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Ilsley, Samuel, Edith Franklin Wyatt incoming correspondence, etc., 1952-1955

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Open book Ilsley, Samuel, Edith Franklin Wyatt incoming correspondence, etc., 1952-1955

Title Ilsley, Samuel, Edith Franklin Wyatt incoming correspondence, etc., 1952-1955

Creator Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958

Date 1952-1955

Language English

Subjects Social action

Description Correspondence of Chicago writer and social activist Edith Franklin Wyatt, plus drafts of works, contracts, scrapbooks, clippings and mementos.

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription But with modest behavior they appear well covered in their coats of Tan, genuine sun, or bought in a bottle. I seem to be wandering around far afield from Starved Rock in mid winter! I liked your "Forecast", for a small boy can find wonderlands in a walled garden, and one particular ash tree with the small spoon-like seed pods stands out as a spot for games with tiny people. I go round that backyard now naming each feature in turn, a solid wooden fence on the north side, a high picket fence with no gate on the east, and a brick wall across the south shutting off the neighbor on that side. First the asparagus bed and the charming [[whips?]] it produced when grown up; then sweet-peas and being sent to cut them; two beds of roses next, & white lilies last. A juniper was in the corner, the name delighted me; then an oak with its acorns, and the ash before several lilacs and an elm in the south-east corner, where against the cool wall was the bed of lilies of the valley, and plenty of mosquitoes when you were delegated to pick them! And your Sunday school teacher told you nothing could harm you with lilies-of-the-valley in your button hole. A crab apple tree and syringa next, that powdered your nose with yellow when you smelt of it. And finally a real civil war army tent, with drawings on it soldiers had made. And that marked the boundary between the back yard & the front, with its horse-chestnut & mountain

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Archival Collection Title Edith Franklin Wyatt papers

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Call Number Midwet MS Wyatt Box 1 Folder 23

BibID 991696368805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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