Our Diamond LeaderBLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL DIARY JUNE 3, 1933-1935Our Diamond LeaderJune 3, 1933, Mrs. Sumpter came in A.M. + Beth in P.M. 9 June Atkinson dropped in just after dinner. She has bobbed her hair, + I am sure she will find it a great relief. She has been chosen President of the Greater Boston Unitarian Women's Alliance, + wants me to speak for them. June 4. Mrs. Wood is still away, + Mrs. Bayer went to Newtonville, so Kitty, Jock + I had the house to ourselves. I let Kitty {?}, + wrote a letter to the Boston Herald about Gandhi; two in succession have been rejected by it. Kitty finished her breakfast at 11 and gave her dinner at about 3.30. Wrote a good many letter + read "The Hymn Tune Mystery." Howard came + brought tuna. She (2) made a short call, & told Kitty all about the Sayres' dog. Howard stayed to supper & I showed him the remarkable leather portfolio from Prague - gift of Catherine [Breech?????] & George Lazariff. June 5. We had been eagerly ex- pecting Mrs. Woodback - dishes and washing filed up - but she has been taken with bad cramps & can't come. Her daughter thinks we need not expect her for a week. I called up Mrs. [Th???] & engaged her for a week, beginning tomorrow. She had an engagement for today. June 6. Mrs. [Th???] arrived about 11 A.M. & took told. It was a relief, June 7. Went to Miss Duyer's & had a shampoo, Mr. Kelly taking me there & back. Had letter about [Re?????] & India in Springfield Republicans. June 8. B.U. luncheon & trustees' (3) meeting. Sat between Dr. Hartman & Mrs. Fisk. [Bo????] Herald had letters about India by me & Mrs. Moorhouse, who [?] Gandhi. Very hot. June 9. Had Dr. Primm take the wax out of my ears. Wonderful storms of thunder & lightning in the evening. June 10. Mrs. Sumpter came in A.M. & Beth in P.M. Very hot. Transcript had a long letter by Alfred Moorhouse pitching into me. Read a detective story. June 11. Sunday. Very hot. Wrote a letter for Kelly to Paul Harvey. Howard came for an hour in the late afternoon. Kitty has given me her copy of "Roxabel" and "Little Henry & his Bearer." Beth brought them over yesterday. June 12. B.U. [?] merriment. I thought it was tomorrow. [?] my mistake while tele- [*4*] phoning Mrs. Fisle, changed my dress & hurried in barely in time to enter with the trustees. Very hot. Chief speaker, Dean [Rose??] Pound. Scholarly but not inspiring. Found the proceedings less fatiguing than usual, as I came late, sat alone, & did not have to talk. Was glad that we gave honorary degrees to a woman a negro & a Chinese. Was interested to see the different colored tassels on the caps of the different schools. Transcript had a letter of mine about Ghandi. June 13. Mrs. Wood came over; her daughter in law telephoned that she had been very ill the day before, but insisted on coming despite all dissuasions. After a talk, she decided that she would not try to work for [*5*] me again till fall. She took lunch with us, went to the chiropodist in the evening, & Mrs. Thyme escorted her as far as Harvard Square on the homeward way. Florence Whither called in the evening & brought some flowers. She is hard up, poor thing. Mrs. Boyer & I went [June 14.] together in [A??ll?] & voted against the repeal of prohibition. June 14. Worked at home. Sent letter to transcript. Went over my seraf books, & found the two that have been lost since last summer. Am finding Mrs. Thyme a great comfort. June 15. Attended board meeting of the Boston L.W.V. June 16. Miss N. Tashjian called, to consult me about the6 paper she is to have on Armenian Day at the Chicago Fair, on Armenian authoresses. She is a handsome young woman, employed in a New York City library. She knows much more about the subject than I do. June 17. Bunker Hill day. Wrote a letter about India to 3 papers. Kitty unusually feeble & chilly. Mrs. Sumpter came in A.M., Beth in P.M. Mrs. Thyne went home for the weekend. June 18, Sunday, Kitty very feeble Wrote a letter for her. Howard came to supper. June 19, Dr. Cohen called up to say the Reconstruction Clinic was to get its charter at last. Got [wor] word that the Centralia victims - the remaining ones - were to be set free. The Springfield Republican 7 published my letter about India at the head of the column. Broke off a piece of front tooth. Kitty still feeble. June 20. Went to Richard Porter Boyer's dentist at Newton, about my tooth. In the P.M. Mrs. Wood came over, escorted by her grandson Graham, to take away her remaining things & to say goodbye. June 21. Started [by] for the city, under the impression that it was the day for the Directors' meeting of the Students Aid. of B.U. Remembered when I got to Andrew Square that that was June 22; & turned around & came home. $200 rec'd from W. L. Garrison Jr. Mrs. Bayer & Mr. Gulesian went to see W.J. Henry & brought back $125. June 22. Went to meeting of Students' Aid. at 20 Mt. Vernon St. Just Pres. Marsh, the treasurer, Mr. Speare,Mr. Meyer, dean of the School of Religious Education & Social Service, Mr. Avery, a Mrs. Foss, & myself. Pres. Marsh told me he had boosted my book of Spanish translations all the way across South America, because of its merit. Lunched with Mrs. Meyer & a Canadian girl. Got Mamma's & Aunt Emily's diplomas off to the committee that want to exhibit them at Chicago. Kitty a little stronger. June 23. Went again to Arthur B. Norley, Nat. Bk Building, Newton, & he put me in a new tooth. Mrs. Wood came over with Graham & took away her remaining things. June 24. Worked at home. Kitty had another little attack of vomiting, could not talk with Beth, & slept on bed without undressing. Robert Atwood has graduated, & gone to help Mr. Cook about haying, so he may not be able to escort Kitty to M. V. June 25. Sunday. Kitty seems better again. Sorted chowder on Mrs. Thyne's bed. [*9*] Howard is at Rockfort. It seems strange not to expect him. Weather beautiful but hot. June 26. Kitty somewhat better. Worked at home. Baldwin Gause came to see me and talked endlessly about enforcing prohibition, breaking up speak-easies, etc. I had to take him to the elevator & ring the bell, to get him to go. June 27. Mrs. Boyer's last day here. Worked at home, & took my best gray dress to the cleaner, & got my summer coat back, cleaned. Mrs. Boyer went off in the evening & Mrs. Thyne said, "She is a splendid person to have around". June 28. A plump little Italian woman who lives at 7 Blackwell St came to propose to buy No. 4. I told her I had not made up my mind about selling it. Had a pitiful letter from Miss Mitchell10 begging me not to, & asking me to send Irene Adkinson to her again. June 29. Drew out $235.- all I had in the Provident Savings Bank - & put $225. into the First Nat. Bk for fear of overdrawing my account. Got my book from the 5 cts Savings Bank, & had the interest added up on the one at the Home Savings Bank. Very hot. Finished birthday verses for Miss Yates. Heard from Mrs. Dargan that she could not use my flat this summer, and invited Mrs. Rubin to. Had a pitiful letter from Miss Mitchell of 4 Blackwell St. & worried about it. Very hot: Kitty felt it. June 30. Very hot; Kitty has hardly any appetite. Got into my thin old blue dress. Wrote review of "The Red Flag at Ararat" for "Soviet Russia Today" 11 Worked at home. Had item about Jack in Boston Post. July 1. Still very hot. Kitty sat up & listened to Mrs. Sumpter's reading. Sorted chowder, & wrote to Mimi Breshkovsky & Mr. Lazareff. July 2. Sunday. Kitty, Jack & I were alone. East wind came up & it was cool. Kitty spent most of the day in bed, but dictated a [bl] birthday letter to Frances Titterton. Sorted chowder on Mrs. Thyne's bed in her absence. June Adkinson called in P.M. & reported result of her visit to Miss Mitchell of 4 Blackwell St. Miss M. says she has paid all the rent but $5. If so, Mr. Henry must have kept back a good deal of it. July 3. Took my typewriter in to be repaired. It was east windy, & I think I caught cold: lay awake all night with distress in my stomach. July 4. Kitty, Jack & I were alone, & I was uncomfortable in my[12] inside & fasted. Did some sorting on Mrs. Thyne's bed, & wrote some letters. Felt good for nothing. It is cold, Kitty feels it. July 5. Worked at home. Took Pluta Water first thing, & ate nothing but orange juice for lunch & a cup of hot milk for supper. Dropped a milk bottle on my big toe, & was afraid it was broken. Mrs. Thyne brought my typewriter out from town. Lay down a good bit, Howard called up in A.M., just back from Gardner, where he & Anna have sold the old house; & he says he can escort Kitty to Chilmark , & he thinks she will not need to go in an auto, which would cost $15. Wrote a sketch of Bishop Hamiltons work for women, at his request for his biography. July 6. Toe much better. Dr. Prenn took the wax out of my ears. Dr. Johns approved of my eyes & ? owed me her dog. [13] July 7. Bought my tickets to M.V., had my glasses adjusted, & had Dr. Duckering look me over. She is tired, poor dear. Finds me in good condition. Had a call from June Adkinson in the evening, & agreed to back her in borrowing $200. No money yet from Mr Gulesian or Mr. Henry. Kitty has had her hair cut, & Miss Dwyer was shocked to see how feeble she was July 8. Mrs. Sumpter came in A.M. & Beth in P.M. Kitty authorized me to send $25. to Mrs. Ransom. Very busy getting ready for Chilmark. Julu 9. Sunday. Wrote a letter for Kitty to Miss Bell. She wrote lying down. Had a call in P.M. from Mrs. Rubin, who can't accept my invitation to occupy my flat, & from June Adkinson, who reported about Mrs. Mitchell of 4 Blackwell St. July 10. Still very busy with preparations14 preparations for Chilmark. Beth packed Kitty's trunk - the first time in her life, Kitty said, that she had not packed it herself. Howard came in the afternoon, packed a trunk & a half (Mrs. Thyne had packed the first half - she packed just about as well as he does) and three boxes. July 11. Our trunks went off, & Vincent McGinnis took the boxes to the P.O. Busy with preparations. Have sent off the money to Mrs. Ransom, & got Kitty to draw out her small balance ($32.38) at First Nat. Bank. July 12 - Went to Chilmark, Kitty, Mrs. Thyne, Howard & I. Kitty was reluctant to go, & declared she was unfit to travel. Miss Mayo took us in her car to the South Station. There Howard met us, & they took her to the train in a wheeled chair, & she had another at New Bedford. 15 The boat had no accommodations for passengers below, & Kitty was put into an armchair & carried upstairs by Howard & a porter, & at Oak Bluffs was carried down in the same way, & to Mrs. Stantial's car. Howard took the next boat back. At Cliff Cottage Kitty, dreadfully tired, was put to bed. After a few hours' rest, she said "How comfortable I am!" This was a great relief, for all day she had been saying, in substance, "How miserable I am!" Beth helped us off, & stayed to straighten up the flat. At this end, Mrs. Stantial had a fire in the sitting room for us, & roses on the table. July 13. Kitty still desperately tired, & very querulous. Ethel Robinson called, cheerful & smiling, & invited us to a party on July 18 in honor of Horace's 21st birthday. It [wo] is to be a surprise to him. Mrs.16 Thyne is delighted with Chilmark. She is very capable, & a great comfort to me. July 14. Kitty is improving. We had calls from Anna & Alison, Florence Mayhew & Horace. They all went in & spoke to Kitty; & she felt cheered up to have so many friends. Florence praises Horace highly - says he has a lot of common sense, & has inherited his mother's cheerfulness, & is the only one of the family who knows how to make money. Mrs. Sumpter arrived. July 15. Kitty still improving. She enjoyed a call from Lizzie Rogers, who has been having one of her attacks & could not come before. July 16. Sunday. Kitty decidedly better. Mrs. Sumpter is reading Ivanhoe to her. Robert Vincent 17 took Mrs. Thyne down to Vineyard Haven to the Catholic Church. Telegram from Mrs. Zanetti, who wants to buy 4 Blackwell St. Answered it. July 17. Gave Kitty a bath - first time she has let me do it. We got her out on the verandah for the first time; it was still foggy but not so cold. The weather has been cold since we came, with a good deal of fog. Did some unpacking & wrote various letters, including one to Catherine Breshkovsky & George Lazareff. Am rejoicing that Gandhi's speech "threw consternation into those who have wished to end civil disobedience". July 17. Kitty continues to improve. Wrote letters &tc. July 18. Horace Robinson's 21st18 birthday. [Hi] His birthday party in the afternoon was attended by 47. A beautiful day. Had a long talk with Brookes, who seems greatly better; hand dry, warm & healthy feeling. Is much interested in trying to raise melons. Horace showed me something pleasant about me in "Angels & Amazons', by Inez Haynes Irwin. July 19. Busy waiting on Kitty, writing letters &tc. July 20. Got off 2 letters on India. July 21. Clipped papers, wrote letters &c. Made a call on the Robinsons in P.M. July 22. Offered Miss Cerhen Sunset View for $4,000. Sent letter on India to N.Y. Nation. Kitty, while taking a cup of Mrs Thyne's good broth, said, "I wish every invalid in Boston had such a good dinner. Had a long letter from June Adleinson about Miss Mitchell & the Zanettis, who want to buy 4 Blackwell St. 19 July 23, 1933. Sunday. Got off a letter to Springfield Republican about Gandhi. Mr. Stantial & the Benjamins arrived. Tank dry & windmill motionless. July 24. Had a call from Professor and Mrs. Geddes in A.M. He is visiting one of his students, at Vineyard Haven, Miss Josephine Swift. He says on July 4 Nantucket had a terrific windstorm which blew so much salt over the island that it had blighted the vegetation. In the afternoon I had an unexpected visit from Ella Abbott Stearns & her husband, who are staying with one of their children at Oak Bluffs. Beth sent Kitty her nail scissors, for which she has been wearying; and Mr. Gulasian wrote that he had deposited in the bank to my credit the $750. which was20 due in June. This was a relief to my financial anxiety. Mrs. Sumpter & Mrs. Thyne gave Jack a bath, & took off his ticks and lathered him. Sent letter about India to Boston Post. July 24. Got off letter to N.Y. [Herald] Evening Post. Had a call from Miss Helen L. Hatch of the Animal Rescue League & a Miss Dorclustry. They borrowed some of Jack's anti tick powder. Miss Hatch left me book about Oberlin Centennial. I have lost a day somewhere, this was July 25. July 26. Had a call from Florence. She said Agnes had arrived, & I went over & called on her - she had gone to Whale - & saw her & the Whiddens & little Sammy, [nu] much grown - he was not interested in me at all, & I did not dare to show how much 21 interested I was in him, for fear of annoying him. Agnes showed me the improvements at the Jones house, & Brookes on a tree, pruning & cutting out dead wood. Chester Poole has formed the "For Sale" sign for Sunset View, & is going to set it up. July 27. Wrote a lot of letters, & went through the N.Y. Sunday Times. Attended a tea at Mrs. Frederick Cohen's, & walked to the Robinson's gate afterwards with [Agnes &] Florence & Ethel. Wrote a letter to Springfield Republican in reply to a "British Subject". Am feeling sad & indignant because the great [still] steel corporations are to be allowed to have "company unions" under Roosevelt's "New Deal." July 28. Mrs. Sumpter gave Kitty a hot foot bath, and we found that her left leg & foot are much swollen. July 29. Asked Kitty if we should22 not send for Dr. Mayhew to see about her leg, & she emphatically refused, & quoted Aunt Elizabeth's "Avoid doctors & drugs". Wrote a letter for her to Francis Titterton. July 30. Sunday. Went to call on Ethel Robinson, supposing Alfred had left yesterday, as he intended; but he was at work on the hill. Ethel took me into the bungalow, & confided to me that Antoinette had "escaped" three times - the last time going to the Whiddens & telling Charlie she was going to kill him. They had about decided to take her back to Overbrook, when Alfred goes tomorrow, & the question was whether Ethel should go along, stay a few days, & come back with Alfred. Very sad - but Ethel always plucky. Got Horace to send off $5 for me to Sarah Fraser. Lay awake almost all night. Mrs. Sumpter has drawn from the 23 library two good stories by Patricia Wentwoth, whom I had never heard of, & I have been reading them. Mrs. Thyne & Mrs. Sumpter slept uncommonly well. Got off birthday card to Grace. July 31. Sent letters on India to 3 papers. Deposited $300. from Margaret Beck in Melrose farings Bank. Aug. 1. Mrs. Hope Flanders brought a Mr. & Mrs. Greenbaum to see if they wanted to buy Sunset View. Agnes came while they were there, & walked home with me afterwards, & made a call on Kitty, who could not bear her voice, but talked a long while to her, & enjoyed it. After dinner I went up and called on Ethel Robinson. Alfred has taken Antoinette back to Overbrook. Am re-reading "The Ladies Lindores." Gandhi is again arrested. Springfield Republican published me letter about India.24 Aug. 2. Went up to call on Ethel Robinson. Weather hot; rain much needed, Kitty continues to improve. Mrs. Thyne caught a mosquito in my bedroom for me. Aug. 3. Ethel Whidden