hotel Metropole. 8 Belle’s Uncle James and family. 11 again. 8-9-10-11-12 London. 12 9 pm. train to Dover. 11 P.M. boat to Calais 13 1 am. train to Paris, arrived 5.30. 10 – 5.30 carriage drive to Versailles & Sevres, Grand Trianon. 14-15 Carriage drives. 16 Bon Marche, Eiffel Tower, 2nd visit to Louvre, Jardin des Plantes via Seine 17 8 A.M. train to Cherbourg 5.30 p.m. aboard steamer St Paul. 18-19 severe storm. 24 Ar. N.Y. met by Mrs Ben Ralph and son Walter. 9 pm train for Bfo. July, 1899. Mr Larkin presented me $300 toward our European trip expenses of about $1.100.00 August. [blank] September . Negotiated increase in salary from 10 M to 25 M from 1st next Jan. October, 1899. 22 DDM at Columbus, O at Convention of Brotherhood of St. Andrew 23 DDM at Dayton, O. at Nat’l Cash Register’s Co’s works. Belle, Mother, Marg, Dorothy and Uncle Geo. Danner a week at Patridge’s at West Almond November. [blank] December. [blank] January, 1900. Belle has had the Guild house of the Church of the Good Shepherd beautifully decorated in memory of our dear sister Nettie, who when she died was planning an entertainment to be given to raise funds for the very purpose. 23 Everett Kirby, son of William E. Martin, born. Av. Temperature 3° above average for 30 years. February. [blank] March. [blank] April, 1900. [blank] May. Belle heard Paderewski the pianist June. [blank] July, 1900. 25 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Belle, Dorothy, Mother, Margaret & Ida & Carrie Kaiser at Cazenovia, stopping privately for month. DDM & Henry P. Fink for one week. Aunt Emeline and cousin Will H. Cruttenden who live at C. are well. 7 Dorothy Berry, 2nd cousin born Montclair, NJ August. All return home together. September. 30 Aunt Lucy, my father’s sister, died at Perrysburg, O. October, 1900. 3 Darwin Reidpath Martin born. 6 P.M. Dr. George R. Stearns. Nurse Catherine MacDermid. Weight seven pounds. 24 Our baby very ill. Drs despaired, but God heard our prayers and free’d him from ill. November. 23 Mrs Burns began nursing our baby, Belle and Miss MacDermid taking him daily to her home on Seventh St. He has eczema. 7 Baby weighs 8 lb 10 ozs. 21 8 lb 5 ozs. Only period of loss of weight. 28 weighed 8 lb 10 ¼ ozs. December. 1 The long daily drive not being good for baby Miss MacDermid and he will be at Mrs Burns until he can be weaned. 25 Had baby home for the day with Miss McDermid 26 Dr Wende called, pronounces baby’s troubles eczema. Weight 10 lb 9 oz. January, 1901. 30 Baby weighs 12 lbs 10 ozs February. Belle began Christian Science treatment with Mrs Lena R. Dayton, for her eyes, an ulcer recently appeared not yielding to treatment of Dr F. Park Lewis. Progress and relief fairly satisfactory. We have begun study together. 12 John Larkin and Edna Crate married. 27 Baby weighs 13 # 6 oz. March. A font ordered placed in St James Church as a memorial to Nettie. 27 Baby weighs 14 lbs 11 ½ oz. April, 1901. 11 Our darling baby boy returned home. God has blessed us by restoring him to health. 20-21 at Geneva, N.Y. at state convention of Brotherhood of St. Andrew. May. 7 Wrote Aunt Emeline “our boy weighs 15 lbs and isn’t any trouble. He will sit and play for an hour with a piece of paper.” 20 Pan-Am Exposition dedicated. DDM as a member of Publicity Committee rode in procession from City Hall to Temple of Music, Vice Pres. Roosevelt spoke 25 L.S. Co. Exposition building opened. 26 Sunday. Darwin Reidpath Martin baptized by Rev. Thomas B. Berry rector of our Church of the Good Shepherd at St. James Church at the font just installed as a memorial to Nettie. It was consecrated by the Bishop Walker at this service. June. [blank] July, 1901. 26-28 DDM at Detroit Mich at Convention of Brotherhood of St. Andrew. August. 5-8 Will and Frank here for Exposition. 10-12 Took three-day trip together to Utica thence drove to Bouckville via Clinton (Hamilton College) and Hamilton (Colgate College), thence to Clayville via Waterville. Called on Miss Flint our old teacher. September. 6 Pres. Wm McKinley shot at Exposition 26 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 14 He died at John. G. Milburn’s home, Buffalo. Roosevelt took oath of office as president at home of Ansley Wilcox Buffalo. October, 1901. Uncle Albert, as our guest, to exposition. Both attended lecture on Christian Science by Carol Norton at East Aurora. 17 Provided for perpetual care of Sauquoit Val. Cemetery lot. November. 1 L.S. Co. showroom in Brooklyn opened. 2nd Pan American Exposition and our exhibit there closed. Bought lot 75 X 275 west side of Oakland Place, $15.000 cash. 17-25 Belle, Mother, Margaret and Delta visited Washington, Philadelphia and Atlantic City. December. Nov. 15 Learning to tally average soap contents of 10.000 orders proving new bldgs E. F. ample. January, 1902. 26 DDM arrived at Newark, NJ from Bfo, first time since 1878 when sold soap there. Spent afternoon at Alta’s at Orange. 25-28 DDM in N.Y. & 29-30 in Phila February. 22 DDM to Niagara with Mr. Heath March. Branch L.S. Co. open in Phila and Peoria. 1 DDM left for Peoria, Ill. 2nd at Indianapolis visiting Frank and his daughter Louise, first time saw my niece, now seventeen. 3-4 Peoria \ 5 Chicago 6 LaCrosse, Wis. 7 Chicago 8 Peoria 9 home. April, 1902. For her birthday on 9th DDM gave IRM $500 in stock of Racine Knitting Co, Racine, Wis. 6% div. guar. Bought $10,000 in Lackawanna Steel Co. May. House for two families #95 Highland Ave which we have built during winter for Mother and Aunt Mary finished and occupied by them on 1st. 18 Robt L. Howey died. 18-23 DDM & IRM in N.Y. Hotel Imperial. 24 Phila Hotel Walton and Camden N.J. 25 Day trip home. 30 DDM & IRM & Miss Crawford drove to East Aurora to visit Mr & Mrs Hubbard and Roycroft. June. DDM read “Story of Ireland” and history of Ireland as contained in Larned’s Ency. I.R.M .gave mother new piano and many other lovely things for her new home. 26 Our 13th marriage anniversary; surprise party to mother at her new home. Guests were nearly the same as at our wedding. July, 1902. Branch L.S. Co opened in N.Y. 49 Barclay St. August. DDM read “Scotland” (Story of) and Larned’s history thereof. DDM read aloud to IRM “Henry Esmond” Reading Science & Health and scriptures daily. September. 2 Tuesday. Dorothy entered public school No. 54, 2nd grade. Miss Laurence teacher. 11 DDM went to Chicago. 27 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Sat.13 with Will visited Oak Park, Ill. called in Chi on Frank & Florence. 14th Visited Willmette, a Lake Forrest, Lake Bluff Will’s cottage. 14th night to Peoria. 15th, 16th & 17th til noon visiting Peoria branch L.S. Co. Found new building and opened negotiations for its purchase. 18th Home October, 1902. 8 DDM to Boston. Hotel Westminster, Copley Sq. to attend convention of Brohd of St. Andrew 9-12. 13, 14, &15 Canvassed for quarters for branch of L. S. Co. 16 Home. 16-21 Maude Huffer, Jacob her husband & children Maynard and Mildred from Nebraska visited us. 25-26 Edward M. May of N.Y. and Crawford N.J visited us, engaged him to be a special representative of L.S.Co. 30-31, Nov 1&2 Mrs. F. W. Van Bergh of Rochester and son Maurice visited us. 31, 1 & 2 Mr. Van B. also. November. 18 Frank Lloyd Wright of Oak Park, Ill Architect (aged 35) our guest overnight. 19 DDM to Niagara with Mr W. 23 Began Sunday eve readings DDM aloud; Belle, Belle C, Delta, Geo. & Mr & Mrs Morgan listening. Read Book of Esther. 30 Mr & Mrs Hughes also listeners. Read “Our Bible” Canon Talbot. December. 4 Belle & DDM to Independent Club banquet M.W. Littleton 11 Bought site for our new home, and Delta’s, 1⅓ acre, 468 ft. street frontage, cor. Jewett and Summit Ave, $14.000. Joined Merchants’ Exchange of Bfo. 19 DDM to Independent Club banquet Judge Speer of Ga 22 ¨ ¨ Merchants Exch banquet 25 Mother, Margaret & Miss McDermid out from 24th eve to 25. Delta, George, Laura, and Mr & Mrs Weaver called eve 25th 7 Read “Our Bible”. 14 “Milton” Canon Farrar. 21 “Ruskin”. January, 1903. 2 L S. Co. opened Boston branch. 1 No callers. DDM took Dorothy to her Grandma’s to stay til Sunday 4th, and called at Rectory. Card party in evening of pedro club. A success as all Belle’s parties are. 8 DDM to Independent Club dinner to hear Sam’l Gompers. W R Heath my guest, Mr Larkin guest of club at my request. February. 17-20 Belle, 18-20 DDM at F.W. Van Bergh’s at Rochester. Planning requirements of new office building by Frank Lloyd Wright & discouraging counter plans from President. March. 13 7.30 p.m. IRM & DDM to Chicago, home 20th a.m. Visited at Frank’s. Will visited us there. 16th DDM Peoria. 17th both at La Grange at W.J. Miller’s 18th at F.L. Wright’s at Oak Park, Ill. Selected a plan for Geo & Delta’s house. Bo’t $4,000 bonds of Lack. Steel Co. 28-29th DDM in N.Y. on business. Bartons at our house. L.S. Co. business extraordinarily successful. April, 1903. 2 A new ulcer seems to be forming in Belle’s right eye. 6 DDM begins Grand Jury duty. 13 Frank Lloyd Wright overnight, Barton’s over, discussing their new house we are to build. 15 Belle and I called on Mrs Leavitt. 16 Eye improving fast. 23 Ulcer practically gone. 28 Belle Crouse’s father died. May. 28 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 1 DDM to top new L. Co. chimney; saw Brock monument; Niagara mist etc. 3 We heard Carol Norton on “Christian Science the Universal Religion” 9 Siberian Crab and Red Astrachan in heavy bloom for first time. Father planted in 1889. 11 DDM vaccinated 22 DDM ran new electric runabout from home to office, successfully, but after arrival there ran in fence and damaged it. 25 Frank L. Wright overnight, discussing Delta’s plans. 29 Rec’d runabout in good order. June. A month with a good deal of seeming suffering for Belle, because of the fear entertained. Darwin first, then Dorothy seem to have whooping cough. Dorothy out of school three last weeks of term but teachers say she is ready to be promoted. 16-30 Belle Crouse with us from 16th to June 30. July, 1903. 3-4 Visited by Mrs Fanny Carstarphen Brady of St Louis who was healed from a claim of 25 years standing, seven years ago, by the power of God, obtained thro. Christian Science. Her visit very timely marking the beginning of the end of the seeming reign of evil over Belle’s eyes. 14 Dorothy to Niagara on the Lake, Ont. 15 DDM to see Mrs Leavitt, C.S.D who advises Belle go away, to Mrs Brady for treatment. Pledged $5,000 to C.S. church building fund. 18 Notified W. J. Phelps CS. to discontinue treating Belle. 20 Astrachan apples ripening. 24 8.30 P.M. Belle, with Miss Amanda M Crawford started to St. Louis. 29 Will’s Oak Park house started. Belle visited St Louis Exposition grounds. August. 2 DDM, with Geo. Barton to Niagara on Lake for day. 5 Dorothy returned. 11 Belle Crouse came. Barton’s, who were at our house, went home. 23-24 DDM with George Barton and Henry Fink to Clayville. Belle at Hotel Beers, St Louis, Mo, whole month growing in spirituality and Christian Science. September. 5 Darwin R’s first railroad ride, around belt line with Belle Crouse and Dorothy. DDM to first Larkin office picnic at Dunkirk. 7 Miss Crawford home. Belle writes will stay until cured. 17 P.M. DDM left Bfo. 18th P.M. at Peoria 19-26 at St Louis daily reading with Belle, Christian Science. Drove in World’s Fair grounds etc. 27 DDM at Chicago, Belle remaining at St. Louis. Saw Frank & Will and families. 28 Home October, 1903. 1st Ella Richardson Castle started for St Louis to be a companion to Belle. [recorded in September] 10-11 F.L. Wright overnight. 11th Staked out Barton House. Oscar S. Lang is to build it. 14 Began cellar with three teams. 22 Began stone laying 22 eve. to Willard M. Isham’s wedding at Mr Heath’s. 22 night to N.Y. 24 Phila. 25th to Cranford N.J. (E M May’s) and Orange to see Alta Mary and children 25 Ella Castle arrived home, leaving Belle yesterday, still in St. Louis November. 12 Dorothy’s first music lesson (“kindergarten”) 15 Wrote Alta first time in years: on C.S. 25 Dorothy and her Daddy started to St Louis, Lake Shore and Big Four R.R. 26 9 a.m. arrived, visiting Momma. 29 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 29 noon returned, arriving 30, 8 a.m. 23 Will Martin and F. L. Wright here. Will to Delta’s. Wright home overnight. Dinner at Otowega Club first use of it. 24 Will overnight 25th P.M. Will to N.Y. 30 Will here, to Chicago 7.25 He visited Alta, Aunt Carrie and Ernie Martin. 29 Father’s second wife died in Neb. aged 71. December. 7 Gave dinner at Otowega Club to Mr May of N.Y. and buyers. 19 Belle started from St. Louis, Darwin started from Bfo 8.30 P.M. met at Wabash, Ind, 8.30 AM arrived Bfo 9 P.M. 25 Mother & Margaret all day also Catherine McDermid, Flora & Maud Dick, Will Dick and his fiancé Bertha Donaldson out in eve. Belle decided we better begin our house in spring. 12 Urged buying land for [ ] bldg. January, 1904. 13 Twelve inches of snow, more. 18 Belle began treatment with Mrs Weaver. 29 DDM to Chicago arriving 10.30 1/30 (AM) Will met me. Spent day visiting sites for a new factory for his business. Visited Frank & Florence over night. 31 To Oak Park with Will and Winnie to see new house. Dinner at Mr Wright’s He accompanied me to Bfo. Decided on plan for our house. February. 16 Eight degrees below zero, coldest of winter. 17 Renewed coal, supply exhausted. 15 Began plastering Barton House. 16 Dorothy seemed ill in afternoon. High fever at night. 17 Rash all over. Fever continued. 18 Fever gave, asked to go to school and out to play, missed only one meal, dinner 16th. 19 Played out doors, perfectly well thereafter. Unquestionably a belief of measles has been destroyed by God thro. our own understanding of Christian Science. March. 3 Death of Elizabeth A. wife of George A. Reidpath 19-20 Visit from F.L. Wright Sketch for barn submitted. 24-27 Visit from brother Frank End of a long severe winter. [pasted in newspaper clipping:] March came in with about six inches of old snow on the ground, badly drifted by February winds – good sleighing, streets icy, and lake full of ice. The mean temperature varied but a small fraction from the March average for many years, and the precipitation was in excess half an inch. April, 1904. 10 Dorothy went alone via two street cars, to CS. Sunday School. 15 Mr Wright here. Severe blizzard for short time. Eight inches of snow fell. 22 Rec’d and ran new Haynes-Apperson automobile (gasoline motor) after a few days previous use of another. 20 Coldest 20th Apr on record here. Twenty degrees above zero. Two inches of snow fell. May. 7 Mrs Weaver visited Belle and demonstrated over what seemed a claim of typhoid. 8 and 11th Visit from Mr Wright. Plan of our new home practically settled. 6-11 Catherine Wright aged 10 with us. 12 Elm tree northeast of Delta’s house planted [blank] inches in circumference three feet from ground. 14 Elm tree planted near west line lot [blank] inches circumference. 16 Broke ground for stable. 20 Belle & DDM to Batavia in evening. Hotel Richmond. Visited Mr & Mrs George Weaver. Returned evening 22nd Sunday. 16-18 Visit from Frank. June. 30 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 13 17 20 21 Laid first stone for stable Visit from Miss Tyna Stilwell of St Louis. Belle & Darwin drove first stake for our new house. Broke ground. the 53rd anniversary of the marriage of DDM’s parents. July, 1904. 12 Miss S. ret’d home. 1 Belle, DDM, Dorothy and Miss S. to Geneva. 2 To Watkins via Seneca Lake boat, to Rochester in eve 3rd eve, to Buffalo 6 Belle to Oakfield to Mr & Mrs Weaver’s golden wedding 19 First stone laid for our new home. LFM’s birthday. 26 First brick laid on our home, viz north wall of lawn, and greenhouse. Stable a day or two later. 1 Borrowed 5.000 on collateral note. 29-31 Visit from Mr & Mrs May. 31 Auto trip to Wanakah and Hamburg. August. 6 Belle & Darwin to Glen Falls N.Y. to visit Miss Crawford and Mr George Tait & family 7 DDM drove with Mr Tait thro Glen Falls, Fort Edward and Sandy Hill. In eve took train for Boston. 11 DDM at Buffalo, home 19 Belle returned home 30 Visit from Mr Wright Name of Larkin Soap Co. changed to Larkin Co. September. 21 Dorothy and Laura Barton began attendance at the Christian Science Home School on The Circle. 23 Belle Crouse went to Syracuse 20 Visit from Mr Wright 5 DDM and Dorothy to Larkin picnic at Glencairn. 3 All family by auto to Athol Springs. October, 1904. 7-10 Visit from brother Will and his brother-in-law George (“Gum”) Kirby, of Mt Ayr, Iowa, old schoolmate of DDM’s 5 Hebditch, experienced English gardener, just arrived, began charge of our garden. 12 Hot water heat from boiler in stable basement first supplied to Barton House. 10 Borrowed 4.000 on collateral note from E. M. May. 22 Belle & DDM, Delta & George to Hamburg to dinner to lecture on “Christian Science” by Bicknell Young of Chicago. 29 Barton shrubs received and planted. November. 1 Gum Kirby began at office of L Co. 11 Mr Wright here 12 Belle & DDM left by night train for Pittsburg leaving Dorothy at her grandma’s and Darwin at Aunt Delta’s. Visited Pittsburg L Co showroom, dinner hotel with Mr & Mrs Terry. Left at 1.30 thro Ohio for St Louis, arriving 7.30 am. Monday to Friday “Louisiana Purchase Exposition”. Wed. eve had Mrs Brady & Tyna Stilwell at dinner at our hotel, the Washington. Thurs eve dined with Mrs Brady and George Stilwell. Sat a.m. arrived at Peoria. Visited branch and drove two hours, to Mr Wright’s “Clark” house etc. To Chicago in afternoon. Will met us. Visited them in their new house. Florence & Wrights to dinner Sunday. Arrived Buffalo Monday 7.50 A.M. 21. 25 Wright here. 28 DDM’s term, ninth year, as vestry man Church of Good Shepherd expired, caused another elected instead a/c growing preference for Christian Science. 30 Borrowed 5.000 of Mr Larkin. December. 1 Roof on house 15 House heated 11 DDM to Rochester a/c Van Berge Silver Plate Co. burned out. Away from home 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 31 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 12 Received letter from Aunt Isa of Edinburgh announcing deaths of Uncle Tom’s wife “a week ago” from Nov. 29, of Aunt Kate’s second daughter Edith, aged 34 in July and of Mr Macintosh in Oct. 15 Eunice, Will’s and Winnie’s second daughter passed away at 2.30 this afternoon at their home in Oak Park. 16 House-warming at Mr Heath’s. Belle assisted to receive. Both to dinner. 25 Mother, Margaret, Bartons and Gum Kirby to dinner. 28 Hebditch began filling conservatory boxes. 31 DDM to Chicago at 7.25 P.M. 27-30 Mrs Terry and Nellie visiting us. January, 1905. 1 DDM at LFM’s to dinner. To WEM’s in eve and until Jan 3rd A.M. To Eunice’s grave 2nd. Home AM, 4th. 5 First flowers in conservatory. Began erecting frame for greenhouse. 10-12 Mr Wright here 11-12 Mr Crosby here 12 Dorothy kept home by error which developed into belief of measles. 14 Mr Larkin informed me that Mr Heath is to be made 2nd Vice Pres. of L. Co. at annual meeting 17th ,and that he wishes all adv. turned over to Mr Esty. 11 Elected, by 383 out of 516 votes cast, trustee for three years of Chamber of Commerce of Buffalo, the highest vote of any candidate. 10 George A. Reidpath married Anna Reilly at Malden Mass. 12 We attended their reception at Aunt Harriet’s. 13 Family dinner to George and Anna at our house. February. 2 Belle Crouse returned 10 F. W. Van Bergh over night; Mr & Mrs Morey and Mr & Mrs Deming to dinner. 11 Mr Wright here. Mr & Mrs Simpson, Miss Block, Paul F. P. Mueller of Chicago and Mr Wright to dinner. Mr Wright starts 14th with Mrs W. for Japan. 12 Mr Kennedy & Helen, Mrs Lane, Miss Mary Lane and James to dinner 13 Coldest night of winter, snow perhaps 2 ½ feet deep. 1 Induced Miss Belle Jackson to begin treatment for tuberculosis. Completely healed in about four months. March. 15-16 WEM here overnight. 14 Mr Lang, superintendent on house, left for three weeks vacation 16 Mr Crosby of Milwaukee here 10 Baby girl, Lois, born to Winnie and Will, a CS. birth. 16 DDM attended stag dinner at Mr Barcalo’s. 17 Mr & Mrs Heath, Mrs & Miss Crawford, Mrs Hubbard to dinner 31 Hebditch, gardener, resolved to return to England.” April, 1905. 1 John Curtis, coachman, moved into stable. 19 Harry Hebditch, gardener left us. (sailed for England 22nd) and George Frampton took his place. 27 DDM at luncheon given by trustees Chamber of Commerce to Rear-Admiral Schley (retired) after which Henry E. Boller took the admiral and Mayor Cutler of Niagara Falls for auto ride and stopped to see our new house whence I went to receive them. Had flags flying Took party into Delta’s where Belle & children joined us. The admiral kissed Dorothy and Darwin. May. 9-12 About 60 trees, 260 shrubs and 1200 perennial plants set out on Jewett Ave place. Two white pines [blank] feet high age of Dorothy, two small ones, two hemlocks & four arbor vitae from Bouckville set out on the 12th. 17 Aunt Emeline ninety years old today 20-22 Mr Wright here after 3 month trip to Japan 23-31 Many thorn bushes, five large elms and a gingko tree planted. 27-28 DDM in Boston 30 Belle & DDM to private view at Albright Art Gallery. 31 Both to dedicatory exercises at " " " Pres. Eliot of Harvard made address. June. 8 DDM in Philadelphia 32 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 11-13 Mr Wright here 25 Family party gathered 60-75 M daisies for church decorations sixteen years ago this day WEM and DDM gathered daisies for wedding of DDM and IRM. 26 Our anniversary. 27 Dorothy’s ninth birthday. Triple wedding at Del Ave Baptist Church at eleven o’clock of Will H. Dick Jr. and Bertha Donaldson, Fiora Dick and Fred M. Haynes and Carrie Kaiser and Frank Noble. Darwin & Dorothy in wedding party. Church filled. Beautiful scene. Belle provided by God’s gifts, all dresses and decorations for entire party of twelve girls. 28 Mr Crosby here 29 To Delta’s to meet Cousin Harriet, Uncle Albert’s grand daughter, Walton’s daughter, and husband George Fenwell, married June 25. July, 1905. 7 Belle with Miss Crawford & Mrs Holcombe started 7.15 A.M. for Concord, N.H. Stopped overnight at Eagle Hotel, Worchester, Mass and arrived Concord noon 8th where remained in rented flat until 29th. On 22nd visited Mrs Eddy’s home “Pleasant View” during her absence driving, through kindness of Mr George H. Kinter. Saw Mrs Eddy on several of her drives and wrote us a beautiful letter describing visit. 13 Cousin Walton A. Martin, Uncle Albert’s oldest son, died Auburn, his home. 9th Will Fry here 10th Mr Wright here 29th Belle to Mount Pleasant House White Mountains. DDM with Henry Fink and Gum Kirby to Clayville. Visited Richfield Springs in afternoon. Home night train. 30th. Rained nearly all day. August. 5 Belle left White Mountains for Quebec, 8 From Quebec to Hotel Champlain near Plattsburg, stopping to see Montreal en route. DDM and Dorothy left Bfo on night train 9 At 7 a.m. Belle started by boat down Lake Champlain and DDM and Dorothy left Albany by D & H train, went aboard boat at Port Henry, continuing down lakes C and George together. Miss Crawford & Mrs Holcombe.along. All stopped at Glen Falls at Mrs Tait’s for dinner. Left Miss C. there. Saw Mrs H. on Bfo train at Albany. Belle, DDM & Dorothy at Ten Eyck Hotel, Albany overnight. 10 Down Hudson River by boat, arriving at Holland Hotel Fifth Ave. NY. 11 To theatre with Taits, Dorothy also. 12 Visited Alta’s family. In eve to Hackensack to Mr May’s. 14 to Bfo on afternoon train. Aunt Hannah died. 16 Bernice arrived 6 Sold 36 ft on Beard ave. 18 George Reidpath to dinner 18 Sold our old home to Geo. H. Gisel to be delivered when our new house is done. The Beard ave lots have cost me in cash without interest 40.42 per foot. I sold the 36 feet @ 32.¯ net. September. 1 Bernice went home. 30 Mr & Mrs Heath, Mr & Mrs Wright to dinner. October, 1905. 1-3 Mr & Mrs Wright to church with us and home to dinner remaining until Tues. A.M. Oct 3rd. 3 Darwin’s fifth birthday. Belle & DDM to Will Dicks to dinner. 24 Started our electric lighting plant for first time. 25 DDM’s fortieth birthday. Brother Will sent forty great chrysanthemums to adorn his desk. 28 Mr Wright here. A small fire in kitchen of new house. Decorating of walls begins. Collected 193.40 insurance. November. 8-9 Mr Wright here 19 Attended Prof. Hershing’s lecture on C.S. at Teck Theatre. DDM ushered. 20 Both entered class in Christian Science conducted by Mrs Annie V.C. Leavitt and continued daily from 10 A.M. to about one o’clock until Saturday Dec 2nd , Sunday excepted. A delightful, profitable, blessed, privilege. 21 Began moving into our new home, slept there. 22 First breakfast in our new home. Now begin our meals with a silent blessing. 26 Dinner at Delta’s. 33 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 13 Bought beautiful carriage team, dark chestnuts, long tails, 5-7 years old. 1040-1120 lbs. 29 Bought Brougham. December. 4 Annual meeting of C.S. students. Both spoke a few words. 5 Mr & Mrs George Weaver to luncheon., DDM home to luncheon. First guests. 6 Gen’l Electric current connected 8 Miss Claribel McIntosh of Glen Falls visiting. 9-11 Miss Crawford with us. 12 DDM pallbearer at funeral of Lieut. Col. Cyrus Tracy Peckham MD. 24-25 Mother, Margaret, Mrs & Miss Peckham, guests 18 Cousin Henry Martin, Uncle Artemis’ son called at office. Has brothers Will at Bath, NY, Frank at Binghamton, and Fred. Did not renew subscription expiring this month to C.S. Sentinel as all copies rec’d in last six months are unread for lack of time. January, 1906. 8-12, 17-19 DDM on jury, served on two cases, was foreman of each jury. Gave verdicts in each case, the second being “manslaughter first degree”. 15 and 22 Both to Student’s meeting. 18 Herbert L. Goodrich, to whom have loaned $1.000 and $300. - asked loan of $1.200 to replace trust money. I told him lay facts before J B Pierce whose funds he had used. 19 Herbert committed suicide. 22 To funeral. 21 Warmest January day on record. 70˚ on north side our house. February. 25 Mrs & Miss Peckham to dinner and tea. Simpsons also to tea. March. 4 The Misses Lee here to dinner 6 Discharged George Frampton as gardener. 7 Thomas S. Skinner took charge as gardener 10 Rec’d last of first floor carpets, the living room, a rug 20 ft by 20 ½ ft. Will’s baby, Lois, year old today. Walks everywhere. 12 Baby boy born to Flora and Fred Haynes. 14 After meeting we were given our C.S. class diploma. 16 Dorothy’s French lessons under Madame Roth discontinued on account of apparent over-work. To Mrs Hubbard’s to dinner, Mr. Wright overnight. April, 1906. 