The Carter’s tenants take possession of their house next week and then all of the girls and that Bobby, who is certainly a living illustration of “Spare the rod and spoil the child,” will come to me until it is time to go to the mountains. It will be quite a care for me, but I do not forget that my mother, your grandmother, was brought up in their grandfather’s house. “Cast your bread upon the waters and after many days,” etc. Old Cousin Robert Carter left no money but many debts, debts to himself just like this one that I owe him.
Please let me know by return mail what was the matter with the Englishman and if he died of T. B.’s.
Your devoted
Aunt Lizzie.
Telegram from Lewis Somerville to his Aunt Lizzie.
Englishman had melancholia and committed suicide. Lungs sound. Lewis.
From Douglas Carter to Lewis Somerville.
Richmond, Va., May —, 19—.
My dear Lewis:
You don’t know how we appreciate your kindness in going up to the mountains and working so hard for us. We feel as though we could never repay you and Mr. Tinsley for your kindness. Everything you have to say about the camp sounds delightful. As for your butting in—you know you couldn’t do that. If you think Josh and the little English girl would be good ones to have for the Week-End Boarding Camp, why you just engage them. We are so inexperienced that sometimes I think we are perfectly crazy to undertake this thing, but then I think if the boarders don’t like our ways they don’t have to stay, and certainly one week-end would not kill them. They don’t have to come back, either.