Blackwell Family Alice Stone Blackwell Miscellany Household NotesBoston [Athinaeum] " Pub. Library Mass Historical Society State House Library B [M] U " Harvard College " Tufts College " Wellesley " Smith " Mt. Holyoke " W. Brookfield Pub. Library Oberlin College Kansas University, Lawrence Neb. " Lincoln Mich. " Ann Arbor Cornell "Ithica, N.Y. Chicago " Bryn Mawr Pa University Leland Stanford Univeristy & complete it from list in Mamma's bagWe have 24 silver forks, 18 silver tea-spoons, besides the 3 little ones that belonged to Mamma's mother; 6 table spoons, 6 dessert spoons, 1 gold bowed orange spoon 1 Plymouth Souvenir spoon, 1 silver butter knife, & 6 plated little spoons from Conn. table at Fair; & some nice plated spoons for the kitchen 1 gold locket with 2 pictures of L.S., in 2nd drawer where there is no lookingMamma was there. It was then due since 1891. Papa generally forgets to pay the interest, & must be reminded. There are 5 notes due Aunt Sarah in all. The amount of Papa's notes to Aunt S. is put down in the cover of one of Mama's check-books; but Papa should enter them in his own book. Jonathan Stone, who helped to settle the Marietta colony in Ohio, a man of great integrity and great repute, was the brother of Mama's grandfather. The maiden name of Mamma's grandmother Stone was Sarah Witt. (Her family afterward went to Oxford & called themselves De Witt). She was a woman of uncommon good sense, discretion and talent. She lived with Mamma's father and Mamma's mother, her daughter-in-law, loved her like an own daughter - as if she had been her own mother. Mention free in ad. Ask Miss Nowell the price of the Phillips portrait. Mamma has two nice gold pens (handles) in to right hand top pigeon hole of upper drawer drawer of Papa's bureau. One is for Emma and one for Celara. Both need repair but they are good handles. Pay the help promptly. Dispose of the books for review as they come, a few at a time. In the far back chamber, in a niche behind which the Journals are filed up, is large box containing pieces of carpet from our halls etc. There are pieces of carpet also in a box in the cedar closet, & in bottom drawer of " ." is a nice large piece of parlor carpet that might be laid where I sit at the piano. The carpet at the head of the back stairs is getting ragged & should be pieced. Mamma owes Aunt Sarah $280. , the interest of which (at 5%) will be due Jan. 16. Papa owes Aunt Sarah $500. The interest on it has been paid up to this summer whileDec. 17 will be 120th anniversary of Boston Tea Party. 20 yrs ago we celebrated the centennial with a fine meeting in Faneuil hall, reported in W.J. Mamma's own speech was particularly good. Mamma suggests that [we] [if] we celebrate the 120th, & get Mrs. Potter Palmer & Mrs. Henrotin & Lady Aberdeen; & have settees in, so that people can be comfortable; & charge a fee, & make some money for the society & have a fine meeting. She thinks they would come for their expenses, & that Mr. Hoar would let the Ballard money be used for the travelling expenses & to pay for the advertising & settees. Mamma merely suggests this. While we W.J. are so short of money, we ought to advertise in W. J. Sarah Clarke's magnolia blossom - also Phillips' portrait. Miss Clarke valued the magnolia at $50, but if we can get even $30, we had better take it. Do not -chief which Miss Wilde gave Papa & which he has never worn. Mamma thinks it is in top drawer in large spare chamber. Mamma's black crape shawl in hall closet had better be given to Aunt Sarah. Mamma hopes the Mass. W.S.A. will not give up the $900 legacy from Mrs. French, & wishes me to tell the Ex. Com. so. Mrs. F. was a clear-headed woman, always interested in suffrage, often went to Washington, always came to the Fairs, often came into office & talked [the] matters over. "It is the old folly of trying to break the wills of people who know what they want." Mrs. F. left her daughter $10,000 - a furnished house worth $3000, half of which she rents, & $7000 in money. Daughter has a grown up son; & she had the means of living before her mother's death.I have a good summer hat & a very nice felt hat in cedar closet. [There is] It will be a winter hat, & has nice ribbon on it; & beautiful feathers are in bottom drawer of Mamma's bureau under looking glass. In bottom drawer of other bureau are Mamma's stockings. Lengthened out they