18 San Francisco shaken 90 seconds by severe earthquake causing much destruction, followed by three days conflagration destroying three-fourths of city and making 300,000 people homeless. 21 Larkin Co’s donations to San Fran sufferers over $4000. Employees $1.000 more. May. Dorothy began French lessons with Mme Cassasa. 6-13 Belle Jackson & Miss MacIntosh guests one week. 10 Mr Wright here. 14 Belle, Delta, Mother, & Margaret to N.Y. Hotel Breslin. 15 They attended P.S. Gilmore memorial concert at Mad. Square Garden. 16 Second C.S. Church 17. Hippodrome 17 DDM to N.Y 18 All but Mother to “Music Master”. 19 “Lion and the Mouse”. 20 First C S Church. Evening DDM to Phila “Bingham House”. 21 All home from NY Black Diamond noon, Lehigh Valley, DDM joining at T.[?] Bethlehem at two o’clock. Over mountains on rear platform. 23 Bought 53 foot lot on Jewett Av. adjoining. Gave Darwin pruning shears. June. 34 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 6 Warren E Fuller, Galesburg, Ill, 2nd son of cousin Grace Fuller, daughter of Uncle Chauncey who lived at Biggsville, Ill where Grace and husband and oldest son Harvey L. live, called at office. Has also twin eight year old girls. Is asst. chief train dispatcher of Burlington R.R. Nickname “Grandpa” because of resemblance to Uncle Chauncey. 7 Will & Winnie came 8 IRM& DDM to Boston by day, with Will and Winnie and party of Bfo Christian Scientists. At Adams House Boston Sat. Sun & Monday. To dedicatory service, Mother Church Extension 5.30 P.M. Sunday. 30,000 attended. Auto ride to Brookline, overnight visit to George Reidpath’s. 15-16 Visit from Mrs Fanny C. Brady of St Louis 19-22 Tyna Stillwell here. 22-23 Will and Winnie here. 23 All to Niagara for afternoon. 15 Bought Victoria for Belle’s anniversary present. July, 1906. 6-25 Niece Anna, Alta’s daughter, visiting us. 16-31 All in country, Collins N.Y. on farm of Frank G. Sisson. Barton family guests 16-21. Anna 16-25. Mother, Margaret & Grace Middleton 24-31. All home in John Larkin Jr’s auto. DDM on farm two Saturdays & Sundays and each night except 25th at home with Mr Wright. August. Read Tolstoi’s “My Religion”, greatest book I ever read, next to Science & Health, meaning that it has made a deeper impression on me. Many friends becoming interested in Christian Science and asking for literature etc. 8-16 Visit from Miss George Stilwell of St Louis. 14 Call from Miss Belle Beard of Mt Ayr Ia who is visiting Geo. Kirby’s. 24-26 Dorothy and her parents visited Rochester at home of Mr and Mrs Fred W. Van Bergh. To First Church of Christ Scientist there Sunday morning. 31 [ink blot] night. September. 6-10 Mr & Mrs E. M. May visiting us. 7 Dinner to men of secretary’s department of office. 13 Warmest, this summer. official: 88˚. A dozen days seemed warmer because more humid. 22-27 Miss Sarah Van Bergh and her sister Mrs Van Vien visiting us. Belle with them twice to theatre. 30 First frost October, 1906. 1 First luncheon in Larkin Office Building dining rm. 4 Mr Hardy, a client of Mr Wright’s, of Racine, Wis. with us over-night. Fire started in boiler. 9 Belle & Delta to Auburn for visit. Home 13th. 10 A record-breaking snow storm. 32˚ of temperature. Fifteen inches of snow fell, forming a deep slush, weighting down trees, still in full foliage, breaking limbs and splitting trees. Great havoc with wires. Continued cold, nearly freezing until Sunday 14th and snow laid until the 13th. Belle & Delta to Cazenovia for a 2 ½ hour visit with Aunt Em. 19 Daddy, Mother, Dorothy and Darwin to Clayville. Children’s first visit on Saturday 20 to graves of grandparents which they covered with gorgeous autumn leaves. To old home 21st and home to Buffalo in evening. 23 To lecture on C.S. at Niagara by Bicknell Young with Mr Wright and Mr Mortimer Matthews of Cinti . 30 More snow November. 3 Dinner for family & friends, 48 plates. 8 Daddy to Washington, D.C. Attended hearing before Interstate Commerce Commission. Took boat to Norfolk. 10 Arrived 8 o’clock. Visited Jamestown Exposition grounds. City improving rapidly. Much better than in 1897. At 6.15 took boat-train for N.Y, train at Cape Charles. 11. Arrived Newark NJ. 7.20 am. Breakfast at Mary’s in Orange. She is in bed for nine weeks. Gave Jessie $60.00 to permit Mary going to hospital for operation. At noon went to Rutherford, visited nursery there. Arrived Mr May’s Hackensack, 5 P.M. Belle at Bfo attended lecture on C.S. by Mrs Sue Harper Mims[?]. 12 in N.Y. visited proposed new branch. Bought lamp at Tiffany’s. 35 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 16 Reception to neighbors, church friends and social friends, 232 present. 17 Reception to 210 office people. 26 Dinner to 40 of those present 16th. December. 1 Sent 52.00 = 112.00 in all to Jessie for Mary’s operation. During month read, on cars, etc, a book on esoteric catholicism “The Parochial School” which strongly moves me. 19 At a luncheon to Larkin Co’s young men who travel with exhibitions of goods, made a short talk. 25 A beautiful happy Christmas. 27 Children’s party for Dorothy and Laura to fifty children 8 to 16 years old, all dressed as babies. Parents came later. 22 Kindergarten Christmas tree, all presents made by children for parents who were present, a pretty affair. 29 Party, with supper, for servants and 40 friends. All these last affairs were given in the playroom. 27 and 28, two strenuous directors’ meetings resulting in DDM’s plan for packing Co’s goods being rejected. 31 Watched out old year, Mr & Mrs Morey and Simpsons with us. January, 1907. 1 Beautiful New Year’s Day. Callers, Mr & Mrs Dold, Fosters, Messrs Collard and Kendrick called. 4 Mr & Mrs Holcombe to dinner 7 “1906” class in C.S. convened with Miss Jackson and Mr C.B. Foster to whom we helped make known the Truth, and our next neighbors Mr & Mrs Howard as members. 13 At today’s Communion service we joined the First Church of Christ Scientist in Buffalo, having been accepted on the 11th. 19 Heard Lhevinne Russian pianist. 7 Heard Melba with Pittsburg Orchestra. 28 Students’ meeting. 30 Grandmother Dorothy Maurer Danner died 8 A.M. Read on cars “The Master Christian” by Marie Corelli February. 1 Grandmother buried in Forest Lawn 11 Heard Toronto’s Mendelsohn Choir with Pittsburg Orchestra. Pledged $1.000 to buy lot for C.S. Church 18 Student meeting 12 Dinner at office to office men at six. DDM spoke on “Pay the Price”, well received and printed in “Ourselves”. 20 Death of James Watson Clement age 65. Wrote eulogy for “Ourselves”. 25 Wedding at our home of Belle Jackson, for 6 years my private secretary, to James Collard, Larkin Co’s Traffic Mgr. 26 Dorothy & her parents heard Mme Samaroff, the pianist. 14 DD & IRM and Delta and George Barton to see Viola Allen in Cymbeline Read on cars Maeterlinck’s “Life of the Bee”. March. A very mild month of beautiful clear days. Read “Liberty and a Living” on cars, also Riis’ “Making of an American” 18 Chamber of Commerce 50th anniversary. After dinner in evening at Ellicott Club met Governor Hughes. E. M. May to dinner and with us till 21st. 25 Mr & Mrs Charles D. Holcombe & Mr Wright to dinner April, 1907. A remarkably backward spring. March weather all thro April. 20 Our house may be considered finished: last workman finished his work today, a carpenter who has been continuously on the job until now. 30 Uncle James and Aunt Amy Reidpath sailed from Liverpool on “Saxone’s” on tickets that we furnished. May. 10 1.2 inches snow. 20. 3 a.m. light snow. 10 Uncle & Aunt arrived at Boston. 15 at 11.15 P.M. they arrived at Bfo and became our guests. 16 Mother & Margaret out. All to last Guild concert 18 Belle, I, Uncle & Aunt to theatre to see “Girl of the Golden West,” a play of 1849. 36 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 19 Uncle James and I to lecture on C.S. by Hon. C.A. Breskirk. Charles Reidpath and family out. 26 Charles R. and family out. 30 Family gathering at Charles’ home. My first visit there. 31 Uncle James and Aunt Amy to Mother’s. Belle, Dorothy and I on Empire State Express to Albany, thence to Glen Falls, arriving at the Tait’s at 9.50 PM 29-30 Mr Wright and photographer here taking pictures of house. 24 Belle took Uncle J and Aunt A. to Niagara. June. 2 DDM returned to Bfo at night. Mr B. G. Higley[?] of Sandy Hill took Mr Tait, Mr Howard Prisyn and I for auto ride to Caldwell (Lake George) and Warrensburgh in afternoon. New York City reports swirling snow in the air today. 5 Dorothy & Mama returned in evening, having stopped in Albany and driven over an hour, went thro Capital, etc. 6 Snow fell in Erie Co. Dinner at Mother’s with Uncle James & Aunt Amy, Mr and Mrs Neilson, Mr and Mrs Beveridge. Uncle J & Aunt A returned to us. 11 DDM appointed by Mrs Leavitt on committee of four to study requirements for new C.S. Church. 22 Uncle J. & Aunt A. started to Montreal. Belle and Dorothy to Crescent Beach out to Mrs Simpsons, & DDM with Mr S. for trip through Bfo Harbor with R.E. men [ ] to C. Beach. Home by boat at ten o’clock. 29 All to Alexandria Bay 30 DDM returned. Uncle J. & Aunt A. arrived in p.m. July, 1907. 3 Andrew C McKenzie & wife of N.Y. with us over night. Mother, Margaret, Darwin, George Barton & DDM constitute family. 4 Belle, Dorothy, Delta, Laura, Uncle J & Aunt A, the party at the Thousand Island took boat in afternoon for Toronto. 5 They arrived 6.30 a.m. In afternoon to Niagara on Lake 6 Home in eve 7 Charles Reidpath and family out. 9 Uncle J & Aunt A. to Angola with Robt Reidpath 17 ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ returned 26-28 They at Mother’s. 13 Dorothy, with Laura Barton, to Syracuse by “Empire State Express” for a visit with Laura’s Uncle John. 22 Home again 23 All family, Uncle J & Aunt & Bartons except Dorothy to Olcott Beach. 31 Belle, DDM Uncle J. & Aunt Amy to Chautauqua Lake. August. 3 All to “Kit” Reidpath Martin’s in eve. 6th Uncle James & Aunt Amy to N.Y. via Lehigh Valley “Black Diamond” express. 7th They made trip up Hudson River to Poughkeepsie and return. DDM to N.Y. at night. 8 & 9 DDM with Uncle J. & Aunt Amy seeing New York. Saw them aboard steamer at 11 P.M. “Minnehata” Atlantic Transport Line which sailed 6 a.m. 10th and reached London 19th. 10th DDM in A.M. at L. Co’s NY. Branch. PM with Andrew McKenzie visiting churches in behalf First C.S. Bfo. Spent night at Flatbush, Andrew’s home. 11 Attended 2nd church N.Y. Visited Columbia University P.M. with Mr & Mrs May. To Bfo at night. 16 to 26 Neal & May Martin visiting us. September. 3 Dinner at Edward B. Harvey’s to meet Prof. and Mrs Ray T. Spencer 15 Sunday. Belle, Dorothy, Darwin and Daddy to Albright gallery to see Jean d’Arc pictures. 18 Men of neighborhood offered their support as Republican candidate for city councilman. School resumed in our playroom; Kindergarten continued, first grade begun with Darwin in class. Dorothy resumed with Mrs Simpson and Mme. 25 Started boiler for heating. October, 1907. 4 DDM with Messrs Moderwell, Holcombe and Foster, the committee to see churches, to Chicago on night train. 5 Party spent entire day with WEM in auto visiting all the C.S. churches viz 1st 2d 3d 4th 5th & 7th (last building). Lastly Unity Church Oak Park and Mr Wright’s office. Lodged Chicago Beach [?] Hotel. 37 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 6th Attended 5th church met Mr S.S. Beman the architect. Afternoon and over-night with LFM. Belle and Delta started to Chicago. 7 DDM & LFM met Belle and Delta who went to Winnie’s. DDM to Rockford Ill and return and night train to Peoria. 8 Day at Peoria Branch, dinner at Mr Person’s. Night train to Chicago. 9th Day with WEM Met AEM a [ ]. Dinner at WEM’s, all Martin family present except AEM 10th Spent day at Cleve Branch also visited C.S. church. Home 10.45 P.M. 15 a.m. Belle home 19 DDM and children chestnuting at Versailles. November. 7-16 Belle (with Mother, and Margaret) to New York on “The New Yorker”. The MacKenzie’s met them and took home where they had an enjoyable visit and returned home 16th. 9 Meeting of forty men in playroom addressed by Charles P. Norton Vice Chancellor University of Buffalo on University project to take county poor farm for a site for a greater university. This was first public announcement of intention to take it. December. 5-11 LFM visiting. All enjoyed it. 25 A beautiful Christmas. We sent and received many gifts – one from Belle to DDM a lovely miniature of Darwin. As usual Grandma and Margaret out Christmas eve until 26th. Grace Peckham also overnight Christmas eve. Christmas dinner guests were these, Mrs Peckham and Mrs Parmalee, and family. To supper were these except Parmalees, also Moreys, Simpsons and their friends Mr & Mrs Austin of Ithaca. Assets reached a million for first time. January, 1908. 1 Family and Bartons, all to Grandma’s for dinner and supper. 18-19 WEM visited us. To church with us on Sunday. Will and I to Kirby’s in afternoon and walked home, Gum with us. 29 Passage to London on str. “Minnehaha” sailing Apr 25th engaged for Martins & Bartons except the daddies. February. Luncheons were given to IRM & DLB on the 1st by Mother, 22nd by Mrs Bailey 8th by Mrs Peckham. 21 Aspinwalls, Howards, Boards and Hubbells to dinner.[recorded under January] 28 Mr & Mrs Parker and Mr Breed to dinner. Month well occupied with preparations for the trip, the evenings with readings on France etc as most of time will be spent there. Co. suspended “Larkin Idea” after 7 years continuous publication. March. 1 To Barcalos to dinner. 7-9 Mr & Mrs Fred Van Bergh and Maurice visited us. To theatre only time this winter. 12 Organization of Mutual Pkg Co. with DDM as treasurer and a director. 13 Luncheon by Mrs Board to IRM. & DLB. 14 Party by Jack Board to Darwin 17-30 Visit from Belle MacKenzie 19 Dinner at Holcombe’s also luncheon at Mrs Gardner’s 23 Lecture on Bismya (oldest city) Historical Bldg. 20 Dinner at Mother’s 25 Luncheon by Mrs Howard 26-29 Mr May visiting us. Darwin has learned this winter to read and write both English and French. This month’s Architectural Record has many pictures of our home. April, 1908. 2 Contracted with Peter H. Frank to take his equity in apartment house at Genesee and Best Sts in exchange for all my vacant lots except Oakland Pl. Also for LFM’s lot and one of L. Co. Sta “E” of P.O is one of the tenants of building. 3 To dinner at Hyatt Smith’s being tenth anniversary of his employment with L. Co. 4th Whole family to Chas. Reidpaths to dinner 5 Mr & Mrs Moderwell to dinner To Mrs Harvey’s to tea 7 Mr & Mrs Foster to dinner 38 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 10 To Collard’s to dinner 11-12 Mr & Mrs Geo. Weaver of Batavia visiting. 13 Called on Davidsons. 14 Mr & Mrs Simpson to dinner. 20 First students’ meeting in a yr. 22-23 Many callers to bid “Bon Voyage”. 24 P.M.Train to N.Y. via DL&W. R.R. 18 to station to say goodbye. 25 1.30 P.M. ship sailed. Mr & Mrs May, Mr & Mrs McKenzie, Mr & Miss Schepp to say good-by. DDM home with Mr May. To church in Hackensack together. 26 Home D L & W. night. 27 Student’s mtg. 30 seven inches snow tonight and May 1st. Some lay two or three days. May. 5 First word from family. Wireless message of 4/30 delayed. “all well. Rough 28 & 29th calm today. Good ship” also cable from London, “arrived all well”. Our Jewett Ave garden lot planted to shrubbery and fruit, drained. Poultry house built, first fowls 4/17. 2 First rents from “The Alma”. - Genesee & Best sts. 5 Will H Dick aged 64 passed on. 7 Declined presidency Municipal League. 15 First letters, one from Darwin to his daddy. His first all-written at sea. 18 Fires out in boiler. 11 Last snow. 22 More letters. For account of travels of IRM and little ones see her letters and their journals. June. Beautiful letters from IRM and Dorothy all the month. They passed whole month at Villa La Pierre St. Symphorien, Tours, France, both children and Laura Barton in school 9 to 11 daily with French governess 3 to 6 daily. School unsatisfactory and after one month given up, and governess mornings also engaged. 20 DDM to Wanakah to dinner with Mr Gridley & buyers. 26 Our anniversary. DDM to LeRoy with Mr Breed in his auto, 10 to 6. Mr Rem. H. Parker and Mr Needham also. Beautiful trip. Many meetings of C.S. church building committee. Endeavored to secure engagement of Mr Wright as architect, but failed. 28 Walked to Williamsville to breakfast with Aunty Marg. and Grace Middleton. July, 1908. IRM’s letters of June 26 and 29th were her last. On June 23rd she awoke with a return of the old error which so long has periodically assailed her, the ulcerated condition of the eye. Miss Downer of Paris, C.S. practitioner took case and on June 28 visited Tours. 7th Whole party left Tours for Hotel Dysart 4 Square de la Tour Maubourg, Invalides quarter in Paris. IRM very quiet, generally at her room, Miss D. calling daily. A Miss Fairbank of (Illinois) with party. A governess took children four hours daily to all pts of interest in and about Paris. 28 DDM engaged passage on S.S. Adriatic sailing Aug 12 and cabled IRM. August. Because of general decline in business L. Co. offices and factory closed Saturdays from mid-May. DDM spent all at home in garden. Letters to IRM two to four times weekly. Brief, infrequent letters from Delta since IRM ceased to write. Occasionally good letters from Dorothy and efforts from Darwin. 11 8:30 P.M. DDM to N.Y. on DL&W. 12 DDM sailed 10 A.M. Mr Howard to N.Y. on same train and to steamer, where met Mr May. Telegram from Secy Dep with good wishes. Beautiful trip. Reached Paris 6 P.M. 20th, all at “Gare St. Lazare” to meet me. Daily trips about Paris with children and Delta. 23 All via auto go to Chantilly and Senlis 24 DDM only (rest all went in July) via Cook’s auto to Fontainebleu. September. 2 Left Paris via “steamer train” 8.55 A.M. Reached Cherbourg 3.30, steamer late. Aboard “Majestic” 6 P.M. 3 Noon, reached Queenstown in fog. Irish coast partially visible, last seen was “old head of Kinsale”. Rolling sea that night and occasionally thereafter. 39 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 7-8 Beautiful sea. 9 Landed N.Y. 7 P.M. Mr May met us. At 10 P.M. reached Hotel Savoy, 5th Ave & 59th St. 10-11 Showed children & Delta around N.Y. 12 10 o’clock train to L& W. reached Bfo 8 P.M. All expressed keenest delight at reaching home. 15 DDM to student’s meeting. 26 DDM studied sketches for new church. Saturdays are full holiday yet. Much walking and reading together of IRM and DDM. 16-18 Miss Cora E Downer C [ ] B of Paris visiting us. October, 1908. 2 Fire started in boiler. 2-3 Ella Miller of Clayville N.Y. DDM’s baby-playmate, visited us. 3 Mrs Tait & Miss McIntosh of Glen Falls to dinner. 10-11 Mrs Peckham visiting us, also Miss Crawford. 17 Auto trip, family & Laura Barton to South Park Conservatory, Armor & Orchard Park 18 Auto trip of family to Oakfield, dinner with Mr & Mrs L.A.Weaver. 20 to Nov 3 served as chairman of executive committee of “Hughes’ Workers”, assisting in re-election of Gov. Charles E. Hughes. November. Miss MacIntosh visiting us until 10th. 9th We three to hear Sheffield (Eng) mixed choir of 200. 20-21 Our family of four to visit the Weavers of Batavia. They would like me to be first reader in their church. 24 With Morey’s, attended illustrated lecture on Canadian Rocky mts. 29 Usual long walk from church extended to six miles. 21 sold Haynes auto $300. 24 Bought a Maxwell runabout $500. 25 First issue C S Monitor 30 Pledged 225.00 to Mr Savage to assist visit of family to his father’s in England. He followed. All returned on Adriatic in July. December. 8 Joined Civic League for enforcement of laws. 15 Church building committee met architect who submitted sketches, acceptable to majority of committee, acceptable for church f or 3.000 people. Belle is getting Christmas shopping done early. It is extensive as she remembers many people. 22 Made member executive committee of Municipal League for reform in government. 25 Dinner with fourteen guests. Mrs Peckham with us 24 to 28. Grace P. from 24 to 27. 26 WEM repaid 3.500 of his borrowings 30 accepted nomination for trustee of Chamber of Commerce. Business excellent this month. January, 1909. 8 Invited to be director Citizen’s Bank but declined. 13 Elected trustee of C of C by low vote of 296 having made no requests at all for votes. M.H. Van Bergh & wife also FW. Van Bergh for dinner in eve. Mrs Van spent afternoon with Belle. 14 attended first mtg of C of C board of trustees 19 annual meetings of L Co and of church (in eve). Plans for new church building accepted. 23 Declined Pres. C of C invitation to be chairman of Transportation Committee. 24 Aunt Emeline died. 26th buried. Born May 16, 1814. 25 George L Martin, son of Frank son of Uncle Artemis, called A warm month. Av temp. 30˚ range, 5 to 53˚. February. 2 Rev & Mrs & Mary Berry to dinner. Weather moderate all mo. Purchased pocket edition Victor Hugo. Read “93”. Read to Belle “New Orleans, the Place & the People” by Grace King. 8 Sold Oakland Place lot at orig. purchase cost; carrying cost for over 7 years about $8.500. 15 Bought lot on Fairfield St. for cottage for Reuben. 20 Bought lot 120 feet front at Bay Beach Canada for summer cottage. Both these measures are Belle’s. 23 Signed contracts with O S Lang for cottages for Reuben and Thomas and for altering Best St. barn into two flats. Work begun 20 to Mch 11. 40 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Mrs. Parmalee convalescing from hospital treatment entertained by Belle who gave up luncheon at Mrs Severance’s 20th with Mrs Andrew D White to bring Mrs. P. home. 27 Rec’d new Peerless touring car. 28 Farewell sermon and service at Good Shepherd Church by Rev. Mr Berry; removed to Geneva, N.Y. March. 7th Gave J.J. Albright & Clifford Hubbell sub. $1500 to help found Nichols School. 1 Sub. $500 to new site for University of Buffalo. 9-17 served six days on Federal Grand Jury Sold, at sacrifice, Belle’s team and coach-harness. 27 As chairman Executive and Reception Committee Hughes Workers rode with Governor Hughes and his military secretary Col. Treadwell from depot 5.15 P.M. to Iroquois Hotel, thence, joined by others, at 6.45 to Bfo Club where twenty sat at dinner, Mayor Adam at Governor’s right, I opposite a Mr. Gorsef [?] from England who sat at Mayor’s right. Thence in Governor’s party to Convention Hall where he spoke on “Direct Primaries” bill. Temp. av. 1˚ colder than average. April, 1909. 3 DDM, IRM, Dorothy, Darwin & Aunty Marmy left Bfo on night train LS&MS Ry. for 15 da. trip south. 4 Left Cinti 8 AM B&OS.W.Ry noon, left Louisville I.C. Ry. 11:30 P.M. ar. Memphis, Tenn. Hotel Gayoso. Hot ride, peach trees in bloom in W. Ky. 5 Tearn[?] delivered purchases. [recorded at end of March.] 5-8 DDM busy at L. Co. mill. Family walked, drove and auto’d. Visited Country Club. Enjoyed mocking birds. Dogwood in bloom. Foliage nearly full. 5 Belle Beard to dinner. 6 Mr Lamb to dinner 7 To Wed meeting C.S. Church. DDM spoke. 8 Night train to New Orleans 9 IRM’s birthday. Good Friday. Awoke in southern Miss with foliage full. Roses, lilies etc abounding. Ar. N.O. 11 a.m. Ben Ellis, former neighbor, called promptly. Walked with us thro French quarter (now becoming in part Italian) visited Cabildo & Cathedral, latter crowded as service. Esplanade St. fashionable Creole homes to St. Roch’s cemetery & chapel. Thousands offering candles. All “stations of the cross”, thronged these in open air. 10 French Market in a.m. Auto to parks, cemeteries, St. Charles Ave Confederate soldier home. Steamboat “Seeing N.O.” 30 miles on river. French Rest. to dinner – “Louisianna” 11 Easter. To C.S. church, small. Hot in sun. Saw home of Grace King. Afternoon, st car & surrey to Chalmette battlefield. 12 Newcomb Pottery at N. College (female) an old home of wealth. Cotton compresses. and warehouses. Retail stores. 13 children & Daddy to Lee Mont. Howard Lib. Confed. Museum and La. State Museum. Latter has set of Audubon’s “Birds”. P.M. drove thro French quarter with Miss Coleman, guide, visited Mme Laurier’s home. 14 Left our St Charles Hotel for all day L&N RR trip along gulf of Mexico to Mobile to Montgomery to Tuskegee to very primitive hotel. 15 Enjoyed visit to T. Institute where were shown every kindness including luncheon with Dr & Mrs Booker T. Washington at their home. 2 to 7 PM train to Atlanta. 16 Auto’d over Atlanta. Saw Gov. Hoke Smith at capital . At Grant Park saw Cyclorama “Battle of Atlanta,’”Peachtree St. etc. 5 P.M. R.R. to Chattanooga 17 A.M. auto to Chickamauga battlefield Missionary Ridge Orchard Knob & Nat’l Cem. In P.M. Trolley to Lookout Mountain beautiful panoramic view of Tenn River and broad valleys. Night train to Cinti. 18 Hot day train to Bfo Home in new auto. Last foliage seen, willows only [ ] Peach blooms in E. Ky 29-30 Snow. Temp low all mo. in Bfo. May. 1 Forsythia in bloom. Winnie & Everett at Gum Kirby’s. 3-9 with us 6-7 May Music Festival. Dinners. 9 IRM, Delta, Winnie & Everett to Painesville, O. 10 to Cleve. 11 IRM & Delta home. Snow in Rochester. Foliage appearing. 31 Darwin’s first circus, Dorothy also went with Daddy and son, “Cole Bros.” 20 Fire out in boilers. June. 41 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 9 DDM to Chicago in behalf of Miss Downer. 10 Overnight at Frank’s. 11 To luncheon at Athletic Club with W.J. Miller and Frank. Will’s for dinner. To Peoria at night. 12 Day at Branch. In eve. in Person’s boat six miles up Ill River. To Chi. at night. 13 To Third Church with LFM. From thence in Will’s auto with him and Frank to Oak Park (dinner) and Riverside (Wright with us) to Arthur Coonley’s. To Bfo at night, Bernice also. 12-21 Dorothy at Mrs M H Van Bergh’s at Rochester. Her first visit away alone. 18 Temp. 48˚, lowest but once 1˚ in 40 years. 22 W.J. Miller & Gephart to dinner. 23 Picnic park lake. 24 Luncheon to 24 girls in honor Laura’s house-party. Wright to dinner. 27 Dorothy’s 13th birthday party. Her second telegram. First at New Orleans from Mr Breed. 30 Will & family here by auto. Left children; to Boston by train. July, 1909. 1st Daniel J. and Wm H. Coss, with Co. since 1876, resigned, and left Bfo today. June 12-July 18 E.M. May on European vacation. Family to Erie Beach, Mr Luedeke[?]cottage for July and Aug. Dorothy learned to swim. Many country runs in auto. DDM along Saturdays. Many Sunday walks to old (1804) windmill at W. Point. 5 WEM ret’d from Boston. 