CAMPBELL COUSINS CORRESPONDENCE
211 10th Street
N.E.,
Washington, D.C
June 10, 1923.
Dear Cousins:-
This project being
so new I hardly know how to go about my first letter; however, I
hope to gain so many suggestions from the incoming combined
letters, that the next one may be of more interest to all.
Our family, consisting of my
daughter, Mary B. Snavely
, her husband
Albert B. Snavely
, and my daughter Florence H. Bosard, with myself,
comprise the representatives of
John M. Bosard;
one other daughter,
Eleanor Bosard Wooster
, having died March 10, 1914.
Mary has lived in Washington since
1911, and Florence and I came in August, 1918. We have all made our
home together since that time. During our residence here, we have
been visited by the following Cousins,- Tommie and
Frank
[Parks Campbell],
Grace [CAMPBELL Mowrey] Buck Carey
, and sister Anna
and husband
[Andrew Owlett], and have
had calls from Lou
[CAMPBELL] Young
and Charlie Congdon some
years ago. We have been very fortunate in being permitted to live
in the nations capital, and if, at any time any of the Cousins can
make it convenient to visit "their city and mine", they will be
very welcome in our home.
Washington has just experienced the
greatest week ever known here. The National Shrine Convention was
held here and the city was filled with visitors from every state in
the Union, and also from Canada and Honolulu. Estimated 400,000
visitors, leaving in the city $25,000,000.
I, with my family, fully appreciate
the manner in which we have been taken into the folds of the
Campbell Family all of these years, and these courtesies will go
down in history in our little circle. Our greatest regret is that
the other members of our family could not have lived to enjoy these
privileges.
We also feel that we are indebted to
our Secretary "pro tem" for the
effort he has put forth in the matter of the Clearing House, and
trust that generations to come will be greatly benefited by the
records produced.
With best wishes to all of the
Cousins from all my family, I am