made a call; but Sammy could not be induced to come in to see Kitty. Ethel W. is expecting a baby in January, Lizzie Rogers says. Wrote a lot of cards reminding people of Jack's birthday on Aug. 12. Aug. 4. Wrote to C. Breshkovsky and George Lazaroff, & son after got a letter from her that she had dictated to Olga Kerensky. She says thousands of people in Russia are dying of starvation. Elizabeth Upham Yates sent back Maud Nathan's autobiography. Aug. 5. Wrote several letters to the papers. Kitty sat out on the verandah most of the morning, & had 25 her dinner there. I sat out for a while, too, listening to "Woodstock." Mrs. Sumpter gave Kitty a hot foot bath. Her left foot is much swollen. We had a call from Ethel Robinson, who sat with us on the verandah. I borrowed "Old Mortality" from [Ethel] Lizzie Rogers, to read to Kitty next; and sent an air-mail letter to John in Nevada to remind him of Jack's birthday. A very beautiful day. [Ap] Aug. 6. Sorted all the chowder on my small table in the sitting room. Wrote a letter for Kitty. We had a call from Florence. I put in a new battery, & she was able to make Kitty [?] bear. She stayed to supper. Finished re-reading "A Gentleman of France." Gandhi is arrested again Aug. 7. Sat out on the verandah26 for an hour, while Mrs. Sumpter read "Old Mortality' to Kitty. A beautiful day. Paid some bills & pasted some things into my India scrap book. Felt rather good for nothing. Began to re-read "Lady Merton, Colonist." Aug. 8. I thought John Haynes Holmes had not received my review of Maud Nathan's autobiography, so I had got the book back from Miss E. N. Yates, to whom I had given it, & was preparing, with groans, to rewrite the review, when "Unity" arrived, with the review in it, to my great relief. Wrote to a man who has written me praising British rule in India. Mrs. Thyne made me some nice broth, thick with rice, & I ate largely of it, & followed it up with rice pudding. Woke about 3 A.M. with indigestion, & neuralgia in my left hip. Too much starch 27 I suppose, & probably caught a little cold. It rained most of the night. Mrs. Thyne had adapted a window [Sur] blind to my chamber window, very cleverly. Aug. 9. Ate no breakfast or dinner. Tried to write a letter about India, but genius didn't burn. Read "A Girl of the Limberlost," & loafed. Sorted newspapers. Rained in A.M. but cleared off beautifully in P.M. Aug. 10. Took a good dose of Pluto Water & it worked well. Got off letter to Springfield Republican. Lay down a good bit. Aug. 11. Had curious dreams in the early morning - one of attending a committee meeting where Mrs. Calt presided , & one of working with some of Gandhi's friends. Felt much better, & wrote a number of letters, & made preparations for Jock's birthday. Brookes [Aug. 12.] brought 3 bowls of berries28 as a present to Jock from his mother & stayed & talked with Kitty. He could make her hear. Aug. 12. Jock's birthday. A happy day for Kitty. Lots of birthday greetings & callers. I hastily finished my birthday rhyme, got it copied just in time for Mrs. Sumpter to read it to her, at the end of the other things. Anna, Agnes & Ethel Robinson were all here at the same time - a nice little family reunion. Edna Stantial brought a lovely birthday cake, with candles. Aug. 13. Mamma's birthday. I wrote to Catherine Breshkovsky & made several copies of a sweet letter she had written to Irene Dietrich, to send to various friends. Had a call from Seymour Stone - Amy Wentworth's husband - and 29 in the afternoon from Mrs. Rhoda Garrison. The whole Garrison family came, in 2 cars - the children wonderfully [of] grown. Mr. Stantial went home, & when Edna took him to the boat, she took Mrs. Sumpter, & Mrs. Thyne along. The boat was late, & so they were late in getting back, & Kitty became very impatient of being "in the deaf & dumb class," for I could not make her hear. Wrote two letters for her, from dictation. In one of them she said that she was wobbly as to her legs, but otherwise she felt equal to walking, for miles! Aug. 14. Tom Jones, Blackwell & Mr. Bert Bowman called. Kitty could see only their white trousers. Tom brought a very remarkable30 report of the N.Y. Infirmary. Mrs. Thyne told me that the first time I paid her $5 for a day's work was when her daughter Edith was a small child & was ill; & that it was a perfect godsend. Aug. 15. Took the Infirmary report over to return it to Tom & to get some more information; but he [w] had already gone off in his car. Aug. 16. Tried again to find Tom, somewhat earlier; but they had just gone off in the boat. Kitty had a queer sort of attack while she sat on the verandah being [so] read to - grew red, lashed out with her arms & legs, & later became very pale, & wanted to vomit, but could not. We got her to bed. After a few hours' rest, she got up, & asked for half a cup of broth with no vegetables in it, very hot. Seemed about as usual the rest of the 31 day. She has been rather more shaky than usual for a day or two - her chair chatters on the floor while she is washing. Had a call from Ethel R., very anxious about Brookes, who has an infected insect bite in his ear, she said, when I spoke of the heavy load she was carrying, "I feel honored when heavy loads are laid on me!" Aug. 17. Kitty seems all right again. We had a call from a Mr. Holben of Gardener, who knows Howard. Read a detective story. Aug. 18. Had a call from George & Ethel, to our surprise & delight. Did some straightening up in Mrs. Boyer's room. Aug. 19. Got off 4 copies of a letter about India before breakfast. Saw Evelyn Burrows on her way over here intercepted by Lizzie Rogers, & went over after a while to Lizzie's & visited with her there. Marjorie32 Sumpter arrived. Received life of James Stansfeld from England. Finished the last detective story on hand. Aug. 20. Sunday. [We had an unexpected visit from George &] Wrote a letter for Kitty. Am distressed over Gandhi's "fast unto death." [Received Kitty's I] Aug. 21. Kitty endorsed her semiannual check for $600. In the afternoon, while being read to, she had another attack like the former one. Aug. 22. Sixth anniversary of the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti. Got off a letter on India. George made Kitty a farewell call, & took notes of some reminiscences. In P.M. the long wet spell became dry & windy. Aug. 23. Sent off a letter on India & ordered a $100. Soviet bond. A big gale. Went down to the shore, for the first time, to see the surf, We had a call from Evelyn Barrows & Agnes, & afterwards Lizzie Rogers gave a tea to them & Amy 33 & Alison. Ethel Robinson dropped in for a moment to say that she had offered to board Ellen Burns & Herman of Belchertown, Mass., & her two teacher friends, for a week. A Mr. Gilly, a friend of Marjorie Sumpter, came over to see her. Aug. 24. Began a letter to Mme. Breshkovsky & Mr. Lazareff. Got the good news that Gandhi had been released from prison. Fine day after the storm. Went to top of steps, first time this year - Mrs. Sumpter having assured me that there was no poison ivy in the path. Mrs. Sumpter, Marjorie & Mrs. Thyne went to the house of the little Adams sisters, & I sat with Kitty, but could not make her hear. Here annual box of [?] arrived. [Lizzie gave a tea to Anna, Alison, Agnes &] Aug. 25. George birthday, & also that of "Toodie" Rogers. I asked Lizzie Rogers what I should give Toodie, & she urged me to write a poem; so I hammered out some verses, & at Lizzie's request sent them to the34 Vineyard Gazette, though they were not worth it. Got off a letter about India, & finished the letter to Mme. Breshkovsky & Mr. Lazarev. A very busy day. Miss Helen Hatch called in P. M. & reclaimed the book she had lent us on the Oberlin Centennial, & told us interesting things, about Oberlin & its theological school. She says they have 2 Communists, 1 a Japanese & the other an American, both very quiet; & a large group of Socialists, very ill behaved & troublesome; & one Mahometan & quite a variety. I said it was a good chance for them to learn to practise Christian toleration, but she says they don't; they quarrel like everything, & she has a [?] hard time. Made up a lot of little bouquets from Kitty's white & purple heather. 35 Aug. 26. Made a long call on Ethel Robinson & took her some of the white heather. Clipped a few papers, & read an absurd book called "Jeeves", lent me by Marjorie Sumpter. Aug. 27. Sunday. Wrote a letter for Kitty, & helped her examine the contents of her trunk. We had a call from Robert Atwood. Aug. 28. Got off 2 letters about India. Wrote a letter for Kitty. Had a call from Anna Belden, who announced, as an amazing piece of news, that Howard had started for Nevada. I signed a bond for Lawrence's entrance to college. Anna talked a good while to Kitty. After she had gone we found Kitty thought all the time that she was Ethel Robinson, & had understood nothing of what she said except that she had been painting her sitting room floor red! A letter came from Mr.36 Blood enclosing some documents about the Lucy Stone Home which he said Mrs. Boyer & I must sign & swear to & have filed at the State House, or the tax-collector's office, by Aug. 31. Mrs. Boyer is in Centralia. I went over & consulted Mrs. Stantial, & we agreed that the next morning she should take me to a notary public & we would telephone to Mr. Blood's office from Mr. Flanders's house to have a duplicate at once to Mrs. Boyer. Finished "Desert Gold". Aug. 29. Mrs. Stantial took me to Windygates, where Mr. Whitkop witnessed my signature, & a friendly yellow dog wagged its tail at the door of the car. Then we sent off the message from Mr. Flanders's. Called on Florence, & borrowed 18 books from her. 37 Aug. 30. Last night an old talking machine came from the Harper Oriphone Co. [while] for me to use while ours is being repaired; so this morning I had a good talk with Kitty, the first this summer, almost. Sat out on the verandah a good while, in my new hood & leggings, while Mrs. Sumpter read to her from the Heart of Midlothian. Aug. 31. Made a call on Ethel Robinson. She is expecting May Robinson for a week's visit. In P.M. attended a small tea at Anne Rogers's, & saw Meyric's baby for the first time - a fine, fat, amiable little fellow, in a pen on the floor. Toodies behaved very prettily. Agnes, Ethel Robinson Ethel Whidden, Anna & Nannie Huntington were the other [guests] guests.38 Sept. 1. 1933. Wrote some letters. Anne Rogers lent me "The House of the Opal," [qu] quite a horrible detective story, & I read it. Went over to Agnes's, because I understood she was entertaining Florence & Ethel Robinson, & I wanted to ask Ethel to save the editorial page of her N.Y. Evening Posts for me. We had a nice little visit. Florence says Chester Poole is much pleased with one of my letters in the New Bedford Standard. Have just had an abusive letter from someone in England who reads the New Bedford Standard. I get lots of abusive letters from British sympathizers in this country, but they are mostly anonymous. I set Kitty to reminiscing about old times in M.V. Sept. 2. Meyric brought another detective story - which I don't like very well. Sent $50. to Marina Topoojean for Mr. Karchkin, 39 though I was afraid I could hardly afford it. The N. Y. [Times] Evening Post sent back my letter. Sept. 3. Sunday. Wrote two letters for Kitty. Missed my [evenin] afternoon nap because of a call from J. B. P. Hyndman, who has been remonstrating with me on India. He is to show news of Iceland this evening at the Methodist Church in Edgartown, & showed me his notebook with the pictures. Did some sorting. Sept. 4. Labor Day. A gray day. I got up hours too early, thinking it was time - I could not see my clock very well - & had to lie down again in my clothes. Wrote to [Babus] Babushka & Mr. Lazareff, & [Cliff] clipped a lot of papers. Sept. 5. Beautiful day. Got off 4 letters about India. Had a call from Mr. & Mrs. Niercrisse,40 and from Florence and walked back with her to Tom's to see if he had been able to do anything about my old Ft. Wayne Bank Stock. He was out, but Agnes said he had not been able to dispose of it -- but that if I was assessed it would be for more that $500. Sat out on the veranda with Kitty. Sept 6. Friday. Got the mattresses &c out of Mrs. Boyer's room and had them aired. Went over a lot of papers. Sept 7. Had calls from May Robinson & Ethel Robinson & another from Florence. Wrote some letters. Mrs. Stantial and Marjorie Sumpter leave tomorrow. Sept 8. Majorie Sumpter went off early & so did Stantial & Barbara right after lunch. A beautiful day. We aired Mrs. Boyer's 41 blankets. Went over and bade goodbye to Meyric and his wife. September 9 Thunder and lighting in early morning. Brookes has bought a big pumpkin at the fair & saved the seeds, & the Robinsons offered us the pumpkin & asked if we would give them one of the pies. This was yesterday. Mrs. Thyme made the pie. I went over to the Willie Mayhew house, where Lizzie Rogers was clearing up after Meyric's departure and I asked to borrow a deep dish for Mrs. Thyne to make the pie in, but she had not a suitable one. Ethel and May Robinson made us a call & walked to the gate with May & she gave me her views of the situation & of Brookes. Am clearing my things out of Mrs. Boyer's room. Sept 10. Sunday. Beautiful day.42 Cleared most of my books out of Mrs. Boyer's room, & wrote two letters for Kitty. Had a call from Mrs. Alexander Black & Miss Mary Lewis (guests of Miss Cohen), & showed then the sea shell, Horace came in his bathing suit & got his pie, a beauty. We had a call from Florence, & I escorted her back past Rajah. Sept. 11. It turned suddenly cold during the night, & I had to get up & get extra covering. A bright day. I sorted things, & felt rather used up before dinner - perhaps from having waked at 3 A.M. - so I clipped papers. Had a call from Mrs. Marean, & from Miss Quincy & her maid Miss Connors, who came to see Mrs. Thyne - they go to church together every Sunday & Kitty would not get up for [some] after her siesta, though 43 twice invited, & then got up herself & thought it was morning. Miss Florence Cohen invited me to a small & quiet birthday party on Sept. 14. Am re-reading "Mary Gusta," by Lincoln. Sept. 12. Wrote to Babushka & Mr. Lazareff, & got some of my things out of Mrs. Boyer's room. Sept. 13. Finished getting my things out of Mrs. Boyer's room. [B] My blanket of newspapers had slipped off my bed at 5 A.M. It was a beautiful day, & I went up & had a good visit with Ethel Robinson. Horace & his house party had left, after having a beautiful time, & Brooke had gone down to get his father & Antoinette. Sept. 13. Busy getting ready for Mrs. Boyer's arrival tomorrow, & for my birthday tomorrow. A beautiful day. Sept. 14. Mrs. Thyne gave me a birthday cake with beautiful marbly frosting;44 it was a rainy day, but Miss Florence Cohen had invited us to what she called "a very small & quiet birthday party" at 4 P.M. Kitty declined to go, & Mrs. Sumpter & Jock stayed with her; but Mrs. Thyne & I went over in the rain. The guests were Florence Mayhew, [Leiz] Lizzie Rogers, Alfred & Ethel & Brookes Robinson, Miss Mary Lewis (who is staying with Miss Cohen, & Prof. & Mrs. Bosshard from Sunset View, with their pretty 3-year-old daughter Christine; & Miss Frieda Cohen to help pass the refreshment. Rajah was a very ornamental member of the party, lying before the fire, or walking about wagging his big tail. The gathering [is] was pleasant, though not large, & the refreshments very nice. Mrs. Boyer drove past just as the party [bro] was about to break up, & Miss Cohen tried to signal to her but could not attract her attention. Prof. Bosshard took us home in 45 his car. Everybody was very kind. The Atwoods had sent a fleet of pretty birthday cards; Mrs. Sumpter & Marjorie gave me a new novel & a box of handkerchiefs; Mrs. Boyer a box of peppermints (and her bringing herself was the best present), Ethel Robinson a great dish of excellent salad; Miss Cohen bottles of ginger ale & a large scrapbook; also she had brought in a birthday cake enwreathed with a white blossoming vine, with my initials on it, & a lot of candles, which I had to blow out & form a wish. I had made some good birthday resolutions, & wished they might come too. And Lizzie Rogers gave me a duck for the last $25. due on the purchase of her lot. It was very good to get Mrs. Boyer back. Sept. 15. Wrote a couple of long overdue letters - the storm still continuing. Told Mrs. Thyne that 46 Mrs. Boyer had called up Mrs. Wood's daughter-in-law to see if she would be able to come back to us this fall, & young Mrs. Wood had said it would be quite impossible; and Mrs. Thyne said she would stay with me - which I considered another very good birthday present. A driving northeast storm. Mrs. Boyer sorted my newspapers for me, some more pleasant letters & cards came in. Wind blew so strongly I was awake most of the night, & had to shut my door. Sept. 16. Storm still continuing, & Mr. Flanders says the weather probabilities predict heavy rain for tomorrow. Wrote some more long overdue letters. Prof. Bosshard brought out mail for us. Brookes has brought some melons in honor of the birthday. Sept. 17. Sunday. The rain pouring very hard, & the wind driving 47 it under the front door. It