8 The WEM family by auto to Clayville. 15 They ret’d. 16 started to Chicago. 26 arrived there. 26 DDM declined presidency Direct Nominations League - on executive committee however. 22 Belle & Barton’s autod to Canandaigua, called at Batavia on Weavers’. Rained. 23 on to Geneva, called on cousin Charles Martin. DDM Bfo to S. by train in eve. 24 To Auburn by auto over bad roads. Luncheon with cousin Nelie, called at May’s. Saw Uncle Albert. Ret’d to Canandaigua. 25 Dinner at Oakfield with Weavers’. Home to Erie Beach. 24-31 Miss Fairbank whom family met in France visiting us at 125 Jewett Ave. 31 Ret’d to Erie B. August. Guests from Bfo coming and going at cottage. All enjoying the vacation except for no opportunity for reading and away from Jewett Ave. at its loveliest season. Shrubbery and trees making great growth. September. 4 Ret’d to Jewett Ave. Niece Jessie arrived. 7 She returned home. 6 Beautiful auto trip to Alden & Cowlesville. 11 DDM & Gum Kirby walk Crystal Beach to Bay Beach lot bought in Feb. thence to Fort Erie ferry, 13 mi. Rec’d notice of Miss Downer’s marriage to David Edstrom. 17-29 Andrew C & Belle McKenzie here; with us most of this time. 17, 21, Oct 1 to theatre with them. 18 Auto trip with them to Niagara Falls. Several other runs without DDM. Dorothy and Laura learning to ride horseback. October, 1909. 13 Dorothy and parents hear Frederick A Cook tell his story of his discovery of the North Pole. Five inches slushy snow. 9-10 Family & Laura Barton by auto; our good friend Edward J Barcalo and his family in their auto, on a beautiful trip. Start 9 A.M. Luncheon Wyoming, called afterward at home of Mrs Coonley-Ward and village hall. Mrs Ward away (but called at 125 Jewett 11th ); dinner at Mt Morris (Scoville House) after viewing “High Banks” of Genesee river. On Sunday 10th to Sonyea (Craig Colony) then ret’d to Mt Morris and on to Geneseo, Avon, (luncheon) Mumford (fish hatchery), home 6.30 P.M. 15-17 IRM & DDM to Glen Falls visiting Geo Tait & family. DDM auto’d by Mr Higby to Scroon river above Warrensby. 29-31 MH & F.W. Van Bergh and wives visiting us. November. 42 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM DDM engaged in assisting an effort to democratize government of our branch C.S. church. Many long evenings given to study of subject and to meetings with other men. 24 New limousine body on Peerless car. Very fine. Business at office equal once more to best previous record viz: that of 1907. December. 1-6 Hilda Tate visiting us 1-11 Claribell McIntosh, 3-6 Wm Burdett, Miss McI’s fiancée;, all of Glen Falls. The campaign for reform of our church government involves incessant conferences and long evenings. Several gatherings of the people at our house, meeting in the playroom. Finally, Dec. 20th we were compelled to resort to courts involving publicity and much rancor. 22-28 Brother Frank visiting us. Has not been successful and seems unhappy. Declines to consider agriculture in which I offer to assist him. 26-Jan 4 Mrs Peckham from NY visiting us. Active correspondence with cousin Will H Cruttenham on geneology thro. which I shall be able to establish quite a line. January, 1910. 3, 17 and 18th Largely attended business meeting of church congregation resulting in complete triumph of our cause by vote of 401 to 179. 28 Attended luncheon given by our committee to J. V. Dittemore Secy Mother Church Directors. He is an inspiring man. 8 Loaned $500 to cousin Hiram J. Martin Erieville N.Y. without interest to pay off mortgage that amt on his farm. He is son of Uncle John. 25 We attended wedding Grace Weber to James E Allard. 31 Boston Symphony Orchestra 97 musicians 38 in. snow fell in Jan. Sleighing all month. Temp. av. February. 5-6 We, with Aunt Delta and Uncle George, spent Sat. eve and Sunday at Batavia Mr & Mrs Weaver. 4° below zero 10° below midnight Sunday. 9 Night train to Boston arriving 9.10 a.m. Hotel Westminster Copley Square 10 a.m. to L. Co office 63 Summer St. and So. Boston, Sleeper St. location of proposed warehouse, 3 P.M. We both to Mother Church, calling first on Mr James V. Dittmore, clerk of board of directors who entertained us two hours and more, showed us Mrs Eddy’s signature of Jan. 24, 1910 to a revised by-law. Introduced us to A. V. Stewart Pub Science Health, arch. M S. Lellan[?], Jus[?] B. Willis, Annie M. Knott, Rev. W. P. McKenzie Pres. of Mother ch. Also to Ogden Negi & Alex Dodds Mg Ed [ ]. 11 Revisited Pub house 12 To Lincoln Day services at Mother Ch. Met Mrs. Dittemore (sat their pew) Col Watres[?] of Pa who made address on Lincoln. 13 To morning service. Met Mrs. Stewart (sat their pew) Mr Dean of First Ch. N.Y. Frederick Dixon of London (whom IRM met there in 1908) & Rich’d P. Verrall. 10 Had Mr & Mrs Royal T. Needham, late of Bfo now [ ] to dinner. 12 Had George Reidpath and wife Anna to dinner. 11 To theatre Tremont, “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”. 13 After church to Harvard, Agassiz Museum to see wonderful glass flowers. Late dinner at “Tourraine”. Train 7.35 for home. On 11-12 visited N.E. Historic Geneology Library. At shop procured a Martin geneology published in 1880 not including Father etc. 15 At business meeting of church spoke of visit to Mother Church 24 IRM gave beautiful dinner to 22 neighbors. March. 3 IRM gave another beautiful to 22 members of our church. 17 Beautiful party from 6 to 10 for Dorothy to 40 little friends supper, recitations by Mrs Fletcher and dancing. 19 Family arrived 8.30 P.M. Pinehurst, N.C., Hotel Carolina. 20-27 All enjoying Pinehurst with Barcalo’s. DDM horseback twice, Dorothy & Darwin five times. Weather fine; also in Bfo! 25 DDM and EJB circuitous RR trip 250 miles to cotton mill. Overnight at Charlotte. 28 Family together to Richmond Va Hotel Jefferson six hours delay at Aberdeen. 29 Saw R. via auto. To Wash. D.C. eve, train late, arrived past midnight. Hotel Grafton (good). 30 Saw White House, Treasury (called on cousin John G. Cook) to Capitol, to Senate and House of Reps. 43 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 31 Mt Vernon. Drive. Children & DDM to Wash. Mt. In eve all called on cousin Cook 3315 N. St. N.W. April, 1910. 1 Library of Cong. Darwin to P.O. Museum. Afternoon train to Phila. Bellevue Stratford. 2 DDM at L. Co. IRM and children to Independence Hall, Carpenter’s Hall, Mint, and Fairmount Park. Night to Bfo 17th DDM & G [ ] B S.W. Chau. Co. to see farm for sale. 23rd New Peerless car with last year’s touring body, home. Sent Malcolm Reidpath loan to establish him on farm in N.W. Canada. 30 Family (and Robt Reidpath) saw Mother & Marg. sail “Minnetonka” for London. Dorothy to “Hippodrome” with R.J.R. All to And. McKenzie’s eve. May. 1st Sunday. At McK’s. All auto ride (Mr John Emman’s car) thro Prospect Park, Ocean & Ft Hamilton Parkways, fine views of “The Narrows” and ocean. Thro Bath Beach & Coney Island. Eve at Mr Emmons’. 2nd IRM bought Tiffany toilet set. Dinner guests: Mr. & Mrs. Jus F. Pell of Newark “Adriatic” Aug 1908 acquaintances. 3rd DDM to L Co. Mr Breed had us to dinner. Later called Mrs. Peckham. 4th Central Park & Riverside drive. McK’s to luncheon, 2 times. Afternoon family to Orange visited Mary and family. To Bfo night. 7-8 Belle Crouse with us. 12-13 Nordica and music festival 14-15 Family Rochester, Van Bergh’s, Lilacs. 18th Geo. Tait overnight 28 Family Clayville also Bartons. 29 Decorated graves, flowers from home. Visited home & school. Saw Mrs Rosell Hanson (Jennie Randell) & Mr & Mrs Marsh Miller 30 Auto to Bridgewater. Rained. Returned to Utica. At Bfo 9.15 P.M. Darwin took home tiny hemlock from woods near old farm. June. 16 Had Dr. & Mrs. Knapp & the Moreys for auto trip Niagara and dinner there. 17 Family by Mr Breed’s auto to Versailles to the Parker’s 5 to 7 P.M. 18 By auto (accompanied by J C Dolds in their car) via Perrysburg to Lotus Point to picnic. 20 By auto early Versailles to Bfo. Saw WEM an hour at office. Belle saw Winnie at Barton’s. They to Boston July, 1910. 1 Family & Laura (Barcalos in their car) by auto to Geneva, Hotel Nester, luncheon Mumford state fish hatchery. Dinner Canandaigua. 2 To Auburn. Took Nelie and May to Skaneateles to luncheon. To Cazenovia 6.15 P.M. Continuous hills Auburn to Caz. 3 Cousin Will Cruttenden, his son Harry, Barcalo & DDM auto to Georgetown to home of Hiram & Olive Martin on old farm where grandmother Martin and Uncles John and Holman died. In other auto mothers with children encircled Cazenovia Lake. At five oclock we parents with Cousin Will and Mrs C. rode around lake. Later whole party in two motor boats taken by cousin Will to head of lake and return. 4 9 am Left Caz. Stopped at Chittenango Falls. Luncheon Syracuse. Left Barcalos at Lyons at 6 P.M. their car in trouble. We reached Hotel Seneca Rochester 8.15 P.M. M H. Van Bergh wife & two sisters called and spent eve. 5 9.15 to 12.45 A.M. to Bfo. A lovely trip all thro. 9. Auto Bartons & Moreys via Elma (Board‘s) to East Aurora to Harvey’s to dinner. 22-24 IRM in Boston with the Fosters. 30 Auto to Lewiston via Pekin for first time. Ret. via Niagara. 18 Declined to be a trustee of Blocher Homes. August. 5 Brother Alpheus, poor unfortunate, died 5 A.M.at Newark N.J. Burial 8th 3 P.M. in Fairmount Cemetery. 6-7-8 Family by auto (Breed & Parkers in their car) to Point Chautauqua via Versailles & Cassadaga, ret. via Westfield & Barcelona. Heard there of Alta’s death. 10 Family except DDM with Delta and Laura by S.S. North Land to Chicago 13 Arrived there. 18 Returned by train leaving Dorothy & Laura. 44 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 20 Auto to Lockport, rode thro a lock on boat. 25 DDM to Chicago 26 noon to Rockford on business 27 To Oak Park 28 Auto thro south park system, taking 5 P.M. train with girls to Bfo. 29 Sarah Van Bergh and TillieVan Veen here. September. 2 Family (Jas F. Fosters’ & Brewers’ in F. car) by auto to Sheldrake Springs Cayuga Lake 155 miles. 3 After rainy morning started 2.45 P.M. on bad roads to Ithaca via Taughhannock Falls. 4 To C. S. church. To Cornell University. DDM climbed a way in Cascadilla gorge 5 By train to George Junior Republic at Freeville 2 P.M. Autos to Watkins via Trumansburg. All but IRM thro glen. Glen Springs Hotel, good, Barcalos there. 6 Autos to Bfo. 140 miles. Home 8.30 P.M. Bad roads early in day. 8 Belle McKenzie came. 22 Andrew arrived, remained until Oct 3rd autoed, dinners, etc. 30 Thirty nine to dinner 19 Dorothy entered Buffalo Seminary. October, 1910. 1 Theatre “The House Next Door” Very unusual for us. Later saw “The Man from Home”. 20-23 E.M. May with us. 21 George Tait overnight. November. 5 Visit over Sunday from Rev. T. B. Berry. December. 10-11 IRM and DDM to Van Bergh’s, Rochester. Sad experience thro. month with Grace Peckham, demented. January, 1911. 1 Mr. Tait called. 25 Darwin saw robin. DDM declined directorate Third Natl Bank 26 DDM declined chairmanship Finance Committee Chamber of Commerce. 31 DDM appointed by trustees on Church building com. February. 11-23 IRM and Dorothy, with Mrs Morey and Mary Foster as guests, to Phila, Atlantic City and the McKenzie’s in Brooklyn. March. 12 DDM one day in Washington. Called on cousin John G. Cook. Met his daughter Mrs. Frederic S. Hazard whose husband we met a year ago. April, 1911. 1 IRM & DDM to Boston, night train. Fosters, Armstrongs and Mrs Manning along. 2 Attended C.S. lecture by Rev. W.P. McKenzie at Cambridge. Called at Mrs Pray’s. 3-7, 10-14=10 days, in Mr. McKenzie’s Primary C.S. Class, with the Fosters, a beautiful experience and privilege. 15 Dorothy and Darwin arrived. Visited historic places in old B. 16 All to Mother Church To Harvard college to see glass flowers. 17 Auto to Wellesley College to So. Natick (apostle Eliot’s oak and church) Natick (Walnut Hill school) West Newton (Mrs Balliett’s). Passed Mrs Eddy’s last residence. 18 Auto to Lexington & Concord. Harvard, Longfellow, Lowell, Mt Auburn. DDM to Bfo night. 19 Children to Navy Yard & Bunker Hill & Library. 21 All home. May. 7 F. W. Van Berghs here. Motored to Niagara via Pekins and Lewiston. 59 miles. 12 Bought new “Overland” five-passenger car for personal use. Took up sod from Sum. Ave lawn. Regraded and reseeded it. Very hot spell during latter half of month. 22 Temperature 94° June. 45 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 3 All but DDM to Mr Sisson’s farm Collins for a week. Darwin spent three weeks there. 10 WEM &family here enroute to Boston. 14 LFM here for business stay; boarding at Delta’s. 18 IRM, DDM, LFM Delta & Laura to Kaltenbach Niagara for dinner, 80 mile ride via Lockport. 20 Dorothy at Homeopathic Hospital during forenoon where Dr Fred D Lewis removed hypertrophied tonsils and adenoids long troubling her and treated several weeks in C.S.. 22 Dorothy to Mrs Foster’s at Erie Beach to remain thro July. July, 1911. 4-6 WEM and family here. First time since 1872 except once Oct 9. 1907 that LFM, WEM, DLB, and DDM dined together. 7 Family motored to Roycroft E. Aurora for dinner. First time DDM met Mr Hubbard since May 30, 1902. 28 Took Empire State Express to Utica with family & Laura. Our Peerless car ahead, John & wife met us there. To Clayville to cemetery thence to Cooperstown for night. 29 To New Lebanon NY via Cherry Valley, Schenectady and Albany. 30 To Pittsfield, Leroy, Stockbridge to Greenfield for night stopping en route at Mt Holyoke, Amherst, Smith Colleges and Hadley – home of Grandmother Martin’s forebearers. 31 Followed Conn river via Dartmouth college to Wells River Vt August. 1 Thro White Mountains - Francovia Notch and Ammonossuc valley to Mt Wash. House Bretton Woods. 2 Thro Crawford Notch to Denmark, Me exactly 800 miles for auto from Bfo. Put Dorothy & Laura in Camp Wyonegonic. Barcalos here. 5 B’s auto[?] [ ] (minus D) to Poland Springs. 8 To Rye Beach N H. 9 B’s with us to Boston, beautiful trip. 11 To Greenfield via Wellesley & Montague where saw birthplace of Dorothy Smith. 12 To Glen Falls, NY. B’s left us at Williamstown – Amherst College via Bennington. 13 To Schenectady in eve. DDM to Bfo 16 IRM & Darwin home via Empire. 21 Aunt Margaret died 27 Peerless, Bartons, LFM & us 10 am – 6 p.m. 98 miles, Lockport, Medina, Darien 3 counties. 31 Girls home from camp. Dorothy gained greatly in weight in strength. September. 4 Overland car: IRM Dorothy DDM LFM. Julian Parmalee to Clarence & C. Centre. Dorothy drove car a mile. 16 Peerless: IRM DDM Demmings and Stevens. Called at Harvey’s. Dinner at Roycroft. Met Mr H. again. 21 Laura to Wellesley College. 23-24 Barcalos and us in two cars to Mt Morris via Wales, Java, Bliss, Pike and Portage. Home via Avon & Batavia. 27 Delta, IRM & DDM to NY (Holland House). 29 Rail (Shore route) to Boston (Westminster) 30 Laura came to hotel. IRM DDM and Fosters to Mr McKenzie’s annual meeting in afternoon. October, 1911. 1 DDM to Bfo 6 IRM & DLB home 13 To Gum Kirby’s to dinner. 15 Edison storage battery for electric lights installed. 20-24 DDM with JD.L Jr to Chicago to look over sites for branch of L. Co. Stopped at WEM’s. 25 Surprise birthday dinner. Bartons and all Kirbys the guests. Latter gave me nice bronze desk-set. 29 IRM & DDM to Rochester, dinner at Van Bergh’s. To lecture in afternoon on C.S. by Rev. Wm P. McKenzie who accompanied us to Bfo and staid [sic] overnight with us. Mr & Mrs Foster called in eve. November. Ground broken this month for new church for our congregation at North St and Elmwood Ave. DDM on building committee. 2nd First snow. December. 10 Family to dinner at the Fosters. Mr F’s birthday. 46 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM At Christmas gave family Audubon’s 7 vol. 1842 edition of “Birds of North America” of which but 1000 sets were published. January, 1912. 6 Grandma and Marg. to Cal for winter. 16 DDM declined election as trustee of our church. 30 Attended concert with Wagner program by Boston Symphony Orchestra. 1 Miss Herrick came. 1 Dinner to Mr & Mrs Foster, Mr & Mrs Barcalo, their children, Grandma and Aunty Marg, and Miss Herrick. February. 13 Golden wedding to Mr & Mrs Edgar M. Birdsall at Larkin Office Bldg. with purse of $2.500. All initiated and inspired by IRM. 15 Attended silver wedding of Mr & Mrs J.C. Dold and preceding it the wedding of their son Paul Dold at Lafayette Ave Presby Church. The reception at 20th Cent. Club. 20 Darwin in afternoon attended Boy Scout meeting at which Sir Robert Baden Powell presided. In eve IRM and DDM heard him at 20th Cent. Club house. March. A long severe winter. Many weeks of continuous sleighing. Steady cold. IRM decided that she, Miss Herrick and Dorothy w’d take a trip to Europe. Engaged their passages for May 28 and July 20. After being several years in charge of Mr Esty, the Co. restored to DDM’s hands the preparation of all copy for advertising. Reestablished “Larkin Idea” suspended four years ago. [at top of page] 6-7-31 Miss Herrick says: On his mother’s birthday in 1912 (my first in family) Darwin gave his wish to her, standing very erect “I wish I may be a knight equal to any ever in your family”. April, 1912. 9 IRM’s birthday. Boston Symphony concert. 29-30 Music festival. The Thomas Orchestra and Philharmonic Club. Dorothy attended the 30th , and heard her first symphony, Beethoven’s Ninth. She enjoyed it keenly. A very pleasant winter. We’ve read to the enjoyment of all “Pickwick”(at the dinner table). DDM has read to Darwin from “Two Years Before the Mast.” Miss H & IRM have read together a varied course preparatory to their trip. May. 3 DDM declined to accept vice presidency of new “Theodore Roosevelt League”. 7 At 7 a.m. DDM attended laying of corner-stone of our new church with very simple ceremonies. 20 Grandma & Marg. returned from Cal. and came to our home. 27 Leaving Darwin with Grandma we took DL&W 9.30 AM train to N.Y. Ladies boarded their steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II and DDM to Hoboken hotel. 28 10 AM ship sailed. Spent day with Mr May; to Bfo at night. June. 3rd 10 P.M. IRM landed Cherbourg, all well. 5-6 at Mont St Michel 8 Arrived at Tours to Paris to London 26[?] to Ambleside in English Lakes to Liverpool to Chester. 20 Sailed on “Caronia” from Liverpool. 27 DDM to NY on “Empire State” 28 8 am. the dear ones landed, to Belmont Hotel. 3 P.M. Dorothy and Miss H. to Boston “Westminster”. IRM & DDM to Bfo at 8 P.M. DDM never worked more incessantly than since taking charge of adv. copy work in March. New assistants, new plans and general overhauling of old. 21 DDM, Darwin, GMK to Chicago night train. 22 Three named, W.J. Miller, Bernice, Everett & WEM in latter’s Stanley Steamer to Rockford, Ill 23rd to Clinton Iowa where WJM ret’d to Chicago. 24 to Cedar Rapids 25 to Des Moines where GMK & Bernice remained for Orville’s wedding. 26 to Lewis where DDM & WEM lived winter 74-75. 27 to Harlan 47 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 28 to Plattsmouth Neb via Logan Iowa where we lived in 73-74 and Council Bluffs and Omaha and Fort Crook. 29 11 A.M. arrived at Jacob & Maude Huffer’s home, that which DDM left and last saw in Aug 1878. Maude is DDM’s half-sister. 30 All to Peru, Neb dinner with step-sister Grace Meek. Called on John and Millie Meek. July, 1912. 1 4 P.M. to Shenandoah, Iowa. 2nd to Mt. Ayr. 3&4th visiting old friends and scenes in Mt Ayr. 5 to Centerville Ia. 6th to Farmington, Ia 7th to Farmington, Ill. 8 visited Peoria branch, to Peru, Ill Mr & Mrs W E Persons with us. 9 to Aurora, visiting Stannard Rock en route. 10 at Chicago branch . Night train to Bfo August. Dorothy spent month at Camp Wyonegonic in Denmark Me. Miss Herrick accompanying to the RR. station at Brownfield. Laura and Bernice, Mary Foster, Eliz. Dold, and Mamre Bailey with her. Belle suffered nearly whole month, at home from attack of Pediculus Capiti before discovering nature of distress. Grandma and Aunty Margaret continued at our house. Declined treasurership of Progressive County Committee and Progressive nomination to Congress tendered by Chairman C.J. Hamlin. September. 2 Dorothy home. Bernice here for two days. Mother so improved she gave two or three very small dinner parties and we attended one at Mrs Barcalo’s. Declined to serve on board of directors, Buffalo Progressive newspaper. 27 Night train to Boston 28 Meeting of Mr McKenzie’s association. Very helpful. 29 Miss Herrick arrived. Left IRM with her at Copley Plaza and returned to Bfo. October, 1912. 2 Mother & Miss H. to Red Lion Inn Stockbridge Mass. 20 Our little son Darwin to Phoenicia, NY to go for year to Woodland School; Mr & Mrs Chas H. Larkin took him in charge with their two boys. Staid [sic] overnight at Kingston. 25 Night train to Kingston, early morn to Phoenicia. Mother and Miss H. arrived at P. Hotel 25th. Mr Spick met us and drove us to site of Woodland School now building thence to Roxmor where school is temporarily. Darwin very homesick. Rained 4 days of his first week. Mother & Miss H. home with me night of 27th. November. Darwin became well reconciled and acclimated to his new school and began writing good cheerful letters. He greatly enjoyed a masquerade party on Thanksgiving. Mother purchased a Victrola. 24 First snow December. 20 Laura home from Wellesley. 21 Darwin home, CHL bringing him. Very happy and assured me immediately at depot he wished to go back. Much improved, more tractable and contented. 23 Declined nomination as a Vice President of Chamber of Commerce, tendered by Ansley Wilcox chairman nominating committee. 25 A very happy home Christmas. Gave mother an aquamarine. Net assets 2,229,752.07 Gain in 1912 253,694.36. January, 1913. 1 to Foster’s for dinner, all the family. 5 Mother & I to Foster’s for dinner with Rev W.P. McKenzie. Darwin returned to school tonight in charge CHL and JDL Jr. 9 Mother Dorothy and Daddy to Parker’s for dinner, also Mother & Marg who went south on 10th. 21 Declined election trustee church. 48 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 24 Night train to Phoenicia, Darwin seeming a little homesick. Did not find him so. 26 Missed train, went to Kingston over miserable road by motor car. Night train to Bfo. February. Numerous meetings of church to elect first reader in February Jan 30. Highland Park Literary Club annual evening entertainment at our home. Mrs Prentiss gave a song recital. March. 14 Planted Abies Noblis, gift from Mr Curt G. Pfeiffer of NY who imported it from England. 22-31 Darwin home for Easter vacation. 19 WEM suffered bad fire in main factory building. 23-24 Mother entertained Miss Herrick’s friends Mr & Mrs Salter from Williams College. April, 1913. 5-6 Chicago at Will’s. Saw Florence but Frank away. 7-11 Street car strike. Very busy mornings and evenings, chauffeuring to help our girls to and from work. We parents and Dorothy saw Annie Russell in “She stoops to conquer.” 9th Gave Belle “Detroit” electric automobile (five passenger enclosed, Edison battery) for birthday. May. 29 We parents and Dorothy to Boston, night train. 30 Mr. McKenzie’s Association annual meeting. In evening to Mrs. Pray’s home with Fosters for supper. 31 Attended Mother Church . Night train to Albany. 20th Sold both Peerless chassis to L. Co. Ordered one new Peerless car. June. 1 W.S.R.R. to Saugerties. Auto with Darwin met us and drove to Woodland School Phoenicia. 2 Left school afternoon, Darwin bravely bid goodbye half mile down road and trudged back. To NY by thro train NY, Miss Herrick joined us en route. Ladies went aboard steamer Kronpring Wilhelm II, I to hotel. 3 With Fosters & Mr May saw steamer sail. Visited Jessie’s & Edgar’s homes in Orange, night train to Bfo. 9 Ladies land at Plymouth. 11 Darwin home for vacation. 14 Saw my first aero plane. Passed over home. 15 “Week-end cable” from Belle 16 New bicycle to Darwin 17 Darwin taught me chess. 26 Belle and Dorothy at Stratford. 27 at Kenilworth and on to Avon river boating 31 Darwin and Irving Ralph to Phoenicia to camp. July, 1913. 4-6 DDM at Woodland with boys. Aug. 30 Took them to Kasterskill, Fished. Met Andrew & Belle McKenzie at Catskill House grounds. Had picnic luncheon with them. 5 Grandma and Margaret at our home visited by burglar. Trifling loss. 29 WEM here, Winnie until Aug 2nd . August. 3 Cables tell Dorothy’s delight with Scotland. Now at English Lakes. 10 Rec’d new Peerless car. 12-18 cousin Will Cruttenden here. 16 Niagara Falls 17 Roycroft. Bernice Martin here and on trip with us. 14 Belle & Dorothy sailed Liverpool on Cedric. 21 In N.Y. Mr May took me in his car thro Bronx, White Plains, etc. Saw Thos Skinner at Mamaroneck, the gardener who left me June 30, 1912 George Fellows taking his place. 22 Visited Aunt Tie Monclair. Belle landed 5.30 P.M. Night train to Bfo. 31 Saw Darwin swim in Woodland Creek where he learned this summer. September. 1 Brought boys home. Visited Vassar College en route. 5 Niagara-Perry 100 year celebration in Bfo 6 Took party of boys to river road. Saw 4 aero-planes, and motor boat races. 49 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 13 Attended Horton Heath’s wedding. 14 Started furnace fire for winter! For Darwin’s birthday gave him Sep 20 a Seth Thomas gold-filled watch. 20-24 Auto trip with Belle Darwin and Bartons & Marg. To Van Bergh’s Rochester overnight Saturday. Sunday P.M. in rain to Geneva. Monday to Watkins via Lodi lunch with Rev & Mrs Berry. Tuesday to Dansville via Glenn Curtis’ aeroplane factory, Hammondsport. Wed arr. home. 28 New church opened. 30 Darwin to school. October, 1913. 3 Belle and Dorothy to see Vassar, Smith & Wellesley. 12 Dorothy & Dorothea Dann home. 17 I to Belle at Stockbridge. 18 Drove to Great Barrington 20-21 Motored to Smith College Northampton and back. 21 Home 25 Belle to NY 31 Belle home. All to lecture by Bicknell Young in new church. November. 19-20 Belle to visit Darwin at Woodland School. 21 Belle (& Miss Herrick) to Boston. 22-23 Dorothy and I to Boston. All attended Harvard Yale football game, won by Harvard. 24 Home. 27 Thanksgiving Day. Mrs Hubbard & Katherine, Miss Crawford, Grandma and Marg. to dinner and in eve. to “Fanny’s First Play”, Bernard Shaw. December. 6-7 Gum Kirby & DDM to Utica and Clayville. 20-Jan 4 Darwin home from school. We finished “Two Years Before the Mast”. January, 1914. 13 14° below zero, lowest in 44 years. 11.92 mile gale. 17-19 To visit Frank and Will at Chicago. Frank has comfortable new home at Lombard. 20 Elected trustee for three years of Church. 