would be good for me. Mrs. Johnson of the Sherborn Prison will always supply me with black ones at $1.00 per pair. There is a man in Winter St. - Mrs. Porter knows where - who will curl feathers (for winter had, if needed). In top drawer under bureau is pretty little white crape shawl given Mamma by Harry Spafford & his wife, which she has never worn. Mamma thinks I should not care to wear it, & I may give it away - perhaps to Emma - also white silk handker Look occasionally behind yellow curtains under book-cases. Are a lot of postal cards there, directed to H. B. B. They Will do to enclose for answers. There are 3 nice black walnut picture frames - one in Mamma's closet, one in my den with H. W. Bucher in it, one in back chamber where soap is, with Yeo. Thompson in it. In bag on door of dining room closet are some little picture frames Ira Barlow made for Mamma when Clara was a baby, & Mamma was teaching there. Clara should have them In long unpainted box below the Woman's Journals in the back chamber are valuable papers - also in several trunks out there. Papa must patch the roof over the back chamber. It leaks so that the things will all get wet & spoiled. Mrs. Trask Hill has our strong box which had the books in it when they were carried in to sell. Mamma suggests that the books which have come to the Journal for review during the year be exposed for sale at the office, & notice of the fact be given in the Journal some weeks in advance, & Mrs. Whiting's daughters be asked to come & take charge of selling them. Or perhaps Agnes Reed could help; or any thoroughly trustworthy person. The sewing machine, a Wheeler & Wilson, had probably better be sold. Papa bought it when I was a baby. It is a very good machine, & the older women will use it. The drawers contain cloths for cleaning house, little playthings for children, &c. And various things. In Mamma's bag is a memorandum of the sheets, pillow cases & towels which Ada Watson made for us, & also of some bought at a Fair. Beth is now hemming a dozen new napkins, which should be used first for a good many weeks, & let the others lie by. In the drawer below the napkins are 6 table cloths, 2 pairs & 2 odd ones, 2 old & 4 thoroughly good. In second drawer of large spare chamber are best table-cloths, long ones, such as we use when we have a large party. Kitchen towels, rollers, short towels &c are in linen- closet.which has been on Mamma's bed, & one striped with pink which has been on Papa's bed. You want to put 4 blankets on each of the spare beds in winter, & one of the [six] 4 little quilts lined with lamb's wool. There are 2 pretty white quilts, one tied with yellow knots, one the shelf in Mamma's closet, one with red, in Green Room closet. Papa should have one, Alice the other. When these quilts are laid away in summer, they should be wrapped in old sheets or curtains to keep them clean. Perhaps Sarah's bed needs another comforter or pair[s] of blankets. The quilts for that part of the house hi on shelf in linen closet. Spring, while it is still warm from the fire. Mr. Kihan must be told. The smoke-pipe must be cleaned out; that is important. When you put away the winter-clothes in the trunks, you bring out the summer clothes, & vice versa. Buy a pound of camphor to pack away with winter clothes. The thick winter blankets are kept in big box in den. There are 3 pairs of nice summer blankets, one pair on Mamma's bed, one of Beth's (probably), & the third in the Green Chamber, bound with blue. You will probably have to buy a pair of flannel sheets to lie in this winter. There are 2 very nice pairs of winter blankets, striped with blue9 When you have a new girl tell her we have a regular order of work: Wash Monday, iron Tuesday, put kitchen & pantry in order, tidy up & do some cooking, Wednesday; Thursday, sweep dining room & library, & see that the windows are clean. Friday (every other week) sweep all the halls; from top down, & my bedroom. On alternate Friday, sweep the other bed-rooms. Saturday, sweep girl's own room, back hall, bathrooms & back stairs, & clean up kitchen. The carpets of dining- room & library must be taken up twice a year, spring & fall. At time of spring taking up carpet, all the books must be taken out & brushed & dusted, & the glasses over the pictures cleaned. The cellar must be thoroughly cleaned in spring, & furnace [ ] when it goes [ ]