BLACKWELL FAMILY Ethel BLACKWELL BLACKWELL, Dr. ELIZ.
Brookfield Road
Upper Montclair, N.J.
Dec. 13, 1904.

Dear Aunt Elizabeth and Kitty;
I expected to have
a photo. to send as a Xmas greeting
but it has not come, though ordered
three weeks ago, as I thought in abundant
time, from Greensboro.  Everyone
seems to like best those that I had
taken while down there.
It will doubtless appear later.
Ethel will send one of her little
family, taken a year or more ago on
their enclosed verandah, the "Sun
Parlor". with a neighboring house showing

[*By the way Kitty I heard that Aunt Emma was wearing
the pin you
described with
the clover leaf.
so there must
have been
some misunderstanding*]

[*I shall think of the Rock household pickling
 the buds,[?] at Xmas. time and hope you*]through the windows.  The young lady
sitting up straight is Annie Bronson, an
El Mora friend - The other two are
friends of Alfred's, whom I do not
know.
I am staying at Ethel's for the
present.  She is glad to have one of
her family with her.  Her servant
is a young Russian girl who speaks
very few English words and is
very green. but improving slowly.
We are having a grand snow storm,
which makes everything look very
interesting outside.  The sun is


beginning to shine through the falling
flakes, so the storm is probably about
over.  An Italian has just been digging
us paths.  Ethel and I are reading
more or less at early dramas,
Marlowe, etc. for the Montclair literary
club. They seem to represent a strange
sort of world, all battles and bombast
and childishly silly intrigues.
We expected Aunt Emily and Nan to lunch
last week, but they could not come as
Aunt E. had to go to a dentist in N.Y.
It happened that Anna Blackwell and
May Bruno with her little Helen, came

[*Will all have a good dinner and a*]
[*Merry Xmas! and a Happy New Year!
With love, Edith.*]over unexpectedly so that we had our
little lunch party after all, for which
Ethel had ordered extra supplies.
Anna seemed quite interested in my
foreign postals which are mounted in
two large books. May was familiar 
with many of the Swiss ones, because
her husband has been over twice.
He is to make two trips a year to
buy embroideries, etc., for his firm. -
chiefly from San Galen.
The El Mora household was well at
last accounts - except that Mamma had
a cold which I hope is better.
Agnes had counted up 27 probably Xmas
guests - counting babies & her own family. 

[*I wish that you could  join the big family party.*]