30 Took Dorothy to Stratford Players “Much Ado About Nothing”. She went three times to different plays. We read aloud T.B. Aldrich’s Life and Letters. February. Coldest Feb. in 10 years. Mean temp. 17°. Av 24° 12-13 9° below zero. 21.4 in. snow fell in the month. Good sleighing entire month. 7 Wind 68 miles, a record for Feb. Five clear days, 13 partly cloudy. I initiated a successful but protracted effort to recover from R.C. Diocese of Bfo a church owned by an independent congregation viz Polish Ch. of Holy Rosary. March. 7-8 In N.Y. with Belle, Hotel Bouta[?]-Amagansett, Broadway & 94th. Attended 1st church. Called on Mr & Mrs May. Left Belle with Miss Herrick who came after short vacation at her home. Met Miss Felz C.S. practitioner. 22 Belle to Boston. 27 Home. 26 Took Dorothy to Forbes Robertson in “Ulise and Wen”. 28-29 In Baltimore visiting Dan and Will Coss. Attended 1st church. Dan very ill. 30 Rented for summer use of house at Bulrush Farm North Scituate, Mass. April, 1914. 2 Inch snow fell tonight. Snowbanks high in road at Georgetown, Cousin Olive writes. 4 Darwin home. 7 Cousin John G. Cook died. 10 All to Boston - Bulrush Farm. 11 Laura, and James Foster with us. 12 Darwin and I to Albany. 50 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 13 Attended unsuccessful but large hearing before Governor behalf a C.S. law. Home at night. 14 Darwin (cared for by Chas Reidpath) with master and other boys, to school. 19 Dorothy home. 18 Belle to Boston. 23 Belle home. To lecture by Rev. McKenzie. 25 Dan’l J. Coss died. May. 21 To dinner at Bfo Club with Mr & Mrs Bradley H. Phillips, meeting Mrs Henry Von Berge and Mr Gibbons. 22 Mr & Mrs Prentiss, Mr & Mrs Chas Staples to dinner. Dorothy at a dinner and tre[theatre?] party. June. 10 Class Day exercises at Bfo Seminary. All attended. Belle Crouse Haynes here to attend. 11 Graduation exercises of Buffalo Seminary at Westminster Church. Dorothy graduated. We are so happy and grateful. Dorothy attending many festivities in honor of class. 12 Attended performance in Rumsey Garden of “Bird Sanctuary” by Pera Mackaye. 12 Peerless car started to Albany 13 Belle, Darwin and Miss Herrick (and maids) to Albany. 14-15 they motored to Bulrush Farm. 24 Dorothy and I train to Boston. 25 to farm. Salem fire. Saw it. June 26 Our 25th anniversary: Received beautiful vase from many Bfo friends in church with beautiful poem by Mr Foster (Jas F. with us until 28th having come from Bfo with me.) We motored in afternoon to Plymouth stopping en route and assisted in putting out grass and forest fire. Delayed us 1 ½ hours. Dinner at Samoset House. Congratulatory telegrams from Secy Dept of L. Co. and the Barcalos. July, 1914. 6 Plymouth 4th Bartons came. 8th I to Bfo. 24 to Mass. with two Dorothy’s girl friends. 27-28 Took girls in car Boston Gardens Lexington, Concord, Cambridge, Quincy 29 Plymouth and Sandwich. Opening Cape Cod Canal. August. 4 I to Bfo. 8-9 to Chautauqua Assembly with Gum Kirby in his car. 8 Hottest day 25 Hotter! 95° in Bfo. 13 To Mr Heath’s Eagle Bay farm. 15 Darwin swam 300 feet. 25 Night train to Boston 26 I drove car to Marshfield Fair with family and Mrs Simpson. John returned to Bfo on Dr’s advice a/c wife’s illness. Read aloud “Captain Courageous”. 27 Engaged temporary chauffeur, Henry Herschler. 28 Drove to Plymouth via Duxbury. 29 Motored thro Quincy (visited Dorothy Quincy mansion and Adams’ homes, Braintree, Randolph, Holbrook, Abington, Rockland, Hanover 31 Darwin & Irving Ralph sightseeing in Boston. I to Lowell to meet Marie Parcells ill. September. 2 Closed house at farm. Family via car via Boston to Springfield. Hottest Sept 2 in 36 years. I by train to Northampton via Spgfld; to Draper. 3 Family to N. thence we all to Albany via Stockbridge, stopped Shaker Village. Cold descending Taconic Mt. I ill at Ten Eyck at night. 4 IRM, Dorothy, & Miss H. by train to Bfo. Darwin, Irving and I via car to Cazenovia via Clayville cemetery 43rd anniversary mother’s death. 5 Will Cruttenden with us to Syracuse. At Roch. Saw Marie Parcells at hospital. Home 11.45 P.M. Mrs F L Wright, Frances and Llewellyn overnight. 15 Dorothy to Smith College, Northampton. 22 Darwin entered Nichols School, Bfo. 51 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 29 IRM & Miss H to N.Y. With Dorothy at N. two weekends. In Boston between. October, 1914. 15 IRM & Miss H. home from NY. 10 I visited Roch in a.m. Saw Marie P. ½ hour. 25 My Birthday. Bartons and GMK & Mrs K to dinner. November. If possible, busiest period I have had in years. At office 8 AM to 6 P.M. Business is behind last year 5% but in general ahead of others. Europe’s war which began Aug 1st creates many new problems. Remarkably pleasant fall weather. 21 Family via electric car to J C Dold’s farm. December. Stock of “Premium” Mdse reduced nearly 50% in 15 months. 8 First snow. 16 11 in. snow. 24 Dorothy home from college. 25 This is “Darwin’s Christmas”. He ingeniously made a “Bethlehem stable” from an old box, excelsior, cardboard, cloth, dolls and miniature electric lamps. He played his violin with Dorothy at piano, as accompaniment to singing of carols in evening by friends gathered here. January, 1915. 6 Dorothy returned to college. 1 Whole family, with Foster family, to Matinee, Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” Mrs Patrick Campbell. Dinner with Barcalo’s at Foster’s. 15 To Nichols School father’s dinner. 20 Rumely Co. in which I have large investments, in Receiver’s hands. Began reading to Darwin “Lion Ben” Rev Elijah Kellogg. He enjoys as I did when a boy. 26 IRM to Northampton until Feb. 4th. February. 1 Reading to Darwin “Pizarro” another of my boyhood books. 10 Reading to IRM Cramb’s “England and Germany” 4 Maud Dick Tayntor died. 18 at Barcalos to dinner 20 DDM to Northampton. Stopped 2 hrs in Roch seeing all of Parcells family at Mr P’s office in station. 21-22 At Smith College (stopping at Draper House). Laura there from Wellesley. “Commemoration Day” exercises very impressive. 27 Mr Larkin paid me $44,752.93 my share of profits of business lost thro. Bfo Leather Co. [written in margin]18 Stone fell at office. Killed one girl. March. 9 In Albany to attend hearing in behalf C.S. bill. (It was defeated in Assembly) 13 Family to Mrs Coonley-Ward’s Hillside Farm at Wyoming. Met Mr & Mrs Charles Kellogg of Calif. Miss Ethel deLong of Pine Mountain School Ky also there – met her in Bfo few days earlier. 14 Darwin and I home. 16 IRM & Miss Herrick home. 25 Dorothy home for “Easter” vacation. 27 Pallbearer at funeral of Mrs Wm S. Wicks our neighbor opposite on Jewett Ave. April, 1915. 1-2 JDL proposed withdrawal from me of Copy Dep. I notified him my desire to sell L Co. stock. 7 Dorothy returned to college 7 JDL notified me Copy Dep to go to Mr Esty. Said w’d buy my stock. 22 JDL ordered transfer made of Copy Dep. 24 Barcalos and Fosters to dinner 26 Uncle Albert, last of Father’s generation, died. 27 To funeral at Auburn. Met his step-grandchildren, Mildred, Dorothy, Marian and Julia Howell who are homeless. [inserted at side:] mean temp. 47° 52 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 1 & 4 27° 26 76° 12 Last snow 10 Wind 52 miles May. 22 IRM & Miss H to Phil. Atlantic City, N.Y. Westfield, N.J. (where S. de Ivanowski is painting I.RM’s portrait) and Bethlehem, Pa to attend Bach Festival. 7 “Lusitania” sunk by Huns. Elbert Hubbard lost. 26 Killing frost. Tomatoes generally destroyed. [inserted at end of May] Feb 16th 1915 Darwin Height 59.8 inches Weight 95.3 lbs June 18 Height 60.5 inches June. 18 Left Bfo for Calif with Dorothy, Darwin, and Dorothea Dann. For particulars see book of the trip. Returned Aug 2. IRM well when we left, ill from about 20th until fore-part of July. IRM’s portrait was delivered and placed a day or two before we left on trip. It greatly pleases most people. Dorothy lost 4, Darwin 3 lbs. on trip. Weight at end 117 and 106 lbs. July, 1915. 2-6 IRM had Mrs Carter, Miss Herrick’s sister en route to Calif. for visit. Mr. C. came 6th noon. IRM motored them to Niagara whence they entrained. 7th IRM wrote me it was first day since I left she felt quite herself. 8th ‘Winnie visiting “us” – IRM 14-31 IRM & Miss H. motored Albany via Williamstown, Greenfield, Templeton, Groton, Haverhill, Newburgport, Rye Beach, York Cliffs, Portsmouth, Kittery, Portland, Brunswick, Rockland (5 days) Poland Springs, Breton Woods, Woodstock, Vt. Manchester and Glen Falls to Schenectady. In Calif. We made charming acquaintances in the family of James B. Weaver of Des Moines. Also Mr & Mrs Rufus Steele of San Francisco. August. 2 On our arrival home this morning Mother was out on Jewett Ave to meet us. John with car reached home at night. 7 John Curtis left my employ voluntarily. Weather continues rainy, as all summer. 25-27, 30 So cold some fire in boiler required.. 28-29 To Auburn to visit Mrs Howell and her family September. 2,3,4 Motor picnic suppers. First & second on Lake Erie shore at Athol Springs (I not with 2nd), third with Laura B. on Tonawanda Creek east of Transit road. 11 Bartons & Martins motored to Pekin. Visited a fruit farm. 20 Dorothy returned to college for sophomore year taking with her Jessie Reidpath for freshman year, sent by IRM. Mildred Howell of Auburn enters Smith and Marie Parcells of Rochester enter Univ. of Rochester at my charge. Mildred & Marjorie Fuller enter Knox College Galesburg with a little assistance. 26 Family to Dold farm for dinner. October, 1915. 22 Night train with IRM to Lake Placid which reached in am 23rd. Breakfast at L.P., Club then about grounds viewing cottages planning to spend part of next summer there. Left at 11 A.M. Reached Albany 7 P.M. Hotel Ten Eyck. 24 A.M. train to Springfield & Northampton. IRM to bed on arrival at noon. Met the Fosters there. 25 P.M. DDM home. 30 DDM to wedding of Ruth Larkin & Walter Robb. November. 4 IRM to Boston Hotel Somerset. 14 “Daisy” - Edwin married. 24 IRM home bringing Laura Barton for Thanksgiving. Dorothy & Miss H. to N.Y. and Westfield N.J. 16 First snow storm. Wires and poles fell in city. 53 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 12 Dir. Lehn. to Cyril Maude & members of ‘Grumpy’ company (Star this week) Leading lady, Elsie Mackau, very pleasant. Some years later (she then Lady Inchcape) lost with airplane in Atlantic. December. 8 IRM & Miss Herrick to N.Y. and Westfield NJ 13 Home. 22 Mr & Mrs Kellogg arrived. 23 Our Dorothy home. 24 Dorothy’s portrait by Ivanowski of Westfield N.J. as mother’s gift to DDM brought home by the artist. Very lovely and accurate. A beautiful holiday season but rain on Christmas and New Years with snow between. 26th Beautiful white day. 31 Kelloggs left. January, 1916. 5 Dorothy back to college. 8 Temperature 66° high record. Grandma Reidpath ill all month. She and Aunty Margaret went to Fla. at end of month. February. 3 Miss Ethel deLong of Pine Mountain Settlement School Ky here. With IRM, Miss Herrick and her to Rotary Club luncheon where she spoke. In eve about fifty came to our house and heard her. 18 IRM and Miss H. to Northampton. March. 6 IRM home. Visited Exeter N.H. Boston N.Y. and Rochester while away. 22 Dorothy home. Harriet Noel visited her until 26th. 31 Darwin’s vacation begins. 31 All by night train to Atlantic City. Lots of cold weather and snow throughout month. April, 1916. 2 DDM to Bfo by night. Visited L. Co. Phila bldg in eve. 4 to NY by night. 5 Met Dorothy, Maud Short of Atlantic City, Dorothy’s roommate and Darwin at Penn RR. Took girls to Grand Central. Darwin & I visited NY til eve of 9th when, home by N.Y.C.R.R. Called on Persis Weaver at Barnard. Met by accident Mr & Mrs Rufus Steele at a theatre. Called on Will Coss. Had Darwin’s Woodland school mate, Arthur Semon (?) to dinner and two plays. 7 IRM & Miss H went to Northampton, stopping few hours at our room but we were out. 15-16 All to Cleve to see Kelloggs. [Inserted at side of April, 1916] 8th Darwin’s net height: 5 ft 3 in. Weight 109 lbs May. Applied for $50.000 life insurance under date of Apr 24, surprised, on examination by two doctors to learn blood pressure is “180,” normal is 110-140. Began osteopathic treatment for purpose of relieving it. The medical doctors regard it as a grave condition but the D.O. does not. Insurance $100.000 granted and accepted Nov.16 1916. June. 3 IRM, Darwin & DDM to Boston, Hotel Somerset. Attended Mr McKenzie’s Assn in afternoon. Tried a Stanley Steamer. Rear seat uncomfortable. 4 Darwin and I visited Philips Exeter School, Exeter N.H. where he will enter in fall. Attended service, visited Webster Hall where he will have a beautiful room. Saw Mr Spooner in chg of Webster, also Mr Ford asst to Pres Perry. All home at night. IRM to the Mother Church. Delta home with us after class instruction. Saw Mrs Haynes (Belle Crouse) and Eastman Weaver. 14 Dorothy home. 20 Dorothy to Danbury Conn. 23 All to Utica 24 Motored, Dorothy included, to Lake George to Wm Harvey Hotel. 25 to Lake Placid 27 Night train, DDM to Bfo. July, 1916. 54 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 1 DDM to Rochester 1 P.M. visited Parcells family. Night train to Lake Placid 2,3,4 Rained. Read “Little Minister”. 4 Night. DDM to Bfo. An extraordinarily hot month throughout. 29 11 P.M. WEM and family except Bernice arrived by motor, leaving Aug 1st . August. 12 To Lake Placid by train. 16 Dorothy home by train. Mother, Darwin, Delta Laura and I motored Watertown at night. 17 Sodus Point. 18 Luncheon Rochester “Seneca” Van Berghs called. Home at night. 26 Dorothy has house party of Dorothea, Grace Wood Maud Short September. 2-5 I took the four girls to Watkins “Glen Springs”. 11 Party over. 10 Motored to Lorraine Canada for the girls. Dinner at Mr Dann’s. On Sunday to Point Abino, to the Simpsons’. 17 With Belle, Delta George and I, Edw. Becker, and chauffeur turned “Peerless” over returning from Pekin on N.F. “boulevard”. Last trip in that Peerless touring body. No one hurt in least. 20 Bought Pierce Arrow. 30 Frost October, 1916. 1 Darwin to Exeter NH. Phillip Exeter Academy Room 5 Webster Hall 2 Dorothy and other Smith girls left in special cars 6 P.M. 9 Second frost. November. 13 First snow, 3¨ soft. 14 New Gruen watch, laid away Elgin bought May 30. 1883. 15 IRM’s Aunt Isabelle Reidpath died, Crawley-Down England. 24 IRM to Boston, Copley Plaza. 25-26 to Exeter. 26 I to Rochester in afternoon to see Parcells family. 29 Dorothy, Darwin and I to Boston 30 Mother gave afternoon tea to Mr and Mrs Chas Kellogg and numerous friends. Darwin to Ex. Eastman Weavers. Agnes[?]Burshead[?] 27 George Fellows gardener left. U. Edwin Helie in his place. December. 1 Bo’t Mark Twain books in first edition. Alfred G Thomasson, wife, daughter and Maud Short called. 2 To Exeter. 3 Night. To Bfo. Dorothy with us to Springfield. 14 Declined nomination Director of Fine Arts Academy. 21 Children home together. 25 Gave Belle “Pippa Passes” bronze by Miss Allen. She gave me Tolstoi. 8 Temperature 66° high record. January, 1917. 1 Edward W. Dann, Dorothea and Radcliffe to dinner. 2 Darwin to Exeter. 3 Dorothy to Northampton. Grandma & Aunt Marmy to Florida, Daytona. 16 My three-year term as trustee of First Church expired. Miss Ethel deLong lectured at Historical Society. I attended church annual meeting. Miss deLong to dinner. 18 IRM to Northampton. 22 to Boston, “Vendome” 24 to Exeter. 31 Home. 29 I began a series of bi-weekly bowling bouts. Did not do very well. February. [blank] March. 9 R H Parker gave stag dinner at his home. 55 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 14 28 23 20 28 29 5 IRM to Lake Placid Came home. Henry G Breed Jr gave dinner at Bfo Club, thence to hear Sir Herbert Tree in Henry the VIII. I saw Bernard Shaw’s “Getting Married”. Darwin home. Dorothy home. Acquired life membership in Lake Placid club by purchase of 30 shrs =3.000 preferred stock. April, 1917. 3 Darwin to Exeter. 6 Mrs. R H Parker’s dinner to Dorothy, Mary Foster and families. 6 President Wilson and Congress declare a state of War exists with Germany. 30 Leased “Outlook” L.P. cottage from July 1st for season = $1540. May. 29 IRM & DDM to Northampton. 31 to Boston June. 2 Both to Exeter 3 DDM to Bfo, stopping 4th AM.in Rochester to see Parcells family. Mr P. in hospital with broken spine from which he recovered. 4 IRM to Stockbridge “Red Lion Inn”. 10 Home. 9 DDM invited by Committee on Supplies Council of National Defense to Wash. 17-18 At Wash. 22 Children home. I to Dold farm with Darwin for luncheon. 24 To Wash. 25 Began service with Com. on Supplies. L. Co. gave leave of absence for 1917. 30 With Thos W Clove of Chicago to Annapolis. 26 First AEF continent landed St Nazaire July, 1917. 6/29 IRM & Darwin to Utica by “Empire”. 6/30 Dorothy Miss Herrick by train to Lake Placid Club. IRM & Darwin by auto (which left Bfo 6/29) to Glens Falls. 7/1 to L P Club. August. I home from Wash. each Sat and Sunday from July 7th to Oct 27th. Then on Election day (only) Nov 6th . Then SatSunday Nov 17th to Dec 15-16th Then Dec 23-25 and Dec 30-Jan 1st. At 3030 Newark St with E O Heyl and others until Oct 1st, after that at Hotel Lafayette. September. 5 Dorothy & Darwin home from L.P. Club by train. 5-7 IRM & Miss H. home by auto. Perfect trip, stopped en-route Glens Falls and Syracuse. 14 Darwin to Exeter 22 All (ex Darwin) to Roycroft. 23 Dorothy to Northampton. October, 1917. 1-3 IRM & CMH motored to L.P. Club. 10 Left Club. 12 Left Greenfield Mass where Dorothy from “Hamp” & Laura from Bfo joined them for Exeter. 13 Returned to Worchester in P.M. 14 to “Hamp” via Camp Devens at Ayer. 16 to Albany 17 to Geneva 18 to Bfo. 15 Bessie O’Brien began work with me at Wash. 25 First snow in Bfo 56 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM November. 4 DDM to Annapolis 6 At Bfo to vote 11 To Harpers Ferry. 17-18 At Bfo. 24-25 ditto 2 U S postage increased to 3¢ per oz. 29 Thanksgiving dinner at Major Harold S Wonson’s home Takoma Park. Md. December. Home 1-2,-8-9,-23-24-25,-30-31. Trains late. 19 Dorothy & Darwin arrived home. Hard winter. Potomac frozen to Washington January, 1918. 2 Dorothy to college. 9 Darwin to school. Jan. 11 Com. lunched with Q. M. Gen. Gothals at club 10 Dinner with all our committee, at home of Julius Rosenwald. Mr and Mrs R. very gracious hosts. 18 My last day of service at Washington. 19 to Mt Vernon and Alexandria, 6 P.M. train to Bfo, arriving 5 P.M. Sunday, ten hours late. 21-26 A busy week at office. 26 Slight sore throat. 27 Barcalos and Fosters to dinner. Feeling ill. No church. Called Miss Hagerty, practitioner in eve. 28-29 Home, ill. 30 Called Dr H. L. Russell Osteopath. Very uncomfortable. Quinsy. Miss Jos Phalen C.S. nurse (She nursed Nettie Reidpath) 31 Dr. R brought Dr A. H. Cooke allopath to lance throat. Immediate relief. Miss MacDonald, second nurse. Isolated a/c possible diphtheria. I.R.M. also. February. 4 Last call of Dr Cooke. 9 Miss MacDonald departed. 12 Dr Russell ceased calling. 15 Miss Phalen departed. 13-17 Busy part each day compiling Federal Income Tax Report. 5 Annual mtg. L. Co. minutes record my services in War. 18-23 At office daily. 24 Night train to Wash. Miss Herrick IRM & DDM. 25 At Hotel Lafayette. IRM. called with me at old offices. Had at dinner Mr & Mrs Barcalo, Major [He san] and Bessie O’Brien. 26 Met Mr Ivanowski in lobby of our hotel Mr & Mrs Chas Kellogg at luncheon and on afternoon train to Richmond en route to Petersburg. We stopped at R. Hotel Jefferson 27 Night train. 28 Reached Summerville S.C. 8 A.M. March. 1-16 At Pine Forest Inn (Azalea Cottage) Summerville. Drove in vicinity several times, Walked. Rode horse once. Read. Slept. Warm sunshine birds, flowers. 16-18 Villa Margarita Charleston S.C. Saw everything. Dr & Mrs W.T. Grenfell our guests on motor trip to “Magnolia Gardens”. 19 to Columbia S.C. I visited Voorhees School Denmark S.C. where spent remainder of month at The Manor. Drove often. Walked daily. Rode five mornings 15 miles each. April, 1918. 4 Train in P.M. 5 A.M. arrived Wash DC. Miss H continued to Hartford, Ct. We, by night train to Bfo. 6 Dorothy (home 31st) & Darwin (home 3rd) met us at station with new-old 1915 Pierce limousine. 9th Darwin to school 10th Dorothy to college for last time. 8 Back to office. 57 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM May. 12 Rev Thomas B. Berry S.T.D. rector Church of Good Shepherd 1888-1909 died. 14 Funeral here. IRM decorated church chancel and font. We attended. I walked in procession and recession with vestry. 11 Bernice Martin married to Easton L.M. Davis. 16-21 IRM in N.Y. with Edna Morey spent 17th selecting dresses for L. Co. 29 Dorothy writes “classes for seniors are over forever ‘n ‘ever but I don’t feel a bit older and not much wiser.” 30 Memorial Day, motored to Utica 8.20 a.m. 7.30 p.m. Later I visited cemetery in Clayville. 31 Motored to Springfield Mass. June. 1 Sent car to Dorothy. We to Boston where in P.M. attended Mr McKenzie’s association. In eve I went to Exeter by train and trolley. 2 With Darwin until 5th. Night train to Bfo. I.R.M. at Vendome Boston. 4-7 IRM greatly enjoying Tabitha Inn, Fairhaven Mass. 8-9 At Exeter. 10 Boston DDM night train to Springfield. 11 Dorothy motored to S. IRM, Miss H and I back to Northampton with her. There at Plymouth Inn until Sat. 14 Dorothy graduated AB cum laude. Am full of gratitude. She happy. 15-16 Motor trip to Danbury Conn and return to Springfield. Dinner & breakfast with Mr & Mrs Tweedy and Mrs Biggs “Peggy”. Tea 16th with Miss Herrick and the Carters. 16 DDM night train to Bfo. 29 Bot Stearns car for Dorothy. 17 IRM & Dor. motored to Winchendon. 20 To Portsmouth. 21 To Exeter. 22 Took Darwin to New England College Officers Training Camp at Williams College. 23 To Troy. 24 To Geneva. 25 Home to dinner. 28 DDM to Rochester to first mtg of Regional War Resources Commission as Bfo chairman. July, 1918. 19-29 Heated period. 19 DDM to Pittsfield. 20 Trolley to Williamstown to see Darwin at training. He thinks he had invented a machine gun. 21 Afternoon train to Troy. Night boat to N.Y. 22 Called on W.H. Coss, E.M. May and niece Jessie Conklin in Orange. August. 3 IRM & DDM overnight & to Sunday dinner at JDL Jrs on lakeshore. Barcalos also to dinner. 3 Dorothy gave dance for army officers in Bfo. 7 LFM here 10-11 DDM with LFM at Clifton (Ont) Inn. 13 LFM to Bill Brown’s health farm at Garrison’s NY. 15 Darwin home from training camp. 26 DDM to Syracuse to mtg of War Resources Comm. 30-Sept 8 DDM and Darwin on fishing trip to Pickeral River about 60 mi. north, Parry Sound Ont. September. 6 Dorothy in Troy 20 Home. 9-14 LFM here, then to Chi 14 Darwin to Exeter going to Rochester for train via Medina. 17 Started furnace 26, 37°. 30 Gave Dorothy $28.000 in bonds in lieu formal allowance. Allies gave armistice to Bulgaria. Av. Temperature Sept. 56°. 48 yr avg 62.9° Rain 3.79″ = .61 in excess normal. 58 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM October, 1918. 1 First real frost. 10 Subscribed $50.000 to Fourth Liberty Loan. 10-21 Mr and Mrs Chas Kellogg here with car “Travelog” in Liberty Loan drive. 19 With C.K. to Lib. Loan dinner speaker George E. Vincent 21 WEM in Bfo three hours. To dinner. Armistice with Turkey. November. 1 First light snow flurry. 3 Armistice with Austria. 5 Women vote for first time in N.Y. state. 7 False report of armistice with Germany. Great celebration impromptu. Dinner of United War Workers, Dr Hillis[?] speaker. 11 Civic holiday; armistice signed with Germany at Cenlis France (see Aug 23 ’08). 13 IRM and Miss Herrick to N.Y. 16 to Boston 20 home 29 Children together in Boston Thanksgiving. We to the Fosters. 28 Thanksgiving. Family dinner home. December. 1 First snow. 5 To theatre. 18 Darwin home. 19 to theatre. 15 WEM here for day. 20 DDM chairman War Exposition Program Committee. 21 Dorothy home from Garland School Boston. 25 Christmas at home. 27 Open winter. Second boiler started. Had article in L Co. “Ourselves” on First Families of the Republic, i.e. Gold Stars from World War. January, 1919. 4 Heard Secy of War Newton D. Baker at Bfo Club luncheon and Chamber of Commerce dinner at Statler Hotel where I had 3 or 4 guests from Cleveland. Sat on stage afternoon and evening at dedication of War Exposition Elmwood Music Hall. War trophy exhibits at Broadway auditorium. 7 Both children to school. 9 Heard Henry C. Morganthau Bfo Club luncheon and Westminster Club February. 11 IRM ill. 20 Down to dinner. 11 Heard G H Putnam (G.P.P’s son) lecture on Lincoln 20 Dorothy finished Child Welfare course at Garland school. 28 DDM to N.Y. DL& W RR Marbury Hall hotel with Mr & Mrs May. March. 1 Dinner at University Club NY. to Charles Eisenman of Cleveland vice chairman Committee on Supplies at Wash. 1917 2 Day ride to Bfo DL&W 8 Dorothy home “all educated” April, 1919. 1 Darwin home from school. Veterans of 65 and 74th militia home and paraded. Holiday. All family saw parade. 8 Darwin to Exeter. 10 Dorothy to Cambridge. May. 14 DDM to Roch. 15 Early train home. In office 8 a.m. 28 IRM motored to Syracuse with CMH. 29 To Pittsfield. DDM by night train to P. 59 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 30 We three motored to Litchfield Conn for luncheon, to Saybrook for late dinner (via New Haven), to Old Lyme Inn. 31 At Old L. June. 3 Temp. 94° hightest in 49 yrs. 1 All to Congregational Church Lyme, a wonderful gem by Sir Christopher Wren (rebuilt recently) DDM by train to Springfield and Bfo. 2 DDM to dinner with Mr & Mrs J. C Dold at Wanakah Club given Baron McKay of Holland, a Christian Scientist. 2-7 IRM at Riversea Club Saybrook. 7 to Plymouth Mass 8 Dorothy and the Prays in our car to Plymouth. 9 All to Boston 12 IRM & Dorothy to Joffrey N.H. 22 to Exeter. 21 DDM & Irenka Ivanowski night train 22 P.M. arrived Exeter. 24 Darwin awarded Exeter diploma in English course and we left E. in cars with Irenka and Clarence Shearn. Night at Toy Town Tavern Winchendon where Miss Herrick is for a week 25 To Stockbridge. Dorothy by train at night Pittsfield to Bfo for Catherine Cooke’s wedding. We dined at Maplewood Hotel Pittsfield. 26 To Cooperstown via Hudson and Catskills. 27 To Cazenovia. Will Crittenden and wife dined with us at new Lincklaen House 28 To Watkins via Cortland and Ithaca (luncheon). Showed young folks Cornell. I walked to Havana Glen. 29 Home 5 P.M. Car made 2,100 miles since left Bfo May 28. July, 1919. 4 IRM saw with family, parade at Mr Will’s North St and enjoyed it. 16-22 Darwin to Exeter, Mass Institute of Technology, Williams, Yale and to Islip L.I. - the Shearers. 