CLARA LOUISE CHAMBERLAIN TO BEVERLEY SANDS
May 17, 1912.
MY DEAR MR. SANDS:
I have received your cheque and I think what you have done is most appropriate.
Since I wrote you last, my position in this establishment has become still more embarrassing. Mr. Andy Peters has begun to offer me his attentions. I have done nothing to bring about this infatuation for me and I regard it as most inopportune.
I should like to leave here and take a position in New York. If I could find a situation there as secretary to some gentleman, my experience as my great father's secretary would of course qualify me to succeed as his. You may not have cordially responded to my first letters, but you cannot deny that they were well written. If the gentleman were a married man, I could assure the family beforehand that there would be no occasion for jealousy on his wife's part, as so often happens with secretaries, I have heard. If he should have lost his wife and should have little children, I do love little children. While not acting as his secretary, I could be acting with the children.
If my grey-haired father, who is now beyond the blue skies, were only back in North Carolina!
CLARA LOUISE.
CLARA LOUISE CHAMBERLAIN TO BEVERLEY SANDS
May 21, 1912.