is the 4th day, & is said to be a storm come up for the tropics. Too bad it should come at the time of Mrs. Boyer's short visit. The damp has given me neuralgia in my teeth. Wrote 2 letters for Kitty, & some to other people who were overdue. Sept. 18. Beautiful weather after the rain. Took a long walk along the beach with Mrs. Boyer. The cliffs have been very much washed away. The Bosshards are leaving tomorrow. Sept. 19. Another beautiful day, but high wind. Mrs. Boyer & I walked up to Panorama Hill to call on the Ethel Robinson & return the big blue platter that she had brought to my birthday party, full of delicious potato salad of her own 48 making, Alfred was repairing the road, but retreated before us. Ethel welcomed is & made us come in & visit a while. [Florence] I was surprised to hear that Brookes had gone up to Cambridge. In the afternoon we had a visit from Florence, who was very glad to see Mrs. Boyer - so glad that she looked more cheerful than I have seen her for months. I walked along with Florence after wards, & she told me some surprising things about Wilfred Huntington. Sept. 20. Weather looks uncertain. Mrs. Boyer & I went over to Sunset View, and saw how neat the Bosshards had left it; but there are some leaks, which means more bills. Leo was working for Miss Florence 49 Cohen, and at Mrs. Boyer's suggestion we asked him to nail on some shingles for us, & he said he would, and we told him we should like to see his famous South African goose & while were at dinner he brought it over & showed it to us. Sept. 21. Got up early to see Mrs. Boyer off by stage, & were glad she had good weather. In P.M. Mrs. Thyne & I went over to Sunset View & brought back some of the blankets, which she has kindly volunteered to wash. Sept. 22. Brookes brought over a basket of vegetables as a present, & told us about his trip to Cambridge. He & I had a talk for an hour or more, & got into an argument on the race question. Florence Mayhew brought back some of my books & stayed to supper. Florence 50 Cohen brought us a lot of wild grapes. Sept. 23. Wrote 2 letters about India, & made 3 copies of each. Mrs. Thyne & I went to Sunset View & brought back more blankets, & she washed 5. We had Lizzie Rogers to lunch. Mrs. Thyne put up a lot of grape jelly. Sept. 24. Sunday. Got off a lot of letters about India. Wrote letter to Sir Paul Harvey for Kitty. Had a call, asking about "Sunset View", from a man who is an artist & says he has a daily picture in the N.Y. World Telegram. Began hunt for my Federal income tax. End of daylight saving. Sept. 25. Went all through my letter file, looking for my Federal income tax, in vain. Mrs. Thyne & I went over to Sunset View, & brought back the rest of the blankets to be washed. 51 Sept. 26. Continued the search for my Federal income tax. A foggy day. Finished re-reading "Fortunes of Nigel". Had a call from Chester Poole. Sept. 27. Florence Mayhew & Elizabeth Rogers called. Elizabeth in green trousers; her legs looked very long. Later Mr. & Mrs. Nierinsee came to say goodbye. After dark Gale Huntington came to ask if we had seen anything of Antoinette: she had disappeared & various people were out searching for her. We were very anxious. A moonlight night. I had put in a good [dee] deal of the morning writing an article about India. Sept. 28. Read "Ben Hur" & wrote some letters, Sept. 29. Rain in A.M. but cleared up in P.M. Got a letter at night from Mrs. Boyer with the duplicate of [the] my Federal income tax, which I have sought in vain.52 Sept. 30. 1933. A beautiful day. Mrs. Thyne & I carried back to Sunset View the last of the blankets that she has kindly washed. Florence Mayhew had invited us all - Kitty, Mrs. Thyne, Mrs. Sumpter & me to dinner. Just when she came for us, Ethel Robinson & Brookes came, to say that [Ethe] Ethel, Alfred & Antoinette are to go home tomorrow, leaving Brookes for a week, to shut up the house. So Ethel bade us goodbye; & we went on to Florence's, & had a nice dinner, & I went over to the P.O. & got my Federal income tax in, & registered, with the date of Sept. 30. Returned the last of the 18 books I had borrowed from Florence. After getting home we had a call from Miss Katherine Foote of the Animal Rescue League (who will probably be at 30 Humphrey's Place this winter). Got a letter from N.L. Garrison enclosing $150. 53 Oct. 1. Sunday. Clipped papers, wrote some letters, & finish "Soldiers of Fortune" & "The Black Cabinet". Oct. 2. Rainy in A.M. & Mr. Flanders said it would not be a washing day, so Mrs. Thyne cleared out the cellar instead. She has decided to take no more ice. Wrote, by request, something for a society "to Aid Armenia" - evidently a Government affair - to celebrate the 13 anniversary - in November - of "The Sovietization of Armenia", showed Mr. Morry what needs to be done, at Cliff Cottage & at Sunset View, Oct. 3. Finished my rhyme about Jock for Kitty's birthday & typewrote it. Had a call from Florence. Read some of "Thomas Wingfold". Florence Cohen gave me a sandbag to serve as a hat water bottle.54 Oct. 4. Mrs. Thyne went over to Sunset View & made sure that all the latches of the lower windows worked, & put additional papers over them. A telegram from Helen said Howard would not be back from Nevada in time to escort us home on Oct. 10. but that one of her boys could do it if we could wait till Columbus Day. Walked up to Allen Flanders to telephone Beth & find out if Robert was well enough to escort us. Found nobody at home. Called on Doris Mayhew to see the new baby. It is a dear. Met Miss Cohen's friend Mary Streither at out gate, with Rajah, waiting for the mail. Got a letter form Mrs. Boyer with such an account of Rober Atwood's health that it was evidently better not to ask him to escort us. Oct. 5. Kitty's 86th birthday began gray & windy, but in the P.M. it 55 blew & poured so that we gave up the intention of taking her to Lizzie Rogers's cabin for afternoon tea. Lizzie came over here in a complete suit of oil skin (Meyric's), & skipped about, while we admired & envied. She brought over the refreshments she had prepared - very nice [sad] sandwiches, &c. - & Florence Mayhew came, & we had our festivities here. Jock had dropped into poetry, as usual. Oct. 6. Clipped papers, wrote letters & we ate up the left-over sandwiches. Mrs. Thyne is painting the screen doors. Called on Lizzie, & she held forth about Nannie & her boys. Nannie & Wilfred left today & sail for Paris tomorrow. Lay awake all night. Oct. 7. A big storm, wind & rain, We thought of Nannie sailing away in it. Mrs. Thyne began to pack my trunks. I brought [down] out the things to go. Slept pretty well. Oct. 8. Sunday. A beautiful day,56 Mrs. Thyne & I went over & finished up at Sunset View, & made an inventory of the things. Wrote a letter [to] for Kitty. Said good bye to Miss Cohen, who leaves tomorrow. Was a good deal worried because Helen wrote that John could not get here the day we were to leave, but would meet us at the wharf. Finished "St. Theresa". Mrs. Sumpter went to church, & telephoned to Cambridge from Florence's, & they promised John should be here on the 11th. Oct. 9. A rainy day, I made some more copies of Jock's "jingle," that Kitty wants sent to her friends; we made some progress with our packing & Lizzie Rogers came to supper, & Brookes volunteered to take two of our boxes up, an offer that we gladly accepted. Leo [had] was to have come & taken Mrs. Sumpter & Mrs. Thyne to see his animals & his old furniture; but the day was disagreeable, & he did not offer. Miss Cohen started with Rajah, before daylight, Albert Huntington driving them, with many misgivings lest Rajah bite his back. I enjoyed being able to take Jock clear to the gate. At this point the diary ceased. But I can add (July 15, 1934) that John Blackwell came & escorted us home, and quite won Kitty's heart by his kindness. (See p. 113) friend of 193358 [blank page] 59 July 10, 1934. Desperately busy getting ready to start for Chilmark. Mr. Maletz brought home my new suit. Everyone says it looks well. Our trunks have gove, & Mrs. Thyne is busily tying up boxes, which Vincent Mc[G]innis takes to P.O. I am sorting my things for dear life. - Was up working till 2 AM. but could not begin to get through. July 11. Up at 4 A.M. Took my old suit to Mr. Maletz to be cleaned & pressed & sent after me. Put a great accumulation of chowder - including important things that ought to be attended to - into a big [box] to be left. Left more chowder in my bedroom. Miss Mayo took us to the station, Kitty standing it very well - wonderfully better than 60 last year. Howard met us outside the South Station, & escorted her to the train. At New Bedford, she had to be carried up a cozy flight of stairs on the boat in the arms of a fat colored porter, & carried down again in the same way at Oak Bluffs. This was rather humiliating to her, but necessary. On the boat she had an armchair in one of the railed in corners of the cabin, & was quite comfortable, I think. Howard or I stayed with her. Howard took Mrs. Thyne up to the top deck, & she stayed there & had a splendid time. Mrs. T. had put us up a very delectable lunch, which we ate with great appetite on the train; & the others had some mor of it on the boat. It was a beautiful day. At Woods Hall Anna Belden joined us, very tired from the great labor of putting Prof. Sayre's Cambridge house into shape to be rented. At Oak Bluffs, Howard saw Kitty safely into Edna Stantial's car, & then he went home 61 with Anna, who needed his help very much. Alison was already there. At Cliff Cottage, Kitty was put to bed & had a nap, & afterwards was rested enough to come to the sitting room & have a lively talk with Lizzie Rogers. July 12. The big box with Jock's stuffed effigy in it had arrived before us. Howard had spent an evening packing it with lots of soft things, so that his little ears might not be broken. We unpacked it & I put Jock on the trunk beside her bed, so that she might find him there when she woke. Was pretty tired, I did not go over to talk with my tenants in Sunset View - Prof. Horace Friess & his wife - to discuss the extra things they want, about which there is difference of opinion. July 13. Went over & discussed matters with Prof. & Mrs. Friess. Kitty has [?] Jock on a chair in front 62 of hers in the sitting room, and takes great comfort in him. July 14. Climbed Panorama Hill to see Ethel Robinson, who has rented Antoinette's little bungalow to the Fillicles, friends of the Friesses, & had come down to put it in order. She was washing the windows in her own house & I moved with her from room, & we had a good visit. She is the sweetest-tempered & most lovable human being possible. Brookes was busy in the deep valley with oxcart & Gay Header, & I didn't see him. Mrs. Sumpter arrived, to Kitty's great joy. July 15. 1934. Sunday. Type wrote the letter about Rugby, Tenn., & wrote a number of other letters. Mrs. Sumpter read to Kitty from Nicholas Nickleby. July 16. Wrote 2 letters to Springfield Republican before breakfast, about Gandhi & Gov. Ely; & wrote afterwards to Mrs. H. E. Pat[?] & others. Fine day, bright & windy. Mrs. Sumpter took Kitty 63 out on veranda & read to her in lee of the house. She is very wrathful against Ralph Nickleby. She has been pulling Eau de Cologne du Jock, & I am afraid of the effect. July 17. Got off 5 copies of a letter about Gandhi, & various others. Kitty woke up early & rather fractious and irritable. Had a call from Mrs. Cook; & in the afternoon from Florence, & Lizzie Rogers. July 18. Typerwrote the Rugby article for the Christian Service Monitor, & got it back rejected from the N.Y. Times. Mrs. Sumpter arranged Kitty's trunks for her, & Mrs. Stantial took Mrs. Thyne to Gay Head. July 19. Typewrote 11 copies of circular [lut] letter to Kitty's friends. She sat out, & had her dinner out. In P.M. she finished tearing up "The Man who Killed Kitchener", which is to be burned. Yesterday & today I carried letters over to the mail box. Have had a series of wakeful nights. July 20. Slept well last night, 64 Rigged up a loop of twine to keep the door of the chemical toilet from blowing open while I am in it. July 21. We had a call from a Dr. Mary Jarvis of the Plaza Hotel, N.Y., who knew Aunt Elizabeth & greatly admired her, and who has long wanted to meet her adopted daughter. She had no idea there would be no hotels, & was anxious to have me keep her over night. I refused, & afterwards [th] suffered remorse, for we might have put her in the Sea Shell, if I had only thought of it. Had a call also from Hope Flanders, who described the troubles she had had in [rest] renting Sunset View; & I asked her to try to sell the "Alice Hill". Had a call from Florence. We had got out of wood, & had been trying to hurry up Mr. Vincent, who was busy haying. At last he sent us 1/2 a card. July 22. Mrs. Thyne & Mrs. Sumpter both went to church. Kitty dictated 65 a 10-page letter to Sir Paul Harvey. Wet fog last night, but cleared up today, with a lot of sun but an east wind. Had a call from Roger Baldwin & Miss Preston of Windygates. They say the beautiful spring near the house has vanished - supposed to be due to the washing away of the cliffs. I now tremble for my spring. July 23. Agnes Jones made us a call, & asked Kitty many questions about Aunt Elizabeth's house at Montclair. July 24. I pumped Kitty for information about that house, & got the following facts: It was a house of 2 stories & a basement, with a piazza 12 feet wide running around two sides of it. My father said Elizabeth was building a verandah with a house attached. HE loved to come over & take a nap on the couch in the hall. Standing in front of "Aunt Lucy's house"66 and facing the mountain, Aunt Elizabeth's house was to the left and higher up the maountain. Aunt Elizabeth bought 20 acres from Batey, and owned the [[land]] straight across from Munn. to Harrison. She had a broad span from the locker rooms to her gate, which was intended some time to be a road. Batey only wanted to farm the lower portion of his land. He kept his oxen on the part that was to be a road. He called his oxen his kittens. Once Kitty, coming home late, by twilight, stumbled over an ox, which was lying down. It began to heave [its] itself up, & she ran for the house. The piazza & front door of Aunt Elizabeth's house faced our house, & [ran ar] the piazza ran around 2 sides of the house, "Harrison's 67 brook" was a good-sized brook which came down from the mountain top and ran along the extreme edge of Aunt Elizabeth's land on the side farthest from our house, and ran on to Mr. Harrison's house, lower down the mountain. This was the brook from which Frances Alofsen & Charlie Spoffard once brought home 40 turtles. They were made to take back all but 5 apiece. Frances & Charlie got along very well together at Aunt Elizabeth's house, though they always quarreled at Roseville. Inside there was a very good hall, & to your right hand the sitting room, large & comfortable. There was a long room running from front to back, designed as a promenade for invalids. There was a good68 staircase; on 2d floor, the principal bed room, & 2 others, a good sized one, & one that might be called a hall bedroom, & a real hall bedroom by the big bedroom. The floor of the attic was entirely covered with boards. In the big sitting room there were 3 windows on the verandah; in the room behind, 2 long windows & a short one, on the verandah; upstairs 3 windows, 2 to the front & one to the side next our house. Aunt Elizabeth had a right of way to the lower road. To get from her house to ours, Kitty said, "We crossed Mr. Munn's land, after ours, & then yours, & went down the hill to your house". Aunt Elizabeth sold the house to a Mr. Holmes. 69 July 25. 