17 Dorothy leaving Bfo with mother and Mary Foster motoring to Lake Placid Club. 27 IRM Dory and Mary started home. 29 Arrived. August. 9 Bartons,IR and DDM to Oakfield. Last visit to Mrs Weaver who brought up Delta. 16 Reidpaths IR & DDM motored to Ransomville and Youngstown NY. 30 Bartons IRM & DDM to Cazenovia. Called on Nelie Martin at her store at Auburn. Nelie soon after retired from store. 10-21 Dorothy to Danbury. 19 Sunday dinner at Shorewood Club Dunkirk with Mr & Mrs Foster as guests Mr & Mrs Arthur H Hunter. Darwin also. September. 1-3 At Cazenovia, visited Bouckville, Solsville Madison and Colgate College. Home on 3rd. Dorothy at Dorothea Dann’s at Lorain Ont. Darwin for a week at Shearers at Islip. 13 Motored to Delevan NY. bought fresh picked strawberries. 14-17 Darwin passed exam at Yale: Chemistry 66 Am History 60. 18 Home. 23 Darwin to Yale as a freshman. 25 Furnace lit. 26 First light frost. 30 IRM & CMH to NY. 29 Mother motored to Rochester with Mary & Mrs. Morey 28 Mother Mr Foster and I to eve services at Independent R C Ch October, 1919. 4 Ladies from NY to Lake Mohoak House. Home 20th. 6 King Albert & queen of Belgium, & Prince Leopold visited office. 7 Dorothy, Dorothea Dann & DDM to Cinti by night. 60 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 8 Thro Ky (Licking Valley) to Pineville by day. 9 To Pine Mountain School mtg Daniel Lord en route. 10 DDM spoke at dedication of new school building. 11 Elected president board trustees. 12 Sunday. Heavy rain. Rode over Pine Mt to RR. Took night train from Middlesboro to Cinti 13 To Cinti Zoo. Afternoon to Cleve. Dinner with Rose family. Night to Bfo. November. 6 Mrs Ward and Lady Dunsany to tea. 7 Tea for Dorothy. 300 invitations, 225 came. Chrysanthemums at their best.* Mr & Mrs Randolph S. Beall of Mt. Ayr Iowa from visit to Boston arrived 11.45 P.M. With us overnight and to breakfast 8th. * Larkin Fellowship Club (girls employed over 18 years) out, 8th, Saturday afternoon. 16 Dorothy to Boston 18 Rachmaninoff pianist. First snow flurry. 26 First snow. IR & DDM to Boston mtg Darwin & Dorothy. 27 Thanksgiving, Mother ill. Had the Prays to dinner with us at Copley Plaza. Darwin to Yale. 30 DDM home A.M. [On a separate sheet of paper attached to this page] 11/11/19 WR Heath told me JC Heckman told him JDL Jr told him they, the Ls, know Esty not equal to his job but they’d not be forced to make a change i.e. Estys retention is not for Co’s interest, in fact is contrary thereto, but their nepotism is to hold him inimical to Co’s interest. Mr. H says no court would sustain such a course opposed to interests of Co. Horton Heath goes today in Adv. Dep to replace F.C. Hitch who leaves 11/15. 11/20 JCH confirmed above to me said they’d change sometime. December. 1 Burrell Bldg acquired. Amiantus and Alma exchanged. 5 IRM & Dorothy home from NY 20 Darwin home. 22 Darwin IR & DDM to see Mrs Fiske in “Miss Nelly of N’ Orleans” 25 All family ex DDM to Lake Placid Club where Dorothy gave house party. 29 Dinner of Larkin men to JC Heckman who is leaving. DDM spoke: only director present. January, 1920. 4 Darwin night train to Yale. 5 Noon IRM, Dorothy and CMH home. 12 IRM fell from South room radiator top to floor catching her heel in skirt. Tore ligaments. Painful and slow in healing. 13 JDL told me CHL to retire; Walter B. Robb to succeed. JC Heckman had told me Nov 25 CHL was going and he had been asked by JDL Jr if made a director if he would always vote with family. He announced he might not. “They do not wish factions on board.” 16 Prohibition Act operative. 18 Mrs Parmalee died. February. 11th JDL Jr. thanked me for beautiful tribute I paid Chas. on his resignation in the Resolution filed in minutes of meeting. 27 Walter L Brown Secretary The Bfo Library notified me of my recent election a life member and voter. Bfo Lyceum founded 1817, succeeded by Young Men’s Assoc. 1836 whose members in 1897 formed Bfo library. March. 9 Dorothy to Boston 12 IRM & DDM to Hot Springs VA “The Homestead”, arriving 14th 8 A.M. I rode up one mountain. Walked a ridge of one. We drove. Read “Wuthering Heights”. 28th Washington. Drove 2 hrs; saw Amaryllis show, Lincoln memorial etc. 29 We, also Dorothy, home 21 Delta fell down a stair and broke shoulder. 31 Darwin home. April, 1920. 1 Began retrenchment in buying mdse following an 18 mos. big boom in prices. 6 Darwin to Yale. 61 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 16 Mrs L A Weaver died 18 DDM to Oakfield to see Mr Weaver as I did not go to funeral 19th. May. 10 We to wedding E Howard Roth – Lois Kellogg. 13 Declined a trusteeship of Buffalo Seminary. 16 Motor drive 70 miles, IRM Dorothy, Theo Platt, via Canada boulevard[?]. Kaltenbach for dinner, thence Lewiston hill, Pekin. Saw for first time an airplane take off and alight, at Curtis field. Foster family at tea. Mary sang, Dorothy played. 29 Both to Boston for annual McKenzie class. Home 30th. 31 Mary Foster wedding. June. Our Pierce car started to Boston 5/31. 1 Mother and Dorothy by rail to Boston. Near Worchester train derailed. No consciousness at time of injury. Mother was sitting in berth and badly shaken, it proved afterward. 10 Dorothy to Smith reunion. 12 M and Miss H motored B. to Spgfld. Dorothy joined them. 16 Darwin home 17 Motor party home. July, 1920. 4 Dear mother ill in church (First C.S. Bfo), home and to bed. Dr. Krill osteopath called. Beginning of “ochlophobia” 15 Miss Goldsmith, a trained nurse engaged and retained until Dec. 24th 22 Dorothy started to Buffalo Wyoming as guest of Lydia Coonley and family on a “dude ranch” for one month August. Dear mother patient thro a hot month in her sick-bed. Cooled room with water sprinkled on pergola roof. She uses Dorothy’s room. September. 2 Cousin Charles H Stanton and Mrs S. to dinner. Belle unable to see them. Bartons to dinner. Darwin at dinner only. Dorothy & Miss Herrick at Wyoming. 4-6 Darwin and I in Dorothy’s Stearns car to Cuba Olean Rock City Bradford Jamestown and Little Valley 13 Dorothy addressed Hutchinson High School assembly on girls in college. Later, Lafayette also. 14 Darwin to Yale for Sophomore year. 19-20 Mr & Mrs W. P. McKenzie visited us. 30 Boiler started. October, 1920. 18 Stockholders Bfo Leather Co and B. Shoe Co voted to dissolve. Both lost many hundreds of M. Beautiful month Warm and dry 44% sun November. 3 Mother with nurse to Atlantic City, Hotel Brighton 4 Darwin arrived home ill 9th returned, Mother unaware of it. 15 First snow. Received first (ever) letter from Cousin Charles Renshaw. 17 Seventeen inches snow. 29 Dorothy gave dinner and dance to Mamre Bailey’s wedding party 30 Mamre & Elman Kling[?] married. Henry G Breed’s last social appearance. December. 1 Clara Wenke[?], maid six years, left 17 Darwin home for vacation 16 R.R. McGeorge made best photos I ever had. 22 Mother home from Atlantic City so improved nurse released on 24th. 26 Dorothy, Darwin, Miss Herrick and Dorothy’s guests to Lake Placid Club. January, 1921. 2 Darwin L. P. to Yale 3d Dorothy to Danbury 13 Mother and Miss Herrick to Atlantic City. 62 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 22 Dorothy arrived home. 30 to Chicago to visit the Coonleys. February. 26 Mother and CMH home from Atlantic City. March. 6 Dorothy home from Chicago visit. 23-29 Darwin home for Easter vacation. April, 1921. 1 Mother and I to dinner at the Northrups; mother’s first dinner out in ten months, Mr N’s and Horace P Chamberlain’s birthday. 2 Both to dinner again, this at the Foster’s. 4 Dorothy in a College Club play 9th Belle’s birthday, dinner to our old neighbors. 19th To dinner at Mrs Crate’s May. 7th The Northrups and Mrs. Knowlton Mixer at dinner. 8 With Bartons to Roycroft to dinner, thence called on Mr & Mrs Fred’k S. Hazard E. Aurora. 21 Leased 5 rooms in “Cedars”L. P. Club. July 1-Aug 16 22 IRM to Lake Placid Club. 28 DDM and Orville Kirby to Avon Inn in P.M. 29th around Conesus Lake, walked 5 miles 30 via Rochester and Lockport, home. June. 2 IRM home 7-14 Dorothy to 3d Smith Col. reunion 18 Darwin home from Sophomore year 28 Dorothy a bridesmaid at Margaret Penney’s wedding at Westminster Church 29 Dorothy in Pierce car to L.P. Club. July, 1921. 1 IRM and Miss H. to L.P. Club 2 Darwin, with Knowlton Mixer Jr, in a new Ford touring car brought from New Haven, started for California. 7-18 LFM visiting me 23 Office closes all day Saturdays. August. 13-21 Vacation: At L.P. Club 13-15th 16th with Dorothy in Pierce car to Montreal, Place Viger Hotel 18 to Quebec 21 back to L.P. Club, overnight at Rouse’s Point, breakfast Isle La Motte, luncheon Burlington, night train to Bfo. 26 Death of James Forsyth Foster. 28 Funeral 27 IRM home. I gave luncheon at Canoe Club to buyers for James H. Isham, retiring. 28 Dorothy home. September. 4 Darwin & K. arrived Kellogg Spgs. Calif. 17 Started home 19 Grand Canyon 22 Chicago 23d home, all rail 26 To Yale for junior year 28 Rev Wm McKenzie here for day. October, 1921. 1 Secy Dep. resumed A.M. Sat work In P.M. motored to Bowmansville, I walked home from Snyder. 4 Boiler started 18 IRM and Dorothy via NY. to New Haven 63 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 20 DDM to New Haven 22 To Yale-West Pt. game. Joined mother in NY. 21 Slept Darwin’s bed. He to bed 2.45 A.M. 23 Had Mr & Mrs May to dinner but IRM in room a/c a cold. Home at night. Dorothy to Danbury. 25 First frost 30 Began aloud “The Americanization of Edward Bok” reading 100 pgs. 31 VirginiaWhitmore Kelly and her husband to dinner. November. 5 First snow 22 Aunt Carrie Renshaw, Mother’s sister died, East Orange, N.J. December. 17 Darwin home for vacation January, 1922. 1 Darwin via N.Y. to college 22 Arthur C Pillsbury of San Fran & Yosemite to dinner. Also Mr & Mrs Frank H Severance and Dorothea Dann Enjoying Robert Louis Stevenson travel stories. February. 4 Darwin home ill, ending Yale for this year. Examined at Bfo clinic without revealing anything wrong but diseased tonsils. March. 6 Darwin’s tonsils removed by Dr F. C. Brown at General Hospital, home 7th. 8 DDM to Indianapolis on business, WEM met me. Called on Louise Martin, now aged 37 & stout. Each home at night. 17th With Mother still ill, she, Miss H, Darwin and I took night train to Chicago. 18th I had breakfast with LFM at station, others to Mr & Mrs Steward Coonley’s Aston St. At 10.45 all Santa Fe train, arriving Kan Cy 10 P.M. 19th Excellent hotel, St Regis, “Saw” K Cy by motor 20 9 a.m. “Calif Limited”, saw Kansas 21 Saw Albuquerque ½ hour. Interesting. 22-23 Grand Canyon “River ride” Met Emery Kolb, I saw his pictures and heard his lecture on Col. River trip 24 Noon, Mission Inn Riverside. Mother enjoyed trip; improved hourly in health. 26 IRM to First Church with me. Her first church since 7/4/20 DDM & Darwin up Mt Rubidoux. 28 Darwin to Los Angeles, night to San Francisco. 28th to Palo Alto to enter Stanford Univ. 25 All motored to Palm Springs Canyon, picnic luncheon at rushing stream. Hot thro desert which was carpeted with wild verbena. 27 After Darwin gone we motored to Redlands, to Smiley Heights and an orange poskey[?] 28 9.45 A.M. to Capistrano and San Luis Rey Missions, La Jolla, San Diego to Hotel Coronado C. Beach. 29 To Point Lorna, Balboa Park – wonderful blue sky and sea, all delighted. Heard outdoor organ concert, saw buildings of 1915 Exposition 30 To “Ramona’s marriage place”, San Diego Mission, Mission Cliff Gardens. DDM 3 P.M. train to San Jose. 31 Ladies glorious trip back to Mission Inn via San Luis Rey canyon and Palo Mission. I arrived Palo Alto 9.15 Darwin met me with Ford car that he crossed continent in last summer. Met Mr & Mrs Kellog. Darwin vaccinated. I in Mr Kellogg’s Nash with them to H Spgs in time for dinner. April, 1922. 1 I sawed limb (broken) 31 X 45" from live oak (Mrs Achiles there) 2 Sunday. After dinner D. and I in Ford to Palo Alto via San Jose and “floral festival” (annual event) at Saratoga. I took 6 P.M. train to San Fran – Hotel Stewart very loath to lv D. 3 Ladies to Los Angeles Hotel Darby. 9.15 A.M. I entrained Western Pacific, Feather River Canyon via D & R.S. 5 Left Pullman I entered at Oakland at Tribune Kan, met by Randolph S Beall of Mt Ayr, Ia.. 6-7 We motored over Greeley and Wichita counties viewing lands and farms where I have some mtgs. 8 Ar. K. Cy noon. Heavy rain. Beall cont’d to Mt Ayr. Wrote letters thro aft. 6 P.M. train. 9th Lovely long drive with WEM and dinner at his house. LFM there. Train 5 P.M. to Bfo. 15 Mrs Larkin died. May. 64 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 27 IRM & Miss H home after very happy trip. June. 7 Dorothy to Montreal 9th On C.P.R. Stmr “Minnedoss” for Antwerp. 18th Darwin arrived by train at Rapid City So Dak. From Palo Alto. July, 1922. Dorothy, happy, traveling in France, Italy, to Passion Play at Oberamagau etc. Darwin at camp in Black Hills with Russell Halley, very enthusiastic. August. Dorothy in England, English lakes, etc September. 3 Darwin home. 13 Dorothy home. 16 LFM here until 24th when to Tom’s River, NJ 25 Darwin to Yale to resume interrupted courses 26 White frost. Started boiler but out next day. 28 IRM and Dorothy to L.P. Club. 30 Visited Atlas Steel plant Dunkirk. Hiked Fredonia to Lily Dale in Cassadega. IRM unusually well. October, 1922. 5 Dorothy to Danbury CMH to L.P. Club 7 Hiked Colden to West Falls, then rained. 8 Boiler started. 14 Hiked Eden Val to No. Evans via creek, thence to Hamburg. 19 Ladies home. Dorothy pledged her troth to James Forsyth Foster Jr. 25 100th anniversary Father’s birth. Hiked Utica to Clayville and cemetery and returned via bus. F.L. Wright here two days. 29 Engagement published. November. 3 William Henry Coss died, New York. 19 IRM and Dorothy on trousseau trip to N.Y. 27th home. 21 I bought lot St. Catherine’s Court for Jas & Dorothy. Wore winter overcoat. 22 Ground white with first snow. 30 L. Co. paid last of $5.174.000 we had owed banks. December. 6 Started 2d boiler. 17th CMH ret’d. 22 Aunt Mary E Kaiser died. Darwin home for vacation January, 1923. 7 Darwin to Yale 15-16 Home ill February. 19 Darwin home with conjunctivitis. 23d to Yale. 25 Dorothy to Boston. Everett here a few hours. Bartons started to California 28 Cousin Bertha Griswold Berry died Montclair N.J. Husband Milton L Berry [ ] 26 Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley Ward died in Ohio [also mentioned for 2/26/24, which is the correct date. id.loc.gov] March. 12 Dorothy home. 28 Darwin home for Easter vacation until April 3d 5-7 Jury duty. 8-11 home; ill. 9 Charles Esenoman[?] died in Florida April, 1923. 5 5° above. 8th wind 76 miles Lake covered by ice sunshine 57%. Mo. Cold dry 65 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 4 John Lord O’Brien called to offer me a directorate in Beaver Board Co. I, his first choice. Declined. 7 Heard Lord Robert Cecil, Gov. Cox and Hamilton Holt on League of Nations which I heartily favor. 9th Gave option of Burrell Bldg – sold as of May 31st. 18 CMH to Hartford a/c sister’s illness. 22d Mrs Charles F. Carter died. 25 IRM and Dorothy to N.Y. 28 to Atlantic City. Darwin & Hope Alling to A. Cy 16-26 Jury duty May. 6 “Forsythia Sunday” 7 IRM and Dor home. 9-10 Snowed, patches remaining until 11th 16 Elected a director Bfo Symphony Orchestra Asso. Inc. for 2 yr term. Began “Tyler Course” of exercises. June. 8-10 Boiler fired a/c cold and damp. 13 Darwin home. 14 Dorothy’s beautiful wedding at 5 P.M. on lawn, Dr Charles H Parkhurst officiating. 300 guests. Warm and comfortable, some threat of rain. Started in James new “Chandler” for L.P. Club. Darwin to Yale. 19-23 IRM & CMH to Wyoming and Ithaca. 24 Darwin home for vacation. 27 Darwin to New Haven 29 I to N.Y. P.M. 30 Sailed with Darw. on Coronia for Liverpool. See trip records. Breakfasted with Charles Renshaw, cousin, first time met since at Clayville before Mother died. July, 1923. 19 IRM & CMH to Syracuse by train,”Empire”, motored in our car to Cazenovia , very hot. 20 to Pittsfield Mass. 24th to Walpole (NH) Inn where IRM ill until I returned. August. 17 Weight 164 lbs 26 I landed from “Francovia”, learned by phone of IRM’s illness. 27 At N.Y. office. 2 P.M. train to Hartford. Called on Mrs Foster & Mary. At Springfield for night. 28 To Walpole in morning 30 We all motored to Greenfield; night train to Bfo. 31 Resumed work at office. September. 11-12 Boiler fired. 28 Darwin landed in N.Y. ex Aquitania. October, 1923. 1 Boiler started for winter. Darwin came 10 am, left for Yale 9.30pm. 18 Mother first downstairs since return home. Dorothy drove her around park and Central Park. 26 Darwin home, 27th back to Yale. 28 Sunday dinner for James and my birthday. Bartons, Geo deForest, Reidpaths, Fosters present. Mother in her room wrote a jingle on us all. November. 8 Squaw winter. First snow 22 Attended banquet opening Ch of Good Shepherd parish house. Rector James Cosby invited me on behalf of “many of my old friends” there. December. 17 Excavation started for Jas & Dorothy’s home 21 Darwin home for vacation January, 1924. 1 Dinner at Fosters. 66 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 2 1 Crate Larkin married. 2nd boiler started. ¨ ¨ out Mch ’14. 4 Darwin to Yale after a lovely visit home. 4 Elected by Board of Managers Bfo Historical Society a member thereof to fill a vacancy, expiring 1927. February. 3 Ex-Pres. Woodrow Wilson died. 4-5 Darwin home. Has passed all examinations. 20 Mr & Mrs LeRoy Goodrich to dinner. 26 Mrs Lydia Avery Coonley Ward died in Chicago. 28 Saw Scaramouche a French revolutionary film with Dorothy and Dorothea after dinner at Gandy’s. Feb 9° below normal March. 7 Chauve Souris, Russian vaudeville, with Dorothy and Jas. 9 Finished 4th & last vol. Green’s History of English People; begun last fall, prob. Oct. Darwin phoned is engaged to Hildegarde Helen Erichman[?] 10 CMH to New Haven and Hartford. 11 Finished Old Testament; first time all thro. 14 IRM (not well) and Dorothy to Atlantic City, I to New Haven. 15 Met Hildegarde 16 Darwin motored me with H. in Peerless acquired recently to Hartford. Called on Mary, Dr. Carter and CMH. 25 IRM writes weighs 127 lbs., more than any time since 1889 when married. 27 Home 26-30 I home after fall on street April, 1924. 6 IRM home with CMH. Seems quite well. 17-23 Darwin home for Easter vacation, with Hildegarde. 21 To see “The Fawn” by Yale Dramatic Club. 22 To see film “America” with our four children. May. 1 Belle’s left eye is inflamed; was so thro April; possibly an ulcer, after 16 yrs free 11 IRM & CMH to Boston to consult Dr. Jacks. 20 Home. 4 Darwin sprained ankle, lost a week’s work. 13 Boiler out. 22 Dinner, IRM home, CMH went, at Horace Reed’s in honor of return of Barcalos from Calif. [the following newspaper clipping is attached with “1924” noted on it] THIS MAY VERY COLD Not extra wet, however, weatherman’s report declares. “The month of May,” frankly remarks David Cuthbertson, federal meteorologist, “in Buffalo was as a whole very cold.” However, he cheerfully reminds us that May, 1917, was colder. Less rain than usual fell last month, he adds, destroying the popular illusion of wetness. The idea that the Pan-American May was just a month as May, 1924, also is not borne out. His report follows: The climatological data compiled from the records of the local weather bureau office gives the month of May, 1924, a mean temperature of 48.3 degrees, being the coldest May in 53 years, with the exception of 1917, when the mean was 47.0 degrees. A mean temperature of 48 also occurred in 1907. On but four days during the month was the mean temperature in excess of the normal, the total deficiency in temperature for the month being 191 degrees. The mean maximum temperature was 54.7 degrees; mean minimum, 41.9 degrees. The highest temperature was 73 degrees on the seventh; lowest, 32 degrees, on the second; monthly range, 41 degrees; mean daily range, 12.8 degrees. The total precipitation was 2.59 inches, being 0.51 inch below the normal. Precipitation of .01 or more occurred on sixteen days, and on seven other days was recorded. Snow fell on the second, the amount being 0.3 inch. The total wind movement was 14,359 miles, giving an average hourly velocity of 19.3 miles. The maximum wind velocity was 56 miles, from the Southwest on the fourth. The prevailing wind direction was southwest. Mean relative humidity at 8 a. m., 83 per cent; noon, 80 per cent.; 8 p.m., 75 percent. There were four clear days during the month, sixteen partly cloudy and eleven cloudy. 67 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM June. 1 Boiler finally out after a week’s use. 11-12 Darwin motored to Bfo in Peerless, bringing Milton Barnum 15 Returned by train 16 Notice from Registrar Darwin graduate as Bach of Philosophy (Ph. B.). He gave ring to Hildegarde. 22 Home. 24 To L.P. club 27 IRM & CMH to L.P. I to Mrs Severance’s to dinner with Wm R George 28 Hike from Arcade, ret’g in rain in a Ford. 30 Wm R Heath retired from L Co. July, 1924. 1 LFM here. 2 Mr Kirkland of Geo Jr Republic took my $500 subscription. 3 At 5 P.M. LFM and I started in Pierce car for Lake Placid. Dinner at Avon, night Canandaigua Hotel. 4 To Auburn where saw Cousins Nelie, Charles and Julia. Dinner (noon) with “Daddy” George at Geo Jr Rep. Inn at New Woodstock . Took Frank for his first visit to hilltop site of Father’s birthplace, to cemetery in village where Aunts Elvira and Huldah lie, and Uncle John and 3 wives. Called on J. Albert Stanton son of Huldah. Granddaughter Huldah, 12 yrs visiting. Dinner again at Lincklaen House Cazenovia with Will H Cruttenden, eve at his home. Age 81. 5 To Peterboro to see home of Gerrit Smith whose biography I recently read, Bouckville, seeing Helen Henderson 80, Frank’s first teacher, Lester Martin (unrelated) 85, both mowing lawns. Both here in ‘60’. Cassville, seeing Miss Flint 77, my teacher, Sauquoit Val. cemetery to see Father’s and Mother’s graves. Saw Mrs Rosell Hanson, older than LFM [ ] lovely home. Via Utica to Tupper Lake. Phoned IRM. 6 Did 58 miles to L.P. Club before breakfast, mostly on detour. To John Brown’s grave. Night train to Bfo. 18 To L.P. for vacation. August. 4 Home 6 LFM went home to Newark O. 16 IRM & Darwin home. 22 P.M. Motored to Hillside Wyoming. 24 Home. Wt [ ] 150 lbs 29 to Sep 1 at Hillside. September. 2 Darwin begins at L Co in Maintenance Dep. 5 Started boiler with new grates & blower 8 Death of Jacob C Dold 11 Honorary bearer. 22 IRM & Miss H to New Canaan Ct via N.Y. for 23. Left off dark glasses worn since April 23 Final mtg Bfo Symphony Orch Ass. as Director 6 Tour with F H Severance, driven by Darwin, Fort Erie, Chippewa, Niagara, Queenston Heights. Last saw J C Dold at 5.45 P.M. driving his car for last time. October, 1924. 1-3 Annual mtg Bfo, of N.Y. State Historical Assn. Attended the three evening mtgs; on trips 2nd to Canadian historic Niagara sites. 3d to Ft. Niagara. 3rd Dinner Statler. 7th Dorothy cooked fine meal (dinner) in new home. 9 Cousin Belle Baker Haynes died St Patersbg Fl. 10 Motored with F H Severance and L W Simpson guests, from 4.40 to 7 p.m. to Big Tree Inn Genesee. 11 to Canandaigua court room to see portraits, to Cornell – Williams [ ] C. library to Republic Inn and Geo Jr Repub. 12 Watkins Glen, East Aurora, home. 15 First dinner at Dorothy’s. 21 Planted shrubbery at St. Catherine’s Court 22 Darwin to New Haven to Yale-Army game. November. 3rd IRM and Darwin home. 68 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 4 Darwin’s first vote; republican 5-9 Darwin home ill. Pneumonia threat. 10 Hortense’s boy born. 15 Margaret’s girl 11 Alison H Morey died in N.Y. 12-15 Home ill, hiccups, nurse. 16 First snow. Squaw winter 17° 19 CMH home. 19 Darwin motored to Yale in Buick given to Hildegarde Erickson 25 Home. First snow to [ ] 27 Family Thanksgiving at Dorothy’s. Nov 3. Wrote Crate Larkin review of L. Co. advertising from 1885 to date. December. Cold month Abundant snow 21 Sunday supper at Dorothy’s. Young people sang carols. 25 Usual X’mas at home. 27 KR & MFR to San Antonio, Tex. January, 1925. Dinner of Typothetos of Bfo, guest of David L Johnston. Speakers: Sir Edmund Hilton Young, M.P. in Lloyd George’s cabinet, Dr Kattell Phd February. 10 Darwin to NY. to Mch 12. 23 Dinner to buyers at Athletic Club. Three days of rain cleared ground of snow lain since end of Nov. March. 11 IRM and Dorothy to hear Phila Symphony Concert. 13 IRM and all family to Mrs Fiske’s all-star cast in “The Rivals” 17 Morning bird concerts from this date. IRM, CMH and I to dinner at Mrs Potter’s. 23 Darwin resigned from L. Co. 23-25 He on motor trip to Cleveland and Ravenna, O. To Dorothy’s to dinner. 29 Darwin to NY to learn foreign bonds and exchange in office of Baker, Kellogg & Co. Equitable Bldg, auspices O’Brian, Potter & Co. Bfo. April, 1925. 4 Hiked 6 miles. CMH to Hartford. 6 IRM gave tea for Mrs Morey before her trip to California. 9 IRM’s birthday, a family dinner 10-12 Darwin home. 12 Easter and Mrs Foster’s birthday. Lovely dinner to ten including Miss Sears and Mrs Morey. May. 4 Cousin Charles E Renshaw died, Orange, NJ 9 Harold Morton Esty died. IRM the Reidpaths and I motored to Lewiston and Youngstown. Dorothy & James joined us at Red Coach Inn Niagara, for dinner. 10 Sunday IRM, Mrs Morey, Dorothy, Jas & I motored to Eden and West Falls. Late dinner Hotel Lafayette. 21 All above to Dold Blue Lantern Tea Room. 30-6/2 Darwin home. June. 7 c [ ] [as ] wk/Indy’s 6/1 1 Fire in boiler until now. 3rd Temperature 80° Hot wave over U.S. Crate Larkin elected director 8 Dr Hugh Russell died, suddenly. Honorary bearer at funeral. 20 Walked ten miles Attica to Wyoming. At Hillside Farms until 22nd. 23 Wm W. Savage died. July, 1925. 69 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 7 IRM & CMH to Lake Placid Club for summer. 8 Henry G Breed died 10 To Versailles, to funeral. 10 5.30 P.M. With Dorothy and James in Pierce car, Wm driving to Canandaigua Hotel by 9.30 P.M. 11 8.30 A.M. – 6.30 P.M. to L. P. Club, luncheon Watertown. 16 IRM, Dorothy and I motored to Woodstock (Vt) Inn. Luncheon Ticonderoga Hotel 17 To Kennebunkport Me. Saw “Pleasant View” site Mrs Eddy’s home, now razed. Lexington, Concord. Dinner Wm A Rogers’ Trip = 319 miles 20 Motored, May Martin, too, to St. Johnsbury, Vt via Pinkham Notch, Gorham (luncheon), Jefferson 21 To L P Club, luncheon Hotel Vermont Burlington leaving May at Northrup’s at Wilmington = 284 mi. 26 Night train to Bfo. August. 