Blackwell Family
Blackwell, Alice Stone

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 

Marean, Emma E. 

MRS.MAREAN 
5 CRAIGIE CIRCLE 
CAMBRIDGE,MASS

March 4,1933

Dear Alice Blackwell:
I have delayed answering your note about Madam Breshkovsky, because I thought I might have money enough to send you a contribution. For the first time in my life I have been unable to pay my monthly bills, before receiving my usual check for the month to come, I cannot give any money away until I have paid the bills for ordinary necessities, and there is no prospect of that for several weeks to come. It was a pleasure to help Madam Breshkovsky in the earlier days, when I earned a little money, and I should be glad to hear more about her now and to help on her work. So many of us are in the same position that I know that you must find such aid difficult to secure at present. I feel much interested to know ifyou have been successful in this.
Your friend
Emma E. Mareau
MBL.

5 Craigie Circle
Cambridge -
Dearest Alice Blackwell -
Nothing at Easter
time touches me in just
the same way or means
more than your card with
the Narcissus blooms. It has
come to mean  Easter to me,
the distinctive mark of
the day. I remember how
Isabel Barrows said once
"Alice always remembers'"
and told me about her 
saying once that she wished,[right page - transcribed to keep the intended flow of the text]

she could afford to spend
twenty-five cents a week
for flowers, and how you
used to bring her flowers
after that. -
  The Narcissus still is
mother's flower to me. I
have a bunch of them
on my bookcase now.
Somehow I like to associate
you with her enjoyment
of those you had in your
garden and with your
constant thought each year,
I love your for it, - and

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I loved you before.
         Yours ever faithfully
           [signature] Emma E. Mareau

March 31, 1923


E E Mareau
      5 Craigie
         Circle