1934. Consulted the Stantials about selling a shore lot; arranged for Mrs. Sumpter to go to & from the library with Mrs. Stantial & her children, & she brought back a lot of detective stories. Sent a copy of the article about Rugby, Tenn., to Mrs. Mattie [W.] A. Betts & ordered more; wrote to Catherine Brushkovsky; wrote to A.A. Roback & Dr. Prenn about Byalik; forgot to wrote to Mrs. Rubin. News in paper was so harrowing (especially about the many cattle out west dying from drouth & heat) that I read a short detective story to escape; but find I can escape better by the old stories. Sat up a while & read "Soldiers of Fortune;" lay awake all night; but had no discomfort in my stomach. In the night we had some rain, the first for weeks. I rejoiced to hear70 it beating on the window. July 26. Mrs. T. W. Higginson had had a letter in The Herald on the bad results of lending your house for the summer. I wrote one about my success in lending this house for 14 summers. Hand cut out 2 obituaries of Bishop Hamilton. Wrote to Maria Barlow, & Beth & Dr. Johns. Yesterday I bought a hat with the front brim made apparently of green isinglass, light and comfortable. Have been going over some of Kitty's cabinet photos with her, to tell her what they are. News came that Dollfus is assassinated. Rogers much upset; fears it will begin another European war. Edna Stantial discussed whether Mr. Pinkham ought to be allowed rent for Louisa's room. July 27. Sent off lines about Bolivar, & sent over to Agnes Jones the description of Aunt Elizabeth's Montclair house, 71 as given by Kitty. Read a good [bit] bit of Faunnina Halle's book , "Woman in Soviet Russia", and the stories of heroism made my heart glow within me. I must get around to reviewing it. Picked one of Aunt Jemima's "Bouncing Betts" to send to Maria Barlow. They thrive, uncared for, while Florence Cohen has to water her flowers to keep them alive. July 28. Had the great pleasure of a call from Ella Abbott Stearns & her husband. We sat & visited for some time on the piazza. Her birthday is June 12; & Oct. 15 will be the 50th anniversary of their marriage. Wrote to John Blackwell that the stuffed figure of Jock has become very ill smelling since we had a foggy day or two, & has begun to shed drops of moisture. I asked John to tell the taxidermist & ask him what we shall do.72 We had a sharp shower in the afternoon - much needed. [July 29.] Counted up my checks & forms & had drawn > $226. since July 9. July 29. Reynold's birthday, Lizzie says, Florence came over & said Moses Gulesian had announced by long distance telephone that he would come to see me tomorrow morning, & that Ethel Robinson had arrived, & that her big house was rented to a Harvard professor beginning Aug. 13. Wrote letter for Kitty. Roger Baldwin & Miss Preston came & took me over to Windy gates in their car, to try to have me identify all I could remember of the old part of the house. A "hydroplane" or something of the kind soared around close to the top of our cliffs, & almost hit the roof of the pagoda. The Morrisons, a honeymoon couple, 73 arrived as guests of the Stantials, & Lizzie lets them occupy the room at the back of her garage. Lay awake most of the night. July 30. Rainy first & later hot. Mrs. Gulesian came & brought disastrous news. We colloqued in the Sea Shell. I questioned Kitty about the arrangement of the rooms in Windygates when it was Cliff House, & got information for the present inmates. Had a call from Anna Beldin & Alison, & Kitty gave Anna Aunt Elizabeth's sketchbook, sketches made at Bordighera in 1876-7. Finished letter to Maria Barlow & prepard birthday cards for Grace. Mrs. Sumpter is reading "The Pirate" to Kitty July 31. sent off a lot of copies of letter about Bolivar's birthday. Went over early to get list of things The Friesses have bought that they want deducted from the rent: 74 but Mrs. F. had already gone from island. Prof. F, said she would come over & give me the list. Had a call from Florence. Anna's stalled car was towed away, Mrs. F. did not come. Aug. 1. Prof. Horace Friess paid me the rest of the rent for Sunset View, & Mrs. F explained that she had not come over because her little girl had been taken ill. So it is all right. They submitted a reasonable list of things that they had had to buy. Mrs. F. is a near connection of Louis D. Brandeis, & knows Mrs. Glendower Evans. Shut up Jock's effigy in the kitchen over night, because it smells so. Had letter from John, to whom I had written about it, saying the taxidermist asked us to send him back & he would fix him gratis. Read "Spinster of this Parish", at Mrs. Sumpter's instigation. A queer book. Lay awake almost all night. 75 Aug. 2. 1934. Climbed the hill to see Ethel Robinson, which I had wanted to do ever since knowing she was there. Alfred was working on the road & made fun of [he] the green isinglass brim of my 50-cent hat: said I ought to wave a flag & cry "Erin go bragh!" He seemed cheerful, as did Ethel. I met her friend Mrs. Malcom. Prof. Ulich, who has rented her house on the hill from Aug. 15 to [Se] Sept, 25 was formerly Minister of Education in Saxony. Is a friend of Prof. Tillich who has taken Antoinette's bungalow, & of Mrs. Heiman, who has taken Florence's barn, bungalow, & of Prof. Friess. Kitty has decided, instead of sending Jock[s] back to the taxidermist to try to have him out in front of my cottage, which we are very glad of, & she plans to put up a sundial over him. Began a story about Chan, the Chinese detective. [*76 * Dorothy Kemper] Aug. 3. Had a call from Eunice Barnard of the N.Y. Times; & her husband, & a friend, a woman lawyer from the King Camp*. Gave Eunice Barnard a copy of "Lucy Stone". She says the editor of the Times does not [live women] believe in woman's rights, & will have no women reporters, & only 3 women on [his] its editorial staff, of whom she is one. I told her how much I admired her mother & she said she did too! More rain, off & on. Anna had written a very nice letter to Kitty about Aunt Elizabeth's sketch book. Had a call from Ethel Robinson & Mrs. Malcom. Aug. 4. Sunny & hot. Subscribed for "Soviet Russia Today" for Mrs. Rubin. Wrote to Dr. Alexander Brin offering to make "some English versions from Byalik - & wrote various other letters. Made a call on Lizzie, who has heard from Meyric announcing his safe arrival [She] on the other side of the ocean. She described the pop concert of last night. Had a call from Florence, who complained 77 of Tom's wish to buy the Sea[l] Gull & a beach lot for low prices. Had letter from H. P. Thayer enclosing $80., and one from Mr. Gulesian saying, "As for the bankruptcy, I [re] rather take pick & shovel & work on the street as a day laborer than to take the advice of my attorney, for I will not ruin my reputation as a business man, which I have built up for the past 50 years". Mrs. Thyne found a good box for Jock to be interred in. Aug. 5. Got off some letters by Mrs. Thyne on her way to church. Edna Stantial took a number of photos of the effigy of Jock, out on the piazza, some with Kitty & some without; Says her husband will dig a hole for him tomorrow. The Morrisons, the honeymoon couple who have been gusts of the Stantials, went home; & Mrs. Thyne recovered her broken glasses. [Began] Began an article on Gandhi. Had a call from Sadie Bassett - Sadie Hilton that was - and her two daughters. Cold night, but good sleep.78 Aug. 6, 1934. Jock was interred near the front of the cottage, in a wooden box that might have been made on purpose to fit him. Lizzie Rogers brought over a bunch of white & purple heather to put into the box. Mrs. Thyne & Mrs. Sumpter lowered the box into the grave. Mr. Stantial had had to dig out some big stones in excavating, & also uncovered a deposit of scallop shells. It was a beautiful day. I sat by Kitty on the verandah & she asked me to thank them all for their kindness. Aug. 7. Kitty has had the chair that Jock used to stand on placed before hers; it reminds her of him. Mrs. Sumpter is reading her "Martin [?Clu]," Cleared out the things at the back of my closet, so as to be ready to move out of Mrs. Boyer's room. [*79] Aug. 8. Mrs. Thyne cleared everything out of the dark closet at the end of the hall, which was supposed to be full of moths. She found there was no moths in it, & she cleaned it thoroughly & managed to hang all my dresses in it. She had me sort the books & papers taken out of it; lots of interesting old magazines & books, but badly gnawed by the creatures that eat paper. Papa's "Democratic Review," back in the '40's; I mean to offer them to the Library of Congress: Old West muster reruns, etc. June Adkinson arrived, Mrs. Stantial bringing her up. She had not been here for 4 years. She says she first came down here when she was only 17; & she told how when she first met Florence - at Pope's Hill, when she was only 3 years old & was under the[*80] table in the library, Florence made paper doll for her. She is very glad to get here, & took a long walk. Beautiful weather. Began to get my things out of Mrs. Boyer's room. Hope Flanders came to look at the shore lot I want to sell, & we found that the path to it had not been cut out; so I told her she could take anyone interested up to [Sunset View] [& let] Sunrise Camp & let them look over the fence. Am reading a very interesting book about Walis, lent me by Lizzie Rogers, "Old Memories," by Sir Henry Jones, who began as shoemaker - a delightful book, & a kind of offset to "Martin Chuzzlewit," which is in the main a horrid story. I listen with disgust [*81] while Mrs. Sumpter reads it to Kitty. Aug. 9. Got the last things cleared out of Mrs. Boyer's room. The photos that Edna Stanbal took of Jock are good, but where he was taken with Kitty, Kitty's head does not appear in the picture. Beautiful weather still. Kitty did not want to get up because her left big toe hurt her so. Mrs. Thyne found that she had an ingrowing toenail which had festered and was oozing pus. She relieve the pain with hot poultice, but we shall have to have a doctor operate. June Adkinson, who had suffered from insomnia, slept like a top, to my great delight. We had a call from Florence, who came to see when June would arrive, & found her here. I took the hair off my face in the P.M. Aug. 10. MRs. Boyer arrived in [*82] the evening. She has gained more than 8 lbs. I had put in most of the day sorting the things from my skewer, brought from 3 Monadnock St. We have asked Dr. Agnes Victor, who comes from Edgartown about every other day to attend Helen Cohen, to come over & take out the piece of bone from Kitty's foot, with a local anaesthetic. Finished "Old Memories," by Sir Henry Jones of Wales - a delightful book, especially the first part of it. June has slept like a top since getting here. Aug. 11, 1934. Finished sorting the things from my skewer. Talked more or less with Mrs. Boyer, who wants me to get rid of the caterpillars. Aug. 12. Jodi's birthday. Nice letter to Kelly from Beth. Went up to say goodbye to Ethel Robinson & found Florence there. Had a good talk with her & Ethel. Florence can't conveniently take June till Aug. 20, & Marjorie would like to come on the 18th. I invited Marjorie to stay here [*83] for a couple of nights. Florence was persuaded to consult Dr. Agnes Victor instead of going to Deaconeth Hospital, much to my joy. Brookes & Horace & Alfred & Mrs. Malcom all came in, & chatted. Horace had brought a pretty good armful of books from his library, including Sherwood Eddy on Russia. Florence & I walked along towards home together, & met Chester Poole with his family, & I greeted & shook hands with Emily Poole & the rest. Had not met her for a long time. Came on cold & raining, with a strong wind. Aug. 13, 1934. Cold & damp. Mrs. Thyne made a paper fire in the sitting room to warm it a little for Kitty. We expected the doctor, but she didn't come. Aug. 14. Dr. Agnes Victor came & fixed Kitty's ingrowing toenails, & Kitty, who had dressed it, was relieved & thanked her. Aug. 15. Threatened rain, but I got Mrs. Boyer to walk on the store with me, & confided finances to her. She advised[*84] me to see Tom Jones today, as we heard he was leaving tomorrow. Made a call at the Jones house, saw Tom, Agnes, Charlie & Ethel Widden, Samuel Blackwell Whidden, & Kenyon & Horace Robinson. Tom & Horace are giving away, but both are coming back. We talked over sundials, & I suggested Tom's buying the Allice hill. HE will consider it. We sat around an open fire, & had fudge, & they showed me a photo of little Barbara. They think she takes after Aunt Nettie. A hard rain came on, & they took me home in their car, but Mrs. Sumpter who had gone to the library, got we, as did the books. June got less wet. Began to read "Young & Secret" by Alice Grant Rosman, sat up too late, & lay awake. Nice letter from Helen about Mamma's birthday - & have had some others. Aug. 16. Finished my novel, & wrote various letters. Day raining; off & on, cold. Beth writes that Alice [*Atwood] is in hospital 85 after an operation for a mastoid. Wrote Mrs. Robson that I could not continue her $20 a month. Read "Jurer for a Day," Sent of birthday rhyme & letter to Hattie Turner for her 80th birthday. Wrote to Maria Barlow. Aug. 17. The doctor came and gave another treatment to Kitty's foot and said that after one more visit she thought we could attend to it. She showed us the treatment to follow. The toe became very painful. We had a call from Anna, & her friend Constance Hall. Anna told us about Laurence's experiences in Labrador, and Alison's at the Children's Island. Aug. 18. Mrs. Sumpter announced that she would not give Kitty's left foot the daily hot bath that the doctor had prescribed, in order to ward off the same trouble she is having with the 86 right food. Mrs. S. is a Christian Scientist; she does not believe the daily bath is necessary; & she has no use for doctors. She is willing to do it once a week, & I have agreed to do it the other 6 days. Mrs. Thyne will do the right foot & massage the right leg daily, night & morning, as the doctor directs. Mrs. Thyne does it so gently Kitty is not afraid. I wrote to the doctor & explained matters. Marjorie Sumpter arrived to her mother's great joy. The top of the sun dial has come. Aug 19. Sunday. Mrs. Sumpter & Marjorie went for a long walk. Mrs. Thyne, when she got back from church, did Kitty's right food, & I her left. Kitty held my hand tight for a long while, & said "You are my sweet anchor." 87 Aug. 20, 1934. I got Ms. Flanders to telephone Dr. Victor that Kitty's foot was better, but she came up to see about it, & said there had been a little new infection. She did it up again, assisted by me & especially by Mrs. Boyer, whose expertness she recognized directly. Mrs. Thyne was out, but came back in time to receive her directions. She says she sees Mrs. T. is good at it, & wants her to do both legs. Mrs. Sumpter got home from her walk & gave Kitty a reading, Florence came over with her car, & took June Adkinson & her baggage to her house. Florence was very tired - had gone to church 3 times yesterday in 3 difference places, & had been on the road continually, she said, all through Dr. Victor has warned her that her heart is bad & she must slow up MIss Cohen came over to see if wehad got her N.Y. Herald-Tribune by mistake. Sat up to finish "Miss Bishop" which I read at Lizzie Roger's request. Cold night. Used newspapers on my bed. Aug. 21, 193[?9?]. Wrote a number of letters + took a walk with Mrs. Boyer. [While] Yesterday Kitty Kitty held my hand quite hard for a long time, + said "You are my sheet anchor." Aug. 22. Agnes came over, + returned the article about Rugby, Tenn., + Told me that Tom couldn't afford to by the Alice hill, but a Mrs. Robert Ferris had expressed a wish to buy it. I told her confidentially all about my financial difficulty, + asked her to consult Tom when he comes home + get his advice. Prepared some letters from Olga Celismova for Edna to duplicate. Heard that Chester Poole had been up to see Leo in the hospital, where 89 is not expected to live. He asked Chester to sell his animals to pay for his grave. Beautiful moonlight night. Aug. 23. Sacco Vanzetti meeting was held at 6 Byron St. Wish I [c] could be there. Wrote to Louis E. Kirstein in behalf of the Reconstruction Clinic; and wrote to Bartlett Mayhew protesting against his mailing our letters at Gay Head. embarked on a detective story -- mea culpa! Kitty said I was a great comfort to her. Aug. 24. Dr. Vietor came, + made Mrs. Thyme bandage Kitty's toe under her supervision. She is to do it once a day now. c has found the No Trespass sign from the foot of the steps, which we supposed had been destroyed. The vandals had hidden it among the bushes at the top of the bluff; a long way from the steps. 90 Marjorie Sumpter had taken over to Chester Poole a note from me asking him to [pere] provide a post, &c., & I sent Babara & Betty over with a later note to tell him it was found. He showed them his collection of shells. Aug. 25. Wrote letters to Catherine Breech- Movsky & Maria. Had call from Florence & from Agnes. Agnes advised me to send off the letter to Mrs. Robert Ferris, offering to sell her the "Alice Will" for $5000., which I had delayed sending, at Agnes's suggestion. Agnes took it to post for me. Florence was interested in a fine sign that Mrs. Boyer has painted, to put at the top of the steps, "Persons using these stairs do so at their own risk." Mrs. Stantial set it up. I walked along with Florence to gate. Aug. 26. Sunday. Cleared the things off my table in the sitting room & straightened the piles of papers on the large table, getting ready for 91 my cousins, Leila Arnold, her daughter Audra & Audra's husband, Ludwig Browman, who had been invited to dinner. Mrs. Thyne served us a fine dinner, & we had a nice talk afterwards, & I learned a lot about the family. Anna had been asked to dinner, but she said it would be better for her & Constance Hall, who is staying with her, to come right after dinner, which they did. Leila is very nice, & Mr. Browman seems to be, too. Audra is very quiet, & does not say much unless an effort is made to draw her out; but in Chicago she is keeping house, doing her own work after a long day in the laboratory, & pays only $21. a month for food for herself & husband, & he is putting on weight! After a while they all piled into Leila's car & started for Gay Head, & afterwards Leila92 + her party meant to go to Edgartown + take the7 P.M. boat back to Woods Hole. I am very glad they could come. Aug. 27. Busy with preparations for Mrs. Boyer's leaving. she took 7 ancient chairs, which she had long desired. I went with her to farewell Ednba Stantial + Miss Cohen. Edna says she gave the only vote cast in Reading for Norman Thomas! [Aug. 28. Dr. Vietor came to supervise the fixing of Kitty's foot.] Miss Helen Hatch, house mother of Oberlin's theological school, + Miss Dorchester, made a call, + want me to speak for the Foreign Missionary Assn at Oak Bluffs next summer. Miss Hatch they have all sorts of queer isms at Oberlin, including pro-Hilterites, who go about giving the Hitler salute with 3 fingers. In the latest movie of "Tarzan," he gives a terrific yell: + the boys imitated it for days after. Mrs. Thyme got an air- plane letter saying her daughter Edith 93 (Sister Maria) was ordered to Manchuria! She is only 23. It is a great blow to Mrs. Thyme; yet she played a game of cards with the little girls at Mrs. Stantial's after she got it. Aug. 28. Dr. Vietor came + supervised the fixing of Kitty's foot by Mrs. Thyme. Toe is good deal better. Mrs. T. cut out a triangle in the middle of the nail. When I told Dr. Vietor about Manchuria, she said, "It is a great honor, as well as a great sacrifice." Aug. 29, 1934. Tom Jones came over + had a long talk with me on the beach about my finances. He wants me to get Mr. Blood to look into matters -- especially Mr. Galisian's part as soon as possible; + I wrote to Mr. Blood accordingly. Tom thinks most of my money invested with Mr. G. will be a total loss. He + Agnes have been showing my hill to their friends + trying to sell it. No prospect of a sale yet. Rainy night, + Kitty wanted the front door shut. Lay awake nearly all night. 