7 Eve train to Chautauqua Assembly. Heard Lorado Taft lecture on art. 8 N Y Symphony 9 Motored home with Chas H Bailey 15 Motored (Darwin’s Peerless, hired driver) to Niagara with Clara Sike[?] from Pine Mt. & Bessie O’Brien. 16-17 Ill 28 Larkin Co extraneous activities have lost $2.615.500. September. 1 Completed 47th year with L. Co. Sold all my stock to Co. and resigned. All amicable. Took home all my files and records. 2 To office to bid goodbye. To People Bk to deposit and tell the Bissells. Told Dorothy. 3rd Night. To L.P. Club. Darwin ditto from N.Y. 4 Mother and Darwin much rejoiced. 9 To Bfo 14 To office, then uptown all day 29 Last sister of my mother “Aunt Tie” Mrs Bertha M Griswold died Montclair NJ age 88. 29-30 Took office 1036 Marine Trust. [2 newspaper clippings attached :] Mrs. Bertha M. Griswold Mrs. Bertha McMannis Griswold died yesterday from the infirmities of age at the home of her son-in-law, Milton L. Berry, 52 Walnut street, Montclair. She was eighty-eight years old. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 o’clock tomorrow by Rev. Willard Glen Purdy, pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Mt. Hebron Cemetery. Mrs. Griswold leaves three grandchildren, Miss Dorothy G. Berry, Sydney G. Berry and Frederick K. Berry, all of Montclair. GRISWOLD – At Montclair, N.J., on Tuesaday, September 29, 1925. Bertha McMannis, widow of William B. Griswold, in her 88th year. Funeral services will be held at the home of her son-in-law, Milton L. Berry, 52 Walnut street, Montclair, on Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. October, 1925. 1 To Syracuse 1-4 P.M. on “Empire” 1-3 Attended annual convention Hotel Syracuse of NY State Historical Assn. 3 P.M. Bus to Cazenovia and return. Supper with Will Crittenden. 4 To Clayville. Walked several miles, visited cemetery. Bfo 11.40 P.M. 5 In new office. Roses from Grandma and Ida and Carrie. Dorothy & Geo deForest to luncheon. 10 Darwin home, to N.Y. in car 19 IRM home. DDM on jury 25 Birthday dinner. 28 Night to Wash DC 30 Testified in Income Tax Court. Train to NY snowing all way 30 With Darwin to see E M May 31 Motored, Darwin, Margaret Wende-Jones, her mother & DDM to New Haven to Yale-Army game 28-7. Cold, cloudless, bright November. 70 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 1 To Second Church in A.M. In P.M motored to Montclair where I had tea at Milton L Berry’s, with him, Dorothy & Frederick B, Minnie Renshaw Esterbrook & dau Gladys. Night train to Bfo. 14 Lois married to Edwin Mann 20 Attended luncheon to Morgan Jones M R 22-29 Chas Kellogg guests 24 Luncheon Larkin directors gave me loving cup 25 Darwin home bringing Peerless back 26 Thanksgiving dinner at Dorothy’s. 29 Laura’s first wedding anniversary supper. 30 Darwin entered employed O’Brian Potter & Co. December. 16 New will made. 25 Happy Christmas all home. 14 Nephew born Everett Gray Martin son to Everett K & Muriel Gray Martin 1925 Remembered for the great Florida real estate boom. January, 1926. 9 All including Mother to George Arliss at Majestic Th. 11 Walter Collins, son Mary Foster, born Hartford. 18 Ben Franklin dinner Sat with Mr Larkin last time saw him 23 Night to N.Y. Hotel Rockefeller 33 W 51st . To Second Ch. 25 Dorothy from Hartford, joined me. Dinner to cousins the Berrys and Easterbrooks. All to Hippodrome to see Chas Kellogg. 26 Dinner and Metropolitan Opera Jeritza. 27 D. and I to Vagabond King Casino. 29 Dinner to Jack & Mrs Putnam 31 I home by day train, D. to Danbury February. 6 IRM began with Dr J.P.Mols. She is very ill. 15 John Durrant Larkin died. Born Sep. 29. 1845. March. 11 Leopold Schepp, NY, died. Friend of several years. 15 Edw & Florence Barcalo to dinner 27 They sailed on Olympic I ordered two annuity policies Travelers Insurance Co for $100 Mo for lives of Grandma Reidpath and Margaret Reidpath. April, 1926. 1 G.M. Kirby discharged by L Co 18 To E Aurora with Bartons to call on Cousin Josephine Cook Hazard, ill. Looked at lot on return. 19 Bought lot 250 front on Lake Erie in Evans. 21 Very cold month, winter overcast until today. 21-22-23 Scientific Symposium lectures by Dr Alex Hedlicks 27 Jean McMillan Ralph died. See June 1927. 26 To Hillside last time, outdoor (cold) wedding Frances Root [?] Crowley to Edward D Ransom Jr May. 3 Darwin and Margaret Wende married 12 noon at Westminster Church parlor by Dr S.V.R. Holmes. Wedding breakfast at home. Only 28 guests. Couple left on eve train for N.Y. and sailed 5 on Acquitania landed at Cherbourg. 18 First letters. 4 Temp 25°. 19 DDM again elected trustee Bfo Symphony Society. 20 Dinner at Dorothy’s. She and I to recital Music Settlement Welcome Hall. 28 Made sec’y Bfo Symphony Ass’n. 29 Pruned 4 hrs. 31 6 hrs. All our families joined in a happy cooperative supper at Dorothy’s. No excursion boats on lake Decoration Day acct ice. Ice sunk night of 31st Cold month. 71 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM June. Office and home heated much of month. 30 IRM and Dorothy by night train to L.P. Club. I motored arriving July 1st afternoon calling in Rochester on E C Heyl and family. 15 Miss H came. 15 Gibson Howard died. 21 Dorothy and I home by train. 29 I ret’d. 31-Aug 2 I motored home calling at Cazenovia on Will Crittenden. Lincklaen House overnight. Aug 1st at George Jr Republic, night at Newark NY [Aug] 2nd in Rochester called on Mrs. Parcells and Charles also on Sadie Emerson[?] Bruce. 31 IRM & CMH home by train. [squeezed into corner of page] Grandma & Marg only visit to Club July, 1926. June 25 Sydney Griswold Berry married Winifred Francis Babcock Montclair, NJ 1927 July 31-Aug 2 IRM. Ill, in bed [a similar entry is made in July 1927] Aug 2 Two grate fires. Dorothy entertained at luncheon, for her mother, Mrs Foster and others. August. 27 Mother’s first visit to lot at lake. Delighted. 30-31 I motored to Phila with WEM Delta & Geo. In Elmira visited graves of Mark Twain & family Aunt Mary & Uncle Sparrow[?] Baker. Night 30th at Wyalusing Pa 31 Magnificent scenery above Sesquahanna River. Pocono Mts. Delaware Water Gap. Straith Haven Inn Swarthmore. Geo & Delta at Laura’s home. September. 1 At Sesqui Centennial Exposition. Meager show. 2-4 WEM & I at Single tax conference, Benjamin Franklin Hotel 3 Aunt Eliza Dick died. 5 Funeral 4 IRM & Miss H. night train to L.P. Club. Leaving house dear sick mother said “goodbye home” 6 Valley Forge & Gettysburg. 7 Harrisburg, capitol, Sesq. trail to Binghamton. 8 Geo Jr Republic, cousin Nelie at Geneva, Cornell en route Home 1.30 9 WEM night train to Chi. 17-20 Charles Kellogg here 19 CK to church with me. October, 1926. 4 Mother home, well CS treatment by Miss Hellgren. 9/30-10/3 DDM N.Y.McAlphin Hotel, NY State Historical Assn annual meeting at NY Historical Bldg. A luncheon- mtg at NY Chamber of Commerce. Bus Trip Westchester Co. Kensico Dam. Heard “Iolanthe”. Theatre with Edith Severance “Two Girls Wanted”. 3 Ninth Church. Thence to see Anna & Mary Martin Orange. After Bus Newark to Madison to graves of Daniel J and William H Coss in RC Cemetery. 12 Mother’s 2nd visit to Lake Shore lot. 10 Andrew C McKenzie died. Served on Christman[?] for [S ton] Committee and Fillmore Hosp. fund drive. 26 First frost. November. 2-6 Sat for portrait to Young-Hunter 2 First snow. 4 Mother gave luncheon to old neighbors in honor Margaret. Thursday dinner at Dorothy’s. 5 All to dinner at Grandma’s. 13 Death Arthur D Bissell my old banker-friend 16 to funeral 15 Lovely Indian summer. Temp 68° “record”. 72 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 16 Luncheon to society friends for Margaret. Fifty six came. 17 Met Arthur E Morgan Pres. Antioch College at luncheon Bfo Athletic Club by Fenton M. Parke 17 Miss H to Hartford. 18-21 Darwin & Marg motored New Haven to football. 19 First real snow 2". 21 Harveys to dinner. Eda for week and Wright Simpson to supper. December. Very happy Xmas. Picture “Miss River race” for office. Clock for country house from families. My portrait not quite a success. “Permutil” system of water-softening is. 30 Sixty guests to dinner and bridge in honor our four children. Net worth 2.558.528.94 Maximum for DDM. January, 1927. Dear Mother up and down in illness 31. Bot Wm. round trip to England. February. 1 Mr & Mrs G W Miller to dinner. 6 Mother Dorothy and I to Wash by night. 7 Long drive: Lincoln Memorial, Arlington, Rock Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, stopping at Mrs Avery Coonley’s. She called in morning at Lafayette Hotel en route to NY. Night train Southern Ry to Aiken S.C. 8 Highland Park, Hotel Aiken, through month. Read and walked Drove a little behind horses – not a motoring town. I visited Augusta, luncheon at Bon Air. March. 4 Dinner with Mr & Mrs Young Hunter “Pirates of Penzance”. Lunch Laura & George at Wanamakers. 1 Miss H came, I left for Phila. 2. Afternoon with Laura at theatre, “Pickwick” Eve “My Maryland”and Ritz dinner with both. Sleeper to NY 6th Bach concert. 3-6 Hotel Manger, where I lost traveling-size Bible & S&H. by changing rooms. Sat for changes in portrait. Dinner and theatre with Edith Severance & Edith Hull. 4 Dorothy left Aiken for home 4 With Wright bought hardware 5 Dinner at Mr. Barney’s 21 After hot week at Aiken Mother and Miss H left for Wash, D.C. Found New Willard very satisfactory. 24 Met them 7.30 A.M. Bfo 31 After dinner at Dorothy’s I with Darwin & Margaret to “Dear Brutus” with Lars Potter. April, 1927. 1 L Co paid me $629917.81, 600 M being principal. 5,6 Wright here. 6th to Country house building job. 7 To Bfo Assn for Blind Exec. Com. & to Bfo Historical Soc monthly mtg 16-5/26 Miss H to Hartford 17 Jas & Dorothy sailed 23 I, alone, to dinner by the Severances at Statler in honor of Dr. Albright of Jerusalem 25 To my first mtg Soc. Nat. Sciences Board of Mngers. 26 Mother and I to dinner by Mr & Mrs Northrup at the Lenox. 28 Night DLW train to Orange 29 After breakfast to see Mary, Anna and Edgar and his family who called. They took me to grave of brother Alta, first time. To NY Cornish Arms Hotel 23rd St. never again. 30 Visited Mrs Chas Kellogg at her sister’s Mrs Leroy. Drove her to see “Cloisters”, the Gen Gray Barnced[?] Museum 2 ½ hours. 31 Met Dorothy & James ex Majestic home from six weeks trip to Europe. May. 5 To Cleveland. Visited Blind Assn Grand Opera in eve. Night train to Cinti 6 Met Mr Severance who came on [ ] train, L&N Ry to Cumberland Tenn motor to Lincoln Memorial Univ. thence back to Pineville Ky. 7-12 At Pine Mt. School. Walked over Pine Mt. 73 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 13 Louisville “Churchill Downs” races 14-18 Chicago Hotel Morrison. Visits with all relatives. June. 1 With Wright in NY To Theatre, after dinner, with Edith Severance and Edith Hull 10 Ben Cutler Ralph killed by trolley. Neighbor since 1889. 12 Pallbearer at his funeral 15-16 Wright here. 18 Darwin & Marg to Hawaii. Met all relatives in Chi. 20 House heated until today. Also office. 22 Elected director Bfo City Planning Assn term expires Dec 1929. Darwin & Margaret landed at San Francisco S.S. Matsonic July, 1927. [newspaper clipping attached:] “A letter from Darwin D. Martin, of Buffalo, N.Y., to Randolph S. Beall, of this city, conveys the information that L.F. Martin passed away in Lake Worth, Fla., July 15, aged 75. He had lived in Florida since 1924. Burial was at Clayville, N.Y. Mr. Martin lived in Mount Ayr during the winter of 1875-6 and will be remembered by the older residents of the community.” 4-6, 13-14 WEM Winnie, Easton Davis & Bernice here. Grate fires 4-6. 14 Brother Frank died 3 P.M. at his home in Lake Worth, Fla. 20 Met Florence at Binghamton with body. Buried at sundown beside Father’s grave at Clayville. Overnight at Mr & Mrs Hanson (Jennie Randall) Sauquoit. 21-26 Florence at Delta’s, thence to Lancaster 21 CMH to Hartford 31-8/2 Mother ill. Took her to Graycliff. August. 12 Made Harbor trip of Improvement Com with Geo deForest. 7 Darwin & Margaret home from Calif. – Hawaii. Jas, Dorothy & I to Peace Bridge dedication. 6-19 Laura home. 8 George Barton’s eightieth birthday. Dinner party there. 18 Grandma 82. Party our house. 11 CMH home. 15 Jas & Dorothy at our house during overhauling theirs, until near end Sept. 17 Fire in boiler. 19-20 Wright here. 28 Mother & I to Third Church in eve to hear James read. Mother last CS Ch in Bfo 7/4/20. 31 Mother & Miss H to Lake Placid Club. Home again Oct 9th well. 17th Severance, Simpson & I motored to Boyd & Parker Shrine dedication pageant Cuylerville September. McChesney painted exterior Jewett Pkwy Frequent trips to country house, progressing apace. Dorothy at LP Club ten days. October, 1927. 2nd Dinner with four children and Mrs Wende on verandah. Temp 83° official [ ] Hottest city in North. 3rd Birthday dinner to Darwin at Margaret’s table. Jas & Dor. present. 4 In Balt. to see B&O Centenary pageant 5 In NY. Shopping for new house. Belasco Theatre in eve on pass from [ ] A Curry. 6 To Glen Falls to NY State Hist. Assn annual mtg. Elected trustee at morning meeting before I arrived. Motored with Leonard Giles of Troy to “Stone House” of Mr Loomis on Lake George. Called on Taits. He away. At eve meeting I read paper written by an absent member. 7 To Ticonderoga fort and state headquarters building. Meeting at Hotel Queensbury in eve. 8 With Mr & Mrs Horace Reed to pageant, Battle of Saratoga SesquiCentennial, four governors spoke. To Utica 11 am 9 to Clayville. Walked my mother’s funeral route. Home eve. 24-27 Mother, Grandma, Aunty Marmy Miss Herrick motored Toronto. King Edward Hotel. All enjoyed trip. 21-22 I with Darwin & his family motored to New Haven Army Yale game. Train eve to Boston, Hotel Belleview. 23 Mother Church. Walked U S Hotel dinner. Supper with Mr & Mrs McKenzie. 74 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 24-25 Bussed with Am Civic Assn luncheon. 24th Hawthorne Hotel sale. Tea Mrs. Henry Tarder[?] Cambridge. Mr McKenzie dined with Assn, my guest. 25 Prof and Benj Prory[?] dinner guests 26 Bus to Prov., R.I. Hotel Biltmore 27th noon to Spgfld, Hotel Kimball. 28 Cown[?] valley Greenfield two routes All glorious weather. Night train to Bfo. November. 2 Barcalos to dinner 4 Great flood Vt & all Conn valley 8 Dorothy gave dinner to two generations Barcalos Montgomerys Martins = 16 9 We had old neighbors to dinner = 15. December. Mother is so well, no discomfort. Very happy holidays. Grandma & Marmy to San Antonio Dec 2nd [or 7th ]– month earlier than usual On Mother’s initiative, began endowment U of B chair of mathematics $100.000 by first of ten annual $10.000 payments. January, 1928. 1 Usual family dinner. 2 Country Club dinner with whole Barcalo family as guests. 12 Mother, Miss H and I attended concert of Kedroff Quartet (Russian) at 20th Century Club as guests Mr & Mrs Norman P Clement. 15th Mother Miss H and I to Third Church in A.M. Also 22nd ; I to First C. in eves. 16 All to dinner Statler with Mr & Mrs LeSauvage. Elected director one year term Bfo Municipal Research Bureau. 29 P.M. To Chicago 30 Conference Blackstone Hotel with atty Alfred T Rogers Madison Wis, Dr Ferdinand Schevill, Ben E Page, WEM re FL Wright’s affairs. Am to loan 10 M on 2nd mtg on Taliesin. 30-31 To theatre with WEM February. 1 Matinee with Will Winnie Bernice. Belle, CMH by night train from Bfo to Chi Belle rose from week’s sick bed. 2 After 4 hrs rest we left noon [Pan ] Ltd Ill Cent. RR for N.O. 3 At N.O. Belle resting. Showed CMH some of N.O. Night train to Galveston 4-5 Hotel Galvez. Motored around city 5 I to First Ch. 5 Lv to San Antonio where ladies ar. AM 6th I to Hotel Tennyson Houston. 6 Saw Houston RR 10 am to 5 PM to S.A. 7 Motor tour 200 yr old Spanish Missions. A tower I ascended fell Mch 9. At Hotel Menger 4 wks. Called on Jas Carson Neely old Mt Ayr schoolmate, blind, a successful chiropractor. Many motor trips in and about S.A. Walked. 15 alone to Corpus Christie 16 Bus to Brownsville irrigated booming Rio Grande valley El Jardin Hotel 17 Mts around Brownsville Fort Brown Matarnoros Mex 22 Our gift $100000 to UB. Announced in Bfo papers March. 6 Alone to Austin 7 Fort Worth Dallas IRM train We left train together Benton Ark. Motor to Hot Spgs Ark Hotel Arlington. 26 hours there. 9 IRM train to Chicago 10 Hotel Drake Chicago Bo’t furniture for Graycliff. 11 WEM and all family to dinner. 12 [ditto marks under “Bo’t furniture”] 13 Home 18 Ethel deLong Zanda at died Pine Mt. 28 Will H Crittenden died. 75 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 31 To Cazenovia to his funeral. April, 1928. 2 At Cinti Hotel Sinton in conference with Mrs Holton V.R and Miss Wells of Pine Mt School. 7th IRM & DDM to Graycliff first time since last fall. 22 I NY Hotel Roosevelt, rained all day. Conference with Miss Angela K Melville, engaged her for successor to Miss Zanda on 2 yr term, also Charles Stelzher[?] about book he has undertaken to write on taxation of Churches[?] 23 at Syracuse on Crittenden estate. I am administrator. 26 train to Cinti 27 Seeing Cinti Night to Pineville Ky 28-30 Meeting of trustees Pine Mt School at school May. 1 In Cinti. 2 Bfo. 9-23 IRM at Lake Placid Club June. 5 Dr J E Gregg Pres Hampton Inst. spent day with me. 20[?] Motored to Toronto, W R Heath & H A Bull also as my guests. Business Bloor Bldg 2nd mtg. Dinner returning Village Inn Grimsby. Home 11.30 P.M. 25 Contract for steel stairs Graycliff beach to lawn $2212 July, 1928. 1 DDM George & Delta in car 7 A.M. Batavia breakfast. Bartons to John Barton’s near Memphis. I lunched late at Syracuse. Dinner and night Cazenovia Baptist Ch. in eve. 2 Visited cousin Albert Martin Georgetown. Mrs. Avery Shed’s conference at Caz. with A E Fitch atty, Doremus & Hackley appraisers for Cruttenden estate 3 Motored home, Bartons also. Home 6.15 P.M. 17 Wright Simpson called. 19 Darwin & Marg gave dinner at Country Club to Laura and families = 15. 20 IRM 21 DDM to Graycliff. 20-30 Jas & Dor also. 25 I slept in Jewett Pky 21-23 Bartons inc Laura out to Gry 22 Fifteen to dinner at Wanakah Club. Supper at Graycliff. 24 Wright Simpson & Mrs S to Graycliff dinner 27 to see Jewett Pky 30-31 Miss Melville at Dorothys August. 12 Barcalos to dinner Graycliff 15 Temp. 91° 16 We to dinner with Barcalos at Idlewood Club. 10 WEM broke right arm twice. September. 10-12 At Chicago Congress Hotel Single Tax conv. WEM attended. Arm nearly healed. 20 Paul A Harsh overnight at Graycliff which he suggested the name for. 26-28 At Watertown NY Historical Assn annual mtg. Met Charles Persons Marshall and dau. Mrs. F T McLaughlin 153 Flower Av formerly Cazenovia. He made photo of Aunt Emeline on porcelain 29 Met car with Bartons at Syracuse. To Cazenovia until Oct 2. 30 To Clayville Family left Graycliff for season. October, 1928. 1 IRM to Lake Placid Club. 2 In car to Bfo 266 miles. Saw Cousin Lyman Martin at Durhamville en route 3 Dr. Haynes of Keuka College called at office to offer me place on Board of Trustees. Declined. Troubled by carbuncle on hip thro Oct & Nov Treated by Dr George T Cook. Kept at work. 23 Sent one hundred dollars to Republican National Committee for Herbert Hoover. 76 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM November. [blank] December. 3 Grandma & Marmy to San Antonio. Home Apr 13. 13-15 IRM, CMH & I to Toronto King Edward Hotel. Motored. 23 – Jan 2 Eda B Morey house guest. 25 Usual Christmas at home. 27-28 DDM to Toronto, R.R King Edw Took over Bloor Bldg under 2nd mtg. Paid off first mtg by borrowing $600M from M & T Trust Co $230M without, $370M with collateral. January, 1929. 1 All family and all Barcalos to Country Club dinner 14 Rain over whole U S. 12 Interesting luncheon Foreign Policy Assn which I habitually attend: Spkers John Bakeless Dr Jas T Shotwell 25 to Albany midnight train. 26 A M Attended my first meeting of trustees of N.Y. State Historical Assn. To Syracuse at noon. P.M. Met A E Fitch of Cazenovia and Judge Coley of Oneida at Hotel Onondaga on business of Cruttenden estate. 28 Dinner Bfo Club by S H Knox to Mngers of Soc. Nat. Sci. February. 6 Dorothy & Jas left for trip in Europe. 11 Sailed with Buick roadster, on Ausonia for Havre. 20th Landed 13 Brother George Field Barton died suddenly in A.M. 14 Laura and George DeForest here. Met them 7.30 AM 15 Funeral. First burial in our lot in Sec H Forest Lawn. 17 Incipient carbuncle punctured by Dr Cook, artery cut. Nurse Thelma G Theobald called, remained until April 13. Stubborn low fever persisted several weeks. Blood analyses Dentist surveyed all teeth. Drew three in Apr. Rather enjoyed attention of all doctor and nurse. 22 Bad throat. Delta to Swarthmore. March. Did my office work at home. No church attendance betw. Feb. 17 & Apr 21. Light diet of fruit juices and vegetables Throat, nose and tonsils treated. April, 1929. 10 Fever ended. 15 Resumed work at office daily until May 8th 13 Nurse left. 21 Isabelle with me to First Church of C.S. for first time since July 4th 1920. Again May 4th. Darwin bought 800 West Ferry St and planned apartment house. Total rainfall 4.73 inches. Highest on record. May. 6 Pledged 1 M yrly 5 years Anti Sal. League 6 eve. While seated reading, slight, needle-like numbness in right leg and arm, lasting decreasingly for several wks (Told Drs And nurse but not family) 8-10 Belle CMH motored to L.P. Club 8 nt train to Cinti Dr Jus F Krill as my guest 9 Music festival, all Wagner matinee Schuman Heinck. Birthday dinner to Mrs C Celia Holton also. 10 Reached Pine Mt Schl at noon. Trustees mtgs eve, 11 A.M. 12 P.M. 12 Spoke in Chapel on Gratitude. 13 “by nag” to Line Fork Settlement, Dr K & Mrs Holton also 14 over mt. to train. 15 “seeing” Cinti 16-17 Office 17 mt [motored] to L.P. Club 21 All motored to Kingston Hotel La Salle 22 Toronto, boil on head lanced 23 Home Nurse back. Dr J Paul Deneen called. 77 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 24 At Gen Hospital. Dr Then[?] Wright operated. 25 Home. June. 3 Delta ret’d to living alone. 14-18 Frank Lloyd Wright & family here. 15 W. & Delta to Graycliff. 21 Belle moved to Graycliff. 22 DDM ditto. 24 To office. July, 1929. 16 Luncheon to Mr & Mrs A H Whitford on their departure for ‘Round the World tour. 400 attended. Purse 14 Jas & Dorothy landed ex Caronia NY & phoned. 15 Nurse left case, all boils on head on left side. She kept to do dressings. 16 5.30 P.M. Jas & Dor drove in Graycliff. 22 Dinner to them. Boil started lasting 3 wks, Dor. dressed it. 28 First Sunday dinner since Feb 3rd with the four children. 15-29 Laura with her mother, sometimes, Graycliff 20 Dr Ferdinand Schevill and Benj E. Page of Chicago to office, Larkin office after hours, to Jewett Pkwy and dinner at Graycliff. 29 Graycliff evergreen Garden, stoneseat begun. Dead black oak removed. August. 12 7.30 A.M. A very perceptible earthquake lasting 12 seconds. Some damage at Attica. 20-26 George & Laura at Graycliff 27 Geo & I to Toronto to Exhibition. Some fatigue. September. McChesney painting. 8 Mr & Mrs Henry P Fink to dinner. 18 All morning judging back-yard playgrounds. Lake Shore Assn dinner and annual mtg at Hunt Club 20 Withdrew $100 M spcl partnership from OB P.S. and paid M&T loan. 21 Elected Treas. Perm. Fund. Soc. Nat. Scs. 22 G M Kirby to Geneva to Sullivan pageant 28 Belle & CMH by train to LP Club. WEM arrived A.M. NY Life Ins Co declined loan to Bloor Bldg 24 WEM Delta and I by motor to Geneva for lunch with Charles and Julia Martin at Hotel Lafayette. Dinner at Cazenovia, Mrs Morey guest. Lincklaen House. Acquired map Madison Co 1857 with Father’s name on 25 Bouckville, Cassville - Miss Sarah Flint. Sauquoit Val. Cem. Newport being developed Waterville. Geo Jr Rep. Mark Twain Hotel Elmira. 25 Eve mtg NY State Historical Assn. Other mtg 26 26 All motored to Horsehead Painted Post Watkins to unveiling of Sullivan monuments. 26 Lunch Watkins 28 Pageant Mark Twain Park [S ] Geneva. 29 Home. Small boil operated on. October, 1929. 2 car to L.P. 1 WEM to Oh 3 Margaret gave family dinner Darwin’s birthday. He greatly distressed by Stock Market but worse fol. 24 to 31 and Nov 11-13 panics. All phoned Mother. 4-7 At Graycliff. 6 Anna Martin, niece, died. 10-12 Light’s Golden Jubilee, semi-centennial Edison incandescent lamp. 13 To church, first since May 4. 16-17 Belle motoring home. 18, 25 Boils operated on. 19 to Graycliff 20 to G. with all children. Lovely days. 27th ditto. Mrs. Shipman at G. 78 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 26 Party at Grandma’s. 27 Edward B. Harvey died. November. Anxious days because of Stock Market panics. Inoculations by Dr Deneen that ended boils. 21 Bloor Building Ltd. incorporated. [printed article attached:] “Anniversary: Monday, October 29, will be the fifth anniversary of the great Wall Street collapse and the ‘official’ beginning of the depression. After nearly two weeks of steady shrinkage in October, 1929, marked by two especially black days – October 24 and 28 – the bottom fell out on the 29th. Total dealings on that day exceeded 16,000,000 shares, with a total loss in estimated market value of all securities of $15,000,000,000. The panic was on.” December. 1929 remembered as the year of the great stock market boom and the bursting of the bubble to ruining so many. Income 1929 $140M of wh. $48 ½ M from OB P.S Spcl partnership. 28 Paid off M&T loan $600M during year. Metropolitan Life Ins Co. loaned $400M on Bloor Bldg finished. January, 1930. 11 Remington H Parker at office to tell of trip next month to Jamaica. 21 Died at Genl Hospital. 15-22 Belle & CMH NY Hotel Barclay 111 E 48th. 23 Mrs James Forsyth Foster Sr, , James’ mother, died at Hartford Conn in Mary’s home 25 Funeral from Jas & Dorothy’s home Bfo. 29 Dinner at CJ Hamlin’s studio to Museum Nat Science Mngrs. February. 14 James and Dorothy adopted girl born Jan 31. March. 11 Baby arrived home in Bfo from N.Y. and named Margaret Reidpath Foster “ Marget.” April, 1930. 6 Dorothy announced her pregnancy. 21, 26 Belle to Graycliff May. 3 Ice gone from lake 3 I to Graycliff 1st time since Oct. 10 At G. lunch So Terrace. 14 Dinner to Dr Wm John Cooper U.S. Com. Education. Noteworthy address. 15 Darwin opened brokers office: Martin and Company 15 Court St. 54 floral offerings. 5/26/32 closed 3/30/33 7’c [?] % creditors 19 Luncheon Municipal Research Bureau 29 Met Dr Gardner G. Anthony of Principies[?] Schl at Mr. Pennypacker’s. Good address. June. 7 Mother, Miss H, I, Jas & Dorothy with Margt to Graycliff for summer. 10 Heard, at 20th Centy Club Martin L Davey on “Trees” 18 First luncheon Com. of 300 on 1932 Centennial Celebration. Formed Hambleton Co Ltd Toronto gasoline stations. July, 1930. 