CAMPBELL COUSINS CORRESPONDENCE
565 West
Grey St.
Elmira, N.Y.,
June 14, 1923.
Dear Cousins:
It has been so many years since I have attended a
"Cousin Party" that I am pleased to find myself still numbered in the
Campbell Cousins.
I surely appreciate the effort made by Cousin
Will Selph in organizing this
"Clearing House" and realize that he will need the hearty
co‑operation of every one if it is to be a success. I am glad, aside
from the pleasure which I shall derive from it, that my daughters
will have an opportunity of becoming better acquainted with their
father’s
people.
We received the literature from our secretary via
Nelson, which proves how little we really know of each other, as we
have not been living there for about five years. Since the marriage
of
Jessica and
Elizabeth, I have been with
Isabelle who is teaching in
Elmira.
Jessica is living in Binghamton and has (you will
pardon a grandmother nearing her dotage) three as interesting
children as you will often find, two boys and a little brown eyed
girl which makes her distinctive in an otherwise blue eyed family.
The other day,
Anne Betty was very busily cutting out little papers and putting
them in a box when her mother asked her what she was doing; she said,
"Cutting out thousand legged worms for Gram. Hoyt ‘cause she sends me
so many nice things."
Elizabeth whose
husband is a station agent for the D.L.& W. is living at
North Brookfield, N. Y.; she has only one child,
Joseph Hoyt Walker, who is now six years of age. As Betty’s dream
of being a farmer’s wife did not materialize, she is trying to unite
farming and the railroad business by
keeping a thoroughbred Jersey cow and two hundred and fifty Leghorn pullets, to say nothing of the hound pup.
Isabelle is teaching Physical Education in the
grammar school of Elmira. Last year she studied at Cornell Summer
School of Physical Education and is leaving the last of June for
Cambridge where she will enter the Harvard Summer School of
P.E.
Since we have been in Elmira, I have had charge of the Hosiery Department in the S. F. Iszard Co. Department Store but owing to my mother’s ill health, have given up the work so that I may spend more time with my parents at their new home1 in Osceola.
We are closing our apartment for the Summer,
part of which I hope to spend with the girls at their respective
homes.
Anxiously awaiting the "Campbell Cousins
Correspondence" letter, I am
1. Built for them by Frances' brother-in-law, Lee Tubbs, across the street from his and Frances' sister's home. - wbt
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