94 Aug. 30. Mrs. LaRue Brown came with 2 friends inquiring for Mrs. Friess. Says she is Felix Adler's daughter, +niece of Mrs. Louis Brandeis; also that Mrs. Prof. Uhlich, in Ethel's house on Panorama Hill, is the daughter of a Swede who was high in the diplomatic service in Russia before the war. During the war she worked in the German prison camps, under the Red Cross, + was called "the white angel of Siberia." She is very blonde. Afterwards she started a home + school in Dresden (?) for the children of the Germans who had died in the prison camps that she visited; she raised the money for it + kept it going for years -- perhaps does still. Learned that Mrs. Thyme + Mrs. Sumpter, as well as Kitty, would be glad to go home early. Mr. + Mrs. Heyman, from Florence's barn camps came over to be ask if they might 95 move into Sunset View after the Friess's go, as Mr. H. is not well + Florence's camp has no fire place. [He] I said they might. The weather is cold, though bright. Copied a lot of Olga Celirmova's letters for Edna Stantial to type. Let myself be [beguiled] terrified into reading a detective story + sat up till 10:30 . We heard that the skeleton of an Indian woman, [bur] buried in a sitting posture, had been dug up on Mr. Hornblower's land, + some potter + things. Aug. 31. The Friesses left at 5 [M] A. M. for the early boat. I am rejoicing over Upton Sinclair's big sweep in the Democratic primary in California. Dr. Vietor made her last call on Kitty, + refused to take any pay. Said it had been a pleasure to her to do it, for sweet Elizabeth's sake. This was very good of her. Edna Stantial made me a lot of typed copies of letters from Mrs. Brehkovsky. 96 Olga Kerensky + Olga Celivmova. I had asked for 5 copies + she made me 10. Sept. 1. Lizzie Rogers told me what a scare she had about her income tax, + I got a scare about mine, + spent the morning trying to collect the items for it, as Edna said her husband, who was coming down for three days, would reckon it up for me. then it turned out that it will not be due until March. the thing that has to be filed about this time is the report of the Lucy Stone Home. The. Heymans have not yet moved into Sunset View; it is a little warmer + they are hesitating as to whether it is worth while to take the trouble of moving for so short a time. In the afternoon I was told there were some people at the front door. I went to open it, remarking that I wished it were somebody wanting to buy a beach lot -- but not hopefully. It proved to be Hope Flanders with a Mr. + Mrs. Chandler of Menemcha 97 who think of buying both my beach lots, if they can be secured of a good water supply. Lizzie Rogers spoke to me about it afterwards, in much agitation, thinking that they are [J] Jews. Sept. 2. Sunday. Mrs. Thyme made a coal fire in the sitting room stove for the first time this season. It was a very hot one, + I put up a screen between it and Kitty. But when I took the screen away, she said, "Oh, how good!" She began to dictate a letter to Paul Harvey, but soon gave it up. June Adkinson dropped in, + stayed to supper. she called on Mrs. Rogers, who was much disturbed about my selling beach lots to the Chandlers, + June stayed with her till late. Mr. + Mrs. Chandler cam again + told me about their family. Mrs. C. is dark because she is partly Spanish, but she has no Jewish blood, + the C's say they found 98 Menemsha unpleasant because of so many Jews, + spoke so strongly that I pitched into them. Mrs. C's first husband was the son of Prof. Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum. She has a 19 year old son by that marriage. After his death she married this Mr. Theodore Ward Chandler, whose [mo] grandmother was Julia Ward Howe's sister. He is, I understand, related to F. Marion Crawford. so I am quite willing to sell to them; + they want to buy if they can [f] be sure of a good water supply. Sept. 3 Labor Day. Billy Ryan from Gay Head came to try to locate a good spring. He found one very quickly + charged me only a dollar. Says there is water enough in my swamp to supply all of [Quitsy?], even at this uncommonly dry season. It is agreed that the Chandlers are to buy the land if [there] Mr. C's "trustee" says there is money enough, + approves of the deed. 99 Mr. [Sant] Stantial went back, to every body's regret. He was so tired that during his three days' week end he slept most of the time. Hope Flanders says Mr. Charles Stark wants to [as] engage Sunset View for next summer, [l] with the option of purchase. I agreed. The pillar of Kitty's sundial came at last to her great joy. It had been misdirected. Florence made us a short call, + so did June. Sept. 4. Florence Cohen told me some things about Mrs. Stork's temperance -- she used to be a member of the Austrian nobility -- + I decided not to give her an option on the purchase of Sunset View. Fixed up a long letter of George Lazarev's for Edna to type write. [Sept] I have been reading Basil King's "City of Comrades," at Marjorie Sumpter's suggestion. First part good, last part not. [Sept. 5. Still warm] Warm + bright. Had a visit from the Garrison's, who inquired affectionately after Beth's family + the Robinsons, + June made her final call. She has stayed till the last moment. 100 Sept. 5. Wrote some letters + paid some bills. Walked to the gate for exercise, met Florence + had quite a talk with her at the gate, where she sat on a stone. Coming home walked up + down with Florence Cohen + discussed strikes. Sept. 6. Left Mrs. Thyme to help Kitty dress + went over right after breakfast to show Tom Mr. Blood's letter about Mr. Gudesian which came last night. He + Agnes took me over in their car to see little Barbara Blackwell Whidden -- a dear + charming baby. I saw her take her bath. when she lay on her stomach + smiled at us over her shoulder, I longed for a photo of her. Her ears stand out a little, + her mother has been trying to make them lie closer to her head with adhesive tape! Went over to the Heymans' to get the key of Sunset View, but found everyone out. One of Mrs. Stantial's little girls 101 got it for me later. Marjorie Sumpter's friend Lucette Paquet arrived. Sept. 7. Heard queer noises, + found Mrs. Stantial putting the inscription around the base of the sundial, which I had offered to do. She was hoisting it up on to a box to get at it. She did it much better than I should have done. The inscription, dictated by Kitty, was "Jock of Kime[?] Argyleshire. True [F] friend for 14 years of K. B. B." Kitty is happy over a box of white + purple heather rec'd from Mr. Scott, + has had me make up little bouquets for various friends. Ernest Dean came+ took my signature to the duplicate copies of the report of the Lucy Stone Home, + also to Mrs. Stantial's deed to her extra piece of land. Mrs. Stantial wanted Mrs. Thyme to go over with her in the evening + fix up Sunset View, but I would 102 not allow it. We expected Dr. Vietor yesterday, + again today, but she did not come. Sept. 8. A heavy rain + wind storm in A.M., clearing up later. Edna Stantial went home, + we gave her + the 2 little girls an early dinner, so that they ight not have to do any cooking: + she gave us a lot of vegetables. She fell + hurt the base of her spine, just before leaving. + Mrs. Thyme confessed that she had had a similar fall, only worse, at Monadnock St., + never let Mrs. Boyer or me know, thought it took her several weeks to get over it. As she did recover, we hope Edna will. Mrs. Sumpter finished reading "The Antiquary" to Kitty. Chester Poole came over + inspected the sundial, which we want him to [fix] cement 103 the top on too, + says he will do it as soon as he can. Wrote letter to C. Breshkovsky + Mr. Lagarov before breakfast, as after Enda goes there will be no one to fix my typewriter if it misbehaves. Made a call on Lizzie [W] Began letter to Maria Barlow. Sept. 9. Sunday. Wrote 2 letters for Kitty, the first she has been able to finish. Mrs. thyme went to church with Marjorie Sumpter's friend Lucette V Paquet, + in the afternoon the Sumpters and Miss P. took her to dine at Mrs. Ryan's, near Gay Head. Put up some packages of heather for Kitty, + wrote letter to Maria. Marjorie + her friend bade Kitty good bye. They leave by the early boat. had good night's rest. Began to re-read "Roxobel." Sept. 10. Marjorie sumpter + Lucette Paquet got off without our hearing them. Weather fine. Dr. Victor came in the afternoon for a final visit to Kitty. 104 found her doing very well, + gave some final instruction, + spoke very pleas- antly, I got off some letters for Kitty, Letter from from Mrs. Bayer brought bad news about Kitty's finances. Lay awake most of the night. Sept. 11, 1934. Mrs. Thyme went over + put up the papers at Sunset View. Farewelled Florence Cohen, who leaves early tomorrow. Everret Dean came + signed Lizzie Rogers's deed. Continued reading "Roxobel". Evening mail brought a letter from Maria Barlow + one from Bertram Beeman saying the lady had a fall + broken a bone in her leg. Sept. 12. Went around Florence Cohen's house - the carriage left by early boat - + found an unknown woman carrying out inscription on the old grave. She was accompanied by a small girl. Probably Mrs. Tillich or Mrs. Wilick from Ethel Robinson's will. Lizzie Rogers told me unpleasant things about Walter Poole. Wrote letter on the anti-woman policy of Mussolini + Hitler as an object lesson to American women against Fascism. Continued Roxobel. Got letter from John + Elizabeth Beldan announcing that John is sailing today for England. Sept. 13. Got a telegram from Celestial Science Monitor after asking for 700 words about Catherine Breshkovsky, to be used Monday; + the N.Y. Times in the evening brought the news of her death. Florence made a call + brought a letter from Agnes, with an account of Brookes's job at Happy Valley Farm an orphanage. Florence has sold two cats. Sept 14. Devoted A.M. to article re C. Breshkovsky, leaving Mrs. Thyme to help Kitty dress + Mrs. Sumpter to supervise. Walter Poole is cementing the top to the pillar of Kitty's sundial - "Jack's Monument," she calls it. Finished typing it soon after lunch, but it isn't good - not at all worthy of her. However, I did my best. Florence + Lizzie had been invited to106 supper by Mrs. Thyme, _+ she had made a wonderful cake with a marble top, + we had egg sandwiches for me, + other kinds for the people who are not vege. Tariands, + various nice things. Marjorie Sumpter had sent me "The Book of Cou- rage", which I had longed for, but thought I ought not to afford; + she + Lucitte Paquet + others had given candy, + I had some nice letters, + a good time. Florence's car was brought back to her, to her great joy. It have been undergoing repair, + she has been only half usage without it, she + Lizzie + Mrs. Sumpter were all dressed up, + looked very nice. We were also favored with Miss Florence Cohen's beautiful flowers, which she had told us to make free with them after she was gone. Sept. 15. Kitty went out to see (or rather feel) Jack's sundial. The first time she has set foot on the 107 grass since our arrival. Kept on with Roxobel, + wrote various letters. Sept. 16. Got letter from Mr. Chander that he and Mrs. Chander are not going to buy those 2 those lots. Also got a sweet letter from dear Catherine Breshkovsky, dictated to Olga Risen- sky only a few days before her death. Sept. 17, Sunday. Wrote a letter to Paul Harvey from Kitty's dictation. He as been taking the "cure" at Vichy, and gave us an account of it that horrified me; + I begged him to try something different. Also told him about our bad financial situation. Finished Roxobel. Mrs. Sumpter went to church + found that Florence's car is out of commission again. Sept. 18. Wrote letter about Mussolini + Hitler to half a dozen papers, + one to Springfield Republican about Cather ine Breshkovsky + Mrs. Dietrich.108 Weather too dubious to wash. Getting ready to go. No letters read from Maria. Sept. 19, 1934. Cleared out the 2 trunks; wrote circular letter to Kitty's friends + some other letters. Getting ready to pack. Mrs. Thyme + I went over + made an inventory of the things at Sunset View, + found the sett;e the call of which was mar ked by Mrs. Wood for a whole summer; but it had been badly misused. For Found every thing very clean. In the evening the awaited circular came with my article on Mrs. Breshkov sky. woke in the night, turned the light flashlight on my clock, + thought it was 6.45, + that I must get up directly. Dressed by moon- light. When all ready to go down, looked at clock once more + found it was 1.45! Lay down in my clothes + slept till 4 A.M. Sept 20. Made a list of books I did not want to take home, yet did not want to part with - + did not want to leave here, in case Cliff Cottage next year should be rented or sold. Took them over to Lizzie Roger's to ask her to give them storage. She was out to h of Mrs Alice Hill, with a sheaf of Miss Florence Cohen's flowers. She invited me to join her ths there; I had not been on the hill for a long time, because of poison ivy. It is a lovely view. She told me how she would like to build + arrange a house there - not on the very top. Found she did not like the idea of storing my books in her garret, in case Meyric + his family should be with her next summer; but she agreed to take them in, temporarily: did them up in newspaper parcels + took them up. Lovely day. Told Mrs. Sumpter about my finances. Sept. 21. Mrs. Sumpter getting ready to leave tomorrow. She has finished "Rob Roy" and is reading110 to Kitty from the "Book of Courage". Another lovely day. Mrs. Thyme is packing books + sending them off. I went through my table drawers + the tray of my best trunk, + found several keys we had been worried about. Sept. 22. Mrs. Thy Sumpter left for Boston, to Kitty's sorrow, she read to Kitty in A.M. Went over to Sunset View + exchanged three cups with Lander for three that had lost their handles. Mr. + Miss Wostman arrived at the Stan- tails' cottage. Sept. 23. Sunday. Wrote three letters from Kitty's dictation, + began to sort the contents of the sitting room closet. Rainy. We had a farewell call from Florence. A house was struck by lightning and burned down, in full view from our front door. 111 Sept. 24. Made some verses to Allan Flander's care, to please Kitty.112 copy from slips of yellow paper Sunday, Oct 7. Miss Brownlee's friend, Dr. E. G. Mitchell and Howard; got off article for transcript about C.B. Have cold and am taking only broth and milk. Read Agnes Smedler. Took off my whiskers. Oct 8-Took purgative and it kept working. Call fr June Adkinson in evening. Took bath after nap. Phone call in evening from Miss Palacios! Oct 9. Call in A.M. fr. Miss Palacios and her sister. Dr. Duchering in P.M. Article for transcript about C.B (Catherine Breshkovsky) rejected. Oct 10. Wrote Paul Harney all about our finances; wrote to Florence Spofford abt Anna. Went to Dr Prenn & went thru paper. Oct 11. D. Johns. Oct 12. lunch w Mme P (Palacios) The Blue Light. Oct 13. Snowstorm. Beth. Found article taken out of Traveler. Cons. Zim's Herald Francis T. (Titterton) Oct 14 Supper at Dr. Waxmian's Oct 15-- End of 1933 diary 113 copy from yellow paper Oct 10 busy with packing & considering how John was to get here. Call fr Florence. Oct 11. Mrs Sumpter left in A.M. Mrs Thyne finished the packing & the trunks were taken away. John arrived late, & Lizzie came over & made sandwiches for Kitty by request, and put Lizzie's car in order. He cd make Kitty hear. Oct 12. Got up in the small hours and sorted my papers. Mrs. T got up rather too late and we were in a grt rush at the end. Lizzie came over & helped. Miss Mayo met us. Oct 13 Kitty unable to hear anyone. Mrs. Thyne cooked up & went off for a three days holiday. Trunks came. Mr Gulesian called. Oct 14. Mrs Sumpter in A.M. Beth in P.M. In P.M. went to 20th C. Club. Met Florence Whittier & Mrs. Boland. Oct 18 - Attleboro--Grosser Oct 19--Grosser[*114*] Copy 1933 cont. Oct 20. Grosser funeral and lunch at Statler. Mrs Thyne left. Oct 21. Mrs. Thyne absent. Oct 22 {Mrs. Thyne absent.