Laura Kephart to Leonard Kephart, December 12, 1938, page 1

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Laura Kephart to Leonard Kephart, December 12, 1938

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Laura Kephart to Leonard Kephart, December 12, 1938

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Laura Kephart to Leonard Kephart, December 12, 1938, page 1

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Laura Kephart to Leonard Kephart, December 12, 1938, page 2

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Laura Kephart to Leonard Kephart, December 12, 1938, page 3

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Laura Kephart to Leonard Kephart, December 12, 1938, page 4

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Details
- Format
  - Letters (correspondence)
- Type
  - Text
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Identifier
  - HL_MSS16-01_01_08_06_01
Transcript

Dec. 12 1938 Dear Leonard - In spite of weather which made hard going, everyone arrived at 95 in time for dinner. In spite of air mail & special delivery, your agent did not arrive until Fri. a.m. It — or he? — was just as welcome & appreciated as if it had been on time. Margaret sent a poem & the Oregon branch a fine letter. So, we were all there. The Monday before was a gorgeous day. Lucy came in about 10:30 A.M. & wanted me to go to Boonville at once. (We had planned to go Wed. P.M.) She telephoned to B. to meet us in Cazenovia which she did about three P.M. This going 48 hours before schedule upset my plans as to closing the house, helping out Julia etc. but we are all alive. Then the Fernows went directly on to Buffalo for the week end & I was left in Boonville For two weeks, instead of two days “as planned.” That too did not lay me & while I enjoyed being with B. & the girls, it did upset me quite a bit, but as you can see, even so life remains with me. The Fernows expected to be in Boonville for supper. At 6 o’clock Karl telephoned from Rowe that they were supping there & would be with as soon as the going permitted. That was at 8:30. The Errol Birds were to get the R.B’s dining table in place in time for dinner at 1. The table had been stored with them since the

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In this letter of December 12, 1938, Laura Kephart writes her son Leonard Kephart to share what she has been up to and where she has been. She says that she was able to buy herself something with the money I. K. Stearns sent her from the sale of the “Cherokee booklets” that Horace Kephart wrote. It is being used at the Cherokee Boarding School as a textbook. She includes a copy of “The Agency Wash 18th Edition” edited by Roy and Horace Kephart, the sons of George Kephart, who are 8 and 10.
Details
- Creator
  - Kephart, Laura, 1862-1954
- Format
- Type
  - Text
- Date
  - Date original: 1938-12-12
- Extent
  - Dimension: 11.25" x 8.5"
  - Dimension: 14" x 8.5"
  - Dimension: 4" x 9"
  - Pages
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Tompkins County (N.Y.)
  - Ithaca (N.Y.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Horace Kephart and Laura Mack Kephart Family Collection
- Identifier
  - HL_MSS16-01_01_08_06
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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