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Letters from my Grandmother
Recently I came across a notebook of
letters written by my maternal grandmother, Nina Hortense Clinton of Zanesville, Ohio. This
was my first encounter with a notebook of lined, onionskin paper followed by a
blank, thicker page, so that the writer could put a piece of carbon paper
between the pages and thus keep a record of correspondence. Of course, most of the
onionskin pages had been torn out. And there were the two little pieces of
carbon paper in the back of the book.
The first letter is dated 1902, when my grandmother was 21 years old. She had traveled to Europe as part of a group of Jubilee Singers directed by Frederick Loudin. My grandmother wrote this first letter to her niece while all of London was filled with excitement over the up-coming coronation of King Edward VII.
“London E.C.¹
March 27, 1902
Dear Blanche, Your most interesting letter was received March 7. I certainly did enjoy reading i…
The first letter is dated 1902, when my grandmother was 21 years old. She had traveled to Europe as part of a group of Jubilee Singers directed by Frederick Loudin. My grandmother wrote this first letter to her niece while all of London was filled with excitement over the up-coming coronation of King Edward VII.
“London E.C.¹
March 27, 1902
Dear Blanche, Your most interesting letter was received March 7. I certainly did enjoy reading i…
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