} Anna Louis Strong Oct 23. Mrs Thyne got back in P.M. Cold in ear. Oct 24. beautiful letter fr. V. Archangelchy. Went out to bank & P.O. Sent $10 to Mrs Crosby. Oct 25. Dr. Godwin Brown. Wrote to C.B. & sent off $20. Oct 26. Henri Barbusse Oct 27116 117118 Nov. 12. Got letter from Esther Barrows saying Evelyn was in hospital & doctors say she can never teach again & that she enjoys letters. Wrote to her. Nov. 13, 1934. Spoke at Congregational Church at Dover on the Pioneer Women for Mrs. Fosdick Harrison. Had dinner with her beforehand. They had an affectionate yellow puppy named Hexa, with long, drooping ears. They took up a silver collection of $5, and the librarian will send for "Lucy Stone". Lawrence & Elizabeth Bilden took me home in Marguerite's car. Nov. 14. Brought a notary public to take Kitty's declaration that she had authorized me to sign a check for $226, for her last summer. Kitty seems weaker & thinner. Took a bath. Nov. 15. Went to board meeting & luncheon of Boston LWV. Mrs. James Morrison was the luncheon speaker--on the muni- tions-makers--& she told me Mr. Foulks, 119 who was already deaf, had lost his sight, suddenly, & the effect upon him was almost that of shell shock. It had thrown him into melancholia. They had tried all sorts of aids to the hearing, but none of them worked. John Hagen came to see me about the mortgage on his house. Nov. 16. Got off letter on "Two Feasts". Rec'd & deposited $100, from Wm. Lloyd Garrison Jr. He sent a nice letter. Kitty seems rather stronger. Mrs. Rubin came yesterday when I was out & left me some nice cakes. Nov. 17. Got my hair washed--first time since before I went to Chilmark. Mrs. Sumpter was here in A.M. & Beth in P.M. Nov. 18. Sunday, Spoke on Catherine Breshkovsky before the "fellowship" of the Community Church at 6 Byron St. About 25 present. Had an interesting talk with Zara DuPont & with Dean Franklin. Brought home beautiful big bunch of180 yellow chrysanthemums. Beth had stayed with Kitty. Howard arrived a little before I did, & I excused Beth & had her go home thinking he might want to speak to me about my business affairs, but he didn't get around to it. He & Mr. Davis think it is a dreadful mistake not to put some pressure on Mr. Gulesian at this time to make him disgorge or be exposed. Nov. 19. Worked at home. Kitty weak & shaky. Sorted chowder etc. Nov. 20. Was taken to Mrs. Augusta Holyman; & had a meeting of the Christian Jewish council & had tea with lots of nice things. Fanny Goldstein was there but I didn't get her next me. She said she believed Mr. Curley had "good will in his heart." Went to called meeting of board of Reconstruction Clinic; none of them came but Dr. Cohen, who told me how he has arranged to get a new 181 place for the Clinic. Nov. 21 Mrs. H.P. Crosby's daughter had called up & told me Dr. Crosby was dead. Wrote Mrs. C. a letter of sympathy. REceived from Effie Margaret Heath her account of Mamma's life. It was much too long, & not well written. Went over it & corrected it& wrote letter to go with it, so as to send it back early in the A.M. & catch the steamer. Wrote to Mr. Lazaren, the Archangelskys & Katherine Weller, & a circular letter to Kitty's friends. Nov. 22. Mailed the corrected M S back, & went to Lowell & gave a talk on "The Progress of Women" before the Lowell League of Women Voters. They were very enthusiastic. Just missed the 5.13 train back, so had a long wait at the station & got home late. Had supper & slept well. Nov. 23. Kitty much better. Shesaid, "For the first time in ages, I am actually hungry!" She had dreamed I was guillotined because they are reading Tale of Two Cities - & it was quite a comfort to wake up & find it was not so! Worked at home, but did not accomplish much. Howard told me Mr. Malcom B. David is very lonely & is not making his expenses. I am troubled about it. Sorted chowder. Nov. 24. Mrs. Sumpter in A.M., Beth in P.M. Kitty continues better. Went with Mrs. [*Boyer to see Mr. Matthews exhibit photos of India at Women's Republican Club.] Nov. 25. Sunday. Wm. Lloyd Garrison came over in A.M. for a talk about my business misfortunes. Says that either the Church or the Sewall fund he forgets which, allows the principal to be used, & he might use it for my benefit. Mrs. Boyer said he was very nervous, & she feared he 183 was approaching a nervous breakdown. He says the most profitable investments are always in vices, not in virtues - gambling, tobacco, liquor etc. Springfield Republican had my letter "Two Toasts." Nov. 26. Went to dentist & had tartar taken off my teeth by a nurse who did it gently. Dr. Godwin Brown did not find that any fillings needed to be done. Nov. 27. Had letter about "Oppressed Husbands" on Boston Herald. Busy with preparations for my speech before the N.E.W.P.A. tomorrow. Nov. 28. Spoke on "Progress of Women" before N.E.W.P.A*. [*New Eng Women's Press Assn] It went off very well. Among those present were Mr. & Mrs. Gulisian, the Misses Palacias (who told me of Mrs. Bowne's death) & Fanny Goldstein. They gave me a lot of flowers, & on coming home I found more, left by Mrs. Tyack. Nov. 29. Wrote & sent off article on "Bleeding India." It was Thanksgiving Day, & Kitty & I spent it quietly at home.124 She slept till nearly 1 P.M. We had mince & pumpkin pie--mince because she had wanted some, but she did not recognize it for mince, & utterly scorned it. Boston Herald had a pretty good report of the N.E.W.P.A. meeting. I had given the Herald reporter a summary of my speech. The wedding of Prince George & Princess Marina came off in England. Mrs. Boyer's son & daughter in law went to the ball game & then took her to a restaurant to dine. Nov. 30. Mrs. Rubin came & brought cakes; Beth Atwood had brought various goodies for Thanksgiving. Wrote letters & went through papers. Dec. 1. Sunday. Howard was canvassing the church members; had promised to come over, but did not arrive till very late. Had had his supper at home. Brought fig pudding & stuffing of turkey from Helen, & a very interesting letter from John. I went to sleep with my head on the table while he read it aloud, but woke up afterwards & read it to myself. He went home at 10.10 P.M. I had had Beth came over & stay with Kitty in the afternoon, & give her her supper, so that I might go up to the meeting of the Ford Hall folks & hear Mrs. Hannah Sheehy Skeffington on the Irish Republic. Very interesting. She remembered me from her former visit to the U.S. I had forgotten that I had seen her! She did not know that Sir John Anderson of the Black & Tans was now Governor of Bengal. Dec. 2. Went to Dr. Prenn to see if he could do anything about my nose-- still tender from my accident. He says it is nothing to worry about, and he took the wax out of my ears. A cold day. Got no nap, as Mrs. Sohigian186 wanted to see me & appointed 4 P.M. A long tale of her troubles, about her husband's broken collar bone. They are in a very serious plight. I gave her two letters, which I fear will do her little good. Dec. 3. Got a lot of letters about Kitty ready to send off. Dec. 4. Mrs. Gulesian brought over $50., & said Mr. G. was feeling miserable & worried, & she did not want him to come out. Says she wants me to talk on the Pioneers before the State Fed. of Women's Clubs. I told her they wouldn't have me; they look upon me as a dangerous Red! This is the day the foreclosure on Mr. G's big garage goes into effect, & I lose my $25,000. Dec. 5. Attended luncheon of the women of Syracuse University in this vicinity at Women's Republican Club, at Mrs. F.J. Flagg's request, to tell them how Aunt Elizabeth got her medical degree (because the Geneva Medical College is now the Med. Dept of 189 Syracuse University. MOst interesting meeting. There was a nice Miss Maedorald there, who has been 12 yrs in China & says "The Good Earth" is a true description; and Mrs. Flagg herself told us of most thrilling & astonishing experience she had had, & there were other interesting speeches. My respect for Syracuse U. went up. Prof. Hodder of the historical dept of Wellesley College sat next me & was very friendly. Has a nice face. Dec. 6. State Board meeting; & afterwards Mrs. Brigham had us all as her guests to lunch at the Women's City Club. I sat at Mrs. Baker's table. We had had most shocking things told us about the school situation in Gardner. In the evening Mr. Thayer of Atlantic came to see me about his mortgage, & talked a long time & showed me photos of his family. Had a bad night thinking about it. Dec. 7 Decided on the quotations for my 128 Christmas cards/ Hung about at home because Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington had written that she meant to call this forenoon & take her chance of finding me at home. She arrived about noon, & we had quite a long talk in Mrs. Thyne's room. She said when she was here in 1917 I told her I always enjoyed her husband's paper, the Irish Republican. Went to town & ordered my Xmas cards. Mr. Bliss has hardening of the arteries & does not come to the office any more. Dec. 8. Forgot that it was Saturday till Mrs. Sumpter arrived, so that I had not got Kitty up. We put on her ulster, & wrapped her in blankets, & had her listen to the reading. Went to 20th Century Club & heard Alfrieda Mosher on Russia. It was icy cold. Finished picking out the cards that ought to be kept out of my card catalogue. [Mrs. Boyer went to her son's & took] [the cards to have them addressed.] 129 Dec. 9. Sunday. Howard came over for lunch. Mrs. Boyer took the cards to her son's to have them addressed. Dec. 10. Mrs. Boyer's birthday. Went to release Wm. McAndrews's mortgage, which the Minot National Bank had taken over; got my check for $2,500, & felt like a cormorant. Had called on Mr. Blood on the way & got the mortgage; & he gave his approval to letting Mr. Alpern try what he can do for $50, as a gamble. Dec. 11. busy getting off Kitty's cards to her friends abroad. Dec. 12. Finished getting Kitty's cards off. Sent a final $20. to her friend Mrs. E.B. Ransom, & lent George A. Bowles $200. to save his home from foreclosure, where Mrs. Robson is. Got a bath. Have got off an article about Gandhi to Our Dumb Animals. I am reading every day with great interest in the Bolton Post the130/ daily installment of Upton Sinclairs "How I got Licked in California." Dec.13. Worked at home. got off five copies of a letter about India Dec. 14. Worked at home. Sent Will An- dreans $25., because he ought to have been charged only 5% during the last year Dec. 15, Worked at home. My Xmas cards came, much to my relief. Dec. 16, Sunday, Howard arrived very late + brought a long + very interesting letter from John, + a delightful one from Marteen Elliot(?) Dec. 17, got a very grateful letter from the McAndrews. Worked on Xmas cards. Kitty said Aunt Elizabeth was always surrounded by a horde or group of young men, when regarded Kitty mostly with friend- lines, but without any such interest as they felt for Aunt Ely, kitty told Aunt Ely. She was her chaperone! Dec. 18, Worked on Xmas cards - 131 Dec 19. Got a fat raft of Xmas cards off, with Mrs. Bayer's [????]. It came on to rain hard. Took a bath. Dec,20. Board meeting of the Boston L.W.V Ate sandwiches afterwards + then went over to Mr. Blood's office + signed discharge of the Hirling mortgage Dec.21, Worked hard on Xmas cards, + after supper made a list of the books in Kitty's big box, where she sat on her bed. Dec, 22. Made a list of books on top of Kitty's trunk, + worked hard on cards again. Beth brought over a home-made mince pie for Kitty, + other nice Xmas things. Kitty gave Beth & Mrs. Bayer + me some of the books. Wrote to Malcolm B. Davis offering him a commission on the money he has collected for me Dec. 23, Worked hard on Xmas cards, Howard came to supper, & told us Marguerite has invited Helga to go to Haiti. Dec, 24. Worked hard on Xmas cards. A great mound of them arrives every132 day. Made verses to go with silk stockings for Mrs. Thyne & Mrs. Sumpter. Two beautiful poinsettia plants came; & a letter from Lily Rogers saying she was sending me Grandpa Blackwell's diary. Mrs. Thyne's son "Al," with a fine large straight nose, came out to take her & her bundles home, & brought a very pretty little granddaughter. Dec. 25. Mrs. Boyer's son & grandson came & took her & her turkey & other things to Newton. Kitty & I had our dinner at home; she first, with me waiting on her, & then she went to bed for a few hours rest & I had my dinner with "Guy Mannering" - very pleasant company. Dec. 26. Worked hard on Xmas cards. Got letter from Malcolm B. Davis accepting offer of 5% Dec. 27. Worked hard on Xmas cards. I am making them New Year cards. 133 now. Wrote some letters. Lena Morrow Lewis made me a call, & she & Mrs. Boyer reminisced about the west. Dec. 28. Worked hard on cards. Dear Mr. George Lazariff offers to send me money & take care of me! Dec. 29. Worked hard on cards. I am making them New Year cards. Dec. 30. Sunday. Wrote a letter to Lady Harvey from Kitty's dictation, & worked on cards till the last moment. Am thankful that after this it will be too late to send any more. Howard came out rather late, & gave Kitty a happy time. We have received from Lily Rogers a precious old diary of her grandfather, Samuel Holden Blackwell, & Mrs. Boyer had picked out interesting bits in it & read them to us - though she was afraid Howard had brought germs, as Lane has grippe. Dec. 31. My letter on "Ireland & India"134 came out in the Herald, & I wrote one about Gandhi for "Our Four Footed Friends" & began to send off letters of thanks, etc. Howard had brought a new batter, & I can make kitty hear which is a great comfort. I have omitted my after dinner nap for the past week, owing to pressure of cards. Today I took it, & then a bath. Good resolutions. One of Mrs. Thyne's sons was so pleased with my Xmas poem to her feet that he has had it framed & hung up. [*1935] Jan. 1. 1935. A beautiful, thick snowstorm in A.M., clearing up in P.M. Wrote long letter to Lily Rogers in return for her grandfather's diary; & letters to Anna & Florence, & some letters of thanks Kitty slept till nearly noon. Lay down again after dinner. My 135 ailments began to improve after I resumed my after-dinner rest. Howard, Lawrence & Lane all kept in by grippe. We are glad Helen & Marguerite are in Haiti. They expect to start for home tomorrow or next day. Jan. 2. Wrote more letters, & took my after- dinner nap. Mrs. Sumpter was well enough tome come back, & Mrs. Thune gave her a cup of hot tea. Jan. 3. Got "Lucy Stone" off as a wedding present to Barbara Clukman. Went to Board meeting of Mass. L.W.V. Mild weather but very icy & slippery. Gov. Curley was being inaugurated, & there were lots of police about the State House, & crowds on Park St. & on State House steps. Wrote long letter to Frances. Maud Wood Park has written profering to raise an annuity for me, & naming the persons that she thinks would contribute to it. Very sweet of her, but I hope we can manage136 without it. She mentions Mr. Gulesian as one of those that she thinks would contribute to it!! At the Board meeting, the President was absent because she was ill, & none of the 5 Vice Presidents were there. There is said to be a real epidemic of grippe. The Boston Post has a short anonymous letter of mine. Jan. 4, 1935. Very cold. Worked at home. Went to bank & did a few errands. Had a pretty letter from Barbara Chipman inviting Kitty & me to the wedding. Jan. 5. Read in the morning paper that Mrs. Sumpter had been burned out. She telephoned from Newton, where she had taken refuge with a friend, that she had rescued only a case with her papers. No insurance on furniture: though she could not afford it. Wrote to Mrs. James W. Morrison about the history of the suffrage on side: Heard Ramsay MacDonald over the radio, much interrupted by static. Read "Jess & Co." in the evening. movement she is said to be writing 137 for the National L.W.V. Beth came to Kitty. Jan. 6. Sunday. Howard came over, very tired--went to sleep while Kitty talked to him. He reports all the invalids recovered or recovering. But I was afraid he might be still germy with grippe. Miss Liliquist called and gave me $10. for Mrs. Sumpter. Very sweet of her. Wrote long letter to Maud Wood Park. Sorted things on Mrs. Thyne's bed. Jan 7. Foggy day. Wrote item about Gandhi for "Observant Citizen" & short letter to Post. Unity came with letter on "Bleeding India". Wrote to Bowman Beeman about help for Maria Barlow's nurse. Jan. 8. Helen & Marguerite landed in N.Y. Had been detained at entrance of harbor two days by fog. Wrote letters. Jan. 9. Wrote to George Lazaren & Co. Olive Dargan has written inviting me to occupy a room in her cottage. Dr. Howard Kelley has sent me a remarkable article by Dr. Ussher. Lay 138 awake all night. Jan. 10. Wrote circular letter to Kitty's friends & told her of Mrs. E.B. Ransom's death. Mrs. Boyer sought diligently for Wm. J. Henry's annual statement. Put my business drawer in order, & turned my papers upside down. Mrs. Rubin brought me more cakes, & told me she is at last divorcing Dr. Rubin & that she would dearly like to go to Russia - Biro Byan - & she is sure she could be useful there. NOt a bad idea. Wrote asking Mrs. Evelyn Swift to help me sell Sunset View. Am having indigestion pretty badly. Boston Transcript printed letter about India. Still foggy. My supper began to distress me as soon as I ate it and I was in pain all night - pains in my side. Jan. 11. Got letter & photos of himself & Babushka from Mr. Lazarev. Mrs. Bayer says his face is the type of Bernard Shains. Took only water all day. Pains in my side kept on. Got off the letters to Kitty's friends. 