8 1st mtg Bfo Centennial Com of 300. 10 to Ithaca by RR At George Jr Republic 35th anniversary. At Republic Inn. 11th Motored home with Sheldon Baker of Jamestown in his car. 14 Grand niece born, Judith Ann, daughter to Everett K and Muriel Martin Much croquet all summer. Home all Saturdays (Graycliff) August. 4 Gave and sent 1916 Pierce Arrow touring car to George Jr Republic 7 Attended Bfo Club luncheon given by Fred D. Corey to Col. Chas H Morgan [Morrow] Commandant Fort Niagara 79 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 11-12 Temp 50°, a “record”. 13 James R Lamb of Miss. called. He was L Co mngr at Memphis Tenn. 19-21 Motored to Toronto taking Delta, George & Laura. Visited Bloor Bldg, Hambleton Co. Ltd [Je to dinner at [Ki ] [ ] Hotel Rooms at Royal York 22 Jas Dorothy & Marget to city home 29 to Sept 3 Jas & Dor to Gclf 31-Sep 1 Darwin Marg to G. September. 7, 27-28 Darwin Marg to Gclf. 14 Jas & D. to Gclf 9 Munic. Research luncheon 10 Motored Graycliff to Watertown 260 m. Record for IRM. 11 to L.P. Club. 14 night DDM to Bfo by train. 15,16 at Dorothy’s. 17 To Chicago with Delta by RR Hotel LaSalle on business of foreclosing a mortgage. 22 Home to Dorothy’s. 23 IRM home by auto to Graycliff. 24 DDM to G. 24 Trip to NY Historical Assn annual mtg cancelled by slight illness. McChesney doing interior painting Jewett Pkwy. ] Melville October, 1930. 2 Returned to Jewett Pkwy. Board mtg Historical Soc. 4-5, 11-13 At Graycliff. Dinners Wanakah Club. 10 Re-elected to Board Mngers 3 yrs Natural Science Museum. 15 Centennial Com. Luncheon. 19 Marget’s first visit to 125 Jewett Pkwy. 4" snow at Graycliff, Angola, etc. 23 Barcalos to dinner. Dorothy out frequently to dinner and “500” 24 Bot’ Amer Wild Flowers $500, Last book buys for years to come. November. 5 Appointed on Nom. Com. & Chrm. Edctn. Musm. Sci. 9 Delightful long Indian summer – result of nation-wide drought began 11 Darwin Martin Foster born 8.45 P.M. at Children’s Hospital Bryant St Bflo. They call him “Dary” Thanksgiving at 125 Jewett. Marget radiant. December. Two dinners in Dec at Saturn Club of Research Bureau on School Survey. 17 IRM with me to see “Paris Bound” amateur players 18 Dinner at home to Mrs Northrup, Mrs Webray, Mr & Mrs Jas Cosby[? ] Miss Bathie Stewart of Auchland NZ 19-Jan 4 Eda B Morey guest 19 Delta to Swarthmore 25 Christmas as usual at home. Dary’s first visit. 26 and Jan 4 Barcalos to dinner and cards. January, 1931. 1 Country Club dinner to Barcalos and their children, Dorothy and James. Miss Harriett Wood here in forenoon. 5 C.S. lecture at Elmwood Music Hall 6 Born: Donna Althea Mann to Lois & Edward Mann 12 Mother to hear with me, Budapest quartet, Teachers Col. 22 Lecture at Historical Soc. on Constantinople Baungart[?] 24 Delta home with Laura. 23-30 City Planning luncheons 26 Dinner Nat Sci Assn Board at CJ Hamlin 27 Dr. Frank H Severance, Secy Bfo Historical Soc & neighbor died. February. 11-15 Home with a cold. Read “In Quest of the Perfect Book”. Read aloud “Domby and Son.” Greatly enjoyed. March. 80 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 6 Lecture Nat Sci. Mus. on Arctic by Donald B Macmillan. 10 Concert with G M Kirby Violin Arthur Spalding. Movies: Cimarron, with Edith Parker; Moby Dick, Jas Foster. Read aloud to Mother: Domby and Son. 2 Marget and Dary were baptized 4 P.M. in Children’s Chapel Church of Good Shepherd new font first use, contributed one-half by IRM. Darwin and Margaret, Mary Collins, godparents. April, 1931. 2 See March. 14 Grandma and Marmy home from San Antonio. Declining stock market. 18 To Graycliff, first in ’31 lunch at Wanakah Club. 9 Temp. 3-5 P.M. 76°. Several days summertime 17 Luncheon Research Bureau Read aloud “A Lantern in Her Hand” Lovely spring. May. 2 Again to Graycliff. Carried lunch. 26 To G. 2 Foster family called. Dary’s first visit to G. 11 Marget’s first steps at home. 17 ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ Jewett Parkway. I saw her. Had moving pictures of Pine Mt School. 19 Amateurs “Man and Superman” Mr Darwin to dinner and play. 13 Sent car to Niagara with Helena Mills John Secy English Speaking Union 14 Rotary Club, Prof H L Lutz Princeton 30 IRM Miss H and I to G for summer. Foster family called. June. 2 Honorary bearer at funeral of old neighbor Clark Holmes Timmerman 3 Luncheon Athletic Club of Soc of Natural Sciences. Mtg. Bfo Historical Society. Stuyvesant granted loan by Erie Co. Savs. Bank of $500.000 Revoked later, Aug 5 5 Grace Winyard Meek died. Last of Winyards, Lincoln Neb, my step-sister 12 Luncheon Research Bureau 19 J & Dor. moved to G. 23 Mtg Board Historical Soc at building. 24 Rochester; conference on City Planning. Slept & breakfast with the Van Berghs. 25 To Graycliff with them in their car. 26 They returned to Roch. 29 Luncheon City Planning Assn. 22 Chrm Spcl. Com. Mus. Sci. on Hayes Lectures. July, 1931. 5 George S. Buck died 10 Mrs. J. H. Isham died [inserted above July; may have been for June] 12 To church 14 Luncheon Ch. of Com. to Philp & Heath Waid [?] Jr 26 Hambleton Co Ltd Toronto sold out with 150% profit on investments, 25% on assets. 28 Family party afternoon and to dinner. 31 Louis Wright Simpson died Pasadena Calif. August. 2 Mr & Mrs W F Will to supper. 4 Walter Platt Cooke died. 15 Took Charles Stelzle to Chautauqua Assembly. Heard Symp orchestra & choir in Elijah 16 Dinner at Mrs Dold’s. Mischakoff chamber music. Drove to Graycliff in one hour & thirty five minutes. 20-22 All at Jewett Pky 22 Delta and Laura with us at Graycliff. They to Phil at night. 118 Summit Ave vacated. 24 Dorothy to Chicago. 28 Receiver appointed for Stuyvesant. September. 81 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 3 20 15 30 29 Dorothy home from Chi. James Roger Brown died Dinner at Wanakah Club given by Lake Shore Assn. Mother & Miss H. also attended. Luncheon of Directors of City Planning Assn. ¨ Bfo Symphony Soc. Trustees. October, 1931. 3 Luke Harvey to Graycliff for call to bid goodby before sailing to join [ ] at Milan Italy. 1 Attended board meeting, Bfo Historical Society. 12 Attended a session of Adult Education Conference at State Teachers College on Museums 9-10 George Tait to Graycliff overnight. 10 First frost 1 1 To church. 13 Dorothy and family left Graycliff for season. 14 Luncheon City Planning Assn to L. H. Wier of Natl Recreation Assn 10 Dinner Mrs Hedstrom to Dr. Laurence P. Jacks of Nat’l Recreation Assn 12 A meeting addressed by Dr Jacks at 20th Cent. Club. I paid expenses. 20 City Planning luncheon 22-29 Trip in auto to Trustees meeting Pine Mt Schl. Did 478 miles on 22. November. 1 Closed Graycliff 5-10 Auto trip to Swarthmore to visit Delta, Laura & George in new home. Belle fell on stairs 6 A.M. 7th after arrival, keeping her in bed thro my stay. Drove home, 447 miles on 10th. 23 Second luncheon of Centennial Com. 200 present at Statler. 24 Belle home quite well C.S. 24 Luncheon, Municipal Research Bureau Statler 26 Thanksgiving at Darwin’s. 16 present. Babies came later. First one without Delta. Gave photo to Sci Museum for Coll. Bd. Mgrs. December. 2 Annual mtg Bfo Cy Planning Assn. Mtg Lecture Com of Church 4 Dinner at Museum of Science 70th anniversary. 10 Off Harris Co board of directors. 11 Recreation Com Planning Assn. Mr & Mrs Will to dinner. 17 C.S. lecture [J? ] Randall Dunn Statler at noon. 18 Dinner Research Bureau Saturn Club 25 Breakfast Dorothy’s. Dinner to 15 home. Mother well. 29 Dinner to Jean Wardrop, Mr & Mrs D L Johnston, etc Letting Darwin read diaries of the ‘80s. 31 To Graycliff in A.M. one hour, no snow yet. January, 1932. 5 Harriet Crutchfield of Sewickley Pa 2 yrs at P.Mt. [Pine Mt.] at dinner –dau. of J..S.C. whom we made trustee of Pine Mt at Oct mtg and whom I met at his office in Pittsburg Oct 29th 14 Annual mtg Mngrs Historical Soc. Mtg trustees of Blind Assn. 18 Re-elected Director Research Bureau. 19 Luncheon Ex. Com. Allied Forces for Prohibition 27-28 Attended lectures by Col Raymond Robins and Dan’l A. Poliny. Also luncheon to Poliny 26 Pleasant eve at CJ Hamlin’s Socy Nat’l Sciences Mngrs and staff 25 Dinner by Research Bureau re reduce taxation. 23 Geo Rand assured me my bonds over 100 M transferred from OB P. C. % Darwin [ ] February. 21 Finished aloud “Our Mutual Friend”. 22 Began “Little Dorrit”. IRM enjoys Dickens. Also read aloud recently “Jungles Preferred” by Janet Miller. Finished “Dorrit” Apr 16. 23 Mr & Mrs JDL Jr to dinner. 20 Mother & Dorothy with me to Teck matinee to see “House Beautiful”. Mother last previous to regular theatre Jan 9 1926 26 Research Bureau luncheon 82 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM March. 3 Historical Board mtg 4 Declined to renew YMCA annual subscription. 8 Lecture Dr Flick State Historian on Sullivan Campaign. Research luncheon. 10 Blind Assn mtg. 14 Chamber music Jack deForest with me. 21 To dinner at JDL for Barcalos 22 Lecture by M McWilner[?] “Niagara Frontier”. 30 My mother born 100 years ago today. April, 1932. 1 The Barton house to be rented from this date to F.J. Copley at $100 per. mo. 12 Historical lecture A C Parker Romance Indian Days. 14 Blind Assn mthly mtg. 15 Geo Rand reversed his Jan 23 statement. My bonds are still held as collateral to OB P. Co loan. 21-25 Jas & Dorothy motored to and from Swarthmore 421, 420 miles one day each way. 23 M & T Trust Co called my loan of 35 M. Must sell collateral. 26 Lecture Historical Bldg by Clarise[?] Bonner May. 5 Historical Soc Board meeting 9 C.S. lecture Scholfield 10 Studio Players Pygmalion with Hal Puffin 12 Blind Assn mtg Darwin in NY 12 Grandma gave family dinner 16 Research Bureau lunch 17 Planning Assn luncheon 18 Heat main fell in pergola basement, pulling all other pipes down cost $480¯ 21 103 miles with IRM & CMH Niagara Co fruit Apple blossoms. Lockport 24 Luncheon, Museum Science at Dac.[?] 26 M.C. closed[?] 26 To Graycliff for summer. June. 2 Historical Board mtg. Failed in effort to borrow $40 M on Jewett Pkwy. 13 Studio Players with Hal Puffin. Night-Jewett Pkwy 17 David Lorimer Johnston died 18 Picnic luncheon at Parker farm, Versailles 21 Fire boat tour Harbor 28 Moved office from Marine Trust Bldg to basement 17 Court St reduced expenses $40 mo. Mary Foster Collins and her four children to Idlewood ‘til July 22 17 Submitted to U.S. lien on Jewett Pkwy. It was recorded and published Feb 1933. July, 1932. 1 Parade Bfo Centennial & Dedication City Hall. 2-Aug 7 Delta at Graycliff 30-Aug 7, 9-10 Geo and Laura 4 CMH gave luncheon to family party 14 Wanakah Club 5 First family picnic Chestnut Ridge Park. Signed renunciation as co-executor David’s will of 18 yrs ago 12 Barcalos dinner 13 Mr & Mrs W E Will dinner 21 Motored 136 m. Franklinville 22 Family dinner 31 Forbes, gardener lvs August. 4 In George deForest’s car, with him alone to Jamestown picnic luncheon Chautauqua Lake 1 and 6 Family picnics at Chestnut Ridge Park 17 to Sept 4 IRM in bed with “shingles”. 23 Studio Players 83 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Chrm. Specl. Com. on Printing Museum of Sci September. 12-16 Lawsuit with H A Bull 10 10 Wm R Heath ill. 27 He died. October, 1932. 2 WEM here. Kirby’s to supper. 4 7 am Will and I started in Pierce for Southampton L.I. At Livonia car had great jolt a/c weak shock absorbers injuring me acutely. Sciatic nerve. At 11 am saw cousin Chas.W. Martin in at Geneva. Luncheon Cazenovia Saw Eda Morey Night [O ts] 5 Bkfst Delhi, over Bear Mt Bridge after Catskill Mts, Bronx Park Extension to Colley Pt Ferry, [N ] at Huntington L.I. 6 To Hampton Manor at S from hurst[?] 6 Bfst 9.00 7 To Montauk Point via Sag Harbor, 8 East Hampton[?] to hear “Clari Maid of Milan” 6-8 NY State Histor mtgs 9 Prospect Pk & Greenwood Brooklyn Manhattan Bridge to NY Saw lower NY. Holland Tunnel Princeton Swarthmore with Delta Laura George 11 to Wellsboro 12 3 pm Graycliff & to bed 1492 miles trip. 21, 26, 28 office. November. 1 From now to office daily. 1-3 Closed Graycliff. 7 Hearing in N.Y. involving 43M 1926-7 Federal Income tax 12/7 Decision adverse 1 Historical lecture, Niagara lands[?]. December. 1 Paid Foster’s rent 800 W. Ferry 18 mos. 7 Anl [annual] mtg BCPL Assn Mtg, several associations during month. 28 Asked Bfo Savings Bank 50M loan which was declined. 26 IRM dinner to family of 15. 27 Grandma and Marmy to San Antonio Tex for winter. January, 1933. 2 IRM dinner to family of 12. Many civic assn luncheons and meetings. Tightening of money and my resources all winter. Official weather especially warm & pleasant. Lake open. February. 3 train to Phla. 4 A.M. with George deForest. Rest of day at Swarthmore. 5 To church at Swarthmore. Day with Delta Laura and Geo until 5 P.M. train D and O Chester to Wash D.C. Hotel Driscoll Visited Library Congress. 6 Before Board Tax Appeal with M E Young Casper Wyn and F J Maguire Bfo. To Bfo night train. Case on overchg NY Oil Co. in Fed Income Tax report 1928. 21 Lecture First Ch. edifice – John Ellis Sedman, L.A. Calif 8 Temp. -4° coldest since 1/27/27. March. 11 Moved office to 800 W. Ferry St in vacant space. 15 Rec’d Income Tax demand for 1930 addt’l 18M 25 A.M. drove with Mother to Graycliff. 26 Davidsons called. 26 M. Co. affairs closed up. 7 ½ % to creditors April, 1933. 84 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Reading “A Tale of Two Cities” together. 4 Motored in car of Fred [?] Evans of Roch to Pittsburg, left Jewett 8.40 am arrived Webster Hall 5.00 P.M. to Pine Mt School trustees mtg convening 5th, contg 6th 6 to dinner at home of J S Crutchfield Sewickley 7 9 A.M. – 8:30 P.M. to Bfo with Mr. Evans. Went via Erie Melville[?] ret. via Kittanning S [ ] Kane 15 Navigation opened 15 Delta here 13 Blind Assn mtg 17 Supreme Court denied review of Larkin Case. 48M no appeal. 29 Mtg Bfo Mgn’s Hotel Trustee May. 3 Delta to Swarthmore 11th Monthly mtg Trustees Blind Assn 16 Mtg. Nominating Comm. Museum of Science 19 Luchn. Directors Munic. Research Bureau 23 Dinner without IRM at Mrs. Northrup’s. 26 Graycliff opened. 27 DDM Foster family to G. June. With F. D. Gridley to Country Gardens, E. Aurora. 29 Temp 96.6° record. July, 1933. 3 Historical Society meeting. 19 Dentistry. J. F. Place’s & G. M. Kirby’s to dinner at G. 28 Delta Laura George vacation at Graycliff. August. 3 2 months drouth[sic] broken. 4 To Alleghany State Park with George P.M.[?] Wm. drove us. 7 Delta Laura & Geo. to Swarthmore At office Mondays Weds. & Fridays during summer. September. 1 Annual mtg. & dinner Lake Shore Assn Wanakah Club. IRM CMH & DDM attended. 13 Motored cemetery Wmsville. War 1812. 22 Lchn. Research Bureau at 12.30. At 4 o’clock Mtg. City Planning Assn to inspect Schl. #4 and Lannigan Park Playground . 28 Walked beach to McNulty Place – back via highway. Sept. 30 Sat. Foster family returned to city 28 Lovely ltr. from Saadi Kellogg. Wm. painted Graycliff house & garage. July, Aug & Sept. Read “Hard Times”. October, 1933. 4 City Planning luncheon at BAC 3 & 4 Carrie & Ida at Graycliff overnight. 12 Blind Assn Mtg. 13 IRM planted 5 white, 6 Austrian Pines in n.w. corner front lawn at Graycliff. 19 To Chicago World’s Fair. 7.45 train. Will & Everett met me. 5.30 P.M. 20 Will & I all day “Century of Progress”. 21 At Will’s. Daisy & Eddie called in eve. 22 At First Ch. Oak Park. Dinner supper with Bernice & Edston. Everett & family at supper. 23 In Loop all day. 24 With Winnie & Everett at Fair. 25 At Fair with Will. Snowed. Birthday dinner & cake at Winnie’s. Visited the Mann’s & children. 26 All day train ride home. Belle closed Graycliff in afternoon. All at Jewett at night. 27 At office. November. 2 Historical Society mtg. 85 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM 4 Dinner of Martin-Foster family at Darwin’s. 6 Foster family to Jewett Pkwy. Their Apt. sub-rented furnished. 11 Mother & Dorothy to Swarthmore by day train. 18 Home p.m. 21 “Devil’s Disciple”, IRM, DDM, Jas & Dorothy. 24 Attended Munic. Research Bureau dinner at Saturn. 25 Dar., Marg. to Ga.[?] 30 Thanksgiving dinner at Ted Wende’s 800 W. Ferry Dorothy, James, DDM, IRM & Reidpaths. To supper at 125 Jewett Pkwy. Jack deForest, his mother, Birdie & Alleen Stevens. 13 Dust storm. All glass coated 30 Snowfall month 18 in., three times normal. December. 6 City Planning meeting. 4 Darwin & Marg. Home. 9 All incl. IRM to Studio Plyrs. to see “First Mrs. Fraser”. 11 First trip to greenhouse since 1904 Isabelle returned empty handed. No flowers. 14 Historical Assn mtg 20 CMH away Nov 19 – Dec 20th . 23 Oscar S. Lang died. Orlando, Fla. Age 70 ½. He superintended all building at 125 Jewett. 25 18 at dinner Jewett Pkwy. 27 Reidpath’s to San Antonio. 29 Temp. 67°, record for any Dec. date. Day’s avg. -3°. 31 Mrs Wm P. Northrup invited 100 friends to hear a “colored” tenor, Clifford Lane at the Children Chapel, Church of Good Shepherd, thence to her home to a generous supper served by Hotel Statler. All very enjoyable and like pre-panic days. 14 Historical Assn. mtg. January, 1934. 1 New Year’s Day dinner at Mary Burns tea-room. Merged family – Frank Knapp $6. 4-7 Slight lumbago. 8 Death of Mrs. R. S. Beall 9 Annual meeting Bfo. Historical Assn. 11 Blind Assn. mtg & Historical Society meeting – annual. 19 Ruth Gridley Wright (nee Johnston) died in childbirth – boy living – Her mother Grace Roth Johnston sailed a week earlier on around-the-world trip. 22 To Ruth’s funeral. 28 James & Dorothy to N.Y., Hotel Tudor. 15 Munic. Research Annl. mtg, 15 City Planning mtg. lchn. At B.A.C. 23 House & Grounds Com. Historical Society February. 1 Historical mtg. 3 James home. 4 Darwin & Margaret in Stutz 8.15 a.m. – 9.30 p.m. to N.Y. via Albany. Barbizon-Plaza 5th Metropolitan Life. Satisfactory extension on loan obtained. Home 12. 5 Dorothy to Danbury. Hartford. Home 11th. 8 Blind Assn. 8 Temp -5°. 16 Munic. Research lnchn at B.A.C. 19 City Planning luncheon at B.A.C. 22 Saw “Little Women” moving picture. 23 Finished ‘Waverly’ first time ever. 26 Accepted in full $7200 for $18,839.29 collected by Marine Trust on collateral Loaned O’B. P.S. & Co. 27 Dinner at Darwin’s. 28 Dinner at J.D.L. Jr’s. Barcalo’s to dinner at Jewett Pkwy. [Typed insert:] Feb 1934 weather: - 11 sub-zero days. Avg. mean 11.6° which is -12.6° from normal and is the alltime low. 60 hours, 7th – 10th below zero. Minimum, all-time -20° on 9th. Maximum 44°. Snowfall 20.2 inches. 86 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM March. 1 Historical mtg. 2 Lawsuit vs. H.A. Bull settled in my favor. Receive $2,059. 5 City Planning luchn. B.A.C. 8 Annl. mtg, Blind Assn, Dr F. Park Lewis present. 16 Munic. Research luchn at B.A.C. 16 City Planning Mtg 4 p.m. 19 City Planning luchn at B.A.C. 18 Finished reading David Copperfield together. We read it first time about 1890. 19 Finished “Within This Present,” story of present depression. 21 8.30 Darwin motored me to Toronto. Margaret & Dootsie along. Arrived 1 pm. They to Bfo. leaving 5 p.m. Darwin getting penetrating survey of Bloor Bldg. Well impressed with all he saw & heard. 22-23-24 to 3 p.m. I busy with details. 24 James & Dorothy came, taking me home. Dinner at St. Catherine’s Cafeteria. 16 Office moved from 2nd to 1st floor, 800 W. Ferry. April, 1934. 2 Mtg. City Planning at B.A.C. Lchn. 2 o’clock at Mrs Boyd office. 5 Bd. of Mgrs. Mtg. at Historical Bldg 4 pm 12 Blind Assn mtg. 17 City Planning luncheon at B.A.C. 20 Munic. Research luncheon at B.A.C. 14 Chas. Dennison Kellogg (just discovered middle name) with 2 secretaries, Helen & Bernice Hansen here in Caravan with living quarters. Ford V-8. 15 a.m. with IRM took them to Graycliff. Darwin etc. to dinner. 16 Took C.K. etc. to Ft. Niagara, Queenston, Niagara Falls, (Luncheon Foxhead Inn) 17 9 a.m. party left – to Clifton Spa. 17 IRM CMH to Graycliff. May. 3 Mtg Mngrs Bfo Historical Soc 3 Marmy to Crile[?] Clinic Cleve CMH along. Grandma to Jewett Pkwy. 8 Jnt Charities 94.8 % subscribed. I nothing. Carried[?] dozen [?] tenants $81¯[?] below cost my share. 16 Geo Arliss Gridley guest 19 Pruning 3 hrs my limit. Hard winter Much shrubbery cut back. 26 Changeover 20 to 60 cycle NL[?] @[?] Graycliff 27 Attended funeral of Aunt Minnie Lewis 28 Moved to Graycliff. 29 Health Board Graycliff water “safe.” It is not potable June. 1 Marmy home. 2 Mary, Alta’s widow, died. 5-8 Mary Foster Collins at Graycliff. 7 Luncheon to 14 6 Constance[?] Harvey U S Vice Consul Miles [?] dinner 7 Glyn Morris here. Chas Kellogg “Bird Wing” overnight 10 Marmy requires [ ] [ ] c/c delicious 27 Can now prune all day with rest period. Severe winter-killing. Most roots alive. 30 Pd Graycliff tax $1,300. July 23 Recd $89 from a Kan farm for rent. July, 1934. 1 Y M Hotel Blind Assn meetings 9 Cath McDermid Nurse Darwin’s birth and to Isabelle and Nettie in 1898, now of Seattle and Pasadena, to dinner and all . 18 Geo Martin 2541 Lakewood Av Detroit wife & dau Jane 14 only child at Graycliff dinner. Nice. 23 Called Marmy 95 Highland. Saw Henry Fink in am 28 J. Cor. ch. Fair. 87 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM August. 2 Marmy to Graycliff 17 M. & Grandma ditto 3-14 Darwin & Marg. fishing September. 7 Delta came. 15 Biggs family to dinner 23 Night, to Pine Mt Trustees mtg. Oct 1, Home October, 1934. 4 Historical mtg. 11 Blind Assn mtg 11 Laura here 14 Darwin to Wash D. C. via motor 18 Birthday dinner Foster to Laura and us at Loranzo’s 19 Laura & Delta left [The following entries were in a different handwriting:] 17 IRM CMH Mrs Barton auto to Zoar Valley 24 I Graycliff to Jewett. Dinner to family at Grandma’s 26 Research luncheon at B.A.C. November . 1 Historical mtg. 12 of 20 members present. 8 Blind Assn mtg. 14 By auto via Welland to Toronto. IRM Miss Herrick returning. I at Alexandrus Palace. R.R. home 16th 15 Clear deed to Bfo-Phenix Corp. for Oak Park Property. 21 First treatment by Dr. Wm Berwig[?] December. [blank] No further entries 88 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Notes, newspaper clippings in the back of the diary: “SCHIEBER – In this city, Jan. 5, Annie Schieber, aged 21 years. Funeral Sunday from residence, 866 Seneca street, at 2 P.M., and from St. Stephen’s Church, corner Peckham and Adams streets, at 2:30. Friends and acquaintances invited to attend.” [“1887” written on clipping] “One of the pleasantest and happiest social events of the season was the celebration of the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bloomer in the parlors of the Delaware avenue M.F. Church last Tuesday evening. The parlors were beautifully decorated. At one end of the large parlor was a canopy of smilax, beneath which hung a large bell of autumn leaves and white carnations. In front of the canopy was suspended the figures 1839-1889 in white roses and carnations. A beautiful feature of the decorations was a monogram containing the letters B and F, Mrs. Bloomer’s maiden name having been Frear, in white rosebuds and carnations. Mrs. Bloomer wore a Directoire gown of golden brown armure silk, with a heavy brocaded satin front. The remembrances were numerous and beautiful. Among the gifts was $500 in gold from the Western Elevating Comp any with which Mr. Bloomere is connected. Nearly 500 relatives and friends congratulated Mr. and Mrs. Bloomer. Among those present from abroad were the Rev. J.W. Bashford, the Hon. D.C. Bloomer and Mrs. Bloomer of Council Bluffs, Ia, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Bloomer of Lodi, Mrs. D. A. Phillips of New York, Mrs. E. Keller of Albion, Mich., Prof. and Mrs. W. R. Prentice of Hornellsville, and Miss H. Nellie Martin of Auburn.” [anniversary on Oct 15, 1889]. “Tuesday Morning, January 11, 1887. [The Buffalo News p. 6] Real Estate Transfers. The following transfers of real estate have been filed for record in the County Clerk’s office since our last report: Hobart Weed and wife to Lucinda S. Oatman, Seventh and Connecticult streets, 132x50, $1. Adam Houck and John Eckhert to Charles Bayer and wife, Kingsley near Jefferson Street, 110x 23, $1,300. Adam Houck and John Eckhert to Ludwig Reinacher and wife, Kingsley Street near Jefferson, 110x25, $1,350. Marilla A. Allen, executrix for Wm. K. Allen, and Henry F. Allen for O. Allen, to Darwin D. Martin, Maurice and Seneca streets, 107x30, $1,160. Eugenia M. Hammond to Charles Hodge, Utica Street and Elmwood Avenue, 14 1/3 x 450, $1. The Michigan Street Land Association to Willis H. Mead, Northampton near Michigan Street, 136x32, $880. The Michigan Street Land Association to Katherine Businger, Northampton near Mastin Street, 143x31; also Masten near Easton Street, 125x28, $1,227. Annie C. Avery and others to Charles J. Hodge, Utica Street and Elmwood Avenue, 450x14 1/3, $1. William Hodge and others to Mary B. Purdy, Utica Street and Elmwood Avenue, 450x14 1/3, $1.” [typed note:] “COPPER ROOFS PITCH: - Pitch or Roofs to be covered with flat seam copper roofing should not be less than ½″ nor more than 3″ to the foot. Pitch of ribbed and standing seam roofs should not be less than 2″ and preferably 4 to 5″ to the foot. FINISH: Copper will develop verdigris in a few months due to natural phenomena. When it is desired to obtain a verdigris finish immediately it can be done by the use of one of the following methods; (a) Dissolve 10 parts copper in 2 ½ parts of strong nitric acid and then add 150 parts of 20% acetic acid and 5 parts of ammonia chloride. The resulting solution shall be diluted with about 3 parts water and applied to surface with a brush and allowed to dry. Sufficient applications at one or two day intervals shall be made until desired effect is produced. (b) Apply the following solution: 1 lb of powdered sal ammoniac to 5 gals of water; dissolve thoroughly and let stand 24 hrs. Apply to copper with a brush, covering every part. Let stand one day and then sprinkle surface with clean water. (c) Use a solution of ½ lb of salt to 2 gals of water. Apply in same manner. If a dark copper finish is desired it can be obtained by the following method: Rub off the copper with cotton waste soaked in boiled linseed oil. Touch up soldered seams with copper bronze. 