Kraus-Boelté to Meleney, February 9, 1898

Categories

Maria Kraus-Boelté Letters Collection

Date

1898-02-09

Language

ENG

Author

Kraus-Boelté, Maria

Recipient

Meleney, Carrie Coit

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Hotel San Remo
New York, Feb: 9, 98

My dear Mrs. Meleney,
I do so hope, that you will be able to go to Philadelphia I mean to go,-for-so far I am in “good condition.” Mrs Rachel Rogers of Moorestown near Philadelphia, a [Quaker] City, a for graduate and a very able & superior Kindergarten writes, that the Morristown people want us, namely
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They want you, and Mrs. Merrill, and Mrs Kraus, on Monday.-They offer hospitality at different houses of some of their “best” people. The speak of a “Reception”- & want you & Mrs Merrill to address the many Mothers! I wish I could see you ! to talk this over. If you go,-when are you going ? with us? How delightful that would be I have written to several [Habels] for accommodation. As soon as an answer comes, I will let you
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Know all about it; - for, again it would be so charming, if we, all of us, were going to the same Hotel. Would it be well to go to “Head quarters”? They tell we, we should better go to the “Bellevue” wear the Station, - & in easy access to the normal school.
Dear Mrs Meleney, when I write to you, -I never know, how I could sufficiently express my love and affection, - you dear
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“Ideal’ Mother. God bless you & yours.-
-It is late,-& I [will] mail this letter down-word with the letter boy by the “[chite].’-
Good Night; I hope the children are well, -& that the “broken”[limb] has healed, - and the little “princess” hale & well.-
Affectionately
Your old friend
Maria Kraus-Boelte

[envelope]
Mrs Clarence b. Meleney
#985 Butler Street
Brooklyn N.Y.
Feb 9, 98

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Funding for the Maria Kraus-Boelté Letters Digitization project is provided by the Long Island Library Resources Council.

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