139 Heard of Mrs. Katherine B. Willers death. Got a book of poetry against war from Agnes Ryan. Kitty had a card from Lady Harvey saying Paul's operations were over & he was pronounced "out of danger," but would not be able to write for some time. Lane gave me the news over the phone, saying his mother was to arrive (from Haiti via N.J.) about midnight; & that he hoped to become a member of the crew if he could "put on enough beef." Had pain all night, despite a hot bottle. Jan. 12. Took a dose of Epsom Salts, which worked; & felt better, though not all right. Beth came & looked after Kitty in the afternoon. She & all her family have had sore throats - the form in which the visitation struck their household. It is surely some kind of a bug. Florence writes that she is frantic with pain in her back. Pains in my side keep on but more mildly. Took only milk. The mysterious140 package, which Howard was to get for me, after satisfying the custom house, & which has been delayed more than a fortnight, owing to his illness, came by mail. He got around to the registry division yesterday & satisfied them it was all right. A table spread & a pair of mittens, from Mrs. Archangelsky, for Kitty & me. Jan. 13. Sunday. Took only milk again. Howard came over & brought Kitty the promised New Testament, for which she has been fretting. It is a beauty--the Oxford edition--& she is delighted with it. Jan. 14. Felt much better, & took three meals of solid food. Wrote to Martha Guthrie; had a nap after dinner, & a bath. Upton Sinclair's books came, with account of his campaign. Got a letter from Ethel Robinson asking about Mrs. Woodhull. Wrote her 10 pages. Very cold night. Went out about 4 A.M. & shut Kitty's door. 141 Jan. 15. Continue to eat solid food. Got nice letter from C.P. Gilman. Sent Ethel Robinson "The Terrible Siren". Jan. 16. Francis Hagan paid $1700. on his $2500. mortgage. Got invitation from Beacon School to be one of their honor guests on Feb. 12. Am regaining strength slowly. Read a very noble address by Francis Sheehy Skiffington, & put it in my scrapbook. Jan. 17. Thick snowstorms. Stayed at home. My eyesight seems suddenly to have become poor. Jan. 18. Clear & slushy. Went to P.O. & bank. Chilly in wind. Good night's sleep--first for a long time. Jan. 19. Clear & cold. Letter from Lizzie Rogers at last. Beth came in P.M. Jan. 20. Sunday. Howard arrived late, & read letter from Anna. Mrs. Sumpter still absent. Snowstorm. Elzabeth & Lawrence went with snow train to N.H. Jan. 21. Foggy. Letters from Anna, & from Effie McAfee & from Alfrieda Mosher saying the 20th Century Club will make me an honorary member. Worked at home. Two remarkable articles in N.Y. Sunday Times, one about Lloyd George & one about Ellis Island. Lay awake most of night Jan. 22. Wrote letter about India to Christian Century, & answered some letters that have been waiting, No news of Mrs. Sumpter. Jan. 23. A whirling snow storm. Letter from Sir Paul Harvey, saying that his operations are over, leaving him [?] & impoverished; that he must sell his house & go to a milder climate. Controversy with Mrs. Boyer as to what dress I shall wear to Providence Town- row. Jan. 24 Started for Providence in spite of snowstorm, but could not get to South Station. No taxi to be had, & a row of stalled street cars as far as one could see. They were said to reach clear to Andrew Square. so I came home again. We got our daily papers late, because the boys who deliver them could earn more shovelling snow; & when I read how badly Providence had been struck by this big blizzard, I thought I was lucky not to have got there Jan. 25. Blackwell Jones's wedding day. Worked at home. got notice to pay $500. assessed on my stocks in closed Old Fort Wayne Bank. Jan. 26. the sun came out & I went to the 20th Century Club to hear Benjamin Marsh - first time I have been into town for weeks. Took my lunch & ate it in the Town Room Everyone was very cordial to me. They have mad me an honorary member because I can't afford the $20. fee. Mrs. Lucia Ames [?] was there, much worried for fear the World Court entrance would be defeated in Congress. There was a beautiful exhibit of pictures of tress in black & white all around the room - the loveliest thing I have seen since the transparencies on glass by Mrs. Gabriella White & her husband. These pictures are by Mr. Whitman, who made a nice & modest speech about them. He told me afterwards he was a suffragist & used to know me. One especially fine picture of an evergreen tree in a blizzard had been reproduced in [?] Herald under the title "Breasting the Storm", I had save the paper because I liked the picture so much. Mr. Marsh called President Roosevelt. Father Croughlin & Henry Long the three Svengolis who are bidding against each other for the support of the stupidity of the American people. Jan. 27. SundayVery cold. Howard came out rather earlier than usually & gave kitty happy time. I sorted [?] on Mrs. Thyare's bed. Ralph Walter Huntington has sent me from Buenos Aries a translation of "Tabre," Wrote some letters. Jan. 28. Cold. Mr. Gulesian came & paid me $50. Looks ill & unhappy. Has been having intestinal grippe, he says. Is better against the banks. Jan. 29. An amicable avarchist, Mr. Whittemore, came to get information about Philip Grosser, whom he means to be introduced as a character in a story. Philip Grosser's brotherhad sent him to me. The annual meeting of the Reconstruction [unclear] was held in its new quarters at 452 Beacon St. and I felt bound to go, despite deep snow not yet cleared away. But passages had been cut through it. Got there early and Dr. Cohen showed me over our new building, and I was delighted with it. As I was eating a late supper, in my worst clothes, a Mrs. Ella Burmham [sp?] called to offer herself as a reader for Kitty. must get a more respectable wrapper. Jan. 30. Worked at home. Jan. 31. Went into the city, thinking it was Mass. Board meeting of the L.W.V. , but found I was a week too early. Frightfully cold, though clear. Went into the Unitarian rooms to look over the file of the Christian Register to see if Dr. J.T. Sanderland's letter on India had been printed--he wanted to know. Found it in the current issue. Was introduced to the editor, Mr. Hore, who is the father of Ruth Hore, the nice girl who impressed me so much at the B.U. play about Clerdie [sp?] and the goblins. Met Florence Luscomb in the street. She is now "unemployed," but is working for the Committee Against War and Fascism, trying to make it more representative. She invited me to a meeting on Feb. 17. Had a letter from anottur daughter of Mrs. Katherine Weller. Kitty had a cold + we persuaded her to stay in bed. Feb. 1. Wrote some letters, took nap + bath. Lay awake all night. Feb. 2. Had letter from 20th Century Assn announcing in very complimentary terms[148] that they had made me an honorary member. I had put Alfrida Mother up to asking this, because I could not afford the $20. fee. Had letter from Wm. G. Henry in prison, saying his accounts with me were all straight. Mr. Gulesian tells me over the phone that during 1934 he paid $1340. to Kitty & me. he can't disentagle us. Wrote several begging letters in behalf of the Recon- struction clinic. Am shocked that the negotiations for trade with Russia are definitely broken off; & disgusted that the Hearst papers & Father Cough- lin have made the U.S. Senate defeat our entry into the World Court -- not that I think it is of much import- ance in itself whether we enter or not. Big business will put us into a war whenever it wants to. I have a cold in my head -- perhaps caught from Kitty's perhaps other- wise. Beth was here, & went out & got [co] camphorated oil for me 149 Feb. 3. Aunt Elizabeth's birthday. Wrote to Hattie Turner & Maria Barlow & Anna, & a few other letters. Howard came. I added to my cold somehow, & used a lot of the camphorated oil. Feb. 4. Mrs. Sumpter resumed her reading to Kitty, after just a month's absence. I continued to sneeze & to use camphorated oil. Wrote to Ralph Walter Huntington of Buenos Aires, who sent me his transla- tion of "Tabore". Feb. 5. Continued to doctor my cold with camphorate oil. Feb. 6. More camphorated oil, & wrote more letters. Kitty wanted a drink after getting to bed, & her hands shook so we had to change both the sheets & her nightgown & sweater, & I finally had to hold the cup to her lips. Feb.7. Mass LWV board meeting, then I went up to the Town Room & ate sandwiches, & walked across the[*150*] common (where the main walks were finely cleared through the deep snow) + had my glasses adjusted by Pollard, Feb. 8. Mrs. Frank Hill came to speak to me – Mrs. Boyer says she was an old suffragist. I did not remember her. She held forth enthusiastically about the Oxford movement, & was intending to say something to me about life insurance or annuities, which her husband deals in, when Mr. Gulesian came. She went away after a while, privately advising me to do no business with him. Then he asked me if I would be willing to give up my claim on him if his other creditors would. I said I should refer it to my legal advisers. Sat [Feb. 9.] up till after 11 P.M. reading Selma Lagerlof's "Ring of the [*151*] Lowenskolds". Feb.9. Worked at home. Sat up again reading the "Ring of the Lowenskolds" I advised Mrs. Sumpter [Feb. 10 1935] by phone not to come, as the weather was unpromising. Florence telephoned that she was at the Deaconess Hospital & waited to see June Adkinson, & also wanted a cotton night gown. I got June by phone, & found that Florence had got her too, & she was going over. Helen arranged with Jordan & Marsh to send the nightgown & some stockings. [Ju] Beth came, & said she should try to go [over] over on Monday & see Florence. Feb.10. Sunday. Kitty seemed very feeble, but brightened up when Howard came. He came in the evening this time.152 Feb. 11. Went to Dr. Johns in A.M. She was reassuring about my eyes. In the evening went to St. Cyprian's Church to "the good will dinner" under the auspices of the Greater Boston Federation of Churches & the NE Council of Jews & Chris- tians. George W. Coleman presided, & an interesting Max Yorgan sat next me on the other side--secretary of the Y.M. C.A. in Cape Town in Africa. We had a great mixture of black & white folks, Jews & Gentiles, with a sprinkling of others; [br] Chief speaker President of Howard University, Mordecai Johnson, & brief addresses by a Filipino woman doctor, a Hindu, a Frenchman, etc. St. Cyprian's Church (Episcopal) is said to be run mainly by West Indian Negroes. Florence went to 153 Attleboro Springs this afternoon, Feb. 12. Mr. F. C. Moore of Morgan Memorial came out & told me what they would do in the way of an annuity if we would make over the Lucy Stone home to them. Got off Valentine to Hatty Turner, Mrs Gates, [& Barba] Helen Adelardo Shaw, Barbara Stantial, & (for Kitty) Maria Barlow. Feb. 13. Mrs. Thyne went into the city & got materials for a flannel coat for me, a silk slip, stockings for Kitty & me, etc. Kitty when I led her back from the bathroom felt so hungry she demanded a slice of bread before being dressed. Mrs. Thyne brought back from town the good news that her brother who was formerly janitor here & was so154 good to Jock now has a good job in Canada as janitor to a church & school. Feb.14. Told Mr. Blood over the phone of the Morgan Memorials offer. He says he is afraid the L.S. Home Corporation, under its charter, cannot do what they wish. Wrote some letters. I have been sitting up too late night after night, reading "The Ring of the Lowenskolds". Mrs. Rubin has had a fall & broken her shoulder. Feb.15. Kitty said she dreamed she was walking up Monadnock St & saw a tall woman in black coming towards her, & it was Mary Lamb. Kitty said, "Why, how did you come here?" Mary said "I came to look after you. We shall be company for each other in heaven." Wrote several letters 155 & took a bath. Mrs. Thyne is making me some new clothing. Wrote to George Lazaren & sent Mrs. Archangelsky the $8 that Zion's Herald paid me for the article about Babushka. Finished Selma Lagerlof's "The Ring of the Lowenskolds". Lay awake all night. Feb.16. Got up promptly & worked steadily till lunch, sorting things on table. It looks as if I should have to pay an assessment of $500. on my Old Ft Wayne Bank stock. Mailed the correspondence about it to Mr. Blood. Feb.17. Sunday. Howard came late. Sorted a lot of my things on Mrs. Thyne's bed. Sent Helen the volume of Wendell Phillips's speeches with the one on Toussaint L'Ouverture, because she sometimes speaks on Haiti. Lane started last night for Washington via N.Y., & Howard, who saw him off, didn't get to bed till 1 A.M.156 Feb. 18. Wrote letters & did some sorting of papers. Got a scare as to how Kitty could be got out in case of fire, espe- cially if it happened when Mrs. Thyne had gone home for the weekend. They had just had a fire at the Gladstone & it went right up the shaft. Feb. 19. Arranged to have Dr. Davis come out tomorrow & help me with my income tax. Wrote letters & sorted things, Kitty says Mary Lamb is not going to walk [?] up & down Monaduods St. any longer waiting for her, because she is not yet ready to go. Ordered another can of honey & sent off to Mr. Blood the release of the Perry mortgage. Feb. 20. Mr. David came out in A.M. & helped me make out my income tax. Mailed the return for the State income tax, with check. Mr. Gule- sian disappeared. Mrs. Thyne had a grippy cold. Wrote letter to Harold Took nap in P.M. Feb. 21. Board meeting of Boston LWV 157 Had all my underclothes whole for the first time. Nap in P.M. Feb.22. Washington's birthday. Mrs. Sumpter came in A.M. Worked at sorting; wrote letters. Took bath. In evening read first half of [Mich] Michael Pupins "From Immigrant to Inventor." Very interesting. Mrs. Neyere's cold is better. Have no end of trouble with the batteries, trying to make Kitty hear. Read Hans Kleiber's letter over the phone to Helen, & returned it to Florence. Feb. 23. It was snowing, & I telephoned Mrs. Sumpter not to come. Wrote letter about India to N.Y. Nation, & wrote some other letters, & sorted. Beth came in P.M. Kitty said she had never been so cold as last night; so I shut the door entirely, leaving her to get air only through the cracks. Mrs. Thyne has been having a grippy cold for several days. She158 went home much better. Feb.24. Sunday. Mrs. Sumpter's first contribution to the "Observant Citizen" came out. Kitty woke very hungry: asked me if I preferred to be roasted or boiled, as she was so hungry she meant to eat a slice of me! Wrote letters & made & sorted clippings. Howard came late. Feb.25. Lots of mail arrived, as usual, I cannot catch up. Feb.26. Went to Boston in A.M. to interview man who came to give information about Soviet bonds. Explained why I could buy no more & had to dispose of mine. In evening heard Anup Singh Dhillon speak at 6 Byron St. on "India & World Peace". Very interesting. He is a Sikh. Told how Gandhi addressed a big meeting in Amritsar a month after the massacre & the "crawling orders", & said he had always heard the Punjabis & Sikhs 159 were so brave, but that all the bayonets & machine guns of the British government could not have made him crawl through that street. He would have told them "My feet were given me by God to walk & my stomach to digest food." They could have dragged him, but could never have made him crawl. A Mr. Tucker was there, who had been professor of English literature at Robindranath Tagore's college. He had just had a letter from Rev. C. F. Andrews, who was in London, but was about to start back to India via Africa. Gandhi meant to go to the Northwest Territory though the government had refused permission. He would probably be arrested & imprisoned; & if they refused [him] to let him carry on 160 his work for the untouchables from prison, he would probably fast himself to death. I under- stood them to say that Mr. Andrews was very anxious about this, and that was one reason why he was anxious to get back. it man & his wife who were at the meeting brought me home, & told me Mr. Dhillou was ready to receive his degree from Harvard, but had not the means to pay the necessary expense, & wished to get speaking engagements during the coming month, after which he means to go back to India. He told me that the other Indian, Mr. Mubar, who spoke at the School of Politics of the LWV. --and who pitched in to Gandhi so [that I called him in my own mind a "despicable little reptile," had now gone back to India, & from pro-British had become anti-British, because of the way he was treated.] Gulesean 150 [??]Oct. 18. Attleboro -- Grosser