89 �Transcript: Memo of Events, DDM and IRM Before applying coloring solution: Clean with a strong solution (4 to 6 oz pergallon) of soda in hot water. Wash this off with clean hot water.” [typed note:] “COPPER 10/17/27 To turn green, apply ammonia natrium with brush or spray. Leave over night, then ditto with 20% solution of sulphuric acid. Wright [penciled]” [written note on tissue paper:] “Items crossed off are entered in diary. Others not. E. 8/26/31” [written in pencil] Printing is same as that which occasionally appeared in diary. Entries are for dates in February 1930, March, and April 1-3. Illegible note “From LFM Aug 3, 1920” Typed note – same as entry for December, 1929. “1929 remembered as the year of the great stock market boom and the bursting of the bubble to ruining so many. “ 90 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Darwin D. Martin Family papers Subject The topic of the resource Martin, D. D. (Darwin D.), 1865-1935 ; Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) ; Herrick, Cora ; Martin, Darwin R. (Darwin Reidpath), 1900-1979 ; Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) Description An account of the resource This Digital Collection consists of transcripts and subject indexes of selected diaries and correspondence from the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/archives/ubar_ms0022_6.xml">Darwin D. Martin Family papers</a> held by University Archives. Created by Anita Mitchell, Darwin Martin House docent, these resources provide unparalleled access to Martin, his wife Isabelle, family friend Cora Herrick, and Darwin R. Martin. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-UA042 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transcription of Memoranda of Events in the Life of Darwin D. and Isabelle R. Martin, 1865-1934 Description An account of the resource Transcription of diary kept by Darwin D. and Isabelle R. Martin. An index to the diary is available as a separate document within this digital collection. Subject The topic of the resource transcriptions (documents) diaries Martin, D. D. (Darwin D.), 1865-1935 Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) Darwin D. Martin House (Buffalo, N.Y.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2016-06-08 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MS22.6_3_1_Transcription Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Darwin D. Martin Family papers (LIB-UA042) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives Language A language of the resource en-US Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Darwin D. Martin Family papers (MS 22.6) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 668 KB Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mitchell, Anita Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Martin, D. D. (Darwin D.), 1865-1935 Martin, Isabelle R. (Isabelle Reidpath) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/CNE/1.0/">COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED</a>. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber with bouquets of flowers Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-374 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/e76a53667381655c8bdcde0286af0856.jpg cf55b3d28a520ecd4cd488ab8fdf539a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in recital with unidentified accompanist Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-373 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/d7170a955a24249bd799fac47eab3e61.jpg 6dfc3a78e0a5b87f5dec91f13a31af28 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in recital with unidentified accompanist Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-372 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/051db107d201ca5e6bfd77d04d7d8c6e.jpg 988c88231417cd45b099a30b39cbd4f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in recital with unidentified accompanist Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-371 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/94f38bb620205861434db9725b01050a.jpg fdaa92a2f06158ff85fabdd99e89b294 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber on stage Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-370 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/6016a7e3c9a6575d1e11669066df4ee9.jpg 4e8483318ca44e346c6d7895852f2eae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber and unidentified accompanist taking bows Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-369 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/cac92eccc50701b5d0c14dbf72d84fcc.jpg 43dac6b5f8e8452bc4531a3683fc5ef6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in recital with unidentified accompanist Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-368 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/68e83e734f57f1c1aebdce6003a90b7b.jpg 76c54c1a885e842fb75c12a35f2d5f1d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in recital, pink dress Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-367 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/5920ad410179f53a0f43a62c27f0002c.jpg 3a381cf1972a8e48199b28399bcf6516 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in recital, pink dress Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-366 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/fd451a1cad64422b8a19e798a55ae095.jpg 8fe65e765ac2b2911b5c60de7df52aab Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in recital, pink dress Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-365 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/11ec0c9c27424a061257e61e1b3346b1.jpg 0d779382a48fa3f5974349d119108883 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in recital, pink dress Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-364 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/af6ca632a6ceffceab2e66651770c483.jpg e4e8f944508938d1846b6b912dbf1f06 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in recital, pink dress Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-363 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/d71f9829c2cf12b03aecf915eded33e2.jpg 5ef77f0b3863fd779637bec9911ba24e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in recital, pink dress Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-362 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/c7169065ceacfafbaf73cd8d687d3b6a.jpg b43a73307aff35912bc8fa63611c14c5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in recital, pink dress Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-361 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/74ad2230fadb6360bc9afd48f2b0abbf.jpg 58c4a36b56f386b7b54de759fe21023b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-360 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/3cea0066dcd84c5ec5f341abdc848baa.jpg 5a7b6bc6292ef68fcb7efb8fd095bbcd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-359 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/6ac291581a13e9abb679faace5b15b22.jpg 3e12ecbefc1a957778a532f16dd57329 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra, bows Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-358 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/6b725941c944b0d4768fb7721e0a7e3e.jpg 221b8811ef0f0c6d4ce9ddbfe83fe7b1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra, bows Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-357 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/59b29ec165a29a4c8480745311e93e7c.jpg de2f8e7ced94204f0366ea8cd6581839 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra, bows Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-356 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/78d8a5affb33172c3474f0b96a88dafe.jpg 5c6af1d22b41cd5df90e49f43419748d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-355 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/bf750c8309dd127f7e33c465181961c3.jpg 3addd557c425669aab710a35fd3e12a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-354 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/c3e7459656ad18df9316441a983aa8fd.jpg a42abf5a1734d532bee251d65060850d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra, bows Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-353 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/e224fe9090eefb46cfa6db6f8a39684e.jpg f26024da1d6fa3cd0c25f41757ebf5f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-352 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/09c29782c89b4165672934ec0a666ae4.jpg b7ff5d98e4cac56f7b45611f6924f126 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-351 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/68f8070a2b5635bc4cd8cc36a9459a05.jpg 5a8e28e0d084ab2863cf2075a56c6e03 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-350 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/e712d16f54efedeb94d37078c04bf8f7.jpg 0f4630399816dadf87518f284d56c43a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber recital with orchestra Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-349 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/0b20241e8ca2b34d0fefa8c59b7a203c.jpg 2428f62dda0c2e07f4bfca616ba5425a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber as Marie from Wozzeck on stage Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-348 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/97867d2fc7be38b5ba8a29faa941f86e.jpg f14ad3e6b17f24c820d7fb1019f98b23 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber as Marie from Wozzeck on stage, bows Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-347 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/ba2a62e8c1cb0ea5c1b9e61dfdbf92b0.jpg dae3d3711e61f24ceaf9fcec51be1384 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber as Marie from Wozzeck on stage Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-346 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/a51cf69d13de74dd8b368a44add2038e.jpg 8e6b20bf22f1a6a6a919ee18ad238d05 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber as Marie from Wozzeck on stage, bows Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-345 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/2d60a0a7dbcc463f1bab5048d171250e.jpg a9b38304b5e34fedd20598da352abd4d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber as Marie from Wozzeck on stage, bows Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-344 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/25ccef15379f939be3ce2f3a1347c48c.jpg a2d3fac82bab58b3d7fc2dde2ebd0539 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber as Marie from Wozzeck on stage Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-343 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/d623756197b353b25a51766207f67053.jpg 50a8e604b3b592566506aeb3dd393ac8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber as Marie from Wozzeck on stage Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-342 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/01c1b1e58f1ae8e98837c73a80f6eab4.jpg 3dc2bbd4d278e4af7edc73ec8dcea31c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, husband Gordon Andrews, brother William Steber (far right), and company at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Andrews, Gordon Steber, William Charles, 1917-2002 Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-341 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/593b0c7433c8d516a675aab76c2f597f.jpg e90c29cef3ea65226e2aeea33ba9193d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, husband Gordon Andrews, brother William Steber (far right), and company at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Andrews, Gordon Steber, William Charles, 1917-2002 Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-340 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/b8b6e010c9e1c2c34f359c1e4ad2dbb2.jpg 7e2b2f3bcd6a3d3bc842bd3e39dced87 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, husband Gordon Andrews, brother William Steber (far right), and company at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Andrews, Gordon Steber, William Charles, 1917-2002 Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-339 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/453ca8fe0e5915cdec69ab0607739cac.jpg aaebb245aa233dcb3596c7e251d135c4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, husband Gordon Andrews, brother William Steber (right), at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Andrews, Gordon Steber, William Charles, 1917-2002 Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-338 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/6e12c1d8941e1d67b34efe0217cd6e04.jpg 49bdbb00abb2c4e5b0a0517f667c7713 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, husband Gordon Andrews, brother William Steber (right), and company at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Andrews, Gordon Steber, William Charles, 1917-2002 Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-337 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/b18ad2570b7087235032020771fdd7d9.jpg cb9d0f68c58ccca04232773c8066e709 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, Barbara Ann Conlogue, and a dog at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-336 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/0df8f004785f7f65d0c29ca52e4bc225.jpg 1e9beb084fb4eefeadc2c8724f9f4aea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, husband Gordon Andrews, brother William Steber (right), and others at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Andrews, Gordon Steber, William Charles, 1917-2002 Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-335 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/47aee95fe2ea4fee349bb1a02ca2ee92.jpg d7c0aa4d6cc6d4b8120c4311aaa7215d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber with unidentified man at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-334 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/64c304282b56458b5aea2f46f0abe75c.jpg 3832eb2a13b551528eedfa946b85e77d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber with Leonard Brownstein at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Brownstein, Leonard Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-333 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/ffcdc93e89a5346d9982266b9f77b9c9.jpg 2a18f8d0ac08e802f683fc5dd92afc0d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber with two unidentified women at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-332 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/37507214ca8d71e70936bdb546a2610b.jpg 05897652b67709b83f9610b2d275ec9c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, unidentified woman, child, and dog seated at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-331 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/a6c4a9418f39fa675a16c5752e8bc52a.jpg 98d5f3a5f5311bbd5b83c363eb916dc4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber with Margaret Ulmer (left), and an unidentified woman at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Ulmer, Margaret Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-330 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/29d559a0a6b7d6df96418f41f8003985.jpg 3c991a3adb43f272ac52af5dad397f9d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber and unidentified woman at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-329 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/1e81a2c84aa77a48ffd646a7d8e95ac4.jpg 55edb9c6b6fa24106b57a2d45c6bab79 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber and unidentified woman at a gathering at Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-328 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/ab4c522acfa11b9af7b763d26bea17a2.jpg d91d7c064781fc6f13c4f9dac2115d77 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, seated, on the patio at her home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-327 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/cf9a0e1ab2e65454caffb5a916e700c7.jpg f9a78646c48ad9b6b6406b070ca25d27 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Social gathering on the patio of Eleanor Steber's home in Port Jefferson, New York Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-326 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Port Jefferson (N.Y.) New York United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/8aae88a4761323e67b025a8ebcb0f820.jpg e9ba81c7c0f3f249d917be65086fd11d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Image of large oval-shaped painted portrait of Eleanor Steber Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-325 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/fc0420eaa7d8cbd1d7dd0671526ac036.jpg 28a13d0db13d314ca6ffd09a10d7eba3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Image too dark to identify content Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-324 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/ea2bfb99ea85aa87ac4577086706dd38.jpg 8d12037ea42edb7709bda2b945606941 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, with bouquet, performing in recital with unidentified accompanist Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-323 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/f2cce6fb53c893fc98143d94bfdb3f0f.jpg b3bb90a53e12e5a0906e23dda1f8bd2a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber performing in recital with unidentified accompanist Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-322 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/6dc8528d5c747a45f1f025c71b1a185f.jpg 7858f87defb3040b23f55863a502cd09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, with bouquet, performing in recital with unidentified accompanist Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-321 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/ee98f0dd8e0aac6a6167d8705f7bc28b.jpg 1e80451d2169fab0351dc13e61e97eb9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, holding bouquet, taking bow after recital Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-320 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/d9266eeda196372845ad04fbfceea2cd.jpg 7cbedcef7e79dff06a493bb20b441e5d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber performing in recital with unidentified accompanist Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-319 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/4cc1819c0b66c73085f291fd786a4423.jpg 970f79bcc5b17fa043a3e3eed294aa94 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber performing in recital with unidentified accompanist Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-318 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/c1c3bfaad9f1a9482ece28eadd651e70.jpg 73f18b034629de04a53a960f15bfd122 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber taking bow onstage Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-317 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/8fa9e8261f0fa3b5d9cabda8f832eca2.jpg 5dcfdfa5b767b98cac6ea115d507fcad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber performing in recital with unidentified accompanist Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-316 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/52b14c93a527178ef97fca6a9251360c.jpg 3b7923af066773245929de6e665f18f5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber with unidentified women at social event Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-315 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/66822cc5443440f48cbf0b4509e7e873.jpg b2f90c80524292b6243ac452a6c876e5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber near projector screen Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-314 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/c690a58c38b25a8a31569783ecbf01b2.jpg 244cc6163250af8e3c562ee6368d440e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber near projector screen Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-313 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/8163ae783823465426b9ba9ebf5d4bde.jpg 4ea8704be18501f14f3f4c31fdde0cf3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber and Gordon Andrews near projector screen Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-312 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/9f4434d977f96d34df100d58e47b6df6.jpg 6d082fa385b4fd6023c7d9810ea74f3f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber and Gordon Andrews near projector screen Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-311 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/881fed2211f2f4861695a7a432a4a5b8.jpg cf406a9dc5e8d3c8a0b8d9b8476f7d3f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber and Gordon Andrews near projector screen Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-310 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/c24233b0046dabb45f11c4f974aac3ef.jpg d16464a461217c7f949b90077eb0c4e0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber and Gordon Andrews with projector Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-309 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/16a770a4ed9254f32cda5f2033410fad.jpg 1a09bca5a0e0c23f952a77a216bf6117 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, seated, in group shot Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-308 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/8933a3b5e7ade0028dead0144819a402.jpg 28bfeacb9e85534cf30ef0c3d717a66a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in group shot Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-307 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/5d2d5f7e29e374b9c48f804f7e066d33.jpg 0e7fe5c0488aa129c9a0dd5acb18e9c4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber, holding scrapbook, with unidentified woman Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-306 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/9fbc523e37bfb04c4338e65789f47889.jpg 792425ed0b5d07b015160bac238b4424 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber with unidentified man and others in a restaurant or cafeteria Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-305 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/dd06a523ca015830798902ed5b13dd91.jpg 26cc3a565b8005f21a366d8615b31823 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber and two unidentified women in line for food Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-304 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/e34b14b4febd3f16ede478970bb2ce15.jpg 5a58140429786446dcecbcae09db4c4a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber in line for food Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-303 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/b7c8fbb3b93c67c9de8cd3a3866839e8.jpg e7193ea80566a12745c3146df26a1588 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber with husband Gordon Andrews in line for food Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-302 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/2d3907214f8ff75d19e524aba60ac3cf.jpg 8bfe75ed665a760731e88d963848675a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber with pianist Edwin Biltcliffe and husband Gordon Andrews (in uniform), with Helen Ulmer seated in navy-colored dress Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Biltcliffe, Edwin Andrews, Gordon Ulmer, Helen Sopranos (Singers) Pianists Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-301 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/8195e25e86c9a59d82f7dec681d88fa4.jpg d1994a600ad527664cdc2963e71cbc05 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber as Marie Therese in Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-300 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/2b001e8378ac05238b1fdfe788f5b94d.jpg 34dc57ab1e0795f5376a292c07efb564 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber as Marie Therese in Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-299 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/7e19b305f2a204847fc432a2976b6bbc.jpg 2421012053e512ba79cc63dde8b3d5e5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber as Tosca on stage Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-298 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/fb862b0e7d66daf1130b0dbab298a70a.jpg 9672bcfbbceb4a8aa959860645bdf26f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber taking bow on stage with three other performers Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-297 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/53c61111041c343806c48dc44fa50138.jpg b9276ae9d1fd175408f3721f3454b9dd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection Description An account of the resource <p>The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs, circa 1935-1977 contains 373 images of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.</p> <p>Eleanor Steber was born 17 July 1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She made her premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and remained with the company until 1963. She is noted for her work as the first Vanessa in Samuel Barber’s opera of that name and she also commissioned the composer for his work,Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She performed the title role of Arabella in Richard Strauss’s opera in the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang the part of Marie in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in the first performance by the Metropolitan Opera in 1959. Steber devoted her later years to teaching, working at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard, and her alma mater, New England Conservatory. She established the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation to assist young singers in the early stages of their careers. Steber died in Langhorne, Pennsylvania 3 October 1990.</p> <p>For more details about the collection please refer to the <a href="http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0036.xml">finding aid</a> for the collection.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LIB-MUS020 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eleanor Steber as Tosca on stage Subject The topic of the resource Steber, Eleanor Sopranos (Singers) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource undated Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Conlogue, Barbara Ann, 1928-1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Color Slides Snapshots Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mus. Arc. 36 ES-296 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 LIB-MUS020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/music/about/copyright.html">Copyright Statement for Digitized Materials from the Music Library</a> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">IN COPYRIGHT</a>. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).