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Barbara Bird to Cornelia Moore, Margaret Kephart, and Lucy Fernow, July 23, 1943, page 1

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Barbara Bird to Cornelia Moore, Margaret Kephart, and Lucy Fernow, July 23, 1943, page 1

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Barbara Bird to Cornelia Moore, Margaret Kephart, and Lucy Fernow, July 23, 1943, page 2

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  • [handwritten in blue ink] Boonville school begins Aug. 30, I think. Laura & I would have to be in town from then on. 115 Schuyler St. July 23, 1943 Dear Cornelia, Margaret, Lucy, A letter from Cornelia to Laura is responsible for this sudden interest in correspondence on my part. She said that she plans,, during her vacation, to “hop a bus, boat and train for and see how far I can get toward Boonville or Ithaca. Let me know whether you all will be able to meet me in Ithaca or if I should plan to go both places. It won’t be before the middle of August nor later than the first week in September. Of course this is subject to change without notice but I hope to be able to make it. If ^aunt Margaret could be there at the same time it would be practically perfect.” With those sentiments I am in hearty agreement. I hasten to offer the hospital[x]ity of Schuyler Street to all and sundry, when if and how you can come. Of course you know that our car has been in cold storage and Without license ever since the week after Pearl Harbor;so even if we could get gas, I would not be in a position to offer any transportation whatever. It has been strictly Shank’s Mare for the Birds for a year and a half. Wait till you see my resultant girlish figger [sic]: My invitation to Boonville is based on more than the desire to see you all here:it arises also from the fact that if you want to see Mama while she is still anything like her old self, you should not delay. For some time I have been meaning to write a report of her condition to all the children (?) but have put off the unwelcome task for one reason or another. Now it would seem much the better plan for us girls to have a conclave and subsequently write to Leonard and George. I won’t mean to startle you about this matter but you have doubtless realized before now that Grannie has become affected by the inevitable encroachments of advanced age, both physically and mentally. I hasten to add that she is still remarkable for a woman of her years. Under the stimulous [sic] of your presence, she may perk up and be quite like herself, or she may have a seizure of some unpredictable k that it is advisable for you all to see, both on her account and your own. If the four of us could get together and talk over her condition, it would very greatly relieve my mind. This doesn’t sound like a very happy vacation prospect for Cornelia and Margaret;and I am sorry to involve Lucy in further concern (particularly after what she went through during our unfortunate visit to Ithaca last spring) but there doesn’t seem any alternative. It would be a lot easier for me if we could talk this over. Writing is not very satisfactory. It would also be easier if you could come to Boonville rather than Ithaca. It would eliminate the necessity for Mamma to take an arduous trip and that seems advisable. However, if you plan to take in Ithaca also, either before or after your visit here, it might be a good idea if you did not mention that fact to Grannie. She will be determined to spend every possible minute, I mean Every minute. It will take some maneuvering for us to have a conference;but it can be done. There is one possibility of getting Grannie to Ithaca Without over-taxing her strength:Emily Thatcher told me some time ago that if they can get the necessary permission from the powers that be, they hope to drive down to Pennsylvania to see her father who is failing rapidly. They would go by way of Ithaca and would have room for me, if I could arrange to return by bus and train. They would go about the first of August. They might be willing for Grannie to go in my place. They have been lovely to her, and at present,she likes them;so it might work out quite satisfactory that way. It would mean that Grannie would have to stay in Ithaca from August first until[x] after the visit from you folks. I don’t like that idea too well, for reasons that Lucy will readily understand. It is risky to [x] Barbara has since felt that it is out of the question to burden the Thatcher’s with Grannie’s care & transportation unless one of us can be with her, so she will not be able to come to Ithaca this summer.
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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