Oct. 19 -- Grosser Oct. 20 -- Grosser funeral & lunch at Statler__ Mrs. Thyrie left Oct. 21. Mrs. Thyrie absent Oct. 22. " " Arms Locust Story Oct. 23 -- Mrs Thyrie got back in PM -- cold in car Oct. 24 -- beautiful letter for V Ardray. They went out to bank & PO & sent $10 to Mrs Crosby Oct. 25 Dr. Godwin Brown wrote to CB & sent off $20 Oct. 26 [7 lb] Henri Barbuss Oct. 27End of 1933 diary Mon [O] Sept. 9. Howard arrived. Went over to mail w him & explained finances. Tues Sept. 10, trucks went off. Beautiful day, & Howard & Florence sat out a long time. Sun dial came in. Had Made verses to Flanders cows, & gave them to him. (11) Wed. We came home & Mrs. Bager had dinner waiting for us. Howard got me to come in to Mr Davis's & we all went up to Mr. Blood's (12) Thurs. Painful time at Mr. Blood's w Gulesian (13) Friday. Mrs. Thyrie hurt her hand Sat. Mrs. Sumpter & Bette [S] Mrs Swants me to try [??an] [S??] for my finances Sunday -- Kitty slept all the morning, & Howard came after church. Mon. Mrs. Boyer went in to see Mr. Blood, Mr. G brought me $50. Busy fixing 1500 words for Z H [?] Tues. Devoted the day to Z H article. Got 2000 words & cut them down. Comp letter for C S M Wed. [che] Took article to Dr. H. who was very cordial; got glass ad just ed: distrib C B; both. Check for C S M Mrs Beverly -- Traveller 11 AM MondayMon [O] Sept. 9, Howard arrived. Went over to mail w [??] him & explained finances. Tues Sept. 10, trucks went off. Beautiful day, & Howard & Florence sat out a long time. Sun dial came in. Had Made verses to Flanders cows, & gave them to him (11) Wed, We came home, & Mrs. Bayer had dinner waiting for us. Howard got me to come in to Mr Davis's & we all went up to Mr. [Blo??] (12) Thurs. Painful time at Mr. Blood's w Gulesian (13) Friday. Mrs. Thyne hurt her hand Sat. Mrs. Sumpter & Betti [??] Mrs. S Oct. 10, busy with packing & considering how John was to get here. Call fr Florence. Oct. 11. Mrs [Thy] Sumpter left in A.M. Mrs. Thyne finished the packing & the trunks were taken away. John arrived late, & Lizzie came over & made sandwiches for Kitty by request, & put Lizzie's car in order. He cd make Kitty hear. Oct. 12. [Started] Got up in the small hours & sorted my papers, Mrs. T got up rather too late & we were in a grt rush at the end. Lizzie came over & helped. Miss Mayo met us. Oct. 13. Kitty unable to hear anyone Mrs. Thyne cooked up & went off for a 3 days' holiday. Trunks came in PM Mr. Gulesian called. Oct.14. Mrs. Sumpter in AM, Beth in PM. [Trunks] We [corner of page has been cut off] Club -- Met Florence Wh BolandEnd of 1933 diarySunday, Oct. 7. Miss Brownlee's friend, Dr. E. G. Mitchell & Howard got off article for transcript about C.B. Have cold & am taking only broth & milk. Read Agnes Sundler took off my whiskers Oct. 8. Took purgative & it kept working. Call fr June Adkinson in evening Took bath after nap. Phone Call in evening from Miss Palacios! Oct. 9. Call in A M fr Miss Palacios & her sister. Dr. Duelsering in P.M. Article for transcript about CB rejected. Oct. 10. Wrote Paul Harney all about our finances; wrote to Florence Spoffard abt Anna: went to Dr.[Pr??n] & went thro papers. Oct. 11 Dr. John A Oct 12 lunch w Misses P. the Blue Light Oct. 13. Snow storm. Beth. Found article taken out of traveler, [??ws]. Zion's Herald. Frances T. Oct. 14. Supper at Dr. Waxman's Oct. 15Oct. 27. Returned the Tentonaphone, & had Dr. Prenn take out wax. Oct. 28. Mrs. Sumpter in AM, Beth in P.M Got off Halloween verses & some letters Oct. 29. Wrote a letter for Kitty, & got off some Halloween verses. Was alone with Kitty, & cd not make her hear. Mrs. Boyer left at a AM. Oct. 30 Went to Fiduciary Trust Co. Oct. 31 Got off letter & CB & S GL Nov. 1. Dentist - letter fr Mrs. DuBois -- [R??] Indian came Nov. 2. Mass L W Nov 3. Sent off a lot of copies of Arebangels [??] letter [bottom of page torn, much unreadable.] Mrs Sumpter & Beth [ 4 Marian ransport workersDiary 1933ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 1933 DIARY (with some later entries) Abbott, Ella -Boston Univ. Classmate (married Stearns) Adams sisters, Chilmark Tom Thumb midgets - 33 Adkinson, June - 10, 11, 13, 18, 78 Adler, Felix - 94 "Agnes" - Agnes Blackwell Jones - Mrs. S.T. Jones - 20, 22 "Alice Hill" - 64, 84 Alofson, Frances (later Mrs. Titterton) 67 Alpern, Mr. - 129 Anderson, Sir John - 125 Andrews, Rev. C.F. - 159 Angels and Amazons by Inez Haynes Irwin - 18 Antoinette - daughter of Ethel Blackwell Robinson - 22, 51 Archangelsky, V. - 114, 121 " Mrs. - 14-, 154 Armenian Day at Chic. Fair - 6. Arnold, Leila - cousin of Alice Blackwell - 91 Atwood, Alice - 84 (daughter of Beth Hagar Atwood) " Beth - 3, 6, 8, 13, 14 (was Beth Hagar, lived in Blackwell family before she married Ernest Atwood) " Robert - (son) 8, 35, 54 Avery, Alfred, Director B.U. Students' Aid - 8 Babushka, Catherine Breshkovsky - 39, 43, 155, 138 Baker, Mrs. Roland M. (Edith) 127 Baldwin, Roger - (Dir. Civil Liberties) 65 Barbusse, Henri - 114 Barlow, Maria - cousin of A.S.B. -70 Barnard, Eunice, Editorial Staff, N.Y. Times - 76 Barrows, Esther - 118 " Evelyn - 31, 32 Barry, Kitty - 10, 11 (adopted daughter Dr. Eliz. Blackwell) Bassett, Sadie Hilton - Chilmark resident - 77 Beck, Margaret Gulesian - 23 Beeman, Bowman (cousin) 104 Belden, Alison - 16, 33, 85 " Anna Blackwell (Mrs. Charles F.D.) 1, 12, 16, 32, 60, 73 Lawrence - 35, 85 Bell, Miss (Helen) - 13 Bengal, Governor of - 125 Benjamin, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. - Reading, Mass. -19 Betts, Mrs. Mattie A. - 69 Black, Mrs. Alexander - 42 Black and Tans - 125 Blackwell diary "Grandpa's" - 132 Blackwell, Alice Stone Boston Post article about "Jock" Kitty's dog - 11 Article in Unity - "Bleeding India" - 137, 123 Birthday party - 44 Reconstruction Clinic (later Boston Evening Clinic) elected to to Board of Directors - Director 1933, Students' Aid at Boston Univ. Twentieth Century Club, Hon. member - 141 Letter to Editor, Boston Herald, "Oppressed Husbands" - 123 " Herald, Gandhi - 1 " Editor, About India and Russia (Spgld. Repub.) 2 " " Ireland and India - 133 page 2. - Index to Diary 1933-1935 Blackwell Alice Stone - cont. Letters to Editor - Transcript - Gandhi - 4 India - 138 " Springfield Repub. - 123, 23, 2 Voted against rpeal of prohibition - 5 Review of Red Flag of Ararat for Soviet Russia Today - 10 = Speech at Dover, Mass. on Pioneer Women - 118 Blackwell, Antoinette B. - Aunt Nettie - 84 Dr. Elizabeth - 22, 126 House at Montclair, N.J. - 65 Sketchbook - 73 Diploma - 8 George and Ethel - 31, 33 Howard L. - 35, 25 Lane - son of Howard - 135 Samuel Holden - grandfather of Lily Rogers - 133 Blood, Charles W. - A.S.B. lawyer - 36, 129, 154 Boland, Mrs. Esther M. - 113 Bosshard, Prof. and Mrs. Harry - 44 Boston Herald, 1, 133, 1 Boston League of Women Voters - 5, 157 Boston Post - 11, 130 Boston Transcript - 138, 4 Boston Traveler - 112 Boston University Trustees - 2 Bowles, George A. - 129 Bowman, Bert - 29 Bowne, Prof. (death of his wife) 123 Boyer, Mrs. Ida Porter - 5, 7, 9 Brandeis, Louis D. - 74 Breshkovsky - 2, 11, 17, 24, 28, 33, 34, 90, 39, 43, 107, (see also "Babushka" Death of - 105, 108 Brigham, Mrs. Henry R. (Pres. Mass. League of W. Voters) 127 Brin, Dr. Alexander - 76 Brown, Dr. Godwin - 123 Brown, Mrs. LaRue (Dorothy K.) 94 Browman, Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig (Andra Arnold, cousin) 91 Brownlee, Miss Jane - 112 Burnham, Mrs. Ella - 146 Byalek - 69, 76 Catt, Mrs. Carrie Chapman - 27 Centralia visitors - 6 Chandler, Mr. and Mrs. (Menemsha summer visitors) 96 Chanler, Mr. Theo - 106 (grandson of sister of Julia Ward Howe) Chipman, Barbara - fiancee of Blackwell Jones - 135, 143 Chirnova, Olga - 88, 95 Christian Century - 142 Christian Jewish Council - 120 Christian Register - 147 Christian Science Monitor - Breshkovsky - 108 Church Fund (Eliza) 122 Cohen, Miss Florence - 18 Ethel and Florence - Vineyard neighbors - 21 Mrs. Frederick - 21 Helen - 82page 3 - Index to Diary - 1933 etc. Cohen, Fr. Morris - Dir. Reconstruction Clinic - 120 Coleman, George W. - 152 Committee Against Fascism and War - 147 Community Church Fellowship - 119 Company Unions - 21 Connor, Miss - maid ti Miss Quincy at Chilmark - 42 Cook, Mrs. Raymond - 63 Coughlin, Father - 148 Crawford, F. Marion - 98 Crosby, Mrs. H. P. (Housekeeper) 121 Curley, Governor James M. - 135 Dargan, Olive Tilford (pen name Fielding Burke) - 10 Davis, Malcolm B. - Business Manager - 122, 131, 132, 156 Dean, Ernest - 101 Diary for 1934 starts page 59 Dietrich, Irene - 28, 107 Dhillon, A. Singh - 158 Dollfus assassinated - 70 Duckering, Dr. Florence - 13, 112 duPont, Zara - 119 Dwyer, Mrs. - 13 Ellis Island - 142 Ely, Gov. Joseph - 62 Evans, Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower - 74 Ferris, Mrs. Robert - 88 Fillich family - 62 Fisk, Mrs. Everett O. - 3 Flanders, Allen - Chilmark - 53 Finances and Mr. Gulesian - 83 Flagg, Mrs. F. J. - 126 Foote, Miss Katherine - 52 Ford Hall Folks - 125 Foulke, Wm. Dudley - 119 Franklin, Dean Lucy Jenkins - 119 first woman dean of Boston Univ. Fraser, Sarah - 22 (pensioner of Miss Blackwell) Friess, Prof. and Mrs. Horace - 61 tenants at Chilmark - 74 " Mrs. (daughter of Felix Adler and niece of Mrs. Brandeis) Gandhi - 3, 25, 33, 23, 158, 159 Fasting - 32 Garrison, Mrs. Rhodes - 29 " Mr. William Lloyd, Jr. - 7, 52, 119, 122 Gause, Baldwin - 9 Geddes, Prof. and Mrs. James - 19 Geneva Medical College - 126 Genthe, Martha 140 George, Lloyd - 142 Gilley, Mr. - 33 Gilman, Mrs. Charlotte Perkins - 141 Goldstein, Fanny - 120, 123 Greenbaum, Mr. and Mrs. - 23 Grace - Grace Blackwell - 23 Grosser, Philip - 113 Gulesian, Moses - 7, 13, 19, 72, 73, 77, 100, 120, 123, 135, 136, 150, 148, 156, 126, 93 page 4 - Index to Alice Blackwell Diary - 1933, 34, 35 Gulesian, continued Bankruptcy - 77 Foreclosure - 126 Kitty Barry's finances - 104 Mrs. Grace Warner - 123, 126 Hagen Francis - 141 John - 119 Hall, Constance - 85 Hamilton, Bishop John - 12, 70 Happy Valley Farm - 105 Hare, Mrs. (Ed. Christian Register 1935) 147 Harrison, Mrs. Fosdick - 118 Hartman, Dr. Lewis O. - 3 (Trustee Boston Univ.) Harvey, Sir Paul - 3, 50, 65, 97, 107, 142 Lady - 133, 139 Hatch, Miss Helen L. - 20, 34 Housekeeper for Oberlin Theol. School - 92 Hearst Papers - 148 Heath, Effie Margaret - 121 Heiman, Mrs. - 75 Helen - Mrs. Howard L. Blackwell - 54 Henry, Wm. G. - in prison - 148 Henry, W.J. - tenant of A.S.B. - 7, 13 Heyman, Mr. and Mrs. - 94 Higginson, Mrs. T. W. - 70 Hill, Mrs. Frank F. - 150 Hitler, - 105, 107 Hitlerites at Oberlin - 92 Hodder, Prof. at Wellesley - 127 Holben, Mr. - 31 Holmes, Rev. John Haynes - 26 Holzman, Mrs. Augustus - 120 Hornblower, Ralph - 95 Howard - Howard Lane Blackwell, 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 In Nevada - 54 Huntington, Gale - 51 - grandson of Dr. Emily Blackwell Nannie (Mrs. Anna Blackwell) adopted daughter of Dr. Emily 37, 35 Ralph Walter, translation of "Tabare" 149 Wilfred - grandson of Dr. Emily Blackwell - 48 Hyndman, J. B. P. - 39 India and World Peace - 158 Indian relics - 95 Irish Republic - 125 Irish Republicans - 128 (Paper) Irwin, Inez Haynes Gillmore - 18 Jarvis, Dr. Mary - 64 "Jock" Kitty Barry's dog - 11, 71 Johns, Dr. Juanita - 12, 70, 152 Johnson, Mordicai, Pres. Howard Univ. 152 Jones, Agnes Blackwell - 20, 22 Blackwell 3, 29 (grandson of Antoinette B. Blackwell) wedding, 143 Kenyon - grandson A.B.B. - 84 S. Thomas - husband of Agnes Blackwell - 29, 77Page 5 - Index to diaries Karekip, Miss - 38 Kelly, Dr. Howard - 137 Kenyon, Dorothy - 76 Kerensky, Olga - 24, 96, 107 Kirstein, Louis E. - 89 Kitty - see Kitty Barry ( 3, 6, 8, 9 Kleiber, Hans - 157 ( artist) Lagerlof, Selma - 155 Lamb, Mary - 154 Lazareff, George - 2, 11, 17, 24, 33, 34,43, 39, 121, 133, 138, 155 ( see also Breshkovsky files) League of Women Voters - 159, 121, 135,149 Leo (Volgemuth) Chilmark - 89 Lewis, Lena Morrow - 133 Lewis, Miss Mary - 137 Lowell, League of Women Voters, 121 Luscomb, Florence Hl - 147 MacDonald, Ramsay - 136 Marean, Mrs. - 42 Marsh, Benjamin - 143 Marsh, Pres. Danniel L. - 7 Massachusetts League of Women Voters - 135, 149 Mayhew, Bartlett - 89 Doris Flanders - 54 Florence B. - 16 Dr. Orland - 22 Willie - 41 Mayo, Miss - 59 McAndrews Wm. - 129 Mead, Mrs. Lucia Ames - 143 Meyer, Dean - 8 Mitchell, Dr. Evelyn G. - 112 Mitchell, Miss - tenant - 10, 11 Montclair, homes of the Blackwells - 65,68 Moore, Fred C. - 153 Moorhouse, Alfred ( against Gandhi) 3 Morgan Memorial - 153, 154 ( transfer of property and annuity) Morrison, Kenneth and Ina (Reading, Mass.) 172 Morrison, Mrs. James ( Mary Foulke) - 118, 137 Mosher, Alfreida, on Russian, 128,141 Mussolini - 105 Nathan, Maud (Mrs. Frederick) 24, 26 New Bedford Standared - 39 (paper) New England Council of Christians and Jews - 152 New Deal - 21 New England Women's Press Assn. - 76 Niernsee, Mr. and Mrs. Chilmark tenants - 39 Norley, Dr. Arthur B. - dentist - 8 Page 6 - Index to Diary Oberlin Centennial - 20, 34 Theological School, 34, 92 "observant Citizen" Boston Post 158 Old Fort Wayne Bank - 143, 155, 40 (Bank Stock) Oxford Movement - 150 Palacios, Miss - 112 Panorama hill - 62 (Chilmark home of Robinsons) Paquet, Lucette - 101 Park, Maud Wood - 135 Patchin, H. E. - 62 Peabody, Mrs. Alfred H. B Perry, mortgage release - 156 Pinkham, Henry W. - 70 Poole, Chester, 38, 83, 21 ( caretaker of Chilmark house) Emily - 83 Pound, Dean Roscoe - 4 Prenn, Dr. Joseph - 69, 3, 12 Preston, Evelyn (wife of Roger Baldwin) 65 Prince, George - and Princess Marina wedding - 124 Progress of Women - speech- 121, 123 Prohibition repeal, vote on - 5 Quincy, Miss - Chilmark neighbor - 43 Rajah - Miss Cohen's dog at Chilmark - 42 Ransom, Mrs. E. B. - Kitty Barry pensioner - 129, 13 death of - 138 Reconstruction Clinic ( later Boston Evening Clinic) 6, 120, 148, 89 Red Flag of Ararat - 10 Roback, A. A. - 69 Antoinette (Robinson) daughter of Ethel Blackwell Robinson - 22, 51 Robinson, Brooks, son of E. B. R. - 18 Ethel ( Mrs. Alfred B. Ethel Blackwell R. 140, 15, 22, 33 cousin of Alice Horace B. B. - 15, 16, 17, 21 (son of Ethel) May - Sister of Alfred B. - 37 Robson, Mrs. ( Alice Blackwell pensioner) 85, 129 Rogers, Lily - 132 (cousin of Alice) (same grandfather) Rogers, Anne Kirk ( Mrs. Meyric R.) 37 Lizzie (Mrs. Reynold Rogers) He was cousin of Alice -m 16, 25, 31 Meyric - son of Lizzie - 41 Toodie ( Edith Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of Meyric) 33 Roosevelt, F. D. - 21 Rubin, Mrs. Natalie - 10, 13 Russia Trade - 148 Ryan, Charles W. -98 Mrs. 103 Agnes - manager of Woman's Journal - 139 page 7- Index to diary Sacco-Vanzetti meeting. 89,32 Sargent, Prof. - 98 School of Politics, League of Women Voters - 159 Sewall Fund (Harriet W. Seawall) 122 Shaw, Helen Adelaide- 153 Sherman, Ellen BUrns -33 Sinclair - Upton - 140, 130, 95 Skeffington, Mrs. Hannah Sheehy -125 Sohigian, Mrs. -125 Soviet Bonds -32 Soviet Russia Today -10, 76 Spanish American Poets, 8 Speare, Mr. E. Ray - Treas. Boston Univ. 7 Spofford, Charles -67 Springfield Republican - 123, 2, 6, Stantial, Barbara M. -89 Edna -60, 95,15,28,36,40 State Federation of Women's Clubs - 126 Stearns, Mrs. Ella Abbott - 19 (see also Abbott) Boston Univ. Classmate - 71 *Stone, Lucy - diploma - 8 Stone, Seymour, husband of classmate Amy Wentworth - 28 Sumpter, Mrs. Martha - Kitty Barry's reader - 3, 6, 13 Marjorie -32 *Stone, Lucy Lucy Stone Home 96 (Morgan Memorial ) 36, 153. 154 Biography - 121 (by Effie M. Heath ) ----Stork, Mrs. Charles W. -99 Striether, Miss Mary - 54 Sunderland, Dr. Jabez T. - 147 SUnset View - Barn house at Chilmark - 21, 64, 138 Swift, Mrs. Evelyn - 138 Miss Josephine - 19 Syracuse Univ. -126 "Tababre" - 149 Tagore, Rabindranath -159 Tarzan - 92 Tashjian, Miss N. - 5 Thayer, Mrs. - mortgagee - 177, 77 Thomas, Marguerite 131 Norman - 92 Thyne, Annie - housekeeper - 2, 5, 11, 12 16 Edith - nun, daughter of Annie - 93 (Sister Maria ) 30 (Later caught by the Japs in world war 2 and starved. Died in the late 1950's of T.B. as a result). Tillich, Prof. - 75 Titterton, Frances - 112 (was Alofsen) 22,, 11 Topoozian, Marina (offered her eyes to Miss Blackwell) 38 Tucker, Mr. - 159 Tunner, Hattie - Woman's Journal staff - 153, 85 Twentieth Century Club - 147, 128 Tyack, Mrs. - 123 Ulich, Prof. - 75 Mrs. - The White Angel of Siberia - 94 Unity - article by A.S. B. -137 Ussher, Dr. - 137 page 8- diary of 1933 etc. Vietor, Dr. Agnes C. - 82 Vincent, Robert - 17 Volgemuth, Leo - 48, 89 (Chilmark handy man) Waxman, Prof. Samuel, B.U. -112 Weller, Mrs. Katherine B. 139, 121 Wentworth, Amy - B.U. Classmate, married Seymour Stone - 28 Whale - Whale Hill home of Ethel Blackwell Jones Whidden - 20 Whidden family - 84, 20, 24 Ethel Jones married Charles Whidden children - Samuel Blackwell and Barbara Whittier, Florence (Mrs. Wm. Tisdel) 113, 5 Windy Gates (estate at Martha's VIneyard, home of Roger Baldwin. In 1864 called Cliff House, home of various members of Blackwell Family, cincluding Dr. Eliz.) - 65 Women in Soviet Russia - 71 Women's City Club, Boston -127 Women's Republican Club - 126 Wood, Mrs. Mary - housekeeper for A. S. B. 2, 7, 8 Wortman, Miss Ruth - 110 Woodhull, Victoria - 140 World COurt - 143 Defear in Senate - 148 Yates, Miss Elizabeth Upham - 10,24,26,153 Yergay, Max - 152 Zanetti, Mrs. - 17, 